Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 2 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 3 | It was down to the practice ground in the gloom for Jack and myself but I managed to get a message to Sally to meet me an hour later than planned . |
| 4 | However , prizegiving was only about half an hour later than planned and we set off for home at a reasonable hour . |
| 5 | Frankie arrived back by himself about an hour later and drove off without a word to anybody . |
| 6 | Carson arrived at the zoo an hour later and bought a layout map from a kiosk just inside the South gate . |
| 7 | ‘ Tomorrow I 'm to take a look at some building plots which Paulo considers might be a good buy , ’ Vitor explained , ‘ So I arrived in Carvoeiro an hour ago and checked into my hotel . |
| 8 | ‘ He arrived half an hour ago and said he wanted to see you urgently . |
| 9 | She sits stunned , as if she was dragged out the same water , half-drowned , an hour ago and has n't got over the cold . |
| 10 | ‘ I have heard nothing of this until you came into my gallery a quarter of an hour ago and accused me . |
| 11 | EURO DISNEYLAND , a little bit of America in the flat farmlands of Seine-et-Marne to the east of Paris , opened an hour earlier than planned yesterday as thousands of visitors arrived at the Enchanted Kingdom . |
| 12 | He was on an hour now and making good progress . |
| 13 | It 's a contemplative thing and what I would recommend you is go to The Tate and sit in the middle of the Rothgo Room there , which is actually a series of canvasses , as you probably know , of a sort of reddish hue , entirely abstract , and you are surrounded by these in a small , fairly dimly lit room , and spend half an hour there and see perhaps whether they work on you . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm an invalid now and do n't you forget it ! ’ she added , attention-seeking . |
| 15 | She told him about the new high-tensile fencing they were putting up , and the ten acres of daffodil bulbs they were planting as an experiment rather than consigning the field to set-aside . |
| 16 | Women will wait much longer at an intersection rather than take a risk . |
| 17 | In what circumstances is it appropriate for a Convention to prescribe a conflicts rule in relation to an issue rather than settling it directly by a substantive rule ? |
| 18 | However , in most circumstances the right decision will be to go ahead and at this point the PRO must , as honestly as possible , judge the merits of his company 's case and , if necessary , suggest ways in which the company might modify its stance on an issue so as to reduce its vulnerability . |
| 19 | I 'm going ask you to do an exercise now and split you into groups of three . |
| 20 | A spokesman for the Clydesdale confirmed that the bank had made an error somewhere and had not processed the tape . |
| 21 | IN MID-SUMMER , contemplating a day on the beach , Truronians will cast an eye skywards and decide on the instant whether to head for the north coast or the south . |
| 22 | Green and Maskelyne embarked in the Princess Louisa at Spithead on 9 September 1763 and reached Barbados on 7 November , when they set up an observatory ashore and began observations to settle the longitude of the island . |
| 23 | Nature has an aggression here that stiffens you and makes you strong . |
| 24 | Ganymede was beloved by ZEUS , who assumed the guise of an eagle so as to spirit him up to Olympus ; there he was given immortality and became the gods ' cup-bearer , responsible for giving them their daily draught of the Elixir of Life . |
| 25 | What are the long-term developments that contribute to an event rather than cause it ? |
| 26 | I believe that those sexual practices which fail to recognise the essential humanity of other people are bad ; the man who rapes an unwilling partner , the individual who takes delight in the infliction of pain upon a partner who does not desire it , or the one who forces another into any sexual practice which is obnoxious to him or her is using the " partner " as an object rather than interacting with him or her as a human being . |
| 27 | They attended an opera together and flirted at a ball . |
| 28 | Breeders can increase production by taking an egg away and putting it in an incubator to hatch . |
| 29 | Rod Hunt , defending , said Walker insisted there had been an argument earlier and believed he was challenged when he went out into the street . |
| 30 | Thirdly , in order eventually to control the pollutant emissions in an area so as to achieve the air quality standards , an inventory of current emissions from the various sources is needed . |