Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | An inquest 's underway on a man who crashed a motorbike into a wall after a hundred mile an hour police chase . |
| 2 | ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’ |
| 3 | Winds of a hundred miles an hour or more roared and whistled round the isolated house on the cliffs , tearing at window catches , rattling doors . |
| 4 | Travelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour made him worry that he would leave the safety of God 's Earth . |
| 5 | speeding is dangerous for teh fact that it 's a very confined area … even at fifty miles an hour … that 's a conbined impact speed of a hundred miles an hour … we 're also thinking of the workmen , who are sometimes working where there 's no central barrier |
| 6 | In the case of a one-man company an independent auditor must be appointed , and if the registered capital exceeds 20 million forints or the number of members exceeds twenty-five or the number of employees on the average exceeds 200 , a supervisory board must also be created . |
| 7 | Now there 's a number of recommendations in the study , and that includes the introduction of a twenty mile an hour speed limit , surely that 's going to cause more problems than it solves ? |
| 8 | The Rules do not require the use of a particular memo an articles . |
| 9 | The car has a top speed of a 152 miles an hour plus all the features the golf-clubbing , jet-setting buyer would want . |
| 10 | I was fortunate to find between the leaves of a large book an exquisitely penned transcription of the Commandments and the Lord 's Prayer , all embraced in a delicate architectural framework , dating from the late eighteenth century . |
| 11 | In the space of a few days an apartment building is burned down by drug dealers who suspect a rival crack gang of operating in its basement . |
| 12 | ‘ It was tough , ’ he said after 12 miles and three hours of canoeing against a two mile an hour current . |
| 13 | Speeding , drivers ' hours and records offences , overloading , keeping an unroadworthy vehicle , forgery , unlawfully using a vehicle , even contravention of parking restrictions and prohibitions , all count against a haulier seeking an 0 licence , and this is not an exhaustive list . |
| 14 | Beneath a stunted row an tree the group was busily engaged , perhaps feasting on a rabbit carcase . |
| 15 | In the garden of Burleigh Court , situated near the present Ulster Bank , there stood for a long time an old pear tree known as ‘ King William 's pear tree ’ . |
| 16 | These large white fuel ‘ flasks ’ are themselves considered enough of a danger for a hundred mile an hour full-scale train crush to have been tested in 1984 . |
| 17 | There is , however , room for a new building an play area . |
| 18 | But there 's no hope for a fifty mile an hour limit along the whole road because some sections have already been made dual carriageway . |
| 19 | For a few days an Arkansas travel firm which organised the travel arrangements for the Clinton campaign last year was put in charge , working under a 25-year-old cousin of the president . |
| 20 | In his desperation Tam gave the name of a Black Watch friend , got the job and donned the Black Watch kilt for a few coppers an hour the shame of it . |
| 21 | Of course it will be difficult because at the moment the er the legal minimum is thirty miles an hour in , in any city , but we 'd like to see Oxford as a pilot for a twenty mile an hour speed limit which is no good if you leave the roads as they are . |
| 22 | The aim of the research is to monitor , in a longitudinal study , the impact of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act on police contacts with the public , public evaluation of police procedures and efficacy , together with the rate of crime and incivilities , utilising as a first stage an already completed crime survey a local area . |
| 23 | 1.2 The employee 's duty not to compete in his spare time As a general rule an employee can not compete with his employer in his spare time without being in breach of his duty of fidelity . |
| 24 | and Wesley were lovers Will wanted to give Wes something warm as a special present an officer 's red uniform He saw a sign for a shuttle race officer prizes red . |
| 25 | Will wanted to give Wes something warm as a special present an officer 's red uniform He saw a sign for a shuttle race officer ship red . |
| 26 | Why are we so ready to treat as a minor operation an alteration which involves a major transformation in the cat 's lifestyle and personality ? |
| 27 | Suddenly with a tremendous stroke an old man close by threw a tiny fish up in the air and down it fell . |
| 28 | With a rule-based approach an incorrect decision can have a devastating effect on the remainder of the analysis . |
| 29 | On the ground floor , where the lard wheel of the former mill was driven by the waters of the Rhine , there is a restaurant famous for its cuisine , with a wooden ceiling an arched windows giving a scenic view of the Rhine . |
| 30 | Strictly speaking , small pets like fish , birds or mice might be carefully wrapped in plastic and disposed of with the normal waste collection but after spending a lifetime with a faithful companion an owner might be reluctant to part with a pet in this way . |