Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trial starts early next year . |
| 2 | She was a bit shaken up last night . |
| 3 | Mr Maxwell said that the postponement was agreed in the last few weeks , following a decision to spend heavily next year on unspecified initiatives to increase Mirror Group 's market share . |
| 4 | A PENSIONER hit out last night at a thief who burgled her house and then stole her handbag while pretending to be a Good Samaritan . |
| 5 | The programme is based on a study carried out last year , which showed that 57 per cent of eastern residents drank below-standard water , and that 36 per cent breathed air which contained levels of sulphur dioxide above safety levels . |
| 6 | Yeah well I 'll give them a ring say early next week |
| 7 | A review carried out last year showed that there was in increase in the number of inshore fishing vessels seeking assistance , and modern navigational equipment and greater speed may be tempting this type of vessel further offshore than is sometimes prudent . |
| 8 | Mr Boateng 's appointment was part of a reshuffle announced late last night by Mr Kinnock of his middle and junior ranking front bench spokesmen following the Shadow Cabinet elections last week . |
| 9 | A houseman came in first in a pure white coat , |
| 10 | The Governor 's brutally candid assessment struck a new blow to Mr Major as he grappled with two crises : the threat of a crippling defeat for the Government tomorrow night , and a Cabinet deadlocked over next year 's spending plans . |
| 11 | The Governor 's brutally candid assessment struck a new blow to Mr Major as he grappled with two crises : the threat of a crippling defeat for the Government tomorrow night , and a Cabinet deadlocked over next year 's spending plans . |
| 12 | A woman knelt down next to one of the stricken and bleeding girls and told her she got what she deserved ; another tried to prevent first-aid being given to the policeman and taunted his suffering . |
| 13 | But when a man came in last night and threatened her with a knife , shop assistant Parveen Akhter decided enough was enough . |
| 14 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 15 | A ROW broke out last night over claims about waiting lists in Darlington as the local health authority launched its patient 's charter . |
| 16 | if you suffer from Mansellmania … you 're on the right channel tonight … we 've a competition coming up first news of Sunday 's grand prix in Mark Kiff 's action round up |
| 17 | Unless German taxpayers allow the Treuhandanstalt , a trust set up last year to privatise eastern Germany 's 8,000 state firms , to write off many of these debts , none of these companies has much chance of surviving . |
| 18 | Furthermore , in a survey carried out last year , over 88 percent of British doctors agreed that animal experiments can be misleading because of anatomical and physiological differences between humans and animals . |
| 19 | You could n't even hear a gun go off next door . |
| 20 | AN appeal went out last night for a heart-lung donor to save cystic fibrosis sufferer Gale Staley , 21 , who is critically ill in a Leeds hospital . |