Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | By the end of the year it passed the two and a half million mark , just over double the figure when the Government had taken office . |
| 2 | When the Tory government announced the one and a half per cent pay ceiling for public service workers , many public service workers quite rightly so , were angry . |
| 3 | Despite the importance of the positive aspects in Roosevelt 's relationship with Churchill , he regarded the latter as a political anachronism once thoughts turned from the defeat of the Axis to the world of the future . |
| 4 | Mansell received the fine and a one-race ban , which FISA applied to the Spanish Grand Prix , after he illegally reversed his Ferrari in the pits and failed to stop at a black disqualification flag , waved three times during the race in Estoril on 24 September . |
| 5 | Mathematics , minimalism , and an almost Roman sense of order are the hallmarks of Ungers ' works — in 1992 at the Philomene Magers gallery he installed a horizontal and a vertical beam , made of wood and plexiglass respectively : the x and y axes of an imaginary co-ordinate system . |
| 6 | But Leeman 's experienced trio added a three and a two to go through 20-16 . |
| 7 | The woman , who has not been named , suffered a one and a half hour ordeal in her car , which only ended after the Ford Fiesta broke down in Cheshire . |
| 8 | I said well no I cos I said I expected a co I think she deserved a more than a commended . |
| 9 | In the next parliament , which assembled in September 1337 , the commons granted a tenth and a fifteenth to be levied each year for the next three years . |
| 10 | The idea of regional or republican cost-accounting received no more than a cautious welcome in the resolution on national relations that was adopted at the conference ; the resolution did however speak of the ‘ further development ’ of the federation , involving the transfer of greater powers to the local level and to the union republics in particular . |
| 11 | Before World War II , as Drucker relates , ‘ all the books on management filled no more than a modest shelf ’ . |
| 12 | DNA typing showed the same or a similar strain to be present in at least two family members in three of the four family groups . |
| 13 | Surely , to apply the label ‘ manslaughter ’ to the conduct of a person who envisaged no more than a common assault , e. g. by a single punch , is both disproportionate and unfair . |
| 14 | The boy showed no more than a formal interest in her . |
| 15 | The largest was at Gretna on the Solway Firth and it became no less than a State-developed new town , south-west of the existing village . |
| 16 | In some cases the tube connecting the bag to the gut became no more than a solid thread . |
| 17 | This was reflected in the prices paid for the average in-calf and maiden heifer , which at times made no more than a good commercial first-calver at Carlisle . |
| 18 | And she cut a dozen and a half splendid blooms and laid them reverently in Sally-Anne 's trug . |
| 19 | Wilde lived an anarchic and a political homosexuality simultaneously . |
| 20 | When the Canadian National was formed it inherited no fewer than a thousand stations west of Lake Superior . |
| 21 | In Russia the war aroused no more than a brief flicker of patriotic enthusiasm : years of nationalist propaganda under the last two tsars failed to bear fruit . |
| 22 | Previously they treated the latter as a special topic , now it is integrated into the chapters on alcohols and arenes . |
| 23 | She sighed ecstatically as they reached the cliff-top and a warm breeze caught her hair and whirled it high above her head . |
| 24 | Nurse practitioners in most of the participating major departments managed no more than a small fraction of the patients each day . |
| 25 | Only the top surface of the upper chord of the rear stabiliser spar is readily visible and the crack when it was shown to me looked no bigger than a human hair lying across its width , partially hidden by paint and the dirt of many years ' service . |
| 26 | A warning light on the dashboard heralded a thrown alternator belt , which took no more than a swift shop at the courteous and enthusiastic Vauxhall dealer Ryedale Garages of Kirkbymoorside to replace the offending item for just £4 . |
| 27 | In the Brandeston forge the smith kept a four and a half gallon barrel of beer under the bench , and the men got their allowances of First Nail from this . |
| 28 | Mary herself , in captivity in England but forever smuggling out letters and appeals , dealt slyly in shrouded half-promises and suggestions , but made one thing quite clear : she still regarded herself as rightful Queen of Scots and , even towards the end , offered no more than a grudging suggestion of James being ‘ associated ’ with her in ruling the country . |
| 29 | We did say at the discussion , that we did a four and a half day or a five day construction site safety |
| 30 | When it became apparent that the land was too small to construct a museum on , the Terras bought a three and a half acre site opposite the Monet gardens . |