Example sentences of "[det] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coral polyps are each only a few millimetres across but working together in colonies , they have produced the greatest animal constructions the world had seen before man began his labours . |
| 2 | I saw then , through the one eye that would open , that my fire was scattered , that only a few wisps of smoke rose here and there . |
| 3 | They grow sticking up vertically on sandy sea floors , some only a few centimetres long , some half as tall as a man . |
| 4 | Society responds with oppression , which it justifies by again invoking myths , scriptures ( quoted or misquoted ) and proverbs , some ancient and some only a few years old , thrown up by the needs of everyday life . |
| 5 | However , one local authority should not receive double the amount of grant received by another only a few miles away for the provision of exactly the same level of service , which is the case at the moment . |
| 6 | Big enough for a giant X to have mysteriously appeared in mid-town Manhattan and another not a million miles from his flagship shop in Brooklyn . |
| 7 | This butterfly only migrates there in flocks like this once every four years . |
| 8 | Once you can keep this up a few times , then you are juggling . |
| 9 | Erm So you could pick a few up a few marks on that . |
| 10 | Yellow eels have been caught in a Scandinavian estuary , tagged and released in another over a hundred miles away . |
| 11 | The carved balconies , some over a hundred feet high , were lined with disintegrating Tau-Taus which gave the very sinister impression of watchful armies of waking dead . |
| 12 | Who would have thought , with all this talk of millions to be made by gene juggling , that just a few years ago genetic engineering was considered to be so dangerous that one small accident could unleash upon the world a virulent plague that would make the black death look like an outbreak of summer flu ? |
| 13 | But it 's not enough to play like that once every ten weeks . ’ |
| 14 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |
| 15 | These , were these really the earliest historians in our nation , as |
| 16 | Is it all exactly the same functions then ? |
| 17 | Each female lives for about ten years and produces in all about a million eggs . |
| 18 | But sometimes the door was open and they 'd do it all out the front doors like this a and fresh , fresh people trying to get in . |
| 19 | If set to ALL then the following activities are automatically recorded in the QAO log . |
| 20 | What Bourdieu has in mind here is clearly not at all primarily the classificatory struggles concerning types of symbolic goods that form so much of the subject matter of Distinction ( cf. also Un art moyen ) . |
| 21 | I would also add to that that I think such work would help us in terms of targeting more effectively the existing resources we have in terms of service delivery . |
| 22 | A number of these countries are those where the first stages of industrialisation — the establishment of heavy industry and low cost manufacturing of relatively low added value products — are well underway and a firm base of markets within the industrialised world has been established . |
| 23 | it was the same in the second half … the save of the game stopped an equaliser from Joey Beauchamp … and after that well the United players just had to accept it was n't going to be their day … |
| 24 | The first great and acknowledged object of naval defence … is to maintain such a superior naval force at home , that even the united fleets of France and Spain may never be masters of the Channel … |
| 25 | I 've done that quite a few times but it does n't have any lasting effect , so maybe I 'd be a bad catch , ’ he says . |
| 26 | Erm now you 've done that quite a few times before N A O so do the N A O H first and you should be able to whiz through that . |
| 27 | this and that then the old women used to go to the door , shilling . |
| 28 | Erm and that how that but through land reform it meant that how that you had erm credit difficulties and that how that landlords who prev previously provided the credit were no longer there and so that meant that how that erm that exasperated problems of increasing productivity and also there was a severe shortage of farm implements and animals cos they were n't redistributed , there was only the surplus that was taken away from the rich peasants and landlords , it meant that how that the , the rich peasants erm you know , got back er they sort of were a self-perpetuating elite in that how the poor peasants just did n't have the means to improving their production . |
| 29 | Is that where the big ones have the sand with the television ? |
| 30 | It can be argued , however , that neither a reformed employers ’ pension system , nor the new personal pension arrangements , are likely to guarantee an adequate income in old age for anyone ( male or female ) with a discontinuous employment record and/or a history of multiple job changes . |