Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the government gets its way and starts slapping seventeen and a half percent , twenty percent V A T on fuel , we might need some more residential places you do n't know . |
| 2 | Lima , where it rains so seldom that the city 's roofs are not designed to withstand more than a mild shower , the inhabitants are anxiously awaiting the worst . |
| 3 | The Fire Brigade Union has requested one and a half weeks pay for each year of service , plus the annual bounty payment . |
| 4 | As this sub-national programme has developed , it has become apparent that a major ingredient in its success will be the construction of a rolling programme encompassing the specialised needs of all governing bodies . |
| 5 | But as I argued earlier , the various attempts to construct a theory of nationalism have concentrated unduly on the twentieth century , and it has become apparent that a broader historical view needs to be taken if we are to develop an adequate scheme of explanation . |
| 6 | It has become evident that a disturbed metabolism of cholesterol and/or bile salts is a major factor in gall stone formation . |
| 7 | My Department 's spending on training and enterprise has increased two and a half times in real terms since 1979 . |
| 8 | as his friends used to call him ) was born prematurely and was not expected to live more than a few weeks ; it was only due to his mother 's great love for her child that he did survive . |
| 9 | The outer stood up to everything I could throw at it until a wicked Gogarth chimney thrutch resulted in a nicked sleeve , while the fleece has resisted all but a hot cylinder from the Snowdon Railway ! |
| 10 | The same question I asked at city hall , it 's slightly different in that now the council has left two and a half available over the next erm three years given that it is not already taken . |
| 11 | They did n't need to take two and a half hours over it . |
| 12 | Sheila has lost three and a half pounds this week . |
| 13 | The Land Travel holiday tour group has collapsed leaving two and a half thousand people stranded … |
| 14 | But you will probably need to spend more than a single day in Winterthur . |
| 15 | Their first answer has lasted two and a half minutes . |
| 16 | Today he admitted serving 2 and a half years in jail for violent assults on women . |
| 17 | I have applied to the grant scheme Environment Wales for some funds , but I do n't expect to get more than a few hundred pounds , if anything at all . |
| 18 | Until recently they were joint stewards of the Royal British Legion in Swindon , into which they 'd poured four and a half thousand pounds of their own money , and just months ago received a letter from the board telling them not so work so hard . |
| 19 | It was when he was commissioned to write seventeen and a half minutes of light music for the radio that I discovered why Jean-Claude had insisted I bring from London some of my most beautifully tailored suits and expensive dresses . |
| 20 | means I 've got earn three and a half thousand pounds f five thousand pounds erm at some point to pay |
| 21 | He was going to have less than a sensational report to make to his captain , Van Gelder reflected . |
| 22 | The position of the health professional — doctor , health visitor , or nurse — is not to pretend that their bit of health promotion is going to have more than a small additive effect to all the other necessary inputs , and they should be aware that they may be wasting their time if the other inputs are not there . |
| 23 | What would you like to multiply twelve and a half by so that the half disappears ? |
| 24 | But although we are entitled , in our theory of the origin of life , to spend a maximum ration of luck amounting , perhaps , to odds of 100 billion billion to one against , my hunch is that we are n't going to need more than a small fraction of that ration . |
| 25 | A rescue plan 's been drawn up to save England 's hedgerows , The government is offering farmers grants totalling three and a half million pounds to restore damaged hedges and plant new ones . |
| 26 | There are many ways in which these emotional drives can be channelled , and I could not hope to name more than a few of them . |
| 27 | When you think how CCW and the WTB have collaborated to agree a set of Principles for Tourism in National Parks , we should try to remain hopeful that a similar joint approach can eventually be agreed for golf courses . |
| 28 | Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time . |
| 29 | It must have felt lonely when a respected customer ( whose name was not exposed even to me ) dropped from under her coat the bag of flour she had been concealing there . |
| 30 | He could n't have had more than a few hours ’ sleep . |