Example sentences of "[be] [det] [conj] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elections are less than a month away , and Mr Anguita is probably Spain 's second most popular politician after the Socialist Prime Minister , Felipe Gonzalez . |
| 2 | County council elections are less than a week away , and one of the key issues is bound to be the state of our schools . |
| 3 | The Tories had been in power for twelve years already , and a general election could not be more than a year away . |
| 4 | The present rate for the Earth is such that a crater over 10 km diameter is very likely to be produced somewhere on dry land at some time over the next 200 000 years . |
| 5 | ( a ) Where the judge comes to the conclusion that the prosecution evidence , taken at its highest , is such that a jury properly directed could not properly convict upon it , it is his duty , upon a submission being made , to stop the case . |
| 6 | If the magistrate concludes , on the evidence before him , that the previous evidence is such that a jury properly directed could not properly convict upon it , then , on the principle stated in Reg. v. Galbraith [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 1039 , he should not commit . |
| 7 | For me , a school is more than a place where the children learn their ABC and their times-table . |
| 8 | There is more than a hint here of the subsequent legislation in restraint of alienation which was to result in the English statute of Quia Emptores ( 1290 ) . |
| 9 | But the venue is less than a mile away from Castlemorton Common , which was invaded by more than twenty thousand hippies a fortnight ago . |
| 10 | The Million Sterling Tournament is less than a month away . |
| 11 | Yes , O K then , right , because it 's more than a week away , I 'll give you a bell close to the time , just to make sure you , everything 's alright . |
| 12 | But er it 's less than a fortnight now . |