Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remain convinced that a democratic majority exists in Scotland for higher spending on public services and on our infrastructure . |
| 2 | I got that and a midi hi-fi system . |
| 3 | I got three and a half thousand . |
| 4 | I say this because a few days ago Spurs were linked with a different ( Swedish ) defender , so may have pulled out any interest . |
| 5 | Mr is very different we must all be protected , I 've worked out my bill as the same as this year because no way shall I spend seventeen and a half percent more money I shall be as careful as I can and I sha n't starve and I sha n't get cold now I 've worked out that the V A T on my fuel bill is eight hundred and eighty five pounds , I 'd delighted if Mr could perform the trick and I need n't pay it , on behalf of the Duke of Westminster , the Duke of Rutland , I think I can also thank him . |
| 6 | I spent two and a half years working with a single comprehensive school looking at the change in that school from a system of streamed teaching to a system of mixed ability teaching . |
| 7 | I spent two and a half years working with a single comprehensive school , looking at the change in that school from a system of streamed teaching to a system of mixed ability teaching . |
| 8 | You could do but I mean , I I the n the amount of money needed for completion sounds a lot but actually it 's probably I think two and a half two hundred and fifty thousand to complete . |
| 9 | I did seven and a half months in prison : that was more than enough . |
| 10 | Eight miles further on were Mick and Paddy — I had two and a half hours before sunset to reach them . |
| 11 | erm I enlisted in the Air Force December thirty nine , and I had six and a half years taken out of my life for helping with the war effort , and hopefully my sons and my grandsons will not have to go into another war . |
| 12 | I had more than a casual interest in politics . |
| 13 | I had fewer than a hundred rounds for the gun which I kept solely as a deterrent for those remote places where cruising yachtsmen are seen as plump victims , ripe for pillaging , and the Webley offered me good protection for , though the gun was over seventy years old , it was massively built and frighteningly powerful . |
| 14 | So I need one and a half boxes |
| 15 | But Royal Insurance , which holds one and a half million Morland shares , says the offer undervalues the company , and it will not be accepting . |
| 16 | LIQUIDATORS of the Isle of Man Savings and Investment Bank , which crashed seven and a half years ago with debts of £42.4m , said last night they would be paying more than 10p in the pound to the 4,000 mainly small investors who lost money . |
| 17 | It 's home to the vast fish plants which process two and a half million tons of fishmeal every year … to be sold as animal feed . |
| 18 | His use of skilled craftspeople to make his objects , his thorough-going professionalism , his choice of imagery — ‘ whitened ’ black pop star Michael Jackson , porno-politician La Cicciolina — pose questions about the relationship between the commodity and the object of affective value which deserve more than a one-line dismissal . |
| 19 | It is interesting , however , to look at his very recent designs for the chair called Elémentaire , manufactured by Ligne Roset , which bears more than a passing resemblance to the spooky opera house . |
| 20 | And as recently announced ( with applause from Kenneth Baker , the minister for information technology ) , GEC has acquired the rights to build the Hitachi Process Robot , a machine which bears more than a strong resemblance to a robot made by the Swedish company ASEA . |
| 21 | In the consultative document , the DTI proposes two courses of action : monitoring registration of branches at Companies House to ensure that the law is not abused by companies being incorporated in a lax jurisdiction to take over a British business ; or requiring branch accounts from overseas companies which conduct all or a substantial part of their business in Great Britain . |
| 22 | An open question is one which requires more than a one word or one phrase answer . |
| 23 | However , most laboratories which produce more than a modest number of thin sections are now equipped with appropriate automatic and semi-automatic systems . |
| 24 | Any report which demands more than a full day of your time , or of your subordinates ' , should have written terms of reference . |
| 25 | Bernard Lavery is the doyen of the home-grown British giant vegetable world , and he organised yesterday 's event at Alton Towers , the Midlands pleasure park which attracts two and a half million visitors a year . |
| 26 | We did the Christmassy stuff and the old New Orleans favourites and , with Trippy playing the top of the truck cab with a pair of spare drum sticks , I got them organized into a version of Masekela 's Do n't Go Lose It which lasted one and a half circuits . |
| 27 | Selling such statements to thirteen-year-old girls is something which had more than a small measure of the bizarre . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , ’ concludes David , ‘ you got more than a quick response to that one ! |
| 29 | Admit you want more than a mere boy can offer . |
| 30 | Davies , 30 , who has two and a half years of his contract to run , is understood to be disillusioned and keen to quit the professional game . |