Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a chap in from Auckland Park half a mile round the bend too . |
| 2 | THIS bronze handle ( fig. 6.1 ) was picked up in April 1967 by Mr J. A. Hadman from the surface of a field half a mile to the north-east of Oundle , Northants. , on the east side of the River Nene ( Nat . |
| 3 | He was badly shocked and in great pain but managed to steer himself towards a field half a mile from the parachute club at Brunton , Northumberland . |
| 4 | On March 30 a branch of the human rights organization Amnesty International was set up in East Berlin . |
| 5 | On March 30 a group of 14 Kurdish deputies resigned from the Social Democratic Popular Party ( SHP ) , which was junior partner in the governing coalition dominated by the True Path Party ( DYP ) . |
| 6 | In March 1972 a drawing of one was used as the cover of Playboy Magazine . |
| 7 | In 1917 Duke had ridden a Kalahuewehe wave half a mile till it died in front of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel , where now the ASP annual banquet is held . |
| 8 | and it 's eight pound fifty a bag for smokeless , I ca n't afford |
| 9 | Payments could be limited to a maximum number of patients per general practitioner which would stop the protests that a single handed general practitioner with a list of 3000 in an area of high deprivation receives an extra £28 800 a year without any obligation to provide extra services . |
| 10 | The first was that during the dispute of 14 June to 5 August 1911 , Wilson undercut an agreement which he had made with the Clyde shipowners for a minimum of £pound5 10s a month by " temporarily patching up his bitter quarrel with the Shipping Federation and simultaneously accepting an all-round payment of £pound5 a month " which the shipowners were eventually forced to increase to the Glasgow level as standard . |
| 11 | However , the half-life of the process is something like 1022 years ; in other words half a sample of nuclei would decay by this means in 1022 years . |
| 12 | On Jan. 7 a spokesman for the UN 's Inter-Agency Humanitarian Programme for Iraq and Kuwait said in Geneva that a minimum of US$145,300,000 would be needed to protect and assist Kurds over the next six months . |
| 13 | The first withdrawal of US troops began on Jan. 2 with the return of about 300 troops to the USA , and as of Jan. 7 a total of 3,300 troops had returned home , out of a total of 26,000 who had been in Panama . |
| 14 | I shall offer in chapter 7 a reason for rejecting all forms of foundationalism . |
| 15 | That term is sometimes used loosely to refer to travellers and persons of nomadic habits , and in Mills v. Cooper a Divisional Court accorded the term such a meaning for the purposes of the Highways Act , which made it an offence for a gypsy to encamp on a highway . |
| 16 | In the example of Figure 15–5 a tax on meals leads to too few meals being produced . |
| 17 | In 1912 the firm amalgamated with many others to form the British Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd. a subsidiary of the A.P.C.M. |
| 18 | To my mind such a variation on a year by year basis by reference to an extraneous factor would be a most anomalous result , and would involve great difficulties in quantifying the cost to the employer in each case . |
| 19 | In terms of Figure 15–1 a move from A to B or A to G is a Pareto gain . |
| 20 | As noted in Chapter 0 a definition of integer can be given in set-theoretic terms ( see , for example [ 49 ] ) . |
| 21 | Finally , in chapter 5 a theory of meaning was used to discredit a certain programme in epistemology . |
| 22 | Outside suppliers are an integral part of the carmaking business : GM spends some $30 billion a year with its North American suppliers alone ; Ford $17 billion . |
| 23 | Jeffrey Sachs , a Harvard economist who has advised the Polish government , has suggested that an aid package of $30 billion a year for five years might be in order . |
| 24 | On Jan. 25 a debate in the Assembly of Bosnia-Hercegovina , boycotted by Serbian parties , endorsed a referendum on the republic 's sovereignty to be held on Feb. 29-March 1 . |
| 25 | Yet , defending the cuts , the Minister claims that most of his department 's spending of £1 billion a year on museums , heritage , sports and the arts , directly aids tourism . |
| 26 | Szeliga has a promotional budget of £1 million this year to carve a slice of the UK market for loudspeakers , which he estimates to be worth £50 million , and an R&D budget of up to £20 million over five years to develop amplifiers , compactdisc players and cassette decks , a sector estimated to be worth £1 billion a year in Britain . |
| 27 | Oh yes , they are still going down the pan , to the tune of £1 billion a year in the UK , according to the Management Consultancies Association . |
| 28 | The problem which the Chancellor faced was that failure to tackle the fiscal deficit could not only leave him having to borrow nearly £1 billion a week in the coming year . |
| 29 | The problem which the Chancellor faced was that failure to tackle the fiscal deficit could not only leave him having to borrow nearly £1 billion a week in the coming year . |
| 30 | On Jan. 29 a show of strength by riotous crowds of pro-NSF supporters prompted accusations that the NSF was orchestrating mob rule . |