Example sentences of "[noun] at [adj] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A transfer tribunal has valued Swindon Town 's former captain Colin Calderwood at one and a quarter million pounds . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Authors Charles Ferguson and Charles Morris paint a dismal picture of the company 's record across-the-board since the 1970s and presage a painful decline leading to a disaster of enormous proportions that will drag down with it IBM stockholders , employees , suppliers , the US computer industry at large and the nation as a whole . |
| 5 | The point which Lance Henderson makes and he stressed over and over again that he seeks no personal recognition at all and the point of retelling this story here long , long years after is that they should never be forgotten . |
| 6 | They are erm it was er steak and kidney pie , brussels sprouts , carrots and bo plain boiled potatoes I could only eat about half the kidney and meat , I cou I could only eat about a third of the pastry , could n't cope with the carrots at all or the brussel sprouts , they were beautiful brussel sprouts like little cabbages , you know I could only eat a couple of them ! |
| 7 | Mr Murray had agreed to broadcast a message to CHAB listeners at 8.30 and the party was due to go on , by train , to Regina at 9.15 pm . |
| 8 | There was a general laugh at this and the subject was dropped . |
| 9 | The history of Illustrator is an unusual one ; it was originally not a drawing package at all but a font manipulation tool . |
| 10 | It was held that it was not copra cake at all but a substance quite different to that contracted for and , because of this , the sellers could not rely on an exclusion clause purporting to exempt them from liability . |
| 11 | Spokesmen for the Law Society and local schemes endorsed this view and suggested that it was a natural consequence of a socially aware profession which had over the years staffed and administered schemes for indigents at little or no cost . |
| 12 | Many organisations use press releases because it provides them with publicity at little or no cost . |
| 13 | Colin Calderwood , the man who skippered the Robins to their Wembley triumph last season , but joined Tottenham Hotspur soon after , has been valued by an independent transfer tribunal at 1 and a quarter million pounds . |
| 14 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 15 | ‘ Without ’ could mean either no headgear at all or a headgear which is not ‘ protective headgear ’ as defined : ‘ protective headgear ’ means headgear which |
| 16 | And so Derek Dooley went to Sheffield Wednesday at seventeen and a half , his local team , until a clash with an advancing goalkeeper forced the immediate amputation of his leg in February 1953 . |
| 17 | Rightly speaking , this is not the Soldier 's tale at all but the Devil 's , for it is he who controls everyone at all times , playing with them like pawns in his game , a game of wrecking and destroying , of interference and final triumph . |
| 18 | is regarded as the most expensive grain in the world , and is n't really a rice at all but a type of grass . |
| 19 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 20 | And the easiest way to ensure that — a readiness to criticise the Government at each and every turn — is the one temptation he has at all costs to resist . |
| 21 | This gave the line shown in Figure 3 which has a y-intercept at 24.95680 and a gradient of +377.68396 . |
| 22 | The Micronet service , organised by the publishing houses EMAP and ECC with Prestel , will adapt a set for £50 plus a low quarterly charge , and provide programs for microcomputers at low or no cost . |
| 23 | What is a voidable title and how it differs from a void title can best be shown by an example : A owns some goods which he sells to B who in turn sells them to C. If the first contract ( i.e. Between A and B ) is valid then title passes from A to B. If it is void for any reason then it is no contract at all and no ownership passes to B. If it is voidable then it is initially valid but can be avoided ( set aside ) later . |
| 24 | If you 've fancied having a go at ice-climbing but the thought of all the discomforts of a Scottish winter keeps putting you off , take heart . |
| 25 | Halliday and Hasan do not discuss this type of referential linkage and Hoey ( 1988 : 162 ) points out that co-reference ‘ is not strictly a linguistic feature at all but a matter of real-world knowledge ’ . |
| 26 | The search was suspended by the coastguard at 1945 and the lifeboat headed south for Eyemouth . |
| 27 | Significantly , his successor was not a football player at all but a journalist who got to know the Arsenal chairman while working as a society correspondent for the New York Herald . |
| 28 | His present may trigger the inevitable family festive fall-out usually breaking out somewhere between the Queen 's speech at three and the Christmas cake at five . |