Example sentences of "[noun] [art] [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 Now , I 've made a distinction between those , in other words a group maybe a methile group now , methile group is not a functional group it 's not something that dictates the properties of a compound , necessarily .
2 Both he and Ted McMinn were fined by the club after breaking a New Year curfew by sneaking out to a late-night disco the night before a crunch match against Celtic .
3 Apprentices do not wake up in strange beds the night before an important ride and then tell all to the boss 's wife .
4 Boots says a supply of alkaline batteries for a personal stereo used for four hours a day , five days a week over a year will cost about £90 , while rechargeable batteries and a charger cost from £18 to £27 ( from selected branches of Boots ) .
5 To help engender trust and familiarity , the field-worker 's contact in the station was restricted at the beginning to a few hours a shift once a week , gradually being built up to a full shift , including mights , twice a week .
6 Apart from the general problems that relate to the haphazard disposal of such waste , particularly into landfill sites where little effort is made to seal them off , in the United Kingdom as a whole the land around a third of the 100 sites studied by the Department of the Environment was contaminated .
7 During a flight the day before a discrepancy between the Captain 's and First Officer 's localiser indications had been observed : an approach flow from the left side of the cockpit resulted in the aircraft tracking to the left of the localiser .
8 IT IS pretty rare to come across a football manager brave enough to hold up his hands the day after a beating and invite criticism .
9 As for North , ‘ he would either go to jail or be decorated ’ , Secord used to say to Hakim ; and McFarlane told him — as he sat jet-lagged and exhausted in his office the night after a gruelling Iranian session in Frankfurt — that ‘ if the world only knew how many times you have kept a semblance of integrity and gumption to US policy , they would make you Secretary of State . ’
10 Evidence of the Host 's appearance is said to be the red crotal ( lichen ) stain found on rocks the morning after a heavy frost , which is blood they have spilled during their aerial spats .
11 On another occasion he was spotted by an opposing Derby County player lying drunk in the street the night before an important league match , a scene that he repeated on several occasions in London 's late-night jazz clubs .
12 The prosecution have said Tanya was killed by Probyn the day before a court hearing for custody of their two children , and he caused her car to drop beneath the waters of the River Severn .
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