Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Condensed it sounded very little for an afternoon 's talking but simultaneously it was a surprising amount from a man who had started the day denying everything . |
| 2 | This remarkable volte face did little for the president 's public reputation , was the cause of much scathing comment in the media and , not surprisingly , a poll revealed that 86 per cent of Americans , ‘ had no confidence in the ability of the President to manage the economy ’ . |
| 3 | Generally speaking , we know all too little about the teacher 's perspective on pedagogy ; we make generalizations which are not based on anything in the way of reliable information . |
| 4 | The left and right margins are preset at 1.25″ each for a page 8.5″ wide . |
| 5 | And of course we searched each for the other 's books . |
| 6 | Now , that as the picture er , leads me onto the next er , stage which is what in ministry , er what can we do in nineteen ninety three ? |
| 7 | Both laboratory experiments and numerical simulations have demonstrated that plumes can arise only at a boundary between convective regimes , such as that between the Earth 's core and mantle at a depth of 2,900 km . |
| 8 | Er would the factories between them be able to help with that for a spell Er one of the things that I 'm slightly concerned about is if you 've only got old buffers on the stand erm rather than younger people |
| 9 | I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work . |
| 10 | For the third period , that after the parents ' death or incapacity , I do accept the reasonableness of employing a nursing agency and therefore on this occasion I do accept Mr figure per year of sixty five thousand five hundred and thirty seven pounds and ninety six pence . |
| 11 | Instead I consoled myself that Ellen would be pleased , and a pleased Ellen might become my shipmate all the way around the world , so really , I told myself , I was not doing this for the senator 's happiness , and not even for the twins , but for my own , and so I shook the senator 's hand . |
| 12 | Big overlap on , especially on stuff like this about the dynamics erm do n't forget that sort of first sheet I gave you a long time ago about |
| 13 | She knew that the job of breaking the news was n't a routine chore , that she had n't been chosen merely because she was the only woman in his team and he saw this as a woman 's job . |
| 14 | I write this as the world 's Number One fan of the Demon Boyz , a roughneck little Tottenham posse . |
| 15 | So I I would erm you know , quite often get bags of clothes , and s we sorted them out , and give them to people with erm quite large families and erm we used to also get some for the tenants ' association for the jumble sales . |
| 16 | The ground was broken by rifts and pits of naked , black peat , where water lay and sharp , white stones , some as big as a pigeon 's , some as a rabbit 's skull , glimmered in the moonlight . |
| 17 | The Tropical Forestry Action Plan ( TFAP ) , which is seen by some as a loggers ' charter , is to be reformed . |
| 18 | Whatever one man tells another about a woman 's sexual inclinations and whether or not she demonstrates her unwillingness , it is hard to see why a man should be able to rely for consent on the word of another man or why there should be no obligation upon him to consult her himself . |
| 19 | And they used to push this through the amount w which you had cut . |
| 20 | What a cruel account is this of the Vicar 's one and only love affair ! |
| 21 | Grants and parental contributions would be frozen at 1990 levels and loans would eventually form half of a student 's maintenance award . |
| 22 | In a country like ours where half of the territory er is still in the frontier situation , er there is an enormous difficulty in enforcing some laws . |
| 23 | The ‘ big six ’ control approximately half of the UK 's public houses , as is shown by the following table : |
| 24 | In 1992 , achieved exports of £55.7m , accounting for more than half of the UK 's total malt exports . |
| 25 | The survey found that half of the UK 's knacker businesses have gone bankrupt since they began charging last July . |
| 26 | Six branches , usually including South Shields , Cardiff and Barry , accounted for more than half of the union 's funds and year by year the phenomenon of the " non-paying " branch continued , nine out of thirty-two in the bad year 1906 , two out of twenty-nine in the good year 1899 . |
| 27 | Apart from Architecture , Housing Studies and Nursing Studies students who are trained for particular professions , over half of the faculty 's graduates go immediately into full-time employment . |
| 28 | The federal government owns about half of the California 's entire desert wilderness . |
| 29 | UK operations , which deal with just over half of the company 's clients , saw a steady 6% growth in revenues said to be underpinned by a healthy 12% improvement in exports . |
| 30 | More than half of the Shipman 's Tale consists of dialogue ( 237 lines out of 434 ) , a figure that increases if we count odd lines introducing a change of speaker or place in dialogue as part of the dialogue . |