Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [det] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza . |
| 2 | Germany 's biggest tyre company and the second largest in Europe , Continental has for more than a century been world leaders in tyre design and technology |
| 3 | DEFENDING champions Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf could both be missing when Wimbledon starts in less than a fortnight . |
| 4 | Death occurs in less than a minute , due to paralysis of the respiratory muscles . ’ |
| 5 | Yes , well you are talking about children 's services , but , I , I think if Mr 's going to talk later to this , if you want , but we are absolutely at the moment , we know that eighty nine percent of work at the child care centre is to do with child protection with to deal with it , and by that I mean abuse , physical and sexual abuse , er , concerns about that and a lot of that of course is , is tied up in procedural ways , and we 're dealing with events almost after the situation has er , got going , er , and of course , with the courts , you know that we 've got duties in relation to the courts , that we , we have to fulfil or else we are the subject of criticism from the er , courts , and we have been rapped at various er , times . |
| 6 | But there was a second surprise in Milan : that the amount of energy an animal creates is independent of body mass and increases in less than a one-to-one relationship with speed . |
| 7 | But he has not convinced his hometown audience that the larger goal of the Gulf war — the crafting of a new world order — amounts to more than a string of words . |
| 8 | One about Flaubert , one about Ellen , one about myself My own is the simplest of the three — it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence — and yet I find it the hardest to begin . |
| 9 | Whether this amounts to more than a row of beans these days is questionable . |
| 10 | Breathing in this way will be more efficient if the body is of the size and shape that gives maximum skin area and minimum body volume and this indeed , is just what is found among these lungless salamanders ; their bodies are thin and elongated and none of them grows to more than a few centimetres in length . |
| 11 | And the sea 's greatest known depth of 36,200 feet exceeds by more than a mile the height of Mount Everest . |
| 12 | In the South Western Board , for example , it was decided to centralise accounting functions , reducing billing costs by more than a quarter in the first eighteen months , and there were further economies subsequently through mechanisation and centralisation on their Plymouth accounting office . |
| 13 | Now it accounts for less than a quarter . |
| 14 | The company 's employees have embarked on a strike that could seriously disrupt international air travel if it lasts for more than a few weeks . |
| 15 | It logically follows from this that a fit person should need less sleep than an unfit one , or a man than a woman , or a grown-up than a child . |
| 16 | It follows from this that a reader who has just identified a particular letter will not be able to tell whether it was in upper or lower case on the basis of the information from the letter detector level . |
| 17 | It follows from this that a consumer who uses an appliance which is not " ordinarily intended for private use " , such as a heavy goods vehicle , will not be covered beyond death or personal injury under the CPA 1987 . |
| 18 | After all , Levi admits to more than a passing interest in things financial , shall we say . |
| 19 | In all honesty I think they are exactly the same as newpaper reports in that if a team wins 3–0 or 4–0 they automatically say it was a trouncing , and then dredge up ‘ facts ’ to evidence their overall assumption . |
| 20 | As Provincial Editor I handled correspondents ’ news reports from more than a score of outlying communities and our Times-Herald ‘ reporter ’ for the Briercrest area was a Mrs Edna Jacques . |
| 21 | It included trade and financial liberalization , and the ending of price controls on all but a handful of basic goods and services . |
| 22 | If the report runs to more than a few pages , there should always be a list of the various sections and headings to be found in the report . |