Example sentences of "[conj] a [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might work in the graduate school of a good American university , where a variety of methods already abounds . |
| 2 | There is a suggestion that banknote paper was made here once , and there is also evidence of a button factory where a row of cottages now stands . |
| 3 | The writing on the wall for Mr Husak became apparent in the adulation which ordinary Czechoslovak citizens showed for Mr Gorbachev , and in the pages of the Soviet Communist Party newspaper , Pravda , where a series of articles harshly critical of Mr Husak 's patron , Leonid Brezhnev , began to appear . |
| 4 | The great majority live in Reykjavik or a couple of towns close to it , and that leaves the country wonderfully bare , especially in the centre — what remains of the population is concentrated on the coast , where the chief occupations of fishing and farming are best practised . |
| 5 | I think , one of the most important things is finding a trusting friend or a member of family so that you can then try express some of the feelings so that you 're in a better position erm , to try and explain the problem . |
| 6 | The need for more staff time to organize training , or a member of staff specifically employed to organize/co-ordinate training , was mentioned by over a quarter of all authorities ( see Table 25 ) : |
| 7 | You could n't get a cup of tea or a cup of coffee anywhere . |
| 8 | It follows that if there is a small bald patch ( or a patch with grooves less than 1.6 mm deep ) 4 cm in diameter on a tread width of 12 cm an offence is committed for 4 cm is more than a quarter of the 12 cm width of tread . |
| 9 | If I were a head teacher or a chair of governors now , I would use quite blatantly the annual meeting and the annual report as ways of sounding the loudest and brightest clarion calls about my school 's performance and achievements … |
| 10 | These cheese buns have a rich filling and a crisp crust , which are just right with a cup of coffee at breakfast or a glass of wine later in the day . |
| 11 | There are many more , and to them have to be added the spores of fungal diseases , always produced in countless millions and ever-present , carried on the wind , ready to take advantage of easily-penetrated soft flabby tissue , a wound or a point of entry perhaps left open by insect damage , to invade , debilitate , deface and even destroy an entire plant . |
| 12 | And waits for this one from Tufnell , pushes forward , and it 's hit on his pad outside the off stump possibly , loud appeals from everybody , there 's a rather high-pitched vocals , I think we 've got some young people in or a lot of ladies today . |
| 13 | Although a child like Matthew clearly shows abnormal behaviour , others with hyperkinetic syndrome may only be mildly affected . |
| 14 | Most of the inhabitants had probably escaped into the night , and there had been little killing , although a number of women undoubtedly had been caught and forced to pay the price of conquest . |
| 15 | It was almost impossible to think that a couple of hours ago she 'd have climbed on the rostrum in the Forum and denounced Prince Nicolo Sabatini to all of Rome . |
| 16 | In 1979 I had built a small wind-up lectern for table-top use and followed that a couple of years later with a full-size floor-standing lectern that operates hydraulically . |
| 17 | If the girls do not appear to have an even average awareness of culture — a friend said that a couple of years ago Zsuzsa had never heard of |
| 18 | Interested readers will be aware that a couple of years ago , two new recordings of the 1915 version of El Amor brujo were released , one from Virgin with Aquarius ( which I 've not heard ) , the other from Nuova Era with the Carmé Ensemble . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a real emotional roller coaster , and I suspect that a couple of days ahead I will be totally drained . ’ |
| 20 | He explained that a couple of centuries ago the course was leased out as a rabbit farm and , well , ever since , the creatures have been hopping wild across the four courses . |
| 21 | you said that a couple of weeks ago |
| 22 | And there is no doubt that a confession of faith perhaps is , is needed sometimes . |
| 23 | This is plausible enough , although Bo Gräslund has recently contended that a watercourse near Stockholm once bore the name too , and that a battle there would provide a better historical context for the Sigtuna coinage and Cnut 's claim to rule some of the Swedes . |
| 24 | The Marriage Act 1949 provides that a marriage between persons either of whom is under the age of 16 is void . |
| 25 | It must however , be carefully controlled because it is essential that a cover of perennial rather than annual grasses is maintained as the latter are more susceptible to drought . |
| 26 | We need to ask whether the effects of hypnosis upon human thought processes , on reasoning and memory , are really understood ; whether we can assume that a person under hypnosis truly remembers actual events . |
| 27 | The motto of the AFTC is ‘ A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body ’ , but there is no doubt that a sense of humour also helps ! |
| 28 | And , talking of justice and lobsters , I understand that a court of law recently had to decide whether lobsters were insects or " animals " ( it bore upon whether people should be allowed to boil them alive ) . |
| 29 | I would have thought , Lord Mayor , that a country like Estonia currently has enough problems of its own without Councillor |
| 30 | The Siporax is only half submerged , so that a head of water never covers the biological media . |