Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This saved Mexico $3.8 billion a year in debt-servicing costs — and dissuaded many banks from fleeing across the Rio Grande . |
| 2 | We can read into Las Meninas such a view of the Habsburgs ( Fig. 8 ) : Philip IV and Mariana are merely reflections , living in a world of grotesquerie and make-believe ; a tiny princess dressed as an adult with a skirt so stiff it makes her look as if she is on wheels , surrounded by curtseying maids , a dwarf , a midget , a huge dog with the ability to sleep through anything , and a great artist , aloof and all-powerful . |
| 3 | The formation of a National Maritime Board was announced on 23 November 1917 and standard wages for seamen announced six days later , recommending to the Shipping Controller £pound11 10s a month for able seamen and £pound12 for firemen , with proportionate increases for petty officers and seamen on weekly articles , backdated to 6 October . |
| 4 | ‘ Why is Dr Wyn such a pain in the back of the neck ? ’ asked Lydia . |
| 5 | In 1917 Duke had ridden a Kalahuewehe wave half a mile till it died in front of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel , where now the ASP annual banquet is held . |
| 6 | Similarly , a number of Morrissey 's former acquaintances ( again , those who were left behind ) told tales of how the singer downs many a bottle of wine despite his public image as the complete celibate with a teetotal lifestyle . |
| 7 | According to a survey by the aviation journal Flight International a total of 815 people were killed worldwide in 37 accidents in 1990 . |
| 8 | This attitude , especially in ‘ Sophia 's ’ case , may owe something to class-distinction , that is , a duke beating a duchess with a neck of mutton might prove less illustrative than a journeyman tailor doing such a thing to his wife . |
| 9 | There can be few other places in Europe which offer the wildlife art student such a plethora of interesting species ; Black Necked Grebe , Spoonbill , and Purple Heron to name only a few . |
| 10 | She had not imagined Miss Grimes spending six-and-six a week on drink and might well have taken the attitude of the officious social worker . |
| 11 | There was a chap in from Auckland Park half a mile round the bend too . |
| 12 | Any determinate mode of production , therefore , will evidence such a form of historical existence in its social formation : dislocated , uneven , absent and present . |
| 13 | Similarly , in Rees Hough Ltd v Redland Reinforced Plastics ( 1984 ) 1 Const LJ 67 a clause in a contract for the sale of piping requiring notification of claims within three months was held unreasonable . |
| 14 | As a disincentive to landlords wishing to rid themselves of " sitting tenants " , Parliament inserted into the Housing Act 1988 a strengthening of harassment remedies . |
| 15 | Fifty years ago in the midst of world war two a group of people got together to help the victims of Nazi occupation.The charity Oxfam was born , and it 's grown steadily to become Britain 's largest overseas aid agency , with an income of seventy million pounds a year . |
| 16 | Moreover , by the time of World War I a widening in the geographical scope of product markets themselves , and a desire to eliminate competition from low wage districts — together with government-setting of many wage awards during war-time — all these influences tended to extend the area of collective bargaining still further to the industry level . |
| 17 | In his report as a Poor Law Commissioner , Chadwick estimated that inadequate sanitation leading to excessively high death rates was costing the country £14 million a year in lost production , apart from the social costs in terms of crime , delinquency , and the like . |
| 18 | In 1912 the firm amalgamated with many others to form the British Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd. a subsidiary of the A.P.C.M. |