Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | S. Gimignano , near Siena , is the outstanding instance where a number of towers still survive and these date from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 2 | But how far was British industry simply a victim of circumstances ? |
| 3 | ‘ People said I was brave setting up a company at such a time , ’ recalls Mr Chambers , adding ‘ Brave ’ is a back-handed way of saying ‘ You 're mad ’ . ’ |
| 4 | Or is the current wave of hooliganism in British football merely a continuation of old traditions , which we now are less willing to tolerate and more anxious to report ? |
| 5 | For those who liked cleaning their buttons there was button polish and a British parade once a year on the King 's Birthday . |
| 6 | Closer to Europe the British set up a blockade of Brest , a step which took them a long way towards war with France , and began looking for allies to protect Hanover against France in the event of a continental war . |
| 7 | Also , there was a pleasant inn about a quarter of a mile away where I could get a room if the tide — in the way of tides — served at some merciless hour of the early morning . |
| 8 | Wick waits , remembering the herring more recently ; the lovely old buildings stare blankly over the vast harbour once a forest of masts . |
| 9 | Freud preferred to help an individual work out a set of goals and norms for himself , within the psychoanalytic setting , rather than propose a return to a tightly structured civilization . |
| 10 | Pachinko is a £3.8bn-a-year industry which has a Svengali-like hold over a quarter of the adult population . |
| 11 | Eventually , he found it , lying down on the Kālādika — an open , grassy plateau about a quarter of a mile outside the village — the nearest place where the cattle were taken to graze . |
| 12 | Wilson , speaking at an Annual Conference almost a quarter of a century later summarised the experience of 1887–1894. " 1887 was a fairly good year . |
| 13 | They were released the following day when a crowd of 4000 people gathered outside the police station . |
| 14 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |
| 15 | IAN WRIGHT grabbed a superb 73rd-minute winner against his old club Crystal Palace as Arsenal moved menacingly up to third place in the Premier League just a point behind leaders Blackburn . |
| 16 | In particular , perceptual awareness , and so consciousness itself , is identified with certain events taking place in the higher reaches of the central nervous system where a chain of events , collectively described as sensory processing , and originating from the object that is perceived , reaches a terminus . |
| 17 | There is also a chamber pot by an adjacent vent ; Bardul cheerily dumps his personal refuse down a vent into the kitchen below . |
| 18 | Given the option , would you prefer to spend 80 minutes hard labour twice a week at placed like Lancaster Park , Christchurch or lying on the beach at Famagusta ? |
| 19 | The same could be said of the TSB while if you sell shares at such low prices that they guarantee the buyers an instant and spectatular profit then a lot of people are going to say : ‘ Thank you very much indeed ’ . |
| 20 | now it is worn on the third finger of the left hand where a vein of love was believed to run straight to the heart . |
| 21 | Ot Moor just a couple of miles east of Islip is a low-lying wilderness area of 6 square miles , mainly of wet marshlands , which proves to be a great attraction to naturalists . |
| 22 | ‘ I sang live on Australian TV just a couple of weeks ago . |
| 23 | And county consumer protection officer David Holliday says despite extensive publicity only a trickle of people have been using them . |
| 24 | We had roast meat once a week on Sundays , served at noon on the dot , usually their own home-killed sheep or pork . |
| 25 | All the while long lines of lorries trundled along the streets as if it was 1945 and the retreating Wehrmacht only a couple of miles away . |
| 26 | The biggest march was in Quimper on the Brittany coast , where up to 10,000 people gathered for a silent protest which remained calm until the late afternoon when a handful of people began throwing stones and tear gas bombs . |
| 27 | If I now consider an event of a moment ago , my idle contemplation of the cup on my table , and attempt to subtract from my present conception only a part of it-the subject within the event of a moment ago-and to hang on to the remainder , I am in fact left with something other than the content of the event . |
| 28 | We could clinch a play-off place with a good run yet a lot of fans appear to have written off our season . |
| 29 | Where the coast has deep water offshore a fall in base level means the formation of a vertical or very steep cliff . |
| 30 | It will save me a long journey twice a day to Norton Junction . ’ |