Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | List Relationships can list full or partial tight relationships for all or a part of the database . |
| 2 | As I say I was sitting there adding it up , a pound for this and a pound for that and your meal , a fiver for Maggie , I 'm twenty pound short off you |
| 3 | He must be a physician , having books of physick and a herbal by him . |
| 4 | Li , a veteran of the Long March of 1934-35 and a commander of the Red Army prior to its revolutionary victory in 1949 , was a self-taught economist from a peasant family . |
| 5 | Determine your total daily calorie intake at a minimum figure of 850 and a maximum of 1,500 . |
| 6 | The brewery was closed by Brent Walker in 1989 but a management team bought the site and restarted brewing a year later . |
| 7 | A communiqué signed by the then Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin included a denunciation of the Soviet Army 's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and a commitment by the Soviet Union to assist the postwar restoration of Afghanistan . |
| 8 | Andy Russell put the home side in front but a mistake by Kingstonian keeper Adrian Blake allowed Tony Adcock to grab the equaliser . |
| 9 | The next village just down the road Lartington stayed loyal to the Church of Rome which led to a spot of tension now and then The Church of England established their place of worship in 1796 then built St Cuthberts in 1881 and a school in 1894 . |
| 10 | He joined as an assistant malting manager at Ipswich , and was made head maltster in 1968 and a director of in 1973 . |
| 11 | There was other evidence that , with a moderate ( 2 to 3 per cent ) rate of economic growth , the demographic trends would not impose pressures on the public purse until 2020 and a crisis would occur only if the economy failed to grow by 2 per cent or more . |
| 12 | In 1905 there appeared in Cardiff an unregistered union noted by the Board of Trade as the " British Stewards , Cooks , Butchers and Bakers " which had three branches in 1907 and a membership of a little over 2,000 . |
| 13 | I believe that music-lovers are deluded when they claim to find artistic pleasure in any but a fraction of this music . |
| 14 | In elections for the mayor and communal council for the town of Monaco in February and March 1991 Jean-Louis Médecin ( mayor since 1971 and a member of the AC list ) was replaced by Anne-Marie Campora , who headed the EC list . |
| 15 | It is a staple of the multilateral trading system , and is extended by the United States to all but a handful . |
| 16 | This was but a temporary setback , for after a rest and a defeat on his return he proceeded to win his next nine races , completely outclassing his rivals at distances from nine furlongs to two and a quarter miles . |
| 17 | A transfer tribunal has valued Swindon Town 's former captain Colin Calderwood at one and a quarter million pounds . |
| 18 | The sheet metal workers , who cut sheet metal to the design of the drawings of the part of a car , earned 2s 6d ( 12p ) per hour , and did a lot of overtime at one and a quarter time , which means that many of them would have been earning £6 or £7 per week , and be well over the arbitrary divide of £4 suggested as a line for the divide between the working class and the middle class . |
| 19 | Yet a recent survey showed that a quarter of the ‘ patients ’ do not need to be in a mental institution at all and a half of them could live in the outside world given proper support . |
| 20 | The designer can remove the violation by one or a combination of three courses of action . |
| 21 | Royal Dutch/Shell , the Teikoku Oil Co of Japan , Benton Oil and Gas of the USA , and two private Venezuelan companies , Vincler and Lingoteras , were expected to invest US$480,000,000 in the oilfields by 1996 and a total of US$720,000,000 over the following decade . |
| 22 | If you are using Fisherman 's rib or tuck stitch , the fabric will stretch widthways when removed from the machine , so you will need to increase the stitch by one and a half or two numbers to prevent a tight cast off . |
| 23 | It 's best to do these on the track , but if one is not available , you can do repeats of two and a half to three and a half minutes on the road . |
| 24 | The details are immaterial , and it is sufficient for present purposes to say that they were concerned with two subjects , namely the accounts of Carrian and a building called Gammon House . |
| 25 | I 'm certainly not going to er w to say let's give you a trial of this or a trial of that , until we know what 's happened with your chest , so |
| 26 | Under the 1944 and 1948 Education Acts such schools would have been illegal : pupils must be transferred from primary to secondary between the ages of ten and a half and twelve . |
| 27 | There was also the occasional case of petty theft , street fighting or traffic offences which often ended up with a plea of Guilty and a fine of a few dollars or a short period in goal . |
| 28 | If a mass of hot and a mass of cold gas were brought together , then it was very highly improbable that they would not mix and give a uniformly warm mixture ; but there was a small probability , and Maxwell imagined a demon who might assist the process , that the warm gas might separate out into a hot and a cold portion , in defiance of the Second Law . |
| 29 | ‘ A bit of this and a bit of that . |
| 30 | Bit of this and a bit of that . |