Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alina had sniffled her way through half a box of Kleenex from the glove compartment , and she seemed even more disinclined toward conversation than Pete . |
| 2 | Charles smoked his way through half a packet of Gauloises while John told his story . |
| 3 | Here , as inmates with red-rimmed eyes and ash-grey faces barter items like a shirt or a spoon for half a bowl of soup , a nightmarish market economy is seen in operation . |
| 4 | I made a hand winch with a double handle and a ratchet and room for half a kilometre of twine on the drum ; I made different types of tails for the kites that needed them , and dozens of kites large and small , some stunters . |
| 5 | Alcoholic drinks have a significant calorie content ranging from about 50 calories for a small measure of spirit to 70–130 for a glass of wine and 90–130 for half a pint of beer . |
| 6 | For half a century after Matcham 's retirement his theatres were widely disparaged by architects and others who preferred unbuilt European projects to what the public and theatre profession still prized as ‘ real theatres ’ . |
| 7 | The Clapham accident of December 1988 , the first for half a century in Britain due to the failure of the signalling , appalled the public in demonstrating how poor morale and discipline were in a vital part of the service at a key point . |
| 8 | In the middle of the night he rose and , after eating about half a jar of honey , felt a lot better . |
| 9 | One alcoholic drink is to be taken as half a pint of beer , one glass of wine , one small glass of sherry or one small measure of spirit . |
| 10 | It takes your body about an hour , on average , to burn up one unit of alcohol , such as half a pint of beer . |
| 11 | Visuals are very important in terms of information recall I modelled for this a couple of years ago . |
| 12 | The time I was supposed to be going through this a lot of schools were getting a bit of stick because a lot of parents did n't like it . |
| 13 | After that a visit to Jack proved most enlightening . ’ |
| 14 | He then spent three days at Fort King being questioned by people from the DIA , the FBI , the CIA and the DEA , and after that a bunch of US Marshals took him away into the Federal Witness Protection program . |
| 15 | After half a century of rejection by the Arab world , Israelis have reason to doubt whether handing back the territories they captured in 1967 would make any lasting difference to Arab attitudes . |
| 16 | After such a day of damage it was a somewhat depleted fleet which set off on the return journey on Sunday . |
| 17 | 7.7.9.2 To pay to the Landlord on demand with Interest ( where the Landlord has rebuilt and reinstated the Premises out of its own money ) the amount of such insurance money so irrecoverable in which event the provisions of clauses 7.5 and 7.6 shall apply and clause 7.7.9 should contain the following amendment : … anyone at the Premises expressly or by implication with the Tenant 's authority while under the Tenant 's control and in the employment of the Tenant wholly or partially irrecoverable … 7.8 Increase or decrease of the Centre If at any time during the Term the Centre shall be increased or decreased on a permanent basis the Insurance Rent Percentage shall be varied with effect from the first premium or additional premium payable in respect of a period after such a change by agreement between the parties or in default of agreement within [ 3 ] months of the first proposal for variation made by the Landlord in such a manner as shall be determined to be fair and reasonable in the light of the event in question by the Surveyor acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator This requires no comment . |
| 18 | The lien of a solicitors ' firm over clients ' papers pending payment of its costs will not be lost by a change in membership so long as the papers have come into the firm 's possession before the change : they can not ( subject always to any specific arrangements with the client to the contrary ) lawfully be retained after such a change in respect of a debt falling due before that event . |
| 19 | After such a blow to belief in the government 's honesty and in its all-seeing ability to fix things , the leap to anti-communist opposition was all the easier to make . |
| 20 | Yeah but you know after such a time with children there is something like that |
| 21 | High concentrations of circulating cyclosporin A have been measured in our study 24 hours after the last dose of cyclosporin A. Furthermore , tissue concentrations of cyclosporin A in the pancreas are still high after such a period of time . |
| 22 | It offended the religious , because it seemed to make God out to be untruthful or deceitful ; in the scientific age , science was after all a route to truth , and only the Devil was the father of lies . |
| 23 | It is after all a suburb of Abingdon |
| 24 | The similarities between such a scheme of reclamation and discipline and those widely mooted proposals of the 1980s to reclaim the youth through compulsory job-training or ‘ community service ’ should not pass unnoticed . |
| 25 | Significantly , however , in view of what was subsequently to happen , during the week leading up to the ballot there were growing reservations among her supporters , including ministers , about such a course of action . |
| 26 | Though the diplomatic courtship is at an early stage , the Foreign Office is optimistic about such a marriage of convenience . |
| 27 | In spite of the embarrassment , Lord James repeated his encouragement to schools to use the self-governing powers and claimed that the Scottish Office has received 60 inquiries about such a change since June . |
| 28 | There was nothing alarming , she decided , about such a life in the past , about such a dependence upon memory . |
| 29 | Mr Major had been taking private soundings about such a move before Christmas . |
| 30 | ‘ that , although , by the indulgence of the court , a statutory tenant might be permitted to continue to occupy premises after the making of an order for possession , he was not , during such a period of occupation , a statutory tenant with all the rights to protection conferred by the Rent Restriction Acts which he had enjoyed before the order for possession was made ; and , consequently , the daughter could not claim protection as a ‘ tenant ’ under section 12 , subsection ( 1 ) … ’ |