Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities . |
| 2 | ‘ Jael Otis Ann Ryder was born at 6.30am on Saturday , February 16 , weighing in at a bounding 10lbs 10oz . ’ |
| 3 | It was here in 1911 , for instance , that the ruthless , reforming Russian First Minister Peter Stolypin was gunned down by a Jewish police agent in full view of the Tsar , at a gala opera night . |
| 4 | The beautiful Thamesside setting of the Cottons Centre , where CCG run customer catering for Citibank , was put to the test this summer with an exclusive dinner for 15 chairmen and chief executives , who have been booked in by a public relations consultancy . |
| 5 | She would in fact be taking over from a male contracts officer who would be leaving the company in four months ' time . |
| 6 | The value of the credit tapers off above a certain earnings level , and disappears just above $20,000 a year . |
| 7 | To supplement work-outs , he has come up with a global best-practices programme . |
| 8 | Secure on her own ground ( she 's locked the door from the inside and pocketed the key ) , Anya cuts the cords binding Riva 's wrists and ankles , and slips the gun back into a gangsterish shoulder-holster straight out of a B-movie props department . |
| 9 | In The Observer , a normally wise and balanced political commentator outlined a vision of what the English countryside might become if abandoned to nature , which was like something out of a Dark Ages bestiary , a nightmarish waste of swamp and scrub , thick with rats , disease and the remains of derelict farm machinery . |
| 10 | Drawing back the curtains , he saw a pair of men in blue overalls get out of a black police car , open the gates to the yard and give a mock salute as the driver and his passenger drove in . |
| 11 | But towards the end of our stay in Kuwait , the rules were relaxed , and we were allowed out to a nearby sports stadium to exercise for an hour every day . |
| 12 | FIGHTS break out at a Black Rights demonstration in Euston , London . |
| 13 | I did that because I got an amazing about of money and to be honest I rather liked the idea of swanning around in a special effects car . |