Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It succeeded a plain stone building , roughcast and whitewashed , with room for 500 and a general attendance of 400 . |
| 2 | She enjoyed dispensing their weekly portions from the store room on Monday mornings : a quarter-pound of tea for each that made one and a half pounds and quite enough too ; half a pound of butter ; one pound of sugar for each and a small tin of Epps cocoa between them all . |
| 3 | Worcester finished on 184 for eight before a torrential thunderstorm washed out the last 90 minutes play . |
| 4 | Analysts believe it will pave the way for further cuts if the Conservatives retain power but fear a victory for Labour or a hung parliament could lead to higher interest rates . |
| 5 | But his disastrous 76 on Saturday cost him dearly as Zimbabwe 's Nick Price kept his head to take his first major title with a battling 70 for 278 and a three-stroke victory ahead of Faldo , John Cook , Gene Sauers and Jim Gallagher Jnr . |
| 6 | Wasim Akram finished with 6 for 67 and an uncontrollable grin , and must have felt that this , of all his dramatic performances , must have won an important match . |
| 7 | Li Peng held " very fruitful " talks with President Hossain Mohammad Ershad during his visit to Bangladesh on Nov. 17-19 , signing four agreements and a note of exchange , including a long-term trade agreement for 1990-94 and a soft loan for Bangladesh worth about $40,000,000 . |
| 8 | After 1976 and a disastrous Lotus season ( a mere 29 points ) , Ronnie had thought he could do better at Tyrrell , though once again fate was to forestall his ambitions . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I 'm hardly going to get back into bed with him after more than a whole year . |
| 10 | Our eleven purpose-built meeting halls and ten executive rooms can comfortably accommodate a meeting for six or a major conference hosting hundreds . |
| 11 | To summarise therefore , the teaching of Jesus on this subject is intimately bound up with his establishment of the Kingdom : it is not a condemnation of wealth as such but a much-needed perspective on the material world in an age of materialism . |
| 12 | There is no evidence that stress causes addiction as such although a stressful life event may trigger latent addictive disease . |
| 13 | He also felt strongly that a moderate reform programme was an essential means to destroy the menace of Labour and an essential prerequisite of military success and imperial expansion . |
| 14 | With a magnification factor of eight and an objective lens diameter of thirty millimetres the binoculars are compact , lightweight and rugged , classic all-purpose glasses . |
| 15 | It was founded five years ago as a small voluntary organisation and now has grown to a membership of 275 and a permanent secretariat with full time staff . |
| 16 | With the help of that and an increasing salary I was able to get a mortgage on my own small flat just outside London . ’ |
| 17 | Under the Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867 and a Poor Law Amendment Act of the following year , Poor Law Guardians were able to create separate infirmaries — pauper hospitals . |
| 18 | Calculate the net effect on national income of an increase in C of 12 and a simultaneous increase in T of 20 . |
| 19 | An Apple Mac implementation will follow by the middle of 1993 and an Open Look edition by the third quarter . |
| 20 | It was ironic in view of this that a hotly-disputed goal was to cost Arsenal the Cup in the 1932 final . |
| 21 | Perhaps it is because of this that an alternative method of picking was developed . |
| 22 | The violence of this and a similar incident was greater than " anything I have seen in my life short of war " . |
| 23 | And the ladies all when they were dressed they would have a skirt made of this and a frilly blouse with a high neck and er a silver buckled belt round their waist . |
| 24 | All of this and a whole lot more , is yours when you open a Current Account with Midland . |
| 25 | In the light of this and a vivid description of an unexpected home delivery to my husband — we were taking no chances — and I was rushed to the Birmingham Maternity Hospital , with 5 minute contractions , the evening before the 2nd Estimated Day Delivery with what turned out to be a false alarm ! |
| 26 | ‘ Would you show me a little bit of this and a little bit of that ? |
| 27 | It 's no use doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that and getting absolutely nowhere , because you 'll get the two finger job . |
| 28 | The purpose of such investigation will be to determine the precise nature of the incident , to examine the factors contributing to its occurrence and to identify any measures which might be taken to minimise the likelihood of a repetition of this or a similar incident . |
| 29 | She was a member of this or an allied tribe . |
| 30 | Introducing the variable , it is seen that when this second contribution is but when it is To summarise , the foregoing analysis has established that the complete Fourier spectrum of a unit step function comprises a delta function centred on zero frequency that provides the mean direct level of one-half and a continuous spectrum of sinewaves with amplitude that provides the unit step about the mean . |