Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a more than halving of losses in the second quarter to $48.7m ( 1992 : $100.2m loss ) , the worldwide underwriting deficit at the mid year was down by $106.2m from $235.2m ( representing 12.3% of premiums ) to $129.0m ( 6.1% of premiums ) , a reduction due largely to a substantial improvement in the UK result . |
| 2 | At the end of the flat portion there was a gap big enough for a man 's body to drop through , and then a single rung like a short parallel bar in a gym . |
| 3 | Sam pulled the door open and we looked into the scene that was all too familiar to my eyes ; an expanse of muddy water , the hole in the ceiling overhead and the curtain of iron mesh across the exit to the river ; a dock big enough for a moderate-sized cabin cruiser or three or four smaller boats . |
| 4 | This low-impact , high energy workout promises the aerobic equivalent of a seven mph run with the impact to the legs equivalent only of a three mph walk . |
| 5 | The foreign ministers of the three Indo-Chinese regimes met on 5 January 1980 just before a visit to Hanoi by the Malaysian Foreign Minister . |
| 6 | Day 8 Received an order for 20 hang gliders at £400 each together with a cheque for £8,000 . |
| 7 | In extreme cases , unjustified delay can render a dismissal unfair even in a case where a similar penalty would have been legitimate had management not dragged its feet . |
| 8 | This can be done under the Planning Acts by way of a Special Development Order ( SDO ) , or it can be provided for in a Private Act concerned specifically with a project . |
| 9 | He lived for his profession , so much so that , instead of limiting himself to examining the remains of bomb-blast victims , he attended the courses and lectures available only to a very few on bomb-making and disarming offered at Fort Halstead . |
| 10 | Eventually , Eden resigned in February 1938 allegedly as a result of Chamberlain 's attempt to make an agreement with the Italians without informing him , although Carlton puts the ball firmly in Eden 's court , suggesting that ‘ Essentially … his departure sprang from an unwillingness to treat with Mussolini . ’ |
| 11 | Two completely trivial points must be mentioned as they may bring readers up with a start : in the first movement of the Sibelius symphony at 3′17″ ( bar 40 ) , the third trombone plays E sharp instead of E natural , and in the first movement of the Shostakovich ( track 7 , 7′19″ , six bars after fig. 16 ) the bassoon plays a G natural instead of a flat . |
| 12 | Costs increased 262% to $43m due largely to a $26.8m write-off of capitalised software development costs in excess of estimated net realisable value . |
| 13 | they found a room large enough in a dark part of Nightside and after clearing out the bugs , milkcrates , music stands and rusty oil drums , used it as a workshop . |
| 14 | He offered to set Jesus free instead of a man called Barabbas , a nationalist who had led some minor revolt against the Romans . |
| 15 | The PDR System , the first of its kind to be used in a subsea completion in the Deepwater gulf of Mexico , is for Shell 's Tahoe No. 4 well in a water depth of 1,500 feet . |
| 16 | I have also looked at Beta Cygni or Albireo , in the Swan , where there is a golden yellow primary of magnitude 3.2 together with a blue companion of magnitude 5.4 . |
| 17 | The units are not wholly SI and the answers to the 800 problems available only in a study guide ( £8.75 ) . |
| 18 | People are leaving Paris at the rate of some 20,000 a year , chased out by soaring property prices and the shortage of rental accommodation — especially of flats big enough for a family . |
| 19 | There was a gap in the lower part of the wall big enough for a boy , hardly big enough for a man to squeeze through . |
| 20 | There is typically a row of icons onscreen instead of a menu of named functions . |
| 21 | One room had the smell of a hospital ward , and there were patients asleep there with a nurse in attendance who was not surprised by my intrusion . |
| 22 | In Britain , aside from the Ministry of Defence , which is the largest purchaser in central government , the most significant purchasers are as follows : the Department of Transport , spending about £1 billion a year ; Her Majesty 's Stationary Office , which spends about £250 million a year ; the Property Services Agency , servicing public buildings and other property , spends about £1.8 billion a year ; the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency , responsible for all central government information technology advice , organizes everything from multi-million pound computer systems to peripheral services , such as micro-computers , service and maintainance ; the National Health Service spends nearly £3.5 billion annually on a wide range of supplies and services through the NHS authorities ; and , finally , local authorities buy a very wide range of goods and services . |
| 23 | You need an empty picture frame big enough for a child to put his head in comfortably . |
| 24 | Penry was unlikely to look kindly on someone who landed on his island uninvited twice in a row . |
| 25 | Thus an exclusion clause in a contract is a defence available only to a contracted party and only against the other contracted party , Scruttons v. Midland Silicones ( 1962 H.L. ) . |
| 26 | Worldwide underwriting loss for the quarter was $80.5m — representing 7.9% of premiums ( 1992 : $135.0m loss — 14.8% of premiums ) , an improvement of $54.5m due largely to a sharp reduction in the UK underwriting deficit . |
| 27 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the view of the chief constable of west Yorkshire , Mr. Peter Nobes , that the upsurge in the taking of motor vehicles has probably occurred since the change in the Criminal Justice Act 1988 , which reduced the unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle to a summary offence triable only at a magistrates court ? |
| 28 | Iranian officials rejected a report by the UN Committee on Social and Humanitarian Issues adopted on Dec. 4 together with a resolution condemning Iran for abuse of human rights . |
| 29 | What was it Roman thought important enough for a visit ? |
| 30 | How beautiful , how devoid of everything like the handicraft of art it is — the largeness , and yet ingenuity of its effect — the purity of its colour — the truth , yet refinement and elegance of the action , particularly of the hands ( in which he particularly excels ) ; and then , a lesson to all high-minded slovens , the patient vigilance with which the whole is linked together , by touches , in some instances small almost as a miniature , but like the sparkling of water . |