Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [verb] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather closer relations were maintained , in the late 1980s , with the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen ( South Yemen ) , which signed a friendship treaty with the USSR in 1979 but remained a very minor power in terms of size and influence . |
| 2 | William Clarke 's All-England Eleven played 15 of Sheffield at Hyde Park in 1849 and won a closely fought match by just 10 runs . |
| 3 | Peter Mansfield , a distinguished British commentator on the Middle East , sketches its history from the Sumerians to Napoleon 's invasion of Egypt in 1798 and takes a more detailed look at events thereafter , right up to the Gulf War . |
| 4 | He entered the Ministry in 1862 and exercised a very popular ministry . |
| 5 | It was restored in 1908 and has a very richly carved baroque altar . |
| 6 | You might say you could measure its position to ten decimal places , but you could always then measure it to eleven and predict a completely different result ; all the difference between a whirlwind which knocked down someone 's house and a single molecule of oxygen disappearing up their nose . |
| 7 | Advertising has been banned in Iceland since 1971 ; surveys of 12–16 year olds in Reykjavik ( where 40% of the entire age- group live ) have been carried out since 1974 and show a very clear trend . |