Example sentences of "with a [noun] [prep] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look for suncreams specially formulated for babies and children , and never use a suncream with a factor of less than 12 . |
| 2 | Against this background of shifting perceptions , Whitney curator , Richard Marshall , has launched a bid for reappraisal with a selection of more than 150 paintings and works on paper strongly favouring the imaginative achievement of 1981–83 , and excluding those collaborations made with Andy Warhol in 1985 . |
| 3 | In practice , says the review , ‘ such securities are more liquid than a fixed-period bank deposit with a maturity of less than three months , although the latter falls within the definition of cash equivalents ’ . |
| 4 | The bill would apply to any article which has a blade or is sharply pointed , except a folding pocketknife with a blade of less than three inches . |
| 5 | Trailing 18–17 , Fox denied the Lions victory with a kick from more than 40 yards that wiped out a magnificent kicking effort by Lions captain Gavin Hastings . |
| 6 | Trailing 18–17 , Fox denied the Lions victory with a kick from more than 40 yards that wiped out a magnificent kicking effort by Lions captain Gavin Hastings . |
| 7 | TOF spectra can be collected with a dose of less than 10 -3 ions per surface atom , making the technique relatively non-destructive . |
| 8 | Equipment projects with a cost of less than £2,500 are ineligible for assistance . |
| 9 | Few of the British contenders would figure on the US list , which is topped by an entrepreneur with a fortune of more than £250 million . |
| 10 | The ceiling on sea-launched , nuclear-tipped cruise missiles was agreed at 880 , but this covered only missiles with a range of more than 600 km . |
| 11 | However , critics pointed out that the Soviet Union already had an upgraded fifth model of the SS-18 and was able , therefore , to get by on half its present firepower ; they also claimed that the USA had bowed to Soviet wishes that the START treaty cover all air-launched , nuclear-tipped missiles with a range of more than 375 miles ( 600 km ) . |
| 12 | the increased cost of the proposals and the fact that many will be unnecessary in the majority of firms means that the extra requirements should only be imposed on firms with a history of late or qualified reports etc . |
| 13 | It is possible to maintain a simple fish-only marine system in an aquarium measuring only 600 × 300 × 300mm ( 24″ × 12 × 12″ ) with a capacity of less than 681 ( 15 gallons ) . |
| 14 | For example , European Community legislation on cosmetics requires that products with a stability of less than three years be labelled with an expiry date but it does not elaborate on this . |
| 15 | With a membership of less than 200 , few of noble lineage , and with the whiff of Regency gambling , that mainspring of London cricket , still leaving a dubious odour , Aislabie set about his task with enormous energy . |
| 16 | As a result , Regional Railways is now holding discussions with every local authority with a population of more than 250,000 from Aberdeen to Plymouth . |
| 17 | From 1 January 1923 the preparation of schemes was compulsory on all borough and district councils with a population of more than 20,000 . |
| 18 | The exception was the City of London with a population of less than 5,000 ( Herbert 1960:233 — 6 ) . |
| 19 | As most interbank deposits are for less than one year , few banks will grant such a loan with a term of more than one year . |
| 20 | Evolution has equipped our brains with a subjective consciousness of risk and improbability suitable for creatures with a lifetime of less than one century . |
| 21 | That is to say , an object fired vertically upward from the surface of the star with a velocity of less than a thousand kilometers per second would be dragged back by the gravitational field of the star and would return to the surface , whereas an object with a velocity greater than that would escape to infinity . |
| 22 | Yesterday , Norman Lamont presented the bill for that cleverness , with a demand for more than £10,000 million a year in extra taxation from 1995/6 onwards . |
| 23 | As a result of bargaining between these two main parties the PRI secured the preservation of the " governability " clauses which granted the party winning most votes in the legislative elections an absolute majority , even with a vote of less than 50 per cent ; the PAN ensured that the threshold at which these clauses became applicable was raised from 17 per cent to 35 per cent of the vote . |
| 24 | Like the hon. Member for Fife , Central , I refer to the exemption of small employers with a payroll of less than £45,000 . |
| 25 | The biggest rises — about 12.6 per cent — are being won in smaller companies with a turnover of less than £5m . |
| 26 | Proposed mergers involving companies with a turnover of less than £1.4billion may be examined by the Commission at the request of an affected member state . |
| 27 | Large businesses continued to do best , he said , but small businesses , with a turnover of less than £2 million a year , also reported a modest recovery last month . |
| 28 | Korean companies with a turnover of more than $100m are now allowed to own foreign equities . |
| 29 | Mr Martin comes to Edinburgh from Basil Blackwell , which he developed from a small family business with sales of under £1 million into a major international publishing group with a turnover of more than £14 million . |
| 30 | In the Brianne catchment of mid-Wales streams with a hardness of less than 8 milligrams per litre of calcium carbonate ‘ have a depleted flora and fauna and salmonid fish are either absent or present only in small numbers ’ . |