Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside , a slippery walk soon leads to a stream flowing across the line of approach : this , followed to the left , vanishes under a wall of rock , but a few paces upstream bring as a reward a vision of beauty . |
| 2 | The majority of hostels now offer family accommodation and all provide excellent , free , self-catering facilities , though breakfast ( £2.30 ) , packed lunch ( £1.95 ) , and evening meal ( from £3.50 ) are widely available and some hostels even run to a wine list . |
| 3 | And whatever may have been socially expected of them , some grandfathers evidently helped in a similar way . |
| 4 | Some things never change at a Labour conference . |
| 5 | A few writers still speak of a permanent discontinuity between the biological sciences and the social sciences , grounded in epistemology ( Eccles , 1980 ) or at least forced by a fundamental difference in goals ( Hampshire , 1978 ) . |
| 6 | Allen cast around and within a few yards further came upon a man-made path , narrow and winding , but in frequent use . |
| 7 | He strummed for a few seconds then broke into a sweet-sounding madrigal known to both my master and myself . |
| 8 | Some systems still rely on a batch pagination method while others , like Interleaf , do the whole thing on the fly . |
| 9 | Some schemes deliberately opt for a non-expressive notation . |
| 10 | Some theses clearly belong in a clearly defined sub-discipline , but in other cases , distinctions are blurred , and assignment to one or other category may be arbitrary . |
| 11 | ‘ We dined this day , ’ writes Johnson , ‘ at the house of Mr Frazer of Streichton , who shewed us in his grounds some stones yet standing of a druidical circle , and what I began to think more worthy of notice , some forest trees of full growth . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Such persons commonly live in a dream world , and believe themselves in all they say . |
| 13 | History has shown that the insensitivity of civil or military rulers to such pressures often results in a civil war , coups or revolutions which can bring about a sudden change in a country 's political ideology and attitudes to private enterprise . |
| 14 | No magician capable of such enchantments ever came within a mile of Morpork docks . |
| 15 | It is important to note that such courses only last for a MAXIMUM DURATION OF 12 MONTHS . |
| 16 | Although these activities only relate to a fraction of the total number of UK library authorities , it may be hoped that they foreshadow a revival of interest in an essential and much neglected component of the book provision process . |
| 17 | These books also extend beyond a biographical compass of the history , by examining the development of insecurities in society , like as in the future of civilian . |
| 18 | The point is that they are unlikely to find answers to these questions neatly encapsulated in a few words , and so they are forced to be selective in what they read . |
| 19 | If you 're into any or all of these things please write to a Chris Packham look-alike pronto , before I disappear into obscurity in the bottom of fete lost wardrobe . |
| 20 | These conditions usually result in a flag being set , or an interrupt to a recovery routine being taken . |
| 21 | These concepts also act as a " way in " to a particular subject . |
| 22 | These developments also come at a time when drives for greater efficiency are features of both public and private sectors . |
| 23 | All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other . |
| 24 | Some of these creatures now grew to a considerable size , 60 centimetres or so . |
| 25 | These results closely agree with a study of Stone and coworkers who , using cholesintigraphy , observed a 21% reduction of gall bladder emptying in response to a maximal dose of cholecystokinin 8 in diabetic patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy in comparison with patients without cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy . |
| 26 | Not one of these men here came from a lower-lying farm ( except Donald McCulloch , and their place was only a slip of ground between the steep hill and the road ) . |
| 27 | Statistically these deaths largely occur as a result of the inhalation of vomit and alcoholic poisoning , and it therefore seems somewhat bizarre for the police to be in charge of those suffering in such a way . |
| 28 | It may not be necessary for all cars always to stop at a red light at a crossroads , but to have any other rule , such as ‘ stop when reasonable to do so ’ , or ‘ stop unless the road is clear ’ , invites chaos . |
| 29 | One important effect of this conflict appears to have been to accentuate what many economists already saw as a serious drift on the part of the OECD world into recession . |
| 30 | In reality , some business processes do not operate best as a networked ‘ blob ’ , so many organisations actually operate to a hybrid model somewhere between Figures 2.1 and 2.2 . |