Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bottom five notes or so of the violins can be enriched by adding a bassoon or two in unison . |
| 2 | Greater and lesser frequency existed in about equal proportions , but nearly twice as many of this married population had intercourse only once a week , or less often , than had intercourse three times or more in a week . |
| 3 | The point I 'm trying to get at sir is that erm it is none of it is in none of our interests , either the planning authorities or even of the developers , that if we were to erm find a strategic sites policy appropriate for this alteration , it 's in none of our interests that it should be confusing to the public or to the development industry as to how rare a thing this should be and how tightly directed it should be in geographical terms . |
| 4 | The counsellor has to enter into the family dynamic , not intrusively , not demanding compliance with the wishes or even with the needs of the elderly counsellee , but to ensure that the feelings and needs of each member of the family , however weak , are heard . |
| 5 | One of the results of an active media relations service is likely to be requests for spokesmen for radio and television programmes , and special events and launches could lead to live coverage or even to a programme being made on the subject . |
| 6 | Suitable for use in garages or anywhere with a lot of grime ! |
| 7 | Whatever its defects , the value of the SGA 1979 lies in its general applicability to all products and consumer transactions as well as in the fact that the consumer 's rights are not dependent on the existence or otherwise of a guarantee . |
| 8 | The existence or otherwise of an enforcement notice will be revealed by the local search result . |
| 9 | So she waited , pacing about her room and going to the window every other minute to look across the harbour at the carrack which lay at anchor a cable or so from the town landing stage . |
| 10 | FILE option allows import of any data file in Lotus 1-2-3 worksheets up to version 3.0 , dBase , Symphony , Quattro , ascii or directly from the keyboard . |
| 11 | Third , he exercised jurisdiction over the pagenses ( the " men of the pagus " or county ) : replicating the assemblies of the realm at local level were the county assemblies which were supposed to be held three times every year , and met either in the civitates or elsewhere in the county . |
| 12 | Business people — no longer prepared to spend five hours or more on a daytime Euston-Glasgow journey — had switched to air , while leisure travellers had been lured away by the bargain-priced coaches . |
| 13 | And unless you make a special effort to do something active on a weekend , then you can add another 16 hours or so to the total , making a grand total of more than 70 hours each week . |
| 14 | Cover and leave for at least 4 hours or overnight in the fridge . |
| 15 | It was only by craning his neck to a painful degree that he saw that he was suspended in mid-air , a foot or so above the sea . |
| 16 | The hole extended a foot or so above the level of the ceiling , and then ended . |
| 17 | Dreadnought 's deck was still a foot or so above the tide . |
| 18 | When the water has almost filled the hole , to perhaps a foot or so below the top , there is an audible pause in the proceedings . |
| 19 | And in the middle of the slanting span , circling upon a radius of about three yards , and light enough to maintain its place a foot or so below the surface , something pale and oval went monotonously round and round . |
| 20 | Inch by inch — then , as loose shale slid frighteningly from under her feet , a sudden foot or more at a time — Sheila made her way perilously down the slope . |
| 21 | It could be through an art-form or simply by a love of nature . |
| 22 | It looks just like smalltown America — the kind of place where you could set Twin Peaks or Back To The Future 4 — but it 's bigger . |
| 23 | It looks just like smalltown America — the kind of place where you could set Twin Peaks or Back To The Future 4 — but it 's bigger . |
| 24 | In other parts of the town , a kilometre or more from the vent , the ash fall was thinner and damage proportionally less . |
| 25 | They arranged to meet at half past four at a village a kilometre or so beyond the cemetery . |
| 26 | We got lost in Nuneaton trying to get back on the M6 , and were now heading through Lancashire at dusk , still an hour or more from the border . |
| 27 | Itching will begin within an hour or so of the invasion , and the vigorous scratching induced may well abort the attack . |
| 28 | That meant within an hour or so of the time at which Mary Penrose claimed that Riddle had left her . |
| 29 | The experiment involves injecting 2-DG into methylanthranilate-trained and control chicks , waiting half an hour or so for the 2-DG6P to accumulate , killing the chicks , removing and freezing their brains , and subsequently counting the radioactivity present . |
| 30 | High carbohydrate drinks will help refuel your muscles and will come in handy in the hour or so after the race if you are not able to eat anything . |