Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 After their introduction on the Fleetwood service , journey time was reduced to 32 minutes on a five-minute headway .
2 Chris Burton , a Featherstone substitute , was sent off after 32 minutes for a high tackle on Craig Izzard , and visitors Leeds went on to win 22-20 .
3 After going 2–0 up in 32 minutes through a goal by Lesley Hobley and a penalty by Denise Shorney , Hightown reduced the deficit a minute before the interval when Jackie Crook scored from the penalty spot .
4 Specialising in engineering design relating to existing offshore installations , the company 's manpower levels reached over 500 personnel on a number of design projects .
5 This two-track approach was seen by the press in member countries as reflecting continued manoeuvring over the role of the United States in the alliance , against a background of US troop reductions in Europe and Franco-German proposals for a European military force .
6 THE superconducting transition temperature , T c , defines the point at which the free energies of the superconducting and normal states of a material become equal .
7 Announcing storm-damaged figures and government plundering of its profits that left nothing over for investment , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom yesterday said that following its move to set up its cellular operations as a separate company as a first step to privatisation , it was also considering privatising the unit it has created to look after large customers .
8 The company has also been asked to consider spinning cellular operations into a separate company .
9 They are paid for remaining open after normal hours on a rota basis and sums are paid to keep chemists open in remote areas .
10 The lower notes of a melody are usually placed at points of emotive decline .
11 It is one of the remarkable features of the Bible that it contains enough to occupy the greatest intellects for a lifetime , and yet the simplest soul can read and understand , and in reading with an obedient heart find God himself .
12 Fomalont and Sramek ( 1976 ) used radio-telescopes on a 35 km baseline at Green Bank , West Virginia , to study radio-sources close to the Sun at frequencies of 2.7 and 8.1 GHz .
13 Hox-B2 response to RA. g-i , Normal staining patterns of a Hox-B2/lacZ transgene which is primarily expressed in r4 and neural crest migrating into the second branchial arch .
14 In his first pleasure at being admitted to this inner circle of learning he had compared it to Dante 's Paradiso , in which the saints and patriarchs and virgins sat in orderly ranks in a circular formation , a huge rose , and also the leaves of a huge volume , once scattered through the universe , now gathered .
15 total sponsorships of a vehicle ( normally for an initial period of 3 years )
16 Yes , it uses eight watts against a hundred , well I say probably against seventy five , eight watts instead of seventy five and given us the same amount of light out .
17 Having won in Bratislava on Monday with an impressive 17.18 metres , the Commonwealth silver medallist is laying strong foundations for a serious medal bid in Spain .
18 But in general Boniface was one of the greatest exponents of a high view of metropolitan and episcopal power which would confront the reformers who asserted papal authority in the eleventh century .
19 Advanced RISC Machines Ltd , Cambridge , UK has licensed Apple Computer Inc 's partner on the Newton personal digital assistant , Sharp Corp to manufacture and market its ARM processors and associated products on a worldwide basis .
20 Perhaps paradoxically , it is argued that the money supply should not be manipulated by the monetary authorities on a short-term basis because the existence of such lags would make the effect of monetary policy uncertain , although powerful .
21 The regulationist approach explains periods of structural change such as the ‘ crossroads years ’ of the 1970s and 1980s in terms of the breakdown of one mode of regulation and the possible shifts toward a new one .
22 Textbooks catering for the upsurge in legal education in the 1950s and 1960s sought to capture in print the mysterious unwritten secrets of a constitution which had emerged into the democratic world without appearing to have changed at all .
23 In all there are 61 independent 4000m alpine peaks with a further 89 neighbouring peaks ( peaklets ) which are considered subsidiary summits .
24 While this case again emphasizes the links between various aspects of our being , it is also a cautionary tale underlining the possible dangers of a superficial approach to a deep-seated psychological problem .
25 The peasant , for instance , who wishes to sell his avocados or pots in the local market may need a licence to do so , something that is outside the realm of the usual activities of a peasant , especially an illiterate .
26 ( In the past , Rough Trade acts who had achieved major success like say , Aztec Camera , walked into the more solid foundations of a larger company ) .
27 While France , Italy and the Low Countries were interested in developing common political institutions with a supranational flavour , Britain and its Nordic supporters wanted only the traditional form of intergovernmental collaboration .
28 ‘ The power to create and manipulate culture as a means or controlling others is well entrenched in the social , Economic and political institutions of a society but it is also continually resisted by opposing cultural forms ’ .
29 We have grown accustomed in political life to arguing about social and political institutions in a certain way : by attacking or defending them on grounds of justice or fairness .
30 One notable attempt to differentiate between political institutions within a post-colonial state , and account for the relative power of the bureaucracy by reference to the class structure of the colonial legacy , is Meillasoux 's ( 1970 ) study of Mali .
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