Example sentences of "[conj] a [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An algorithm which performs this trick before it starts searching is said to be goal directed , or a backwards searcher . |
| 2 | We do not know which , if any , funds are affected and we do not know whether there has been an over valuation or an under valuation . ’ |
| 3 | It had taken twice as long as planned due to the heat and it was decided that a 6.00am start was required on the second day . |
| 4 | It is more accurate to see the East Anglian affinity as a court connection rather than a narrowly Woodville one . |
| 5 | It is more accurate to see the East Anglian affinity as a court connection rather than a narrowly Woodville one . |
| 6 | Nor need she expect anything more than a strictly business afternoon , she warned herself . |
| 7 | The relationship can also be viewed thermodynamically , there being a larger change in free energy accompanying the decomposition of an unstable mineral like olivine than a comparatively muscovite . |
| 8 | There is a trumpet-like incisiveness in the middle and upper registers and a positively ringing sound at the top . |
| 9 | So , a bigger church was needed to cater for the rapidly increasing numbers , and a most un-lamb like argument over whether they should extend or move to a new site raged for six years . |
| 10 | The mobile telephone bleeped and a crackly voice said : |
| 11 | The Great War started and took the scho er This Road school had all men teachers extep except standard one , which was an introduction from infants to grown-up and a matronly lady always called Miss , er broke us into this new sort of discipline and sternness really . |
| 12 | The first point to make is that because all the possible histories for the universe are finite in extent , any quantity that one uses as a measure of time will have a greatest and a least value . |
| 13 | A gain of 400 in the first amplifier/filter will then produce an output of almost two and a half volts from the total earth 's field vector , avoiding overload and permitting a peak-to-peak measurement by rotating the core . |
| 14 | That may seem reasonable , but it 's a lot for Poland , where a million and a half zlotys a month is considered more or less an average wage . |
| 15 | He is the biggest of all seals , growing up to 14 feet long and a weight of two and a half tonnes . |
| 16 | The county council 's already provided an advisory route directing lorries away from the town centre — now it 's going one step further , banning all vehicles weighing more than seven and a half tonnes . |
| 17 | Nine hundred of the strongest men worked for about three hours to lift me on to the platform , and one thousand five hundred of the King 's largest horses ( each eleven and a half centimetres high ) pulled me to the capital . |
| 18 | As the maximum extraction of grape juice or must was also set at one litre of juice per one and a half kilograms of grapes , this production limit could also be expressed as 7,500 kilograms per hectare . |
| 19 | This has frequently happened on the Halemaumau volcano , which has a deep , circular , pit-like crater about one and a half kilometres across at its summit . |
| 20 | They were carried along on their gently-moving conveyor belt at a speed of about one and a half kilometres an hour , while they made determinations of the viscosity of the lava beneath the rubbly crust , and eventually hopped off again , none the worse for wear . |
| 21 | There are just two and a half kilometres of railway in Lesotho . |
| 22 | It was to the north west of the village about one and a half kilometres away , on the banks of a stream called the Rovacchia , behind a grass embankment . |
| 23 | It had , however , collected eight and a half tons of khat , the mild narcotic leaf on which Djibouti feeds like caterpillars on cabbage . |
| 24 | Two and a half tons of fish taken in last year 's event . |
| 25 | One and a half tons . |
| 26 | Christopher Picton , 34 , of Avon Way , Colchester , Essex , became trapped as the reels , weighing two and a half tons , were being loaded on to a lorry . |
| 27 | New pits were sunk at Dare ( 1870 ) and Bwllfa ( 1877 ) : by 1900 the four collieries of the Ocean Company were producing over a million and a half tons of coal annually , and many other pits had also been sunk profitably . |
| 28 | One and a half tons of prime Canadian Hereford and the pride of the Lowerhope herd . |
| 29 | He pushed the vital button which blasted twelve and a half tons of rock at the ARC Quarry near Colwell , Northumberland . |
| 30 | On average , fruits contain 1–3g of fibre per 100g ( 3 and a half oz ) and green vegetables 2–4g . |