Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Referring to a case where grammar school children got drunk one night and began damaging cars and property , one of the juvenile liaison police said , ‘ It was the old drink , like , that did it , but there was one from a local children 's home . |
| 2 | So , if you are in the market for a text only system stick to something that resembles your current word processor while if you already use business graphics you 'll find the simpler page makeup programs fairly straightforward . |
| 3 | To mark the event commemorative mugs were produced and a new handbook-brief history of the line has been printed with some 19 photographs and a pull out information piece for younger enthusiasts . |
| 4 | But a furlong out Mill Reef had sprinted clear , and only Pistol Packer could deny him the greatest moment of an outstanding racing career . |
| 5 | And er frankly , you would nah want to go to a male , a male only Burns supper , they , they they 're a most un seemly looking crew by the time they 've finished their dinner ! |
| 6 | Two er requirements for the future that er seem to be er er desirable are stealth and what could be stealthier than the present generation of aircraft and secondly to prevent you having to go over your target you 're likely to be shot down so that you need a stand up weapon capability , er if the payload is somewhat limited can it still carry stand off weapons that are effective ? |
| 7 | I write this as the world 's Number One fan of the Demon Boyz , a roughneck little Tottenham posse . |
| 8 | He was found to be carrying a letter from Filshin which endorsed a deal whereby Dove Trading International would provide a credit line of US$7,500 million to a Russian firm , The Revival of the Urals Countryside , to import consumer goods and food . |
| 9 | I think most people now agree that , with hindsight , the ITF should have introduced a wood only racket rule , with limited dimensions , the moment hints of a racket revolution appeared in the mid 1970's . |
| 10 | As they poured into Westminster from remote corners of the Scottish highlands and seats in the English shires ( fifty-nine of the government supporters had attended less than one tenth of the sittings of the house in that session ) , it was clear that those who had championed the House of Lords as a place where party discipline took second place to wisdom had an altogether too rosy view of things . |
| 11 | Mr George , who has lived with Gardiner 's wife Maggie for five years , said he 'd been told by Simon James that he ( James ) had driven Chalky White a to a place where Danny gardiner had killed him . |
| 12 | The 1950s was a period when state intervention in childhood was highly visible . |
| 13 | ( Tobacco industry employment declined between 1980 and 1988 by 57% , mainly through automation , in a period when tobacco consumption declined by only 20% . ) |
| 14 | The abandonment of the gold standard and the devaluation of sterling removed the theoretical justification which the Treatise supplied for public works in a period when bank rate was too high for purposes of domestic equilibrium . |
| 15 | In a period when car crime is a problem , I hope that manufacturers will begin to advertise cars using better security as a selling point . |
| 16 | This was a period when coal consumption , and hence the number of miners employed , was rapidly rising . |
| 17 | For example , W. A. Speck 's work on division lists for Queen Anne 's reign shows that the vast majority of MPs voted consistently either Whig or Tory , with a mere 12.2 per cent wavering in their allegiance , whilst in a similar analysis of division lists for William 's reign , usually regarded as a period when party conflict was less clearly defined , Henry Horwitz found that only 14 per cent of MPs voted across party lines . |
| 18 | Anyone crossing the Atlantic ( on a cash only bucket shop fare ) will quickly find filling stations only too happy to offer a substantial cash discount at the pump . |
| 19 | And all on a day when FTSE index of the 100 biggest companies actually went UP 26.6 to 2311.6 . |
| 20 | I 'll have a drink though sherry Mum can I have a sherry please ? |
| 21 | But the province fared better than the UK as a whole where building society mortgage lending fell by 20pc in 1992 . |
| 22 | In 1941 Vickers suggested that the tramway be extended from Squires Gate for a mile down Squires Gate Lane towards the factory gates . |
| 23 | It is true that William Cobbett , born in 1766 , was to write , " I do not remember the time when I did not earn my living " , but he was the son of a moderately successful small farmer in a district where hop growing enabled a decent living from small acreages for a family with three sons to help work it . |
| 24 | and that the reverse would be the case if we were to move from our free enterprise and initiative policy to a policy whereby state nationalisation took over Northern Electric in York , Yorkshire Water , British Telecom and other similar companies ? |
| 25 | Your comment was made in a week when manufacturing output fell for the seventh successive quarter and unemployment rose for the 23rd successive month . |
| 26 | A month ago MB Group used up the £164m cash proceeds of its Carnaud merger by purchasing ABS Holdings for $300m ( £194m ) to make it the second largest cheque printer in the US . |
| 27 | I du n no , I 'll tell you in a minute , we 'll have a count nearly dinner time |
| 28 | Erm a drop out centre drop in centre ? |
| 29 | A pack of cotton wool ( a roll not cotton wool balls ) ; |
| 30 | Within twenty five years , these Palestinian babies could live in a society where Arabs match Jews , one for one . |