Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 In Northampton , the Pratts were innholders from the reign of Henry VIII to George I , the Lyons family lasted for four generations and in the mid-seventeenth century had three brothers who were prominent in the trade , and the Peaches eventually acquired quite a chain of inns .
2 The life-shortening effect in LAWER is claimed to be ‘ smaller than that in euthanasia because the patients usually have only a few hours or days to live ’ .
3 The patients then received either a single injection of 6 µg/kg pentagastrin ( peptavlon , ICI Pharmaceuticals , UK ) subcutaneously or an intravenous infusion of 0.6 mg/kg/h over one hour .
4 The jockeys then completed nearly a circuit at a gradually increasing pace before deciding among themselves to pull up .
5 Suppose the electrons just fill exactly an integral number N of Landau levels .
6 The Men usually came twice a day — once to clean out the Cages and once to feed the eagles .
  Next page