Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alfredo Vera Arrata , the Education and Culture Minister , accused of alleged irregularities in the purchase of school construction materials , was dismissed on June 22 after a congressional no confidence vote . |
| 2 | Twelve year old Emma Butler died during a kickabout after a five a side football match … she 'd been watching her younger brother , Matthew , play in a tournament organised by the St Edmunds Football Club at the European School in Abingdon … details of what exactly happened are still sketchy … but it 's believed a hockey goal post which was leaning against a hut fell down crushing Emmas chest … |
| 3 | Considering he had been in possession of a thousand a year from carefully invested family money , a very good unearned income in 1925 , he had not done well . |
| 4 | The total numbers of students involved would be of a hundred a year and if the courses are to start they will require the approval of the Secretary of State . |
| 5 | ‘ Ninety-nine times out of a hundred a kid will tell you what he thinks you want to hear , ’ Vito said . |
| 6 | By means of the defence of act of a stranger the basis of the liability is shifted to responsibility for culpable failure to control the risk . |
| 7 | There was no foreseeable possibility of a such a scheme . |
| 8 | Every time there was a call , although 99 times out of a 100 the call was for him , he pushed the phone in my direction . |
| 9 | At the close of a moot the judge or judges declare which counsel or side performed best ; he , she or they then go on to the next round . |
| 10 | On a day basis , it 's about forty five pence a day , which is er less than the price of a half a glass of beer . |
| 11 | One unconsidered move and too little or too much colour could give the complexion of a rustic the appearance of a corpse and transform the face of an angel into the countenance of a harlot . |
| 12 | Of a sudden a gull which has died on the wing crashes to the sand at my feet , its feathers brushing my forehead as it falls . |
| 13 | ‘ Forgot a lot o' things , did old Blackberry ! ’ observed Forest , addressing Richard as if he were of a sudden a force to be reckoned with . |
| 14 | Of a sudden the fräulein tucked her arm into his . |
| 15 | Of a sudden the room was quiet , and when she turned from the mirror and stood before the three elderly sisters , it could almost be said there were tears in their eyes , and in her own . |
| 16 | I might just add that what we are deeply disturbed by , is that as the fighting continues in Cambodia with Phol Pot trying once again to get into control , already a hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced by that fighting and that er the number of amputees has reached something like a thousand a month which is twice last year 's figure . |
| 17 | He sounds like a such a wanker when he does it though . |
| 18 | No le let them have sort of like a half an hour talk before you announce the quiz straight after that let all their stomachs go down and then sort of get |
| 19 | The Judicature Act decided that as against a stranger the mortgagor in possession must be treated as owner . |
| 20 | For a hired a studio for three hours . |
| 21 | Just the fact that this can be achieved at less than £10,000 for a complete system is rather likely to upset anyone who has invested hundreds of thousands in ‘ Third Wave ’ systems and discovers that , for a tenth the cost they could actually achieve rather more . |
| 22 | Follow this for a half a mile , past a huge thatched barn on the right , then Marsh Lodge on the left . |
| 23 | For a half a century from the 1840s , Shorthorn bulls from Britain and Dutch Black Pied bulls were used to improve local red and red-pied cattle in central and southern Belgium ; they were also used on the black-and-white Charleroi ( which also had some Charolais influence later ) . |
| 24 | There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University . |
| 25 | The sun came up for a half an hour , but it was too cold : -46° Centigrade . |
| 26 | The other inspirations were the revolutions of the southern hemisphere — the Portuguese colonies in Africa , Vietnam , Latin America — the peripheral appeal to some of the more deluded souls of the Chinese Cultural Revolution , and for a few the writings of the émigré Frankfurt Marxist , Herbert Marcuse . |
| 27 | I can make as a good a vassal out of some faithful man as can any of my counts , and maybe even a better one " . |
| 28 | A unit of alcohol was defined as a half a pint of beer or one sixth of a gill of spirits . |
| 29 | And clearly , in terms of the fires as a particular the rationale for them being there is |
| 30 | So it 's still about a half a mile of very slow moving traffic approaching it . |