Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technology requires less capital investment and about half the production time , and the panels are half the price , the company claims . |
| 2 | On any footing , it must , in my judgment , be too broad a proposition to suggest that an owner who retains a piece of land with a view to its utilisation for a specific purpose in the future can never be treated as dispossessed , however firm and obvious the intention and however drastic the act of dispossession of the person seeking to dispossess him may be . |
| 3 | Most raw materials for industry and almost all the fuel have come from the mainland . |
| 4 | Just as delectable is the light , slick and superbly swift gearchange , an almost sublimely progressive clutch action and as taut a driveline as you 'll encounter ; driving the 325i in traffic could hardly be easier . |
| 5 | There 's one that 's very hot one side and extremely cold the other . |
| 6 | However , the ruins of the old city are clearly visible , stretching along the coast and over half a mile inland . |
| 7 | It was during these anxious weeks of searching that Halim , our grave-robbing friend , took us to another of his Ming-porcelain burial-grounds , located several hours from Makassar and about half an hour 's march from the nearest hamlet . |
| 8 | The combined effect of these provisions is to give a power of summary arrest in the case of all the more serious offences and many of the most commonly committed offences , e.g. murder , manslaughter , the major offences against the person , offences under the Criminal Damage Act and almost all the Theft Act offences . |
| 9 | If they did not act in order that the plaintiff should suffer damage they are not liable , however selfish their attitude and however inevitable the plaintiff 's damage may have been . |
| 10 | After a while , as he was thus musing , there appeared before him one in white garments , who said unto him , Sleepest thou or wakest thou , Rodrigo ? and he answered and said , I do not sleep : but who art thou that bringest with thee such brightness and so sweet an odour ? |
| 11 | Rather than you selling it to the boss and then all the trouble . |
| 12 | It is not necessary for me to hold that otherwise lawful use of a highway can never amount to a public nuisance , whatever the circumstances and however excessive the use . |
| 13 | The final creations weighed a mere ten kilograms , about the same as a top-class racing bike and about half the weight of most ATBs . |
| 14 | Er yes , the door opener in fact was was put on wrongly erm by unfortunately P C and er as the pressure started to exert outwards erm it then found that there was no resistance and consequently all the pressure was being put outwards er and as such then the machine started to make a noise erm which then we had to switch it off , turn it round , back on again and eventually gained access . |
| 15 | It was cut on the run with a small budget and only half the band : Ray arrived about halfway through and Roy joined later . |
| 16 | Building the form takes two sheets of 18mm Sterling board and about half a day . |
| 17 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
| 18 | Three courses may cost almost £100 , but when the cooking is done by masters like Nico Ladenis or Pierre Koffmann this is real value for money and barely half the evening price . |
| 19 | Printing banknotes is one area where Britain leads the world , with De La Rue having some 60 p.c. of the global banknote business and around half the market in printing passports . |
| 20 | But any truly individual room has to evolve slowly ; this is half the fun and certainly half the charm . |
| 21 | In the late 1860's , Rohde , a sensitive and highly intelligent person , was Nietzsche 's closest friend and so kindred a spirit that ambitious , albeit abortive , joint plans were regularly mooted : a collaborative book on Greek literature in 1868 or a year studying together in Paris ( scheduled for 1869 and frustrated by Nietzsche 's appointment at Basle ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Here the contract of salvage was entered into in the Paracels and all the work of refloating and putting the vessel into a condition to be towed to Hong Kong and nearly all the tow , except for the last three miles , were completed beyond the territorial limits of Hong Kong and consequently I take the view that the profits must be said to arise outside of Hong Kong rather than inside . |
| 23 | There are still traces of hut circles attributed to an Iron Age occupation and , at the time of the Roman invasion , the local patriots , the Brigantes , established a hill fort to resist the foreign legions ; an ancient rampart wall , built around the perimeter of the summit and almost half a mile in circumference , has survived the centuries although it is now crumbled and has many gaps . |
| 24 | Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados . |
| 25 | In effect , the Government had decided that the heavy subsidy given to the readers of the Nationalist and Uhuru , who lived mostly in towns ( half the sales and probably half the readership of both newspapers were in Dar es Salaam ) should take precedence over , for example , the building of satellite radio stations to improve reception in remote areas or the provision of community listening points . |
| 26 | Rioja 's fortunes were high in the late Seventies and early Eighties , when flavoursome , oaky , mature wines were three times as old as anything from France and only half the price . |
| 27 | He has never been a road man and now all the dedication at tracks like Aghadowey and Nutt 's Corner as well as Kirkistown has paid off . |
| 28 | Was it too universal a theme for the Gaelic fund committee to tackle , too big a scale of project , too close to reality and too controversial a subject ? |
| 29 | When I was at the Transport Department , my aim was a good rail service for the public and as efficient a service as possible . |
| 30 | What a keen lad is Frank , leaving the ‘ Pool at 5 am to come to our house and then all the way down there . |