Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cigarette smoking causes a third of all cancer deaths . |
| 2 | The aside is a piece of direct address to the audience : it takes place simultaneously with the dramatic action , is produced by , and directed towards , that action , yet stands a little outside it . |
| 3 | If she wants a three to four you got ta have the next size up . |
| 4 | It contains a few of my pubic hairs . |
| 5 | Even with sentences not of the form A is f(X) it is often the case that a sentence containing a hyponym unilaterally entails a parallel sentence which is identical in all respects except that it contains a superordinate in place of the hyponym : |
| 6 | plies a diagonal over the lake |
| 7 | Oh that looks a white for doing a pee . |
| 8 | Wetherall , I think , has a first in Chemistry from Sheff . |
| 9 | ‘ Makepeace has a first from Reading , you know . ’ |
| 10 | However , a person with a Pounds 100 stake has a 110 to one chance of winning any prize . |
| 11 | He has a hard-on for you a yard long . " |
| 12 | China has a fifth of the world 's population , but only seven per cent of its arable land — mainly in the densely populated eastern strip . |
| 13 | Firstly , the antecedent factor may be a direct cause of childhood psychiatric disturbance which has a continuous of intermittent course into adulthood . |
| 14 | What fraction of a whole turn has A moved through ? |
| 15 | What fraction of a whole turn has A moved through ? |
| 16 | The new workstations are Model EWS4800/130LT which has a 1,280 by 1,024 pixel colour Thin Film Transistor screen and performance claimed at 30 MIPS ; the EWS4800/350 with a 50MHz CPU and performance of 95 MIPS ; and Model EWS4800/215 , a desktop entry-level model with a VMEbus expansion slot . |
| 17 | The new workstations are Model EWS4800/130LT which has a 1,280 by 1,024 pixel colour thin-film transistor screen and a performance of 30 MIPS ; the EWS4800/350 with a clock frequency of 50MHz and a performance of 95 MIPS ; Model EWS4800/215 is an entry-level desktop model with VMEbus expansion slot . |
| 18 | The prime candidate is Dutch group Heineken , which already has a 1 per cent-plus Whitbread stake and a long-term agreement to sell its beers through Whitbread 's pubs . |
| 19 | At the moment the academy has a nearmonopoly of the subject , and I would like to see it broken , in a recognition of the traditional cultural truth that good criticism can be written by poets and novelists , and indeed by people whose professional concern is not with literature at all . |
| 20 | They then count , but they must not say any number that is a multiple of seven or has a seven in it . |
| 21 | It is one of many ancient Egyptian obelisks to be found all over the civilised world : in Paris and Istanbul as well as London — Rome has a dozen of them — although there are still plenty on the banks of the Nile . |
| 22 | A big quake east of the Rocky Mountains — and one greater than magnitude 6 has a 50 to 60 per cent chance of occurring in the next 25 years — could make California 's Loma Prieta seem trifling . |
| 23 | A bet on a single number has a 35 to one chance . |
| 24 | Sue also has a few of her own knitting machines on the premises and makes garments to order as well as to sell to the tourists ! |
| 25 | From the outside , it has a few of the GTi dressings like upgraded wheel trims , spoilers at the front and rear and so on . |
| 26 | First of all we 've got the kicking strap three to one purchase , the down-haul has a three to one purchase , and the out-haul , that 's got a four to one purchase . |
| 27 | Each player ties a balloon to her ankle and holds a rolled up newspaper . |
| 28 | Distributed computing systems supplier Protek Ltd , Maidenhead , Berkshire , has an exclusive on Tivoli products in the UK and provides training and support . |
| 29 | The Dutch government says a third of the country 's trees are dying because of drought and soil acidification . |
| 30 | The theory for an incompressible solid assumes a functional of the deformation gradients ( Where , compare Equation ( 2.14 ) and the right Cauchy-Green tensor , is given by and , because of incompressibility det ) . |