Example sentences of "[num] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 1 p.m. on the twenty-sixth , explosions loud enough to be heard well over 150 kilometres away were taking place at intervals of about ten minutes , and at about 2 p.m. an English ship , 120 kilometres from the scene , sighted a black cloud , rising to an altitude estimated to be about twenty-five kilometres above the volcano . |
| 2 | 9.10 Where an award is made by the Board , any period of absence resulting from the injury suffered will not be treated as sickness allowance and will not count against the employee 's entitlement to sickness allowance ; instead , any absence will be treated as special leave with pay . |
| 3 | An example of the output is shown in Plate 2 where an image of As , Sb and Bi in stream sediments , which are associated with gold mineralisation , indicates anomalous values over several gold prospects in the Argyll area of western Scotland . |
| 4 | Ian Gow , Conservative member of Parliament for Eastbourne since 1974 , was killed on July 30 when an Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) bomb exploded underneath his car as he was preparing to leave his home in the village of Hankham , near Eastbourne in Sussex . |
| 5 | Eventually I arrived at Number 10 about an hour late . |
| 6 | The amount outstanding on bank credit cards increased by £0.13bn in the fourth quarter of 1991 following an increase of £0.21bn in the previous quarter . |
| 7 | He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule , condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay . |
| 8 | This rule for profit maximisation is illustrated in Table 2.1 where an individual firm is producing good X. As more and more workers are employed , with a given stock of capital equipment , the MPPL declines . |
| 9 | The scandal began in September 1991 when an inquiry revealed that thousands of cheques had been drawn in excess of the account-holders ' funds at the House bank , thereby providing the offenders with limitless and interest-free credit . |
| 10 | But failure to appreciate the force of this distinction can also shipwreck attempts by observers to understand religion — to read correctly what is going on as a person performs a religious ritual or speaks religious words ( see Chapter 10 where an assessment task on this is suggested ) . |
| 11 | A total of 223 people were killed on May 26 when an Austrian Lauda Air Boeing 767-300 , on its way from Bangkok to Vienna , crashed over Suphan Buri province in north-western Thailand . |
| 12 | At least 31 people were killed on Oct. 26 when an armed group numbering about 20 attacked a fishing village near the Cap Skirring tourist area , 600 km south of Dakar . |
| 13 | 8.3 Following an episode of violence , positive support should be available for the individual directly involved . |
| 14 | Moreover , a reduction of frequency from four to three following an intervention is equally likely to give a misleading impression of the efficacy of the intervention . |
| 15 | The semi-embalmed remains of Col. William Higgins were discovered in Beirut 's southern suburbs on Dec. 21 following an anonymous telephone call . |
| 16 | The pervading aura of peace was interrupted only in the early 1870s when an army of men carved a railway throughout its length , since when an undisturbed tranquillity has prevailed . |
| 17 | 9.3 When an employee is absent due sickness or disablement as a result of an accident arising out of and in the course of employment , the employee will be entitled to a separate allowance calculated on the same basis as the sickness allowance . |
| 18 | The SNC agreed to meet again in New York on Sept. 21 when an SNC delegation would attend the 46th UN General Assembly . |
| 19 | This is only a guide , of course , but your score can be interpreted as follows : 9–15 Definitely a lark 16–20 Moderately a lark 21–26 Neither a lark nor an owl ; intermediate type 27–31 Moderately an owl 32–38 Definitely an owl |
| 20 | In 1922 also an application was received from ‘ a few of the young ladies and the young men of the Edenderry Memorial congregation ’ for ‘ the use of the field at the rear of the church for recreation , viz. the playing of Lawn Tennis . |
| 21 | Legionnaires ' Disease was first recognised and named in 1976 following an outbreak of pneumonia amongst a group of American Legion delegates to a convention in Philadelphia . |
| 22 | Two right-wing candidates faced a run-off ballot on July 5 following an inconclusive result in the presidential elections on May 17 . |
| 23 | One piece read to the rally referred to the local effect of the militarization of Europe during World War II when an aerodrome was built locally , and was written by Polly Devlin , a journalist originally from the area . |
| 24 | Scare stories about Britain 's beaches have abounded since 1976 when an EEC directive laid down the acceptable limits of sewage pollution , the year Wessex Water set about turning the tide of increasingly dirty beaches . |
| 25 | From the early 1780s onwards an increasingly elaborate network of agents and informers kept foreigners and even many important figures in the government under surveillance , and from 1782 there was provision for dangerous political prisoners to be held in complete isolation in special underground cells . |
| 26 | A series of bar charts and summaries offer no less than seventeen different analyses ( fig 4 ) , and one of these charts is shown in fig 5 where an ideal model is conveniently offered as a super-imposition . |
| 27 | The well-equipped organ has two manuals and was built by T. Hopkins and Sons of York who installed it in 1910 ; the air was pumped by hand until 1950 when an electric blower was installed . |
| 28 | 11.7 When an employee has been assaulted in the course of duty , the police must be called unless the manager and employee make a case for this not to be done . |
| 29 | From the early 1970s onwards an increasing number of Middle East capital goods importers have demanded bonds ( or guarantees ) from exporters due to the cash or short-term credit nature of their import contracts . |
| 30 | After a 15-week trial , a military court on Dec. 12 , 1989 , sentenced a police colonel to 15 years ' imprisonment for ordering the killing in cold blood of 124 unarmed inmates of Lurigancho prison in Lima in 1986 following an uprising [ see pp. 34607-08 ] . |