Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alina had sniffled her way through half a box of Kleenex from the glove compartment , and she seemed even more disinclined toward conversation than Pete . |
| 2 | Here , as inmates with red-rimmed eyes and ash-grey faces barter items like a shirt or a spoon for half a bowl of soup , a nightmarish market economy is seen in operation . |
| 3 | I made a hand winch with a double handle and a ratchet and room for half a kilometre of twine on the drum ; I made different types of tails for the kites that needed them , and dozens of kites large and small , some stunters . |
| 4 | Alcoholic drinks have a significant calorie content ranging from about 50 calories for a small measure of spirit to 70–130 for a glass of wine and 90–130 for half a pint of beer . |
| 5 | In the middle of the night he rose and , after eating about half a jar of honey , felt a lot better . |
| 6 | One alcoholic drink is to be taken as half a pint of beer , one glass of wine , one small glass of sherry or one small measure of spirit . |
| 7 | It takes your body about an hour , on average , to burn up one unit of alcohol , such as half a pint of beer . |
| 8 | After half a century of rejection by the Arab world , Israelis have reason to doubt whether handing back the territories they captured in 1967 would make any lasting difference to Arab attitudes . |
| 9 | After such a day of damage it was a somewhat depleted fleet which set off on the return journey on Sunday . |
| 10 | 7.7.9.2 To pay to the Landlord on demand with Interest ( where the Landlord has rebuilt and reinstated the Premises out of its own money ) the amount of such insurance money so irrecoverable in which event the provisions of clauses 7.5 and 7.6 shall apply and clause 7.7.9 should contain the following amendment : … anyone at the Premises expressly or by implication with the Tenant 's authority while under the Tenant 's control and in the employment of the Tenant wholly or partially irrecoverable … 7.8 Increase or decrease of the Centre If at any time during the Term the Centre shall be increased or decreased on a permanent basis the Insurance Rent Percentage shall be varied with effect from the first premium or additional premium payable in respect of a period after such a change by agreement between the parties or in default of agreement within [ 3 ] months of the first proposal for variation made by the Landlord in such a manner as shall be determined to be fair and reasonable in the light of the event in question by the Surveyor acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator This requires no comment . |
| 11 | The lien of a solicitors ' firm over clients ' papers pending payment of its costs will not be lost by a change in membership so long as the papers have come into the firm 's possession before the change : they can not ( subject always to any specific arrangements with the client to the contrary ) lawfully be retained after such a change in respect of a debt falling due before that event . |
| 12 | After such a blow to belief in the government 's honesty and in its all-seeing ability to fix things , the leap to anti-communist opposition was all the easier to make . |
| 13 | High concentrations of circulating cyclosporin A have been measured in our study 24 hours after the last dose of cyclosporin A. Furthermore , tissue concentrations of cyclosporin A in the pancreas are still high after such a period of time . |
| 14 | It offended the religious , because it seemed to make God out to be untruthful or deceitful ; in the scientific age , science was after all a route to truth , and only the Devil was the father of lies . |
| 15 | The similarities between such a scheme of reclamation and discipline and those widely mooted proposals of the 1980s to reclaim the youth through compulsory job-training or ‘ community service ’ should not pass unnoticed . |
| 16 | Significantly , however , in view of what was subsequently to happen , during the week leading up to the ballot there were growing reservations among her supporters , including ministers , about such a course of action . |
| 17 | Though the diplomatic courtship is at an early stage , the Foreign Office is optimistic about such a marriage of convenience . |
| 18 | There was nothing alarming , she decided , about such a life in the past , about such a dependence upon memory . |
| 19 | Mr Major had been taking private soundings about such a move before Christmas . |
| 20 | ‘ that , although , by the indulgence of the court , a statutory tenant might be permitted to continue to occupy premises after the making of an order for possession , he was not , during such a period of occupation , a statutory tenant with all the rights to protection conferred by the Rent Restriction Acts which he had enjoyed before the order for possession was made ; and , consequently , the daughter could not claim protection as a ‘ tenant ’ under section 12 , subsection ( 1 ) … ’ |
| 21 | no wonder we 're going through such a lot of paper |
| 22 | For such a system to work , it is argued that ‘ systems politics ’ is required . |
| 23 | Conditions could be imposed on the planning permission which would overrule the general permission given for such a change in use by the Use Classes Order ( Class 11 is ‘ use as an office for any purpose ’ ) . |
| 24 | Runnymede offered a most appropriate site for such a memorial on account of its historical associations and its closeness to London and Heathrow . |
| 25 | But 12-year-old girls would certainly not have possessed the physical strength for such a form of attack , and although the rubric of ‘ garotting ’ was used universally to encompass these crimes , most of the cases reported in the newspapers seemed to describe fairly straightforward street robberies — sometimes using a variety of coshes , knuckle-dusters , ‘ Indian claw ’ devices and other forms of life-preserver — or what we would now call ‘ muggings ’ . |
| 26 | ( S. ) 460 , which established that where a juvenile pleaded guilty to an offence for which he could be ordered to be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) , it was open to the sentencer to impose a term of 12 months detention in a young offender institution , if he considered that apart from the plea of guilty a sentence of detention under section 53(2) would have been warranted . |
| 27 | Even though Matthew seems to exaggerate in talking of half a hundredweight of flour , the principle of yeast increasing the size of dough still stands . |
| 28 | Astronomers can observe this happening because of the emission of infra-red energy , with dense clouds collapsing in on themselves at a rate of half a mile per second . |
| 29 | THE PURCHASE OF half a mile of track by Avon Valley Railway members signals the start of the railway 's long awaited southern extension and the hope that passengers will be able to steam towards Bath during the second half of 1993 . |
| 30 | One unit of alcohol is the equivalent of half a pint of beer , a single measure of spirits or a glass of wine . |