Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We have helped to establish the Football Trust , which now devotes £20 million a year to improving the safety of grounds . |
| 3 | The business sponsorship incentive scheme has been a great success and I am giving further encouragement to sponsorship of the arts by increasing its budget by £1 million a year to £4.5 million . |
| 4 | ‘ Lady , ’ Alexei said , ‘ is my presence such a trial to you ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Aye , if you want to , lad , ’ Pat said , his calmness such a contrast to John 's excitement that Anne began to laugh . |
| 6 | In a drive against counterfeiting , the association is asking member companies , which sell drugs worth £3 billion a year to the NHS , for ‘ greater openness ’ when they detect fraud . |
| 7 | In May 1961 a girl to whom Archbishop Fisher allowed a flat in Lambeth Tower when she and a husband were desperate for a place to live walked her pram round the courtyard , and observed the two archbishops also circling the courtyard and deep in conversation . |
| 8 | Last year it advanced £5 million a day to customers . |
| 9 | He needs to persuade foreigners that it is safe for them to lend the best part of £1000 million a week to the Treasury ; and he needs to persuade Britons that it is safe for them to start spending their money again . |
| 10 | Between 1979/80 and 1986/87 the DHSS subsidy to private homes increased from £10 million a year to £489 million . |
| 11 | This attitude , especially in ‘ Sophia 's ’ case , may owe something to class-distinction , that is , a duke beating a duchess with a neck of mutton might prove less illustrative than a journeyman tailor doing such a thing to his wife . |
| 12 | This was partly in response to a recommendation from the EEC to cut sulphur emissions to one-third the present level , a step which it has been estimated , would cost £4 billion in flue gas desulphurization equipment adding £700 million a year to the CEGB 's operating costs . |
| 13 | Federal spending on mass public transport was set to rise slightly , from $3,200 million a year to $3,300 million by 1996 , but the overall federal funding for projects in this sector was to be cut sharply [ see budget proposals above ] . |
| 14 | This is because the UK would have to contribute £39 000 a year to a fund to help protect natural and cultural sites of international importance all over the world . |
| 15 | It was on the King 's suggestion to MacDonald that the Cabinet considered including in the Speech from the Throne in October 1930 a plea to ‘ all sections of parliament ’ to ‘ unite ’ in treating unemployment ‘ on national as distinct from party lines ’ . |
| 16 | Sport , the draw for the European Football competitions has given Manchester United a trip to Hungary . |
| 17 | On these assumptions , the lottery will bring between £36 million and £63 million a year to each of the above five categories . |
| 18 | Among other personal touches , he introduces seafaring imagery on several occasions : Christ is helmsman in psalm 31 , and in psalm 89 he adds to the raging sea of verse 9 a reference to the navy which is very expressive of his Englishness . |
| 19 | With PRT also abolished on new projects , analysts suggest the changes could be worth more than £100 million a year to BP . |
| 20 | The Government decided that it will need to increase its current level of borrowing from £50 million a day to £110 million . |
| 21 | Sex blazed in the night like a beacon guiding a traveller to a city of delight . |
| 22 | but the second way in which section fourteen arises is this slightly more oblique way , erm , it 's , it 's not really the question of competition law it 's more a question of administrative law or constitutional law , erm whether it arises on the question er , your Lordship will have to decide , but , if , if it does then we believe that our case is extremely strong , because what one is saying here is , is section fourteen a block to an article eighty five action , erm does it make it either virtually impossible or something lesser excessively difficult , er and we say er that that 's one aspect and two can we show it 's discriminatory , well we say first of all it is discriminatory because even on analysis of the bad faith argument they are putting in a claimant with an article eighty five case to an extraordinary length in order to make good his case , he first of all has to super declaration presumably that he is entitled to damages , but he ca n't get damages all he 's entitled to is the declaration if then do n't satisfy that claim by paying up and their not going to be ordered by the court to pay up because that 's a claim for damages and you ca n't have that then you have to sue them again on the basis of breach of bad faith , er no other provision in English law would go to that effect and that of course even , even that assumes whether rightly or wrongly and we say possibly wrongly that er , er the failure to comply with the judgment of the declaration would be bad faith within the meaning of the act , but even assuming it 's right it puts a plaintiff suing for breach of article eighty five in the worst position possible |
| 23 | The Americans may have contributed as much as $1 billion a year to the Philippine economy in rent for the base , pay for the local people and the money spent on women , booze and other necessities . |
| 24 | Illegal narcotics contributed at least $5 billion a year to the Syrian economy , almost all of it in American dollars and other hard currencies . |
| 25 | Between 1985 and 2025 the number of pensioners was set to rise from 9 million to over 12 million ; and the total cost of pensions for the public would rise from £17 billion a year to almost £36 billion if pensions were linked with prices and to a colossal £50 billion if they were linked , as Labour wanted , to the higher of either prices or earnings . |
| 26 | The South is now transferring at least $20 billion a year to the North . |
| 27 | The US provides more than $1 million a day to the Salvadorean Government . |
| 28 | By 1993–94 these and other improvements will mean that we will be directing an extra £300 million a year to long-term sick and disabled people . |
| 29 | Under the franchise auction introduced by Mrs Thatcher , the ITV network will have to pay £300 million a year to the Government . |