Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we actually went to competitive tender , which was for a route improvement down near Leicester , they undercut us . |
| 2 | The installation of pre-payment meters is one reason why the number of disconnections has fallen , but more important is the fact that the regional electricity companies , under the terms of their licence , have to approve a code of conduct with the Office of Electricity Regulation and must offer customers who are in genuine difficulties a payment plan so that debt can be paid off over a period . |
| 3 | HAPPY Cynthia Haslam was wearing a champagne smile yesterday after going for gold — and scooping a £10,000 Mirror jackpot . |
| 4 | The most important role of the Pinot Noir is to provide much of the body , flesh and grip of a Champagne cuvée especially in the middle term of maturity . |
| 5 | Ski Scott Dunn ( 081-767 0202 ) also aims for high standards in its chalets with treats such as tea in bed every day and a champagne breakfast once a week . |
| 6 | When they agreed to halve their poster advertising , they chose a base year when spending was unnaturally high due to a competition war . |
| 7 | My own feeling is that there is a great similarity and that there is a a base salary normally which is set on a competitive level with a target as in this case perhaps at the mid-point , perhaps at the sixty percent level or whatever it would be and that a significant uplift in compensation can be obtained by a bonus scheme , if the performance of the company as measured in earnings per share , return on capital , return on equity or any m other measure if those objectives are met . |
| 8 | This temperature difference ΔT is recorded and transmitted to a chart recorder where changes such as melting or crystallization are recorded as peaks . |
| 9 | Although he would be at a considerable financial loss , Serampore had a number of significant advantages : far more people , a good site only two hours boat journey from Calcutta , complete freedom to engage in evangelism and the chance to operate a printing press freely . |
| 10 | ( see Lithography ) a printing method whereby the image is transferred from a plate onto a rubber covered cylinder from which the printing takes place . |
| 11 | Jockey Club inspectors and course management agreed that the track was unfit after a trial gallop yesterday . |
| 12 | When a transfer is arranged this should be on a trial basis normally not exceeding one month . |
| 13 | The 21-year-old international , also a forward , clocks on for a trial period today , 24 hours after the arrival of Norway 's star striker , Tore Andre Dahlum of Rosenberg , who started a week 's trial yesterday . |
| 14 | The directors , who claimed they had not been consulted properly about the scheme , agreed to continue to run their buses to the estate for a trial period when the humps are introduced . |
| 15 | Its route took it to Constantinople prior to passing through the southern part of the sprawling Ottoman empire to the Persian Gulf there to revert to a submarine route again before continuing to Karachi . |
| 16 | The power of such underwater explosive activity was demonstrated forcibly in 1952 , when a Japanese research vessel , the No. 5 Kaiyo-Maru , 211 tons , was sent to investigate reports of a submarine eruption about 420 kilometres south of Tokyo . |
| 17 | Anyone who joins a bucket shop swiftly enough grasps what 's going on , even if he 's been lied to . |
| 18 | ‘ We very nearly had a marmalade tablecloth then ! ’ |
| 19 | The gardener bowerbird , for example , constructs the most remarkably complicated , hut-like bower , while the golden bowerbird builds a maypole bower up to 3 m ( 10 ft ) high , gluing the sticks together with fungus and then decorating the whole structure with fruit , flowers and moss . |
| 20 | It also needs to have a sitting-out area where you can savour the different scents and sights , and enjoy an alfresco meal , relax with a drink after a busy day , or entertain friends in informal surroundings . |
| 21 | British TV viewers will not pay more for a cable system just because one day it will be able to provide interactive services which they have never heard of , let alone want . |
| 22 | It is a harsh punishment to have to walk the glider all the way back , particularly after a cable break where the glider lands in the middle of the airfield . |
| 23 | With a cable break close to the ground there is always plenty of room ahead for the landing . |
| 24 | A cable car too takes you up over 6,000 ′ to near the mountain peaks . |
| 25 | The lava had already damaged a tourist complex and put a cable car out of action . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's like asking the school secretary to become a physics expert overnight . |
| 27 | The information would be formally reported to an appropriate service committee or board , along with a progress report briefly showing land and property brought back into use each year . |
| 28 | Writing of the work of Chardin , whose most profoundly moving paintings are revelations of how trivial , homely , everyday scenes and objects are transformed for us when we see them through the eyes of a great painter , Proust says , " Chardin has taught us that a pear is as living as a woman , a kitchen crock as beautiful as an emerald . " |
| 29 | I have a kitchen knife so sharp |
| 30 | Another class , after talking to an elderly lady about life before electricity , reconstructed a kitchen range out of cardboard , and found artefacts , such as an old kettle , saucepan , wooden chair , and so on , to add to the realism . |