Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must be very few bird reserves situated only a few minutes ' walk from the centre of a town which turn out to be as rewarding as Radipole Lake , another RSPB reserve . |
| 2 | Pedestrians scampered blindly across the road to catch waiting buses , the cars jerked ahead a few yards every time the traffic lights turned to green . |
| 3 | Text and images linked Currently a common method of combining text and images in a range of database types , including CD-ROM . |
| 4 | The missionary officers had their groceries delivered twice a week by lorry from the nearest store which was nine or ten miles away . |
| 5 | Usually the mother offered and the prospective adoptive parents requested either a weekly sum or , more commonly , a premium or lump sum of anything between £5 and £100 . |
| 6 | The last few feet required only a very slight rearward movement of the yoke to arrest the sink , and she touched with just one stiff-legged little bounce . |
| 7 | Again just two lanes open can slow things and a quick glance elsewhere well no real troubles reported just a look at the A One Stanford still the roadworks on the go there both north and south will slow things down . |
| 8 | But to many of the naturalists actually involved , the new discoveries required only a revision of traditional ideas rather than a revolution . |
| 9 | The choice of rent structures involved therefore a weighing of the interests of tenants as a whole ( including impoverished tenants ) with those of the general body of ratepayers . |
| 10 | Opaque scummy floods lapped only a metre below her feet ; a foul smell made her nauseous . |
| 11 | A dense darkness you could touch , the whirring din of the coal-cutting machine , throwing into the air black dust so thick that the light beams from the miners ’ lamps could only shine into it a few inches — the impression of numberless , short pit props placed only a foot or two apart , to support above them a mile 's weight of rock and earth ceiling — all this in the stifling heat . |
| 12 | This has given them a movie picture of the structural changes , built up from snapshots taken only a few seconds apart . |
| 13 | Cats kept indoors a great deal , with every whim catered to and with plenty of food always available , eventually come to suffer from a special kind of deprivation . |
| 14 | Samuel Sharp writing in 1847 says : ‘ There is evidence … of its having been a Roman settlement in the time of Agricola , and that his legions established here a permanent encampment , the remains of which are clearly traceable even to the present day . ’ |
| 15 | Subsequent analyses of observations from that day , when the satellite was well-placed for observations , showed a short burst of gamma and X-rays followed about a minute later by energetic neutrons that kept on coming until the satellite 's orbit carried it behind the earth . |
| 16 | Sudanese radio reported on June 25 that the interim administration in Ethiopia had given SPLA forces based there a deadline ( unspecified ) before which they had either to disarm or to leave Ethiopian territory . |
| 17 | Guest Teas called forth a great deal of generosity , a great deal of hard work but they were also enjoyable , exciting and profitable . |
| 18 | C. Most of the pits sunk about a hundred years ago were to mine the coal which was near the surface , within about 20 fathoms ( 40 m ) depth or so . |
| 19 | These policies achieved quite a lot : ‘ By 1966 businesses had begun to reestablish profits through policies which aimed at reducing unit costs . |
| 20 | organizing the raffles just to get things like slide shows organized videos organized just a little bit of help . |
| 21 | Rosa Luxemburg , in her discussion of Marx 's reproduction schemata brought forward a number of criticisms of them . |
| 22 | To the English , when they returned in the fifteenth century , fortified towns provided both a military threat and a challenge which they could not ignore . |
| 23 | William and his assistants decorated about a dozen surviving manuscripts . |
| 24 | The number of British cot deaths halved just a year after the advice . |
| 25 | It was agreed that retail/service jobs provided neither a stable base for the economy nor decent jobs for the people of the area . |
| 26 | Golf haul : Thieves wheeled away a trolley and golf clubs worth £950 from outside Walton Hall Golf Club , Warrington . |