Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [noun] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One in three of the Netherlands population own a car , and more than 137 billion kilometres are driven every year . |
| 2 | Card fraud is costing the industry £165 million a year and now the battle against it is taking a hi tec turn . |
| 3 | By section 291 of the Insolvency Act 1986 a bankrupt must deliver up all his books , papers and records and give to the official receiver such information of his estate and such other information as the official receiver may reasonably require . |
| 4 | In a move which pension fund managers describe as ‘ pension fund taxation by the back door ’ , the decision to cut from 25 to 20 per cent the tax credit that can be reclaimed on dividends , has reduced the yield on the FT All-Share Index from 4.1 per cent to 3.9 per cent and could cost the funds £1 billion a year . |
| 5 | According to the Partnership Act 1890 a partnership is an association of persons carrying on a business in common with a view to profit . |
| 6 | It costs the NHS £4.5 million a year . |
| 7 | Similarly , a number of Morrissey 's former acquaintances ( again , those who were left behind ) told tales of how the singer downs many a bottle of wine despite his public image as the complete celibate with a teetotal lifestyle . |
| 8 | We have been round the BBC buoy many a time , so there is no excuse for hasty words , or mistakes . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh shit , ’ she said , surreptitiously pushing the access hatch open a crack and thrusting her fingers through , hoping nobody would notice . |
| 10 | Even if the matter were still proceeding before the justices ' court , either for the purposes of committal for trial or for trial of an information , it would be my opinion that neither section 5(1) nor section 10(1) of the Act of 1980 would apply to give the justice hearing a proceeding under section 7(5) of the Bail Act 1976 a power to adjourn that proceeding . |
| 11 | The reduction in the tax credit on dividends from 25 per cent to 20 will reduce the amounts they and other non-taxpayers can reclaim from the Inland Revenue , saving the Government £1 billion a year . |
| 12 | If the Community 's protectionism was met by US retaliation , the EC would lose $132 billion and the US $64 billion a year , while proving particularly damaging to the economies of Eastern Europe . |
| 13 | The tower mill half a mile south-west of the church is the only windmill left on the island . |
| 14 | As a disincentive to landlords wishing to rid themselves of " sitting tenants " , Parliament inserted into the Housing Act 1988 a strengthening of harassment remedies . |
| 15 | Under the Children Act 1989 a child 's lack of suitable education had ceased to be a specific ground for taking him/her into care . |
| 16 | By making do and searching for essential materials — in a war-torn country — a production unit was created in the University Pathology laboratory and enough crude penicillin was extracted for further essential laboratory experiments and to treat several patients in the Radcliffe Infirmary half a mile away . |
| 17 | In his report as a Poor Law Commissioner , Chadwick estimated that inadequate sanitation leading to excessively high death rates was costing the country £14 million a year in lost production , apart from the social costs in terms of crime , delinquency , and the like . |
| 18 | A recent study by the Centre for International Economics in Canberra suggests that it would cost the EC $52 billion a year . |
| 19 | The Confederation of British Industry estimates that congestion costs its members in commerce and industry in London and the south-east £10 billion a year . |
| 20 | TWO pensioners who met at a wedding ceremony half a century ago have become close friends after being reunited by the Daily Post . |
| 21 | TWO pensioners who met at a wedding ceremony half a century ago have become close friends after being reunited by the Daily Post . |
| 22 | He located two great beams of good timber lying on a waste lot half a mile away , but could not lift them . |
| 23 | In 1917 Duke had ridden a Kalahuewehe wave half a mile till it died in front of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel , where now the ASP annual banquet is held . |
| 24 | He led them to a dugout canoe half a mile downstream , and they poled slowly across to the other bank . |