Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [conj] a [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | There are also three levels of menu-driven diagnostics , including one for the non-technical and a very fancy oscilloscope-style graphical display for the techies . |
2 | On average , a body is injected with approximately 12–16 pints of the one and a half per cent or two per cent solution and this takes place over a time period of approximately one to two hours . |
3 | On 22 March 1665 Coxe was elected a fellow of the Royal Society , in which he played an active role for the rest of the 1660s and a slightly less active one in the 1670s . |
4 | It was the tail-end of the Seventies when a frighteningly young Noel McKoy and some schoolmates formed the Albians and recorded the all-time classic lovers ' rock tune ‘ Princess ’ . |
5 | Tonight we find out what the effects would be of a seventeen and a half per cent tax on books and newspapers . |
6 | The information contained on Form BD8 was previously the main criterion for deciding whether a pupil required education in a special school or an ordinary school , and whether the pupil should be referred to and educated as a blind or a partially sighted child . |
7 | The distribution speed of oral rumour was much quicker than that of newspapers , which from the guberniia capital of Voronezh' Shafir calculated to be one verst for every four and a half hours . |
8 | The contrast at the Congress between a vulgar and a relatively sophisticated aesthetic as exemplified in the difference of emphasis between Zhdanov and Bukharin is interesting to the degree that it has reverberations in the work of Nizan . |
9 | If you can pick between a common and a less common word , always choose the common one . |
10 | With no more than a rather cryptic smile he went out , leaving her to the turmoil of thoughts that were no longer as crystal-clear as she had tried to make him believe . |
11 | It was not until the 1930s that a more effective fascist organization , the British Union of Fascists ( BUF ) , was formed under the leadership of Oswald Mosley , at a time when Britain was attempting to deal with the unemployment of between 20 and 23 per cent . |
12 | It was in the Mesozoic that a really considerable proliferation of urchins occurred , and they acquired the importance in the marine economy that they retain . |
13 | Sponsored by Coca-Cola there are substantial awards on offer in the 13 and a half miles race , plus additional prizes for new course records . |
14 | The government 's announcement this spring that it planned to phase in the seventeen and a half per cent tax over twelve months brought pensioners out onto the streets . |
15 | One and the same practice may be performed by a nurturant or a hostile mother , may occur within an easygoing or a rigidly authoritarian home , or may take place against a background of love or of hate . |
16 | Among the million and a half dispatched from urban Britain into the countryside were between two to three thousand refugee children who were experiencing their second dramatic upheaval within months . |