Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is he further aware that last week we heard of a thousand signalling faults on British Rail followed by this further terrible accident in the Severn tunnel , involving signal faults and negligence yet again ? |
| 2 | And the speech was indeed a frank catalogue of the state of the personal computer business today : revenues down 14% , Apple Computer Inc , IBM and DEC contemplating low margins and sinking market share , the astronomical cost of developing a new package , the failure of PCs to penetrate much beyond word processing and spreadsheets , the monopoly lock of a few software houses on the marketplace and engineering 's inability to develop an intuitive box , all conspiring to dissuade any sensible PC guy from putting any more money into research and development . |
| 3 | For a modest sum , a family sitting in the comfort of their home could listen for a whole year to one performance nightly from a selection of theatres , music halls and concert halls with a choice of a dozen church services on Sundays . |
| 4 | He used to deliver messages for a few club owners on this patch , ’ Culley said . |
| 5 | This demand for a broader perspective trenches on the form and content of history in that it involves both enquiry into new areas and novel modes of explanation . |
| 6 | This one posts are erected at a hundred metre intervals on a motorway , how many posts are there in a distance of four thousand seven hundred kilometres ? |