Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun pl] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Shire difficulty became sheer impossibility after a months long battle to deselect David Abrahams , the previous candidate . |
2 | Police were questioning a 30-year-old man in connection with the murder of Elizabeth Page-Alucard , 41 , the counsellor who was found dead on Saturday at a drugs advisory centre in Worcester . |
3 | Morocco and the World Bank reached an agreement on Dec. 1 , 1988 , for the disbursement of a dollars 200,000,000 loan ( repayable over 20 years ) to help finance the country 's medium-term adjustment programme and enable Morocco to reduce import procedures and encourage exports . |
4 | ‘ We had a bit of a knees-up last night . |
5 | There was a receipt for £66 for drop earrings and insurance certificates for a Pounds 600 Rolex watch and an £800 eternity ring . |
6 | Hanger has also threatened to kill his parents who live in Bath , and they 're now under guard at a police safe house . |
7 | He was an East Ender , near as possible a Cockney , and , with his mother , shopped the markets of Walthamstow and Leytonstone insisting that chips with this and chips with that was a triumphant diet for a sports crazy kid . |
8 | He was an East Ender , near as possible a Cockney , and , with his mother , shopped the markets of Walthamstow and Leytonstone insisting that chips with this and chips with that was a triumphant diet for a sports crazy kid . |
9 | So if you only have a 360k floppy drive and need to copy a file from a friends hard disk that is over 360k ( even after compression ) then this is the program for you . |
10 | There should be room in a 15″ wide tank . |
11 | A tank 36″ x 12″ x 18″ high was chosen , holding about 25 gallons over twice as much water as a 24″ x 12″ x 12″ tank but not much more expensive . |
12 | However , a person with a Pounds 100 stake has a 110 to one chance of winning any prize . |
13 | Erm , I 'd just like to ask Sir Leonard whether the nature of the issues that are dealt with by environmental organisations , erm , indeed arguments such as pays etc. erm , introduces a difference in the nature of the relationship between the private sector and environmental N G Os , particularly when the issues that we promote , such as su the sustainable use of the world resources and the reduction of environmental degradation can have a direct impact on a companies bottom line . |
14 | Alas , for Fergie and Johnny , enjoying a break together again after those fun days in Thailand , Bali , Indonesia and Argentina , the world was watching courtesy of a photographers all-powerful lens . |
15 | UNDERCOVER cops did not have to go far to check on a suspected brothel — it was next door to a police social club . |
16 | A HUSBAND and wife were convicted yesterday of running a brothel next door to a police social club . |
17 | A diskless model with a 17″ monochrome screen lists at £4,900 ( $4,995 ) £5,300 with 426Mb disk — or £6,500 with a 16″ colour screen and 426Mb disk . |
18 | A diskless model with a 17″ monochrome screen lists at £4,900 — $5,000 — £5,300 with 426Mb disk — or £6,500 with a 16″ colour screen and 426Mb disk . |
19 | A COUPLE were ordered to remove their caravan from a travellers permanent encampment at St Christopher 's Park , Newry , at the local Magistrate 's Court yesterday . |
20 | FORMER boxing champ Henry Cooper yesterday threatened to ‘ break the legs ’ of the burglars who stole his wife 's jewellery in a Pounds 16,000 raid . |
21 | However , this could halve the workforce and on one farm in Wales a young couple with a 10-months old child had a workload of 923 s.m.d. which demanded very full participation by the wife . |
22 | Q I have kept six Clown Loaches in a 36″ x 15″ x 15″ tank with small tetras for over two years , with no problems . |
23 | He was arrested yesterday in his home town of Portsmouth … he faces one charge of robbery … it follows a raid on a jewllers five days ago … when the jeweller … |
24 | Scores of existing officers will be released for active duty by the creation of a police civil service . |
25 | You hitchhiking in my rucksack all the way up here without me knowing and then doing a perfect impression of a police loud hailer . ’ |
26 | They will soon share a 6′ × 2′ × 2′ tank with a 10″ Black Shark , 12″ plec , 7″ Pangasius , and two Reed Fish . |
27 | All would be different , they believe , if the majority of decent and honest Catholics could escape the grip of fear , and they define the role of community relations police in West Belfast as attempting , in a small way , to loosen the Catholic community from the stranglehold of the paramilitaries , as the commentary on a police promotional video stated : ‘ The effort of trying to win the people 's minds and hearts away from terrorism is personified in the Community Relations Branch , whose members regularly attend meetings involving civilian bodies , public representatives , and discuss problems such as vandalism . ’ |
28 | Though he would not be drawn on the details , Smith 's presentation was sprinkled liberally with references to a Windows bulletin-board application that will appear next year . |
29 | NEWCASTLE left-back Mark Stimson has agreed to join former boss Jim Smith at Portsmouth on a month 's loan with a view to a Pounds 300,000 transfer . |
30 | It will be divided from the gravel and undergravel filter by a 3″ tall strip of glass across the tank . |