Example sentences of "a [adj] [n mass] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | At the meeting re-convened to pass the accounts , the members were given a thorough , and far-reaching report , which included the recommendation to spend ‘ less excessively ’ on the clubhouse , but more on the course , and to raise the wages of some staff who had had only a meagre 15s. 0d. a week for years . |
2 | Apparently , in the movements before a 360 ° loop the board is headed into the wind so that it takes off from the wave at an oblique angle . |
3 | In fact , in a 10 kg infant a dose of only 0.8 mg fluoride could theoretically cause a peak of 0.2 ppm in the blood ionic fluoride ; and a dose of just 0–4 mg fluoride , a peak of 0.1 ppm . |
4 | The gold moidore factor is not quite what it was , since Mr Tim is a major nickelfucker. £5.50 an hour oozed reluctantly from his wallet , as against the munificent £8 of the Shakespeare School . |
5 | ( Whenever there is a major aircraft accident the press and other media frequently refer to the FDR and the CVR as ‘ black boxes ’ . |
6 | Since the latter are available for a 5 km raster the registration data are assigned to these grid squares using the OS grid reference . |
7 | The feast proceeded in dainty silence until a bare fish skeleton the size of a heavy bolter lay on the platter before each celebrant , and their stone steins stood empty . |
8 | For example , if the quantity of sheet piling was increased in a temporary works item a variance would be identified between the budget and actual costs . |
9 | However , in a true multimedia database the non-text elements may include can photographs , diagrams , motion video , spreadsheets , program code , and digitised sound . |
10 | The Darwinians were also impressed with the discovery by Henry Walter Bates ( 1825–92 ) of a new kind of mimicry in South American insects , where an edible species copies the warning colours that have been developed by another species that is distasteful to birds . |
11 | Boat anglers out from Lyme Regis had varied action with an 18 lb turbot the most noticable specimen . |