Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and yesterday the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 2 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and last week the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 3 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 4 | He 's already picked up a thousand pounds tomorrow he 'll receive a copy of his short story — The Green Moustache , which er got him into the final along with the other eleven winning stories which are being published in an anthology , which is hot off the presses from the publishers Collins . |
| 5 | I think she 's picked up a few pointers , like how to chop an onion and how to dissolve an Oxo cube . |
| 6 | He 'd obviously picked up a few tips from the paperbacks , because he spun these stories out like a kid pulling on chewing-gum . |
| 7 | A year or two ago I would have believed him , and maybe the truth would have come out a few months later . |
| 8 | We 've picked out a few packages from the Windows range , more or less at random , just to whet your appetite . |
| 9 | A comprehensive review of the problem of attempted suicide and its management was carried out a few years later by a committee chaired by Sir Denis Hill . |
| 10 | In conjunction with the organiser , D&B carried out an open systems and NT survey at last week 's UniForum Unix trade show in San Francisco . |
| 11 | The loss of this old lady 's vote was cancelled out a few streets further on , by a young chap who came to the door and told me he was a soldier . |
| 12 | During his search for parts he has built up a colossal spares stock , but as the type has been used by so many air forces around the world and is still in service in places , components are not difficult to obtain — although they can be pricey . |
| 13 | And more recently there seems to be a tendency for people to say , ‘ he has been seen out a few times , he must be OK ’ , when the threat to my life is unchanged . ’ |
| 14 | Upwind , however , the daggerboard is still kept in the down position , though in extreme conditions it needs to be moved back a few centimetres . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've jotted down a few details , numbers and so on . |
| 16 | The whole school was closed down a few years ago . |
| 17 | The new methods of mass production , were unsuccessful and was closed down a few years later . |
| 18 | HOPES that there will be more interest rate cuts to come sparked off a fresh shares boom yesterday . |
| 19 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |
| 20 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |
| 21 | The film 's message — the continuing success of this homespun cottage industry with a modern technological core — seemed borne out a few months later when the company won a Queen 's Award for Export ; over a three-year period they had increased exports six-fold . |
| 22 | When a police car arrived , one man hopefully pointed out a few spots of blood on the pavement , mentally drawing a chalk circle round them and marking off the area with official police tape . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've roughed out a few questions but they 're only a guide . ’ |
| 24 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 25 | Second , the scope of what New Historicism involves is continuously changing , and the conflicts between contending views are often localised over a few issues . |
| 26 | Amnesty called on the government ( which had recently set up a human rights task force and an inquiry into alleged atrocities ) to admit the extent of abuses in the past , including its own role , in order to clear the atmosphere for a fresh approach on human rights observance . |
| 27 | Since the Bingham Report it has set up a special investigations unit and improved staff training . |
| 28 | PEP had set up a Post-war Aims Group even before the war began , and within a week of its outbreak had circulated.a draft report on war aims . |
| 29 | A good example of this is the Lambeth Lesbian and Gay Group which was set up a few years ago and whose meetings I attended three or four times . |
| 30 | In fact , at most matches , they do very little at all except set up a few chants when things are a bit quiet . |