Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move up to verse can be made for the exit of a person from a lower but also for the entrance of one from a higher rank . |
| 2 | Oh there was quite a few and then on the other side there was er , the old reading room where the erm er , building society is it now , what 's there ? |
| 3 | When models are constructed from such premisses , for example , there is a tendency to view government as a restrictive and even as a repressive agency . |
| 4 | To ask a child to get dressed is a reasonable requirement of a seven-year-old but not of a two-year-old . |
| 5 | They may be summarised as follows : if it appears that facts existed from which a constable could reasonably have anticipated a breach of the peace , as a real and not as a remote possibility , and the constable did in fact anticipate such a breach , he is under a duty to take steps ( whether by arrest or otherwise ) as he reasonably thinks are necessary to prevent the breach of the peace from occurring or , as it may be , from continuing . |
| 6 | He will head a start-up team of seven staff which is expected to grow to a dozen or more over the next six to nine months . |
| 7 | He will head a start-up team of seven staff which is expected to grow to a dozen or more over the next six to nine months . |
| 8 | The organisation wants to increase its investments at the rate of a dozen or so per year . |
| 9 | Now about a dozen or so of those are to go ahead with funds of up to Ecu250,000 a year for three years . |
| 10 | I still do half a dozen or so of these scarlet cross-overs a year , to this day . |
| 11 | ‘ In countries like Australia and New Zealand the leading players play in the region of 25 rep games a season , perhaps a dozen or so of which will be full internationals . |
| 12 | I 'll tell you what else you can do ; you can make half a dozen or so of those currant buns of yours and take them with you on Saturday as a kind of present for the lady . ’ |
| 13 | Only a dozen or so of the creeps in the black nighties , but they 've got heavy weapons . |
| 14 | ‘ And dangerous , ’ said Caspar , with a backwards glance to where Goibniu was standing before the fire in thy characteristic pose , thumbs in belt , surrounded by half a dozen or so of the others . |
| 15 | After a dozen or so of these , those of us used to more direct forms of speech are tempted to interpret them as self-parody . |
| 16 | And in the course of each evening numbers rose from a dozen or so to a hundred , and then diminished as people wandered away to supper . |
| 17 | I collect a dozen or so from the dewy grass in the early morning and set off for a few hours ' chubbing , knowing I am going to catch several fish , providing , of course , the weather and water conditions are favourable . |
| 18 | The loose-boxes were set around three sides of a square and away to the right , half-hidden , was a neglected-looking dwelling . |
| 19 | The offence is for the first time triable either way , and is punishable on indictment with either three years ’ imprisonment or a fine and summarily with six months imprisonment and a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum . |
| 20 | This regiment was raised in 1881 upon the merger of The 33rd Regiment of Foot ( raised in 1702 ) , in which the Duke served as a major and later as colonel , and The 76th Regiment of Foot ( raised in 1787 ) in which he had started his careers as a subaltern . |
| 21 | But in the gravel , the eggs remain , a thousand or so from every female . |
| 22 | and what that means that if an organization which has not sponsored something in the arts before decides to do so the government will give a similar amount of money er at a lower ceiling of a thousand and up to a maximum of forty thousand was it ? |
| 23 | If the memory of the association of a given flavour with illness can be taken to be more important than the memory that the flavour has also been experienced without harmful consequences , then the latter memory would interfere after a short but not after a long retention interval . |
| 24 | Jack Nicholson copes well with the challenge of playing down a down and out with a drink problem as well as a guilt complex . |
| 25 | Although the largest of the 11 suits called for the immediate repayment of $1,200 million , bankers were reported on March 13 to be viewing the move as a defensive and not as a provocative act . |
| 26 | On a practical and down to earth level it is worth finding out what clerical support you are likely to get in the clinic or base where you will be working . |
| 27 | These areas are ( i ) the organization of licensing , censorship and other similar forms of control , and the struggle against these ; ( ii ) the organization of the market , both in its aspect as a trading area whose purposes , in expansion and profit , may often be in conflict with otherwise dominant political and cultural authorities , and its aspect as a mechanism for commodities in this especially sensitive field , where inherent calculations of profit and scale may impose tensions with other conceptions of art and , at a different level , impose its own new forms of commercial controls ; and ( iii ) the uneven and changing relations between a received and always to some extent recuperated ‘ popular ’ ( largely oral ) culture and the new forms of standardized and increasingly centralized production and reproduction . |
| 28 | Room rates are pitched at £69 for a single and up to £140 for a de luxe double . |
| 29 | Constitutionally disinclined to surrender preferment , being , as he once observed , ‘ of a modest if not of a retiring disposition ’ , he remained librarian until 1952 . |
| 30 | VAT on books could cut sales by a 5Th and up to 200 jobs in Oxford may be at risk . |