Example sentences of "[unc] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strong tetanic stimulation , which evoked large NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic currents , produced Ca 2+ transients lasting only a few seconds . |
| 2 | Dr Duncan Macmillan said he was supporting the university 's proposals to sell either a 16th-century bronze , Cain and Abel by de Vries , or a 17th-century landscape , The Banks of a River by van Ruisdael , because of a desperate need to raise money for the care of the remainder of the collection . |
| 3 | Yesterday 's Times had rather a worried headline . " |
| 4 | Matilda 's parents owned quite a nice house with three bedrooms upstairs , while on the ground floor there was a dining-room and a living-room and a kitchen . |
| 5 | Captain Dunbar 's been around now for over a year and most of Madeleine 's suitors last only a few months , so we think it 's serious . ’ |
| 6 | A buzzard 's feathers have almost a glossy look to them , and they 're more than one shade of brown . |
| 7 | His mother 's claims come just a few days before the publication of a report into the case of seven mental patients , who died after they were discharged from hospital . |
| 8 | Chaucer 's pilgrims travelled only a short distance from London to Canterbury , but to embark on a pilgrimage was one of the ways in which an ordinary citizen of the Middle Ages could travel abroad . |