Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [prep] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cases of wounding by pistol shots occasionally came before the courts and in at least one instance a child was killed , although apparently by accident , which nevertheless brought great notoriety to the so-called ‘ Clerkenwell Pistol Gang ’ . |
| 2 | The morning train from Sidney picked up milk from various farms for shipment to Victoria and on at least one occasion it was held up for two hours while cows , that had been turned into the bush the previous night to pick up what nourishment they could were searched for , rounded up , milked and the milk loaded for the trip to town . |
| 3 | SUMMARY : Zechstein carbonates form important gas reservoirs in Germany and the Netherlands and in at least one commercial field in the U.K. southern North Sea but elsewhere they are largely unexploited . |
| 4 | I had on my wrist — besides my CompC phone , now useless — a new disposable watch , powered by a uranium isotope and worth at least seventy thousand dollars at current going price in U.S.A. , 2020 . |
| 5 | These fears were given credence by the revelation that in at least one case in the March 1992 legislative elections local officials bribed voters to support an unsuccessful DLP candidate . |
| 6 | The canteen ran in this form , with a day and night shift throughout the war and after until around 1960 , when the night shift was withdrawn through lack of support and a skeleton staff supplied tea and snacks to order to the Works night shift . |
| 7 | Every office shall , on each day that it is open for business , be supervised by a practising solicitor who need not be a partner in the firm but must have been admitted for at least three years , and be managed by a practising solicitor ( of whatever seniority ) or a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives of good standing and of at least five years ' seniority . |
| 8 | In the 1590s the Polish king , Sigismund III , invited Marenzio to Warsaw and for at least half a century the directors of the royal chapel were Italians . |
| 9 | Your marriage must have broken down irretrievably because you and your husband or wife have lived apart either for at least two years and your husband or wife will consent to the divorce in writing or for at least five years . |
| 10 | You and your husband or wife must have lived apart either for at least two years and your husband or wife consents to the divorce in writing or for at least five years . |
| 11 | In Britain the prime consumer target is the housewife , particularly the housewife under 35 years of age and with at least one child under five years old . |
| 12 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 13 | Finally , we must be concerned by the fact that in at least one school ( see Chapter 5 ) the senior member of staff whose demand for IS resources was widely believed to have instigated the original project initiative could not himself describe how he used the project acquisitions in his own work . |
| 14 | Most schools accepted a need to enhance basic provision of fiction and general reference material and in at least one school the development of a sound base in children 's fiction was a priority . |