Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prices range from £9.95 for a three-metre black , blue or red cable up to £13.95 for a 5 metre orange or green version , £15.95 for a 5m translucent pink jobbie and £17.95 for a 5m toaster-type . |
| 2 | During the months preceding the accident , a set of underground workings , easiest thought of by the layman as a tunnel 18 feet wide and 7 feet high , had been following a seam of coal which was rising very steeply towards the surface . |
| 3 | His father started as an accounts clerk for a road haulier ; his mother was a shop manager . |
| 4 | As he explains : ‘ The Deity does not need my supplication , but I , a very imperfect human being , do need his protection as a child that of its father . ’ |
| 5 | If you do close then it will pretty conclusively solve my dilemma about whether or not I could have afforded to tap 50 quid out of my grant for a subscription next term . |
| 6 | The New Era Housing Association has won a 100 per cent grant for a £245,000 six unit development at Derwent Park , Loftus . |
| 7 | Mr Evans describes the gully as a grade 2 scramble with ‘ Two short , awkward pitches at a chockstone below the jammed boulder . ’ |
| 8 | Planners were heavily criticised for designing the route through a valley notorious for fog . |
| 9 | This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 10 | A determined outbreak of agreement between Pieper and Reilly during their combined keynote led Hans Strach-Zimmerman of Grassbrun , Munich-based iXos GmbH to ask if plans for a merger were back on again : ‘ The reasons for a merger three or four years ago are now history , ’ they said : ‘ we both have our own programmes working in parallel . ’ |
| 11 | regulations ) A good opportunity for a spring clean and a chance to get rid of old furniture etc accumulating in your attic . |
| 12 | For many of the reasons that he gave , the contract for a Shell Sole Pit compression platform has been awarded to Highfab . |
| 13 | Why is the case for a Parliament such as we propose now so strong ? |
| 14 | If the dog runs out of control , the fine can be unlimited and there is provision for a maximum two years ' imprisonment . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose so but the whole set-up is as camp as a field full of tents . |
| 16 | Carl Smith won the lightweight division for a record eighth time . |
| 17 | Plans for a Broadway musical version of Gulliver 's Travels , starring Crawford , also came to nothing . |
| 18 | We urgently require plans for a Churchward 3500 gallon tender tank — any readers have them ? |
| 19 | There are no plans for a 64-bit 68000 design . |
| 20 | MR ASHDOWN served notice last night that his party would seek to block Labour 's plans for a 59p top rate of tax — including the extra nine per cent national insurance contributions — if Mr Kinnock becomes Prime Minister in a hung Parliament . |
| 21 | Already , there are plans for a brand new campus on at Groundwell . |
| 22 | A ROW has broken out between private and council residents over plans for a traffic calming scheme . |
| 23 | DARLINGTON MP Michael Fallon is to contact the Roads Minister over plans for a traffic calming scheme in the town . |
| 24 | So far there are no plans for a Christmas special . |
| 25 | A TOY firm appealed to Renfrew District Council yesterday to reconsider its plans for a £7 million scheme which it says would yield 800 jobs . |
| 26 | PLANS for a £1.6 billion Sizewell C nuclear power station have been fully developed and are ‘ on hold ’ pending the outcome of the Government 's energy review , local community leaders were told last night . |
| 27 | Tribe looks back on his time in England with a sense of practicality , interlaced with many fond memories , some of which he hopes to rekindle if his plans for a visit next year come to fruition . |
| 28 | Newton said : ‘ I 'm really chuffed because this is the third goal I 've scored in half an hour as a striker this season . |
| 29 | Ironically , Clough 's own kid Nigel had to undergo the same perpetual ultra-critical appraisal of his skills before the Forest manager would accept the striker as a player first and a member of the family second . |
| 30 | The Economist that bastion of left wing thinking commissioned an actuary to estimate the likely number of vacancies during a parliament ten point seven three sorry to be precise about this colleagues Tory MPs can be expected to die over a full five year term , I 'm sorry for being morbid . |