Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they were fifty p each on a background |
| 2 | Ida Smedley died 2 March 1944 in a nursing home and was cremated at Golders Green . |
| 3 | Members of the policy group later visited the Lancashire Constabulary Headquarters on 18/19 July 1965 for a briefing by the Chief Constable and his senior officers and saw a demonstration of the work of the force . |
| 4 | If the clause provides for the substitution of figures , it is important to ensure that all necessary mathematical information is given to enable the rent to be calculated ( see Wyndham Investments v Motorway Tyres and Accessories [ 1991 ] 2 EGLR 114 for a case where this was not done , and the index linked rent failed completely ) . |
| 5 | ‘ It has already been hinted at by oor worthy comrade up the back before he passed oot , we are but six months old as a body … ’ |
| 6 | He died 26 February 1915 during a visit to Madeira . |
| 7 | Ned Cathery , in his first report as general secretary of the new National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union of Great Britain and Ireland gave the date of its formation as 26 November 1894 at a gathering of the union 's most loyal supporters at the Wade Arms in Poplar . |
| 8 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |
| 9 | 730 granted on 16 December 1991 from their decision on 7 November 1991 on a motion by the applicant , Wallace Duncan Smith , with leave of Hidden J. given on 25 June 1991 , for judicial review . |
| 10 | But , for the office dictation market , Edison made machines to cut cylinders six inches long with a compromise pitch of 150 lines per inch . |
| 11 | Eight point one of a second ! |
| 12 | He remembers competing at the national championships at Cleethorpes in 1923 , when the water lay only three foot deep above a foot of solid mud , and having to touch a mud-smeared wall at each end . |
| 13 | He still had three hours outstanding of a community service order for another offence . |
| 14 | I mean you 're not going to spend three pound forty on a prescription if you can get a bottle for about one pound fifty so |
| 15 | The plan was to fly to the Cook islands , and spend at least three months alone on a desert island . |
| 16 | He died in Weihsien 21 February 1945 of a brain tumour . |
| 17 | They secured a debate , which led to the adoption on 21 January 1965 of a Resolution noting ‘ with approval the efforts of local authorities to reorganise secondary education on comprehensive lines which will preserve all that is valuable in grammar school education for those children who now receive it and make it available to more children ’ . |
| 18 | Leasehold with a balance of 73 years unexpired with a ground rent of £15 per annum and a variable maintenance charge . |
| 19 | Use the information on the next four pages to write a short description of each of these three things suitable for a five-year-old brother or sister . |
| 20 | The wood mouse ( or long-tailed field mouse ) apodemus sylvaticus is around three inches long with a tail of about the same length . |
| 21 | The brace was permanently embedded in the earth surrounding the cottage ; a crude , heavy piece of metal a foot wide and three inches thick with a second , smaller ‘ collar ’ fixed by old-fashioned wing-screws to the base . |
| 22 | This tiny island 16 miles long and three miles wide with a population of just over 7,000 , has some of the most beautiful beaches in the Caribbean and the friendliest inhabitants I have ever met . |
| 23 | It is the second time the policemen have been sentenced for the murder of Nahaman , who died on 4 March 1990 as a result of beatings they inflicted . |
| 24 | Marion Zunz , a graduate of the University 's Radio , Film and Television Studies postgraduate course , died on 5 January 1992 in a skiing accident in France . |
| 25 | ‘ Is 2500 feet long for a runway ? ’ |
| 26 | , Henry ( 1835–1918 ) , medical psychologist , was born 5 February 1835 at a farmhouse called ‘ Rome ’ near Giggleswick , Yorkshire , the third of the four sons and fourth of seven children of Thomas Maudsley , yeoman farmer , and his wife Mary Bateson , daughter of a Lancaster farmer . |
| 27 | ISRAEL : ‘ Abd al-Ra'uf Ghabin , one of the cases featured in the 30th Anniversary Campaign , was rearrested on 11 February 1992 at a roadblock in Gaza in the Occupied Territories . |
| 28 | The plutonium-powered scientific space probe Galileo , whose launch had been delayed by 11 days due to a combination of technical faults and attempts by anti-nuclear activists to gain a court injunction to ground it , was launched on Oct. 17 , 1989 , aboard the space shuttle Atlantis . |
| 29 | You have 16 or 17 people available for a match , and you have to select 11 . |
| 30 | It was 5 metres square with a bin made of stone slabs built against the north wall : a similar bin in the north-east corner held a large storage jar . |