Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The likely truth lies in those still-sealed files on chemical warfare experiments — but the riddle of Shingle Street refuses to be buried after more than half a century . |
| 2 | A CITY-IMPOSED curfew is forcing the Hollywood Palladium to shut down after more than half a century of entertainment ranging from Lawrence Welk to the Rolling Stones , officials said yesterday . |
| 3 | If you leave this at the exit of ‘ San Donato ’ and turn right towards Tavernelle , after less than half a mile — along a turning on the right — you will come to the 16th century Villa Fillinelle . |
| 4 | Mm , I can never remember the formulas , like your dad said formula for such and such a thing is so and so and that , but I could never remember them so I was no good then , because I could n't remember it |
| 5 | ‘ I realise your intentions are clean , but those words push my button ( for such and such a reason ) . ’ |
| 6 | Do you long to be enveloped in a subtle cloud of indefinable mystery , a Proustian aroma particular to you , not the immediately recognisable impact of such and such a brand ? |
| 7 | We all know how the smell of such and such a flower or soap or tree conjures up memories of an incident in our past life . |
| 8 | The verbal expression of a maxim will be something like : ‘ In circumstances of such and such a sort I shall act thus ’ , and I act immorally unless I can will that all agents should guide their behaviour by a corresponding maxim directed at themselves . |
| 9 | The clock has been timed to a consistent gain of less than half a minute per week during several months of sustained testing . |
| 10 | Local authorities could be brought into that and such an amnesty would need Home Office funding and improved publicity . |
| 11 | Will he give an undertaking today to give us information on recruitment levels , retention levels and the position of one base as compared with another before such a report is produced ? |
| 12 | If you have not trained your lecturer to give you the information to which you are entitled — that he is to deal with such and such a topic on specific days — then get started with a process of attrition , backed by your friends , until he does produce a programme for the term . |
| 13 | From the outside people may say she has married into such and such a descent group but this does not mean that she is also not at the same time the wife of a particular man . |
| 14 | Carson 's place was only a couple of miles away , in a vastly overpriced and overcrowded strip along less than half a mile of the river east from Kew Bridge . |
| 15 | Rory told Jessica about his girlfriend Rosie , not a great deal but nothing too disloyal , while she for her part realised after some moments that she was not listening with more than half an ear , but wondering what she should tell him about Parr . |
| 16 | Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published . |
| 17 | The result is that the aircraft is about 30° off the inbound holding track , with less than half a minute to run to the holding point . |
| 18 | He had been asleep for less than half an hour . |
| 19 | It was a conquest which would be theirs for more than half a century . |
| 20 | This was all part of a romanticising process that has afflicted Pygmalion for more than half a century . |
| 21 | The Open Spaces Society , which is by far our oldest environmental pressure body has for more than half a century been encouraging the continuance of the ancient practice of Beating the Bounds by parish and community councils and local groups . |
| 22 | Fergie 's antics plunge Royal Family into its biggest crisis for more than half a century |
| 23 | For more than half a century , in accordance with the collector 's will , the paintings occupied their own suite of first-floor galleries . |
| 24 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |
| 25 | But Daphne 's dear familiarity , the pleasure of her company , the comfort of knowing pretty well what she would say in response to any remark , the whole warm , easy , ancient closeness that had subsisted between them for more than half a century , won over Cecilia 's temporary , though profound , embarrassment . |
| 26 | Thereafter the accelerating rate of population growth coincided with the ending of the bounty of generally good harvests to turn the trend in the cost of living sharply upwards , while in most regions the increase in the labour force changed a labour market in which wages had generally held up for more than half a century . |
| 27 | R-A-F Hullavington has been putting into practice its motto — Service To Many — for more than half a century . |
| 28 | The Bugatti Owners Club has been holding meetings at Prescott Hill near Cheltenham for more than half a century . |
| 29 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 30 | Cellophane , a leading manufacturer of packaging films for more than half a century , launched its quality systems registration effort two years ago , with and in charge . |