Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heads it 's Spring … a lovely display of Easter bonnets from just a few of the 25 children who took part in a magnificent parade at the Sally Ann Playgroup , Amery Street , Alton on Friday morning . |
| 2 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 3 | He 'd tried to stop a truck which was loaded with stolen aluminium scrap worth just a hundred pounds . |
| 4 | He 'd tried to stop a truck which was loaded with stolen aluminium scrap worth just a hundred pounds . |
| 5 | The problems result from long-term exposure , so families who change homes every few years may not suffer because they are exposed to levels above the action level for only a short time . |
| 6 | Encore has been shipping Multimax superminis for over a year and has now sold ( and shipped ) two to the OSF 's development lab in Boston . |
| 7 | The research will focus on the adaptation of carbon dioxide lasers for topside and subsea welding work in both a wet and hyperbaric environment and the eventual development of a remotely operated welding system . |
| 8 | But , ironically , the longer-term explanation lies in the restrictions Washington has maintained on Japanese car imports for almost a decade . |
| 9 | Gel retardation was done in F9 EC whole cell extracts with either a class 1 ( tracks 1–4 ) or class 2 ( tracks 5–8 ) binding site in the presence of either preimmune or immune anti-peptide A ( antiserum 4 ) , together with either unrelated peptide 1 ( tracks 3 and 7 ) or peptide A ( tracks 4 and 8 ) . |
| 10 | The University of Edinburgh is a major postgraduate teaching and research centre in both a British and international context . |
| 11 | Had the set been finished there , we might have got an album of more intensity but without commercial success — ‘ Exodus ’ was on the UK album charts for over a year . |
| 12 | Fortunately , in parallel with the re-study of lowland landscapes , the Countryside Commission has also commissioned a similar study of upland landscapes in both a full ( Sinclair , 1983 ) and abbreviated form ( Allaby , 1983 ) . |
| 13 | If you are only planning to follow the F-Plan for a week or two to polish off a modest weight problem of just a few pounds . |
| 14 | When we went there were a little carrier bag with only a tiny little carrier bag |
| 15 | The central research question is whether wartime training altered women 's position in the labour market on either a temporary or a permanent basis . |
| 16 | For this reason , soldiers on yet another emergency tour in Ulster with the 1st Battalion The Royal Scots approach their frequent foot patrols with perhaps an extra edge of caution and respect . |
| 17 | Spheris User functions on either a local network ( Novell NetWare 2.2 and 3.11 , LAN Manager 2.0 and 2.1 , and IBM PC LAN 1.3 ) or stand-alone personal computer or workstation . |
| 18 | Yes , yet you 've increased their rent at council houses by quite a considerable amount . |
| 19 | There is a tendency of course for some old people to expect to have long telephone calls of even an hour or more with their |
| 20 | If you have any of these problems , you seriously need to consider extending your exercise capability by quite an amount . |
| 21 | The Canadian dollar fell by nearly a cent against the US dollar in nervous overnight trading once media reports of his imminent resignation circulated on world financial markets . |
| 22 | The Stroud district of Gloucestershire was well developed ‘ Stroudwaters ’ having been a household name for nearly a century . |
| 23 | Drive a Range Rover at about a hundred and ten along the motorway , you |
| 24 | On election of Benchers , my proposal of direct election by Inn members of even a minimum of new Benchers per year has been unanimously rejected by all Inns . |
| 25 | Other components of the cuticle account for only a very small part of its weight but are of great physiological significance . |
| 26 | If the borrower chooses the house buyers ' report , the work undertaken by the valuer results in both a report to the borrower and the necessary report to the society . |
| 27 | I changed the fertiliser order to once a year instead of quarterly . |
| 28 | Use rhubarb for a warming winter pudding with either a crumble topping or pastry . |
| 29 | Thus , in a number of stages during the 1980s , the Conservatives cut the basic rate of income tax by nearly a quarter ( from 33p to 25p in the £ ) while the top rate was reduced by more than half . |
| 30 | Thirdly , speakers of a language do not always comport themselves in the manner recommended by the prevailing mores-they can be outrageous , and otherwise " inappropriate " , So such a definition would make the data of pragmatics stand in quite an abstract relation to what is actually observable in language usage , whereas for many linguists one of the major contributions of pragmatics has been to direct attention once again to actual language usage . |