Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The formation of a National Maritime Board was announced on 23 November 1917 and standard wages for seamen announced six days later , recommending to the Shipping Controller £pound11 10s a month for able seamen and £pound12 for firemen , with proportionate increases for petty officers and seamen on weekly articles , backdated to 6 October .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 According to a survey by the aviation journal Flight International a total of 815 people were killed worldwide in 37 accidents in 1990 .
5 This attitude , especially in ‘ Sophia 's ’ case , may owe something to class-distinction , that is , a duke beating a duchess with a neck of mutton might prove less illustrative than a journeyman tailor doing such a thing to his wife .
6 There can be few other places in Europe which offer the wildlife art student such a plethora of interesting species ; Black Necked Grebe , Spoonbill , and Purple Heron to name only a few .
7 Any determinate mode of production , therefore , will evidence such a form of historical existence in its social formation : dislocated , uneven , absent and present .
8 As a disincentive to landlords wishing to rid themselves of " sitting tenants " , Parliament inserted into the Housing Act 1988 a strengthening of harassment remedies .
9 Fifty years ago in the midst of world war two a group of people got together to help the victims of Nazi occupation.The charity Oxfam was born , and it 's grown steadily to become Britain 's largest overseas aid agency , with an income of seventy million pounds a year .
10 Moreover , by the time of World War I a widening in the geographical scope of product markets themselves , and a desire to eliminate competition from low wage districts — together with government-setting of many wage awards during war-time — all these influences tended to extend the area of collective bargaining still further to the industry level .
11 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 .
12 In 1912 the firm amalgamated with many others to form the British Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd. a subsidiary of the A.P.C.M.
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