Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'll be nine thousand five hundred , take off N times zero over a hundred . |
| 2 | These might be to : ‘ go swimming for thirty minutes after work once a week ’ , ‘ use the stairs rather than the lift ’ , ‘ walk to the restaurant instead of driving ’ . |
| 3 | A commuter on the M8 would encounter a series of messages on the speed of traffic just a few miles ahead and , if that slowed , or the road were blocked , information on the most suitable diversion could be given in plenty of time to allow a driver to leave the motorway and avoid the hold up . |
| 4 | Crosby has already decided that Irishman Brian Mooney will play on the right side of midfield tonight a vote of confidence after the midfielder 's mistake which provided Charlton with their winning goal on Saturday . |
| 5 | They had a good diet of bread , margarine , jam and bacon for breakfast , roast beef , potatoes and greens , and rice pudding for lunch , and bread and jam for tea with cake once a week . |
| 6 | Or was the fact of their friendship with Gideon just an unwelcome coincidence , as I had at first supposed . |
| 7 | It is very strange to find , after wearing thick overcoats in Peking only a few weeks ago , that we are in the middle of hot summer weather ( by British standards ) here . |
| 8 | Ladislav said later that there had been a murder in Roztoky just a few weeks earlier . |
| 9 | Will insists , downing tea in quantities only a survivor of the planet SquatWorld could manage . |
| 10 | Sadly the Metroliner had lost confidence in being a train and wanted to be an airliner instead : the coaches were rounded like a fuselage there were airliner seats with fold-town tables from the seatback in front even a company magazine at each place . |
| 11 | Matthew Le Tissier is in danger of wrecking his England hopes after being sent off in Southampton 's FA Cup defeat at Norwich just a month after England manager Graham Taylor lectured him about his approach . |
| 12 | I flew into the monastery by helicopter just a couple of days after the fire and it was still smouldering . |
| 13 | Thirdly , in the study by Meshkinpour over a third of the patients were referred with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease compared with 14.2% in our study , and it was this patient population which yielded the smallest number of positive diagnoses in our experience . |
| 14 | At Ten Bel , Geminis provides the best of both worlds — an ideal environment for a relaxing holiday , with the lively activities of Drago only a moment 's walk away . |
| 15 | The programme of many modern philosophers , therefore , has been to develop a conception of man and his mind which either disposes of or downgrades the inner , private arena , making the function of mind essentially a part of the public and physical world . |
| 16 | If you 're interested in either the design or purchase of jewellery then a unique opportunity has come to Glasgow this week . |
| 17 | He had become a legend and he ensured he got the kind of treatment only a legend deserved . |
| 18 | To be honest , ’ she added , ‘ I find your swings of mood rather a pain . |
| 19 | When ‘ untreated ’ timber ( ie , wood which has not been impregnated with preservative ) is built into solid walls , it has no protection from dampness in the wall and it is common for joist-ends to be shielded by a skin of brickwork only a half-a-brick thick ( Fig 31 ) . |
| 20 | One of the fundamental principles behind the concept was that short landing strips for unladen aircraft were more readily found than sites for runways maybe a mile in length needed for a fully laden bomber to get airborne . |
| 21 | I had Darren home for weekends once a month . |
| 22 | The risk was undoubtedly greatest for those living closest to the plant , particularly in the village of Seascale only a mile away . |
| 23 | The problem of hypoxia during endoscopy in the elderly has not been addressed since the work of Rozen almost a decade ago before reliable methods of non-invasive arterial oxygen saturation measurement were readily available . |
| 24 | When the final scenes were played out in a villa near St Tropez in the South of France just a month ago , I was left open-mouthed at the level of stupidity — or was it arrogance ? — displayed by the Duchess and her balding ‘ financial adviser ’ John Bryan . |
| 25 | Until these fields were enclosed by private agreement or by act of parliament hardly a building was erected beyond the nucleus of the settlement , for every piece of land was precious . |
| 26 | One aspect of microcomputers which users find frustrating is that if the school librarian or teacher has access to only one type of microcomputer e.g. a BBC-B or an IBM PC , there is no compatibility between the machines . |
| 27 | Such a move offered the possibility of a major confrontation between executive and legislature over the contentious issue of abortion only a year before the 1992 presidential elections . |
| 28 | Here guests find a swimming pool and small children 's pool , a restaurant serving a choice of menu , a piano bar with music twice a week and an American bar . |
| 29 | Soften hard skin on your feet with pumicestone then a rich foot cream and wrapping them up in aluminium foil . |
| 30 | In the decades before Emancipation only a few isolated individuals had carried dissent to the point of revolutionary commitment . |