Example sentences of "a [noun] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pilot stationed the Lynx in a controlled hover above a dell a hundred yards away from the target . |
| 2 | Elizabeth Cheng looks at the space where her mantlepiece clock used to be … it was stolen in a burglary a few days ago . |
| 3 | A decision a few weeks ago to change engine suppliers almost instantly brought a revival in Jonny 's fortunes . |
| 4 | Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six . |
| 5 | When a high head is followed by a rise the stressed syllables tend to move downwards , as one would expect , towards the beginning pitch of the tone : |
| 6 | A black hole with a mass a few times that of the sun would have a temperature of only one ten millionth of a degree above absolute zero . |
| 7 | Binkie Beaumont , good as his word , saw that he had a contract a few weeks after he was finally demobbed in 1947 . |
| 8 | And you know very well that as soon as you start to launch yourself into the world of contracting by , by its very nature a contract a a automatically has loopholes in it , and the more you write in a contract the more loopholes you 've got . |
| 9 | However , in poor light our rate can drop below 10 , and in a cinema the 24 frames per second on the film merge into a continuous moving picture . |
| 10 | ‘ I must have had a fight every two days , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Ziba 's 35-year-old brother , Meho , who worked at the dairy and fought with the Sarajevo defence force , had been killed during the night in a skirmish a few blocks away . |
| 12 | One of those trees had blown over in a storm a few years later ; the other survived as a diseased and sterile relic . |
| 13 | Even targets of this order implied an ability to commission a boiler every six days and a turbo-alternator every twelve days for several years : well above the levels ever achieved before in Britain . |
| 14 | It 's heartening to see what a change a few weeks can bring . |
| 15 | Manager privilege gives a user the highest privileges on the system , It should therefore be granted with care . |
| 16 | Manager privilege gives a user the highest privileges on the system , It should therefore be granted with care . |
| 17 | When the laser is used to kill a cell the adjacent cells often continue to develop normally showing that signals are not necessary . |
| 18 | I remember watching children dancing at a wedding a few weeks ago . |
| 19 | The cold was already making Gentle 's bruised bones ache fiercely , and in such a condition the two blocks back to Jude 's apartment would be a long and painful trek . |
| 20 | It made a loss last year of £775,000 on sales of £3.2m , following a loss the previous years of £2.6m on sales of £4.5m . |
| 21 | I will take on the caring but I must have a break every six months , ’ or ‘ I can only do so if I can be sure that the incontinence service will be reliable . ’ |
| 22 | And they have a break every three hours . |
| 23 | The two were less than two centuries apart , but it brings back to mind Flecker 's verses To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence , which ends : |
| 24 | As a result the solid rocks are covered by various mixtures of loose clays , sands and boulders — called boulder clay . |
| 25 | As a result the Paramount Tillers rehearsed in their red and white check rompers , the Carltons in brown and white , the Plazas in blue and white and the Astorias in yellow and white . |
| 26 | It was a good victory for Lancashire , and as a result the two counties changed places in the County Championship . |
| 27 | As a result the corporate memories of organisations are threatened . ’ |
| 28 | As a result the creative rhythms and interchanges that explain the real history of modern American art will be impossible to discern . |
| 29 | As a result the later Chapters of this book explore some of the these areas ; they can not be as focussed on the specifically procedural aspects of prosecution and trial . |
| 30 | As a result the Social Democrats are now in government in 10 of Germany 's 16 Länder , or states , and have a 37–31 majority in the Bundesrat , the second chamber of the federal parliament . |