Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it 's eight pound fifty a bag for smokeless , I ca n't afford |
| 2 | Outside suppliers are an integral part of the carmaking business : GM spends some $30 billion a year with its North American suppliers alone ; Ford $17 billion . |
| 3 | AS Controller of the Navy , Vice-Adml Sir Kenneth Eaton is responsible for spending some £3 billion a year on procuring ships and equipment . |
| 4 | However , in the past few years such a model of enacting legislation after a wide-ranging commission that hears evidence from professionals in the field has not been followed . |
| 5 | by the depth of the top surface Carboniferous which increases towards the N.N.E. An example is given by the Arsten Z1 borehole near Bremen where the boundary Westphalian C/D lying at a depth of 6180 m reaches the boundary between the anthracite and meta-anthracite stages with a vitrinite reflectance of 3.5% Rm ( for the top surface Carboniferous a value of 2.8% Rm was extrapolated ) . |
| 6 | Today we spend some £12,000 million a year on benefits for long-term sick and disabled people . |
| 7 | However , on 12 September 1836 a number of practitioners met at the Freemasons ' tavern , and decided to unite practitioners and students in a new association . |
| 8 | Horse riding is a significant part of the economy , generating some £350 million a year in business for ancillary trades . |
| 9 | Petrocaravi , the ‘ ship of stone ’ , was a deserted islet half a mile off the western tip of Phraxos . |
| 10 | In Henry Kendall & Sons v Wm Lillico & Sons [ 1969 ] 2 AC 31 a course of dealing was established where it was shown that the parties had done business together three or four times per month for three years on the basis that contracts were made orally and the sellers then sent the buyers a 'sold note " containing their terms of trading . |
| 11 | Bowthorpe ( the electronic components and electrical equipment group ) includes in its half year statement to 30 June 1992 a report from auditors Ernst & Young . |
| 12 | This cost some $40 billion a year before the 1979 oil price rises . |
| 13 | Then he put ten flags to the east of the depot — each flag half a kilometre from the next — and ten flags to the west . |
| 14 | Can you remember for example , given the the levels of relief you are advocating are acceptable on the blue route , how such roads such a link as an alternative to the western link would perform . |
| 15 | And , to top the argument , market research indicated greater reader-loyalty amongst NoS 's target audience for a northern-based paper — indicating an extra £1 million a year in sales and advertising revenue . |
| 16 | Payments could be limited to a maximum number of patients per general practitioner which would stop the protests that a single handed general practitioner with a list of 3000 in an area of high deprivation receives an extra £28 800 a year without any obligation to provide extra services . |
| 17 | On 7 January 1959 a committee for space research ( Comité des Recherches Spatiales ) was created by government decree . |
| 18 | At a CPSU congress in early July 1990 a reorganization of the party 's leading bodies confirmed the curtailment of their role in national political decision-making [ see pp. 37299 ; 37616 ] . |
| 19 | As a result of improvements since 1988 , we have made available an extra £600 million a year in real terms to low-income families with children . |
| 20 | The legspinner beat the outside edge many a time in the ongoing psychological thriller of the summer . |
| 21 | In last year 's election campaign , Bill Clinton promised to squeeze an extra $10 billion a year from multinational companies with American subsidiaries , which he reckoned were under-taxed . |
| 22 | By 1993–94 these and other improvements will mean that we will be directing an extra £300 million a year to long-term sick and disabled people . |
| 23 | Between 25 December 1963 and 21 March 1964 a party of eight wintered in West Sussex , being seen in several places as far apart as Sidlesham and Wiston Park ; there is no reason to suppose that more than one party was involved . |
| 24 | On 31 March 1937 a dividend of 20 per cent was declared free of tax and each of the respondent 's children received £40 . |
| 25 | In reply , the Commission stated that under articles 4(2) and 8 of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 it was to submit to the Council of the European Communities before 31 December 1991 a report on the fisheries situation in the Community , the economic and social development of the coastal areas and the state of the stocks and their likely evolution . |
| 26 | three pounds eighty a week for ? |
| 27 | At 3 a.m. on the night of 31 October 1933 a piece of heaven fell on Ruchill . |
| 28 | On 17 March 1941 a flight of Hurricanes were detached from 274 Squadron in the Western Desert to reinforce 261 Squadron on Malta . |
| 29 | On 18 December 1912 a reconstruction of these remains was presented to the Geological Society of London by ( Sir ) Arthur Smith Woodward [ q.v. ] , keeper of geology at the Natural History Museum , who was convinced they represented an early human form which he had dubbed Eoanthropus ( ‘ dawn man ’ ) dawsoni . |
| 30 | IBM is now making between a few hundred and a few thousand PowerPC 601s a month in Vermont . |