Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went to the cinema twice a week . ’ |
| 2 | If the wind had been stronger or the tide just a touch faster it 's broken on it we 'd be this minute ! |
| 3 | In the other case , where a wife killed her husband , there was widespread coverage when a judge decided not to jail a 25-year-old civil servant who had shot her husband through the heart just a week after their marriage . |
| 4 | Many alpinists reconnoitre their approach to a mountain on the afternoon before a climb , and this good practice should apply equally to the descent route . |
| 5 | Victorian , of course , but if you spend sixty-four years on the throne then a lot of building styles are going to be named after you . |
| 6 | The health authority agreed to settle the case just a week before it was due to go to court . |
| 7 | The patron could be either a large client or a ‘ broker ’ , in the case here a firm of land agents . |
| 8 | If this were the case then a junction would only be more likely to be recalled if the subject had actually felt at risk even if they knew it to be a generally dangerous junction . |
| 9 | His voice was impressive , the accent almost a drawl , ‘ My own view would be that the notion of sacrilege belongs rather to superstition than religion in our age . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ With a rich and such an early song it sings ’ when ‘ sallow catkins once all downy white/ turn like the sunshine into golden light … yet on the hawthorn scarce a leaf appears . ’ |
| 11 | If we want parents to enjoy meetings so much that they will want to repeat the experience then a number of basic issues need to be addressed : |
| 12 | But higher education should be a more exploratory affair and the university more a community of scholars . ’ |
| 13 | Although the election of Avitus is the last Auvergnat election covered by Gregory , two saints ' Lives allow us to take up the story again a century later . |
| 14 | The weighting just a bit too erm |
| 15 | If you should find the cottage more a liability than you had envisaged then we can perhaps talk business in the future . |
| 16 | After all , though the gains were impressive , the market is back only to where it was before the Budget exactly a month earlier . |
| 17 | The first edition , dated 1796 , apparently contained the notorious instruction , in the treatment of ‘ staggers ’ , of having the ‘ hair clipped off the pasterns as high as the fetlock , and boiling water poured on the part twice a day ’ . |
| 18 | I know the house was only erm we used to have to run down to offices there to pay the rent once a month and it was twelve and six a month for the house and that 's about what it was worth too in them days . |
| 19 | The very , the very strays are where the wire goes , if you look at the drawing there a bit er , it actually comes in and out you know , one , one of them is actually the same , it actually just comes in and loops in and goes out again and you may |
| 20 | I think it 'll have to be put in the garage and then put in the car once a week or something . |
| 21 | There is outside the study today a glass cabinet displaying various of Mr Farraday 's ornaments , but throughout Lord Darlington 's days , there stood at that spot a bookshelf containing many volumes of encyclopedia , including a complete set of the Britannica . |
| 22 | They began with Haydn 's Cello Concerto , which was a pleasant surprise for me as I had heard the piece only a week or two before at a concert of Mozart and Haydn 's music featuring Camerata and had liked the piece very much . |
| 23 | The scales suggest the scales of a fish rather than armour ; was the priest perhaps a priest of Poteidan ? |
| 24 | I 've got on the tape here a song which is by Manny Fryer he used to sing in Steel Ice Band er now I know that that 's sort of very old hat , I 'm sorry , but I sort of live in the past and er this er I I believe also that these days so that er you know I can sort of justify that but this is a song that er she has sung which er reminds us that each of us has the potential to commit the crime I 'll try not to play it fast forward , let's see how we go . |
| 25 | That brings us to quarter past ten , I suspect that there 's , tea and coffee 's out there then , and if it is , I think we 'll have the break just a bit earlier , and then we can get into it when . |
| 26 | I actually felt they hustled better than us though we managed to catch them on the break quite a bit , ’ said Blaney . |
| 27 | They 're told that the amount of medicine they take us under their control and I usually suggest they experiment after two or three days with either increasing the amount of the dose e.g. two squirts instead of one or taking the remedy twice a day . |
| 28 | The doubt may be a result of forgetting , but is the remedy only a matter of remembering ? |
| 29 | There has been strong speculation that Pepsi Cola are putting up the money but David Murray , Rangers ' owner and chairman who bought the club exactly a year ago yesterday , is giving nothing away . |
| 30 | Dudley Moore used to come into the club twice a week to play the piano . |