Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Legend held that once a year an angel came to dance on the highest peak . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The 1974 Press Commission found that nearly a third of weekly papers shared editorial content with other weeklies , and half shared advertising . |
| 7 | The trouble started when around a hundred and fifty travellers arrived back at their illegal camp after a wedding . |
| 8 | The wet grass glittered and near-by a nut-tree sparkled iridescent , winking and gleaming as its branches moved in the light wind . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | Still , relegation came as quite a shock to the system . |
| 12 | In 1986 an official report recorded that over a thousand monuments were in urgent need of restoration or protection from pollution . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The minister said that only a small amount of radioactive material had escaped . |
| 16 | It was rightfully hers , of course ; but tradition said that only a man could rule the Wyrmberg . |
| 17 | Long — well , perhaps not that long-ago , in a drowsy Melbourne suburb called Surrey Hills , where Christmas came but once a year and the rest of the time there was the telly , you could say life was dull . |