Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , is it good business sense to open a fish and chip shop in a row of shops which already includes a burger bar , a Chinese take-away and an Indian restaurant . |
| 2 | in the phrase … ’ will indicate a common phrasal usage of a word ; ‘ foll. by … ’ indicates words which commonly follow a word ; ‘ Comp. : ’ provides a word with which the reader should compare a word with . |
| 3 | There is still a superficial resemblance to the old style , especially on larger vases which often have a figure-frieze on neck and body , the rest being covered with graded bands of abstract ornament ; but this has shrunk to little more than varied groupings of zigzags , while massed zigzags among the figures of the main friezes make a shimmering ground on which the fuller , curvier silhouettes or dot-filled outlines of men , women , animals , monsters , flowers stand out . |
| 4 | To the many BMJ readers who never submit a paper this may seem to be limited accountability , but the time that editors take to make decisions on publication is critical to authors . |
| 5 | There was , nevertheless , an unusually large crowd , including one or two golf journalists who rarely saw a golf course . |
| 6 | Kids who never have a chance , from the day they are born . |
| 7 | Well of course the biggest social thing in Ireland is the pub and it 's not I mean the Irish have a a name for being very heavy drinkers but in general they 're not heavy drinkers they just spend a lot of time in pubs . |
| 8 | His perversity is plain and if the whole world demands he now signs a striker or a central defender to save his team from relegation , he will not . |
| 9 | The fragments themselves characteristically have a light , frothy texture , the lava being honeycombed with large numbers of gas bubbles or vesicles . |
| 10 | MPs at Westminster are increasingly aware of the pervasive impact of Europe on their activities which barely see a week pass without some debate on EC directives . |
| 11 | Although by 1989 the height of the economic crisis had passed , the structural effects of the war and the US embargo left Nicaragua with severe internal shortages , drastically reduced production levels and exports which only covered a quarter of the import bill . |
| 12 | They provide rituals which publicly mark a change of state and assemble a network of people who can offer practical and emotional support to those undergoing the change . |
| 13 | Related to this dependence is that many of the metals are imported from countries which either have a near-monopoly , are politically unstable or which are ideologically opposed to the capitalist West . |
| 14 | The company is wholly owned by the founding directors who now seek a partner to provide the support required to take advantage of the rationalisation expected in the European metal stockholding industry . |
| 15 | The parliaments of 1931 and 1935 contained an unprecedented number of groups and remnants , apart from the solid bloc of Conservatives who always constituted a majority . |
| 16 | Hewitt ( 1986 ) observes that " black youngsters themselves often reach a peak of Creole use in their late teens " ( p. 193 ) while where white Creole users are concerned , " most youngsters who employ Creole cease to do so at about the age of sixteen " . |
| 17 | An open letter to the climbers who recently placed a bolt on Raven Crag , Langdale . |
| 18 | a lot of his work is , sort of , rather than getting copies you just do a printout |
| 19 | Well now : this decision that all children must learn two languages , forgetting the thousands in many English cities who already have a home language , with a literature of its own . |
| 20 | And then there are some musicians who merely make a living . |
| 21 | When I was young rugby was the love of my life , but these days I just manage a game of squash now and then . |
| 22 | Sending out letters for donations or goods are never as productive as appeals which actually give a return through entertainment , social activity or a chance of winning a prize . |
| 23 | Nigel Smith in the introduction to his A Collection of Ranter Writings from the 17th Century — a book offering good evidence of highly individualistic writings which nevertheless share a number of common characteristics — emphasises that the term Ranter was one coined to refer to all those deemed to have extreme opinions . |
| 24 | Erm there are methods of doing this nine in total er ranging from er checking the accounts of the landlords who ran sort of pr who collected public money erm to imposing fines er I do n't know all this , contribution , minor protests , major protests which apparently involved a crowd of fifteen thousand er rallying to demonstrate against the local tyrant the gentry erm and then they 'd often crown the landlord villages |
| 25 | Sessions are often recorded with bands who already have a record deal . |
| 26 | In business only four years she already has a turnover of half a million pounds and supplys one outfit a year to the young princes William and Harry . |
| 27 | In her later years she never missed a hymn session on television or radio . |
| 28 | And as we got up into the classes we also had a woodwork er centre , and metal shop there . |
| 29 | in a couple of years it never done a thing and now it 's growing . |
| 30 | In doing that every day for fifty one years he actually wore a trench in the solid concrete floor . |