Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirling accelerated and immediately a loud screaming noise came from the front of the vehicle . |
| 2 | It began to break down by the 1790s when the pressure of a growing population and insufficient work meant that over a fifth of the labour force was virtually permanently unemployed . |
| 3 | As for education , Dr Spufford showed that about a fifth of Cambridgeshire 's villages and minor market towns had a schoolmaster licensed continuously between 1570 and 1620 . |
| 4 | They had to retrace their steps to pick it up again , while a second team discovered that neither a policeman nor the Council knew where the Local Authority parcels office was . |
| 5 | At the other end of the scale , none of the small libraries indicated that over a quarter of any individual 's time was devoted to training , although there was an overlap between small and medium sized libraries in other categories . |
| 6 | A few large splashes fell and then a lot . |
| 7 | IT WAS like reading the last page of a well-written romance story to see John McCarthy and Jill Morrell relaxed and together a year after the end of his ordeal with Arab terrorists . |
| 8 | As with Lasswade Road , projected traffic flows indicated that only a partial grade separated junction was required at Gilmerton Road for traffic to and from the west . |
| 9 | Owen thought that rather a pity as she had seemed very competent , quite capable of sorting out both Yussuf and his wife . |
| 10 | Gordon left after just a year . |
| 11 | Legend held that once a year an angel came to dance on the highest peak . |
| 12 | It is hardly encouraging that Terrace himself , whose book Nim ( 1980 ) is regarded as a classic in the field , after an exhaustive analysis of filmic evidence concluded that only a very small proportion of Nim 's gestures , in both training and free living , could reasonably be thought to have been initiated by the animal ; the vast majority were repetitions of what humans had just signed or , to a lesser extent , merely random . |
| 13 | Imaz found that about a quarter of the Argentine industrial elite , at a time when industrialisation was getting well under way , were self-made men from neither middle- nor upper-class backgrounds ( Imaz 1964 ) . |
| 14 | By experimenting with the duration of incubation they found that fusion occurred after only a few hours , and that viable hybrids could be grown in a liquid culture medium containing glucose , monosodium glutamate , a mixture of vitamins , sodium chloride and extracts of Raphanus brassica ( common mustard ) . |
| 15 | The 1974 Press Commission found that nearly a third of weekly papers shared editorial content with other weeklies , and half shared advertising . |
| 16 | Information collected about the relatives of cancer patients showed that only a minority have anything more than superficial contact with the staff caring for the patient , and a number of these relatives would have welcomed an opportunity to share their anxiety , not only about the patient but about their own feelings ( Bond , 1982 ) . |
| 17 | The trouble started when around a hundred and fifty travellers arrived back at their illegal camp after a wedding . |
| 18 | For more than three decades health authorities in the United States , Britain and Australia insisted that only a lunatic fringe of cranks , flat-Earthers and right-wing reactionaries opposed fluoridation . |
| 19 | Peter Donaldson said that quite a few people came into his shop and tried to exchange Dillons vouchers under the misapprehension that they were Book Tokens . |
| 20 | The wet grass glittered and near-by a nut-tree sparkled iridescent , winking and gleaming as its branches moved in the light wind . |
| 21 | I can promise you that the total came as quite a shock to me , I was convinced it would be well in excess of my budget . |
| 22 | In Somerset a jury declared that only a corner of north-west Somerset ought to remain within Exmoor Forest : another Somerset jury made the startling statement that King John had afforested all England ! |
| 23 | While their opponents in 1830 believed that a considerable measure of parliamentary reform would lead to national catastrophe , the Whigs maintained that only a considerable measure could prevent a catastrophe … |
| 24 | Still , relegation came as quite a shock to the system . |
| 25 | In 1986 an official report recorded that over a thousand monuments were in urgent need of restoration or protection from pollution . |
| 26 | This situation meant that sometimes a completely unsuitable man was entrusted with an important appointment merely because , for some private reason of his own , he was willing to accept it . |
| 27 | Mandy hesitated and then a smile softened her face . |
| 28 | The St Albans writer Thomas Walsingham declared that scarcely two men survived out of twenty in certain religious houses , and that many men considered that barely a tenth of the whole population remained alive ( 32 , i , 273 ) . |
| 29 | A survey by the US Department of Labor revealed that about a fifth of private-sector workers , mainly employees of large corporations , are already subject to testing . |
| 30 | A committee composed of Shamir and two other Cabinet ministers decided that initially a 25 per cent stake in the company would be sold . |