Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Britain 's Sally Prosser was only two strokes off the lead after a 72 in the second round of the Republic of China Open , at Chang Gung , in Taipei yesterday . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Britain 's Sally Prosser was only two strokes off the lead after a 72 in the second round of the Republic of China Open , at Chang Gung in Taipei yesterday . |
| 3 | Come the tournament he certainly putted well enough , and we were there after a 70 in the first round and a shot behind Jack Nicklaus after the second round . |
| 4 | JOSE-MARIA CANIZARES is poised to become the fourth Spanish golfer to pass the £1 million European prize winnings mark after a 69 in the wind-buffeted Rome Masters third round at Castelgandolfo . |
| 5 | So , a victory for Oxford United ; it came after a few of the supporters had left the ground , it came in injury time — Oxford United one , Portsmouth nil , reporting on the match , a very happy Nick Harris . |
| 6 | As an example , Toshiba says it will ask $1,330 for the PC , $1,610 for SC and $1,932 for the MC in quantities of a thousand during the first half of 1993 . |
| 7 | The enthalpy change can be estimated by adding varying quantities of a diluent to the polymer , which serves to depress the observed melting temperature , and measuring T m for each polymer + diluent mixture . |
| 8 | In the morning foursomes Alliss and Dawson were level par for 17 holes in defeating Bruce Critchley and Warren Humphreys on the 18th green , the only blemish on their card coming in the shape of a 7 on the 7th hole . |
| 9 | The problem is more of income distribution than of a failing in the technical working of the credit market itself . |
| 10 | The appearance of a Frithuric among the Middle Angles in the reign of Wulfhere 's successor , Aethelred , giving Bredun , probably Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire , to the monastery of Peterborough in the time of Seaxwulf , Wynfrith 's successor as bishop of Lichfield , and Breedon 's connection with the monasteries of Bermondsey and Woking in Surrey , raises the intriguing possibility that Frithuwald was a Middle Angle intruded into Surrey by Wulfhere or at the very least that Frithuwald represented a ruling family in Surrey which had strong Middle Anglian connections . |
| 11 | In due course my friendly farmer , Cyril Young , delivered four sheep to Oakington and everything was set for a bit of a barny at the Lion . |
| 12 | The growth of the colonies was likely to force new departures in policy and legislation on the British government ; the American population rose from about a quarter of a million at the beginning of the century to about two million by 1776 . |
| 13 | In Scotland a quarter of a million of the workf workers would be affected by this Tor er , sorry , this Tory policy , mainly part-time working women and ethnic groups . |
| 14 | It led ( in concert with the superb performance of the 8th Army and of the Royal Air Force , the Royal and Merchant Navies , and all other splendid organisations which assisted the Armies ) to the fall of Tunis and the unconditional surrender of a quarter of a million of the enemy . |
| 15 | Top of the Red Rose bill was Gerry Sadowitz , a comedian who , if he played Leeds Town Centre , could expect , at £100 per F-word , to lose close to quarter of a million in the course of a routine . |
| 16 | Pompeii is the most popular archaeological site in Europe , currently attracting two and a half million people a year , and the present exhibition has already drawn an audience of nearly three-quarters of a million in the USA and Sweden . |
| 17 | AS GATES FORECASTS NT SALES OF A MILLION IN THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS |
| 18 | Fifty thousand went to America last year , the stricter regulations there have switched attention to Israel , which expects three quarters of a million in the next five years . |
| 19 | It 's predicted another seven thousand jobs will be created this year … the population will number a quarter of a million by the end of the century . |
| 20 | An insidious and intrusive pressure may be laid on pupils which , under the guise of a friendly and honest account of a pupil 's interests and activities , may prove just as much of a turn-off for the imaginative or deviant as the examination system itself , and may come quite soon to be regarded with cynicism by both pupils and employers alike . |
| 21 | In February 1895 , the Trustees of the Radcliffe Estate agreed to give an acre of land and a donation of a seventh of the cost ( not to exceed £400 ) , the Railway Company paying any costs of conveyance . |
| 22 | It was alright to come to your marriage , having been a bit of a one for the girls , but it was n't at all good to come to your marriage having been a bit of a one with the lads . |
| 23 | They must be on some sort of a one of the meters or somebody 's meter or somewhere . |
| 24 | This will enable Benzina , the republic and the federal governments to decide terms for the sale of a third of the Benzina petrol stations to the major oil companies . |
| 25 | The health of a third of the population of England is at risk from air pollution , according to a Greenpeace study , with children and old people particularly vulnerable . |
| 26 | A coastguard vessel , fighting huge seas and high winds , picked up two empty life rafts and the wreckage of a third near the area where the ships ran into trouble . |
| 27 | Even in the clothing district , wage earners reached almost 53 per cent in the villages of Cosford hundred , but since they fell short of a third in the rising manufacturing town of Hadleigh , it seems that vigorous industrial growth pushed up the level of earnings . |
| 28 | One 's abiding memory is of a hand-off with the impact of the proverbial kicking mule and reminiscences of him triggered talk of how much less use is made of that weapon these days . |
| 29 | It obviously took the photographer , Arthur Richardson , some time to set up his equipment as he has attracted the attention of a few of the locals . |
| 30 | This chapter is a brief distillation of a few of the themes in that book , but really I 'd almost rather you stopped reading now and switched to The Extended Phenotype ! |