Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO pensioners who met at a wedding ceremony half a century ago have become close friends after being reunited by the Daily Post . |
| 2 | TWO pensioners who met at a wedding ceremony half a century ago have become close friends after being reunited by the Daily Post . |
| 3 | By section 291 of the Insolvency Act 1986 a bankrupt must deliver up all his books , papers and records and give to the official receiver such information of his estate and such other information as the official receiver may reasonably require . |
| 4 | According to the Partnership Act 1890 a partnership is an association of persons carrying on a business in common with a view to profit . |
| 5 | Leonora hurried upstairs gleefully , inserted a new set of batteries in the transistor , turned up the volume and left her bedroom door open a crack . |
| 6 | One in three of the Netherlands population own a car , and more than 137 billion kilometres are driven every year . |
| 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 | According to a survey by the aviation journal Flight International a total of 815 people were killed worldwide in 37 accidents in 1990 . |
| 9 | He located two great beams of good timber lying on a waste lot half a mile away , but could not lift them . |
| 10 | Under s36 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 a subpoena can be issued for service on a witness anywhere in the UK , but the court must give leave to issue a subpoena for service in Scotland or Northern Ireland . |
| 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 | There can be few other places in Europe which offer the wildlife art student such a plethora of interesting species ; Black Necked Grebe , Spoonbill , and Purple Heron to name only a few . |
| 13 | For a health service observer such a home could easily be seen as a failure . |
| 14 | We have been round the BBC buoy many a time , so there is no excuse for hasty words , or mistakes . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh shit , ’ she said , surreptitiously pushing the access hatch open a crack and thrusting her fingers through , hoping nobody would notice . |
| 16 | Even if the matter were still proceeding before the justices ' court , either for the purposes of committal for trial or for trial of an information , it would be my opinion that neither section 5(1) nor section 10(1) of the Act of 1980 would apply to give the justice hearing a proceeding under section 7(5) of the Bail Act 1976 a power to adjourn that proceeding . |
| 17 | ‘ He thaith Daddy ith a bathtard ! ’ came Emily 's voice . |
| 18 | In the year 2040 our children and our descendants might think it was an ‘ extreme case ’ not to have begun to take action to reduce nitrate pollution half a century earlier . |
| 19 | The chaplain had displayed a holorama of the Column of Glory , that tower of rainbow metal half a kilometre high close by the Emperor 's own throne room , which was embedded with the armour of Imperial Fists who had died there and during the teleport assault on Horus 's Chaos-oozing battle-barge nine thousand years earlier . |
| 20 | She had not imagined Miss Grimes spending six-and-six a week on drink and might well have taken the attitude of the officious social worker . |
| 21 | There was a chap in from Auckland Park half a mile round the bend too . |
| 22 | Half Term , halfbrother to the 1987 St James 's Palace Stakes winner Half A Year , rates a bet and a half in the Jersey Stakes . |
| 23 | Any determinate mode of production , therefore , will evidence such a form of historical existence in its social formation : dislocated , uneven , absent and present . |
| 24 | Nevertheless the day-to-day concerns of the corps and family must have seemed far more pressing issues to the Burrows family than political manoeuvrings in the Salvation Army hierarchy half a world away . |
| 25 | As a disincentive to landlords wishing to rid themselves of " sitting tenants " , Parliament inserted into the Housing Act 1988 a strengthening of harassment remedies . |
| 26 | The tower mill half a mile south-west of the church is the only windmill left on the island . |
| 27 | Under the Children Act 1989 a child 's lack of suitable education had ceased to be a specific ground for taking him/her into care . |
| 28 | Given the generous relief against forfeiture provisions contained in s 146 of the Law of Property Act 1925 a tenant should have little to fear from a forfeiture clause unless it is seriously in financial difficulties or has committed a serious breach of covenant which can not be rectified . |
| 29 | Fifty years ago in the midst of world war two a group of people got together to help the victims of Nazi occupation.The charity Oxfam was born , and it 's grown steadily to become Britain 's largest overseas aid agency , with an income of seventy million pounds a year . |
| 30 | Moreover , by the time of World War I a widening in the geographical scope of product markets themselves , and a desire to eliminate competition from low wage districts — together with government-setting of many wage awards during war-time — all these influences tended to extend the area of collective bargaining still further to the industry level . |