Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Present economic theory in fact says very little about how a market containing such imperfections would operate . |
| 2 | And have you been taking that for quite a while ? |
| 3 | And I carried on doing that for quite a number of years and I managed to be voted onto the Edinburgh committee . |
| 4 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |
| 5 | Ploughing through this for almost an hour brought us well into the hillside and at length to where the rail bed rose out of the water and into the old engine room . |
| 6 | ‘ This is the first time we 've had ones like this for quite a while . ’ |
| 7 | We remained like this for about a quarter of a minute . |
| 8 | His vital interest was exploring the countryside with his school friend Arthur Hardy , as he records it in A Sportsman 's Tale : ‘ We had spent the best ten years of life together and after that saw one another about twice a year … |
| 9 | All over the country , sports , arts and adult education centres offer activities for under-fives , some from under a year old . |
| 10 | Two birdbaths have been stolen from addresses in Darlington , one from a garden in Esk Road and another from outside a house in Prior Street . |
| 11 | Birdbath theft : Two birdbaths have been stolen from addresses in Darlington , one was taken from a garden in Esk Road and another from outside a house in Prior Street . |
| 12 | Birdbath theft : Two birdbaths have been stolen from addresses in Darlington , one was taken from a garden in Esk Road and another from outside a house in Prior Street . |
| 13 | One , which includes mosaics of the more specific trend , features many neatly executed arrangements from each of only a handful of sites . |
| 14 | The regulation treats parent companies as those having control over another company , such as where a company owns more than half of the share capital , or has the power to appoint more than half of the members of the board . |
| 15 | The second class of locative , or local names , are , as hinted in the last sentence , based on place names — such as where a man lived , where he held land , or where he hailed from . |
| 16 | This can in fact be quite useful in some circumstances such as where a person works in an odorous environment . |
| 17 | This prevents a possible loophole in patent law such as where a person imports components made in a foreign country to be sold as a kit . |
| 18 | If the right arises by reference to the first marketing of the article , such as where a semiconductor topography is designed by a Brazilian in Brazil but is marketed in the United Kingdom by an importer , then the importer will be deemed to own the semiconductor design right . |
| 19 | Where there is a relatively small hole in the board , such as where a light fitting has been removed , you only need a small piece of plasterboard slightly larger than the hole . |
| 20 | Defects in other systems might result in financial loss only such as where an expert system is used to provide financial advice . |
| 21 | Blunt injury to the eyeball such as when a tennis or squash ball hits the eye . |
| 22 | Such restrictive terms will be upheld by the courts only if they are reasonable , such as when a computer programmer working for a bank agrees not to work for another similar bank within a five mile radius for the first year following the termination of his employment . |
| 23 | An accident may happen — such as when a sufferer form alcoholism takes a sip of a drink that he or she was not aware contained alcohol — and this would not even be termed as a sip . |
| 24 | The body may also use its own lean tissue ( muscle ) as fuel when food intake is very low ( such as when a person is on a crash diet ) or when no food is taken at all . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , there may be special reasons why clustering may be a useful technique , such as when an investigator is interested in certain subgroups of the population . |
| 26 | Our stress levels suddenly rise markedly when we go through a major life event such as perhaps a divorce , serious accident , or death in the family . |
| 27 | They are agreeably surprised if a child shows a grasp of a phenomenon , such as how a machine works , which they themselves have only recently mastered . |
| 28 | Some drag and drop issues , such as how an application will be launched when a file associated with that application is opened , are still to be resolved . |
| 29 | So it , it , it 's a , it goes much beyond merely a kind of er , cliche , of saying , all people can be sometimes good or people can be sometimes bad , and it tells you about the specific way in which this th this comes about . |
| 30 | We have been using these for only a number of weeks now , but the response has been very encouraging . |