Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either that or a dong the size of a surfboard . ’ |
| 2 | The most famous of the courtesans was Nur Bai , whose popularity was such that every night the elephants of the great amirs completely blocked the narrow lanes outside her house . |
| 3 | My dad , who , as I have already told you , was a docker by trade , never seemed to take that much interest in any of us and though he could sometimes earn as much as a pound a week , the money always seemed to end up in the Black Bull , where it was spent on pint after pint of ale , and gambled away on games of cribbage or dominoes in the company of our next-door neighbour , Bert Shorrocks , a man who never seemed to speak , just grunt . |
| 4 | Development is not viewed simply as the product of the child-rearing regime adopted by parents ; it is an interactive process , where the child influences the mother 's behaviour as much as the mother the child . |
| 5 | In each and every case the consent of either party to the contract should not be unreasonably withheld . |
| 6 | For schemes where the benefit is X months benefit for each and every claim the payments should be suspended during periods when the claimant is in temporary employment . |
| 7 | ‘ Each and every time a subject assessor visits a centre , he or she submits a report of the outcome to SCOTVEC . |
| 8 | One thing you can be sure of is that the panel will know the words of these characters very well ( they will probably be able to prompt you at any given moment should you ‘ dry ’ ) but each and every time the lines are spoken by a new voice they are different in their texture , humour , drama and music . |
| 9 | For more than a century the Board has been providing qualifications for industry that are internationally recognised and this pedigree leaves it ideally positioned to contribute to the growing need for transportable workplace focused qualifications . |
| 10 | They slip and slide against each other — somewhat ponderously , since they proceed at no more than a foot a year and sometimes a great deal less . |
| 11 | For more than a decade the real value of student maintenance grants has been continuously eroded . |
| 12 | You were no more than a boy the last time I saw you … twelve , thirteen at the most . |
| 13 | And the sea 's greatest known depth of 36,200 feet exceeds by more than a mile the height of Mount Everest . |
| 14 | After all , give someone who is barely more than a child a high-powered ‘ toy ’ and there is bound to be trouble when they go out to play with it . |
| 15 | erm But certain headlands and certain soft parts of the cliff were going back at more than a metre a year . |
| 16 | Train fares and free board and lodging were offered , plus pocket money ‘ where necessary ’ , but this was never more than a pound a week . |
| 17 | We always had to chase after him for it and he 'd never give her more than a pound a week . |
| 18 | The FAO report estimated that a total of 42 million acres of tropical forest were cleared in 1990 — more than an acre every second — as compared with just 30 million in 1980 . |
| 19 | And in less than no time the weeks passed and the memories of that dreaded party were only a vaguely uneasy thought in the sealed-off recesses of Robyn 's mind . |
| 20 | In less than a minute the little band of rabbits had disappeared into the dim , moonlit night . |
| 21 | Despite these particular difficulties with older urban areas , it is generally true to say that in less than a decade the Dutch created and adopted a revolutionary residential environment which , even in car-dominated cities , displayed many of the benefits of the street in the pre-motorised era . |
| 22 | In less than a century the world of sound-recording had expanded from a plaything for amateurs to a world-wide billion-dollar industry , and it looks set to stay that way . |
| 23 | In less than a generation the pirate peoples who were notorious for forging themselves and their sailing craft through impossible conditions had acquired the ability to command undreamed-of tonnage and horsepower with their big toes . |
| 24 | In less than a year the pair have already made significant progress . |
| 25 | 4.1 the Rent payable without any deduction by equal quarterly payments in advance on the usual quarter days in every year and proportionately for any period of less than a year the first such payment being a proportionate sum in respect of the period from and including the Rent Commencement Date to and including the day before the quarter day next after the Rent Commencement Date to be paid on the date of this Lease and |
| 26 | Within less than a mile the swift darkness closed around them and they stopped . |
| 27 | But with anything less than a gale the house filled with smoke and the door had to be opened . |
| 28 | It cost less than a fiver a head — and there was n't a plate broken all night ! |
| 29 | In less than a month the Rose Bowl would be hers . |
| 30 | For less than a penny a day Business Update will monitor the financial progress of any company or business in the UK . |