Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] [conj] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a pleasant modern hotel , situated about one and a half miles from the old village of Ovindoli . |
| 2 | The hunt recently fenced off 6 and a half miles of the M40 to stop foxes getting onto it . |
| 3 | The hunt recently fenced off 6 and a half miles of the M40 to stop foxes getting onto it . |
| 4 | Kolingba 's Military Committee for National Recovery was dissolved in 1985 and a predominantly civilian Council of Ministers was appointed as part of a gradual process of returning the country to civilian rule . |
| 5 | It currently stands at 2 and a half miles . |
| 6 | The Oxford Canal , for example , was shortened by thirteen and a half miles between 1829 and 1834 . |
| 7 | Consisting of two and a half acres of glass , two acres of stainless steel cladding and 1,000 tonnes of steel work , the 400 metre long single span terminal roof covers a four level international passenger handling complex . |
| 8 | I am aware too that , in spite of other similarities , no amount of relating will allow me to converse in more than a most elementary way with a chimpanzee . |
| 9 | A great spotted woodpecker flew curiously over , ties of several kinds moved in close and a very tame robin appeared , to accept crumbs from an outstretched hand . |
| 10 | In its memorandum on " shareholders ' pre-emption rights and vendor placings " , issued in February 1989 , the IPC of the ABI stated that , in the matter of vendor placings , shareholders are entitled to expect a right of clawback for any issues of significant size or which are offered at more than a very modest discount to market price . |
| 11 | Continuing our journey through the centuries we arrive at 1788 and a completely different type of association , linking past and present . |
| 12 | For all his faults , Lij Yasu was remembered by many as a more comprehensible ruler than Haile Selassie , who failed to conform to the popular image of an Abyssinian monarch . |
| 13 | The three new timber projects will cover over million and a half acres . |
| 14 | The location is also altered with the executions conveniently taking place just outside the hospital , as opposed to one and a half miles away . |
| 15 | ‘ IF WE PARKED all the vehicles in my division end to end , they would stretch for one and a half miles ’ , says P&O Roadtanks Divisional Director , Joe Chapman . |
| 16 | ( d ) All the cost information for a project is retained in one or a very small number of files . |
| 17 | But this was again investigated in 1985 and a less favourable response emerged from the Monopolies and Merger Commission 's Report issued in 1986 . |
| 18 | Today the woods continue to be coppiced and also provide some most delightful circular nature trails — one extending to two and a half miles . |
| 19 | Closures had practically ceased by 1980 but a far greater force had by then begun to take effect . |
| 20 | Although the numbers of such changes associated with moves are not large , and they can not account for more than a very small part of the differential in unemployment rates between the two groups , the sale of a large proportion of public housing to sitting tenants who are more likely to be employed than the general local authority sector population will have contributed to the increase in the unemployment rate differential referred to earlier . |
| 21 | Regrettably , the whole foundation for this is the rather suspect testimony of Tschudi 's grandson , James Schudi Broadwood , which was not published till 1862 and a rather speculative connection between Handel and an evidently much altered harpsichord dated 1729 that purports to have belonged to his prima donna , Anna Strada . |