Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [vb pp] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's Countryside Commission argued that the licence should only have been renewed for a few years during a thorough review of military land requirements . |
| 2 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 3 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 4 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 5 | All of their problems could have been solved with a few simple decisions but they seemed to have been robbed of their ability to think straight . ’ |