Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a time the shorter children become submerged and the number under water increases as the ranks go forward . |
| 2 | North of Clachan Bridge it has remained as a clear bench on either side of a strait no wider than an average English lowland river . |
| 3 | He then states that he would rather not exist than live to have to serve and be in awe of a man no better than himself . |
| 4 | Note : Where a residential period forms part of a course a higher fee will be charged . |
| 5 | In general , the longer the term of a loan the higher the interest rate . |
| 6 | Some are so high that they enable their makers to detect the presence of a wire no thicker than a human hair stretched across their flyway . |
| 7 | They stared in fascination at the imperfect outline which did indeed look more and more like the print of a shoe the longer they gazed . |
| 8 | Entries must be on a postcard or the back of an envelope no bigger than 5in × 6in . |
| 9 | As a result a lower water temperature can be used between 50–6O°C . |
| 10 | The recently-held Day of Recollection for members of the APC and friends had been greatly appreciated and as a result a further Day of Recollection will be held in the spring . |
| 11 | As a result a further five political parties decided to withdraw from legislative elections scheduled for Jan. 26 , bringing the number of parties boycotting the elections to 21 . |
| 12 | As a result the Greater Easterhouse scheme is made up of 15 individual communities . |
| 13 | As a result the later Chapters of this book explore some of the these areas ; they can not be as focussed on the specifically procedural aspects of prosecution and trial . |
| 14 | As a result the later DES ( 1984a , 1986b ) forecasts considered the population of 21–25 year olds with only one A-level . |
| 15 | The Green Paper which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health published this summer , entitled ’ The Health of the Nation ’ , suggests , as part of the consultation about health targets , that we should adopt as a target a further reduction , within the time span of the White Paper , when it is published , of that proportion of the population who smoke from 33 per cent . |
| 16 | However , giving as a reason a greater degree of compatibility with the LDP 's conservative line on defence and foreign policy a Komeito spokesperson , Akira Kuroyanagi , told foreign journalists in late November 1989 that it would " make sense " for his party to start supporting the LDP on a " case by case " basis . |
| 17 | It is ironic that this dual aspiration , on the one hand , to give back autonomy to the socialist writer to produce works which balance the twin exigencies of socialist ideology and literary form , and on the other , to generate as a consequence a fuller , richer , more complex depiction of reality , marks , in fact , a return to the spirit of Nizan 's understanding of socialist realism in France in the 1930s . |
| 18 | The Borders form a region with a population no larger than many English and some Scottish districts . |
| 19 | Two heating ranges are available , 8°C above ambient to 100°C , or 8°C above ambient to 200°C , with each range fitted with a direct reading platinum resistance controller to ensure and maintain any selected temperature with a fluctuation no greater than 0.1°C . |
| 20 | The easy sociability which it offered was fostered by the fact that all its pubs , clubs , restaurants and delicatessens were squeezed into an area no larger than a square mile . |
| 21 | ‘ The more anonymous I am as an actor the easier it is to make you believe I 'm someone else . ’ |
| 22 | Rescuers , working in stifling temperatures in a space no bigger than three feet wide and two feet high , reached through a small hole they had dug to the men at 9.30pm and passed through drinks and sandwiches . |
| 23 | This attractive picture relates the strange BL Lac objects to quasars in a straightforward way , and offers the exciting possibility of looking , in a BL Lac object , deep into the heart of a quasar — possibly down to the central powerhouse where a quasar produces as much power as hundreds of galaxies in a space no larger than the Solar system ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p 364 ) . |
| 24 | A scientist tells me : ‘ It will come in a size no larger than a Calor Gas cylinder . |
| 25 | It gives what is in a sense a richer account of a mental episode by including relations with other strictly mental episodes and facts-these too , of course , to be understood relationally . |
| 26 | As a TO one wants to do as well as one can , and the paradox is that the better one does in a sense the worse it is for the voluntary movement , who should be persuaded to do the maximum rather than the minimum . |
| 27 | You only spread it in a square no bigger than the width of the roller . |
| 28 | All I heard was that you 'd come back in a taxi the worse for wear . |
| 29 | In such a mess in a town the lighter fragments blow about : the main squalor is on the ground . |
| 30 | The circumstances which govern this price for any given amount of the commodity vary in character from one problem to another ; but in every case the more of a thing is offered for sale in a market the lower is the price at which it will find purchasers ; or in other words , the demand price for each bushel or yard diminishes with every increase in the amount offered . |