Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | by the depth of the top surface Carboniferous which increases towards the N.N.E. An example is given by the Arsten Z1 borehole near Bremen where the boundary Westphalian C/D lying at a depth of 6180 m reaches the boundary between the anthracite and meta-anthracite stages with a vitrinite reflectance of 3.5% Rm ( for the top surface Carboniferous a value of 2.8% Rm was extrapolated ) . |
| 2 | Petrocaravi , the ‘ ship of stone ’ , was a deserted islet half a mile off the western tip of Phraxos . |
| 3 | And , to top the argument , market research indicated greater reader-loyalty amongst NoS 's target audience for a northern-based paper — indicating an extra £1 million a year in sales and advertising revenue . |
| 4 | Payments could be limited to a maximum number of patients per general practitioner which would stop the protests that a single handed general practitioner with a list of 3000 in an area of high deprivation receives an extra £28 800 a year without any obligation to provide extra services . |
| 5 | At a CPSU congress in early July 1990 a reorganization of the party 's leading bodies confirmed the curtailment of their role in national political decision-making [ see pp. 37299 ; 37616 ] . |
| 6 | As a result of improvements since 1988 , we have made available an extra £600 million a year in real terms to low-income families with children . |
| 7 | The legspinner beat the outside edge many a time in the ongoing psychological thriller of the summer . |
| 8 | In last year 's election campaign , Bill Clinton promised to squeeze an extra $10 billion a year from multinational companies with American subsidiaries , which he reckoned were under-taxed . |
| 9 | By 1993–94 these and other improvements will mean that we will be directing an extra £300 million a year to long-term sick and disabled people . |
| 10 | 15 exclusive plots each a minimum of 25,000 square metres accessible to the costas cosmopolitan pleasures yet a world apart . |
| 11 | The third was Private Eye 's Adrian Mole-style Diary of John Major , which it was claimed had made the Prime Minister such a figure of ridicule that it might be a significant factor in his losing this election . |
| 12 | The so-called ‘ peace dividend ’ is slow to materialize , and not surprisingly , with an estimated $250 billion a year of vested interests potentially available for more constructive purposes . |
| 13 | That is really what made Danish ballet such a discovery for the rest of Europe 30 years ago . |
| 14 | Interestingly , one patient experienced recurrence of Dieulafoy 's lesion at the identical site half a year after successful treatment and with healing proved endoscopically . |
| 15 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 16 | However , the half-life of the process is something like 1022 years ; in other words half a sample of nuclei would decay by this means in 1022 years . |
| 17 | Since Vietnam and Kampuchea are heavily dependent politically and militarily on external sponsors such a concept of ‘ non-alignment ’ involves a very different emphasis to that of neutrality or neutralisation . |
| 18 | The church tax reaps a handsome £5 billion a year for the Protestant and Catholic Churches and the Jewish community , or about two-thirds of their total income . |
| 19 | But to prove we are a nation of animal lovers we spending a staggering £2.4 BILLION a year on gourmet grub and luxury presents for our furry friends . |
| 20 | There were two ways to the farm and the sound came from a narrow track which joined the main road half a mile beyond the other entrance . |
| 21 | By the end of the academic year 1981–2 a total of sixteen main independent centres for the provision of two-year part-time programmes leading to the Certificate in Education ( FE ) had been validated by the CNAA . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , Intel is pouring a massive $1 billion a year into honing its technological edge , split roughly equally between building state-of-the-art chip factories and research and development , according to Grove . |