Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [prep] [det] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In London this weekend Robert described the revelations from the Clay trial as media sensation , Mr who is still on the payroll , he said has not lobbied for G Tec for more than a year . |
| 2 | A cyclist held in prison in Nepal on forgery charges for more than a month has been released . |
| 3 | The Phnom Penh government has been fighting the Khmers Rouges for more than a decade , but now it needs its old enemy . |
| 4 | Yet both were the first in either family to sign the marriage register with more than a cross . |
| 5 | The Open Graphics Initiative launched by Sun Microsystems Inc more than a year ago to provide an interoperable interface between graphics applications and hardware in the Sparc-compatible market , has published its first complete set of foundation libraries for developers . |
| 6 | In the last 12 months , as well as losing a number of small commercial businesses the town has lost it 's fish shop which had been run by the Crudgington family for more than a century . |
| 7 | But in cities like San Francisco and New York , where the NAP is a familiar presence , judgments of a different sort — ‘ deceitful ’ , ‘ divisive ’ , ‘ political destroyers ’ , ‘ Moonies of the left ’ — echo with remarkable consistency from the lips of activists , black and white alike , who have encountered Fulani , the NAP and party leader Fred Newman through more than a speech . |
| 8 | Despite a price tag of more than a ( 165 ) hundred and sixty-five thousand pounds , Aston Martin are confident they 'll find a ready market for the vehicle . |
| 9 | IN JULY last year I wrote about the brothers Peter and David Mason and their father Peter , who had been banged up in Liverpool jail for more than a year , though they had n't been convicted of anything . |
| 10 | No-one told him that BCR trains had already been working into Craven Arms for more than a fortnight . |
| 11 | Passengers will be able to travel the 3,440 miles from London to New York on Virgin flights for less than a 40-minute business-class trip across the Channel . |
| 12 | Projects UK , 1 Black Swan Court , Westgate Road , Newcastle ( Until March 7 ) AS the second of the four overseas photographers , who came to Tyneside last summer , thereby pre-empting the international flavour of the Cleveland 's River Tees project by more than a year , Natassa Markidou , who has a studio and dark-room in Athens , decided that she wanted to commemorate her stay in the North-East by going back to basics . |
| 13 | The desktop systems simply do not possess the storage capacity or speed required to manipulate colour documents of more than a page or two , let alone have the operator skills . |
| 14 | If we were not away by sunset , there would not be another appropriate departure date for more than a month . |
| 15 | Research has shown that the mechanisms in the human brain go through the anger response in less than a second . |
| 16 | Such cross-shareholdings are commonplace in Japan and in continental Europe , but tend not to work so well in the US — Control Data had 20% of Silicon Graphics and sold it ; Compaq Computer Corp sold the stake it bought to cement the Advanced Computing Environment Initiative in less than a year . |
| 17 | In the second Cabinet reshuffle in less than a month , Prime Minister Jozsef Antall on Jan. 12 named Elemer Gergatz as Agriculture Minister in place of Ferenc Jozsef Nagy , who became a Minister without portfolio , and Gyula Kiss ( hitherto a Minister without portfolio ) as Minister of Labour Affairs in place of Sandor Györivanyi . |
| 18 | RED kites have had their best breeding season for more than a century , with 79 pairs rearing 93 young , bird protectors said yesterday . |
| 19 | The Ruth-W discharged the first 2,911 tonne cargo of 330 concrete coated steel pipes in less than a day , a cargo which was the forerunner of four shipments a week up to the end of the year , a total of 150,000 tonnes . |
| 20 | It is already clear that , for example , if the objective of the central government is to encourage local authority spending in some service , a matching grant will be preferred to a lump-sum grant , even though the lump-sum may increase the welfare of the local authority residents by more than a matching grant . |
| 21 | Government bonds with less than a year to maturity . |
| 22 | An enthusiast from the start , she had been attending Edith Harlow 's Woodford Green Medau class for less than a year when she approached Edith with the bold question ‘ What do I do to teach this ? ’ |
| 23 | The rifle is capable of bringing down a helicopter , and has a killing range of more than a mile . |
| 24 | So the strike , which has reduced total coal output by less than a third , will reduce all energy supplies by only 6% . |
| 25 | The Czech Under-21 international , playing his first League game for more than a year , suggested he is ready to throw off his ‘ eccentric ’ label with important saves from Craig Maskell and David Mitchell . |
| 26 | However , the furore which surrounded the release of a few hundred tonnes of intervention beef in England — an amount equivalent to less than a tenth of one per cent of the mountain — suggests the idea of simply selling beef cheaply to the European consumers who paid for it would be a difficult option . |
| 27 | The NCCSL works closely with other religious and secular organisations in its efforts to make a contribution towards encouraging and assisting individuals and communities whose lives have been devastated by the ongoing violence and ethnic conflict that have wracked Sri Lanka for more than a decade . |
| 28 | If they were fed in manually , this would imply exactly the kind of task objected to by the unions — namely , a task paced by the automatic welder and with a cycle time of less than a minute . |
| 29 | What happened was a mixture of biochemical hubris and technical muddled thinking which between them were to confound memory research for more than a decade . |
| 30 | Labour say the authority will be hard pressed to keep the promise when 13 of the authority 's consultants have waiting lists of more than a year . |