Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [det] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We see no reason why the word should seem strange for more than a short time . |
| 2 | ‘ I doubt if Aldhelm would have lain helpless for more than a quarter of an hour from that blow on the head . |
| 3 | Hardly enough to keep a man alive for more than a month or two . |
| 4 | Turkish diplomats say they 're hopeful the couple will be freed unharmed after more than a week in captivity . |
| 5 | To be able just to walk , or drive , wherever you want ; Christ , I 've been away from all this for less than a week and I feel like somebody coming out after thirty years . |
| 6 | Over-50s are excluded from the two groups to whom resources are directed : 18-to-24 year olds who have been unemployed for at least six months ; and 25-to-50 year olds unemployed for more than a year . |
| 7 | There is a great deal of prejudice about age , with the result that the older you are the more likely you are to remain unemployed for more than a year . |
| 8 | In April 1972 , the proportion unemployed for more than a year accounted for one-sixth of the total unemployed ; by April 1981 , the proportion had risen to one-fifth . |
| 9 | Since 1950 the number of those unemployed for more than a year has increased from 34,000 to more than a million at the start of this year . |
| 10 | THE NUMBER of people unemployed for more than a year passed the one million mark yesterday . |
| 11 | There are 5,733 empty council houses , almost 2,000 of which have been empty for more than a year . |
| 12 | We shall continue to put pressure on local authorities with stock that has been empty for more than a year . |
| 13 | He rightly points out that — apart from Brent , which has no overall control , and Tower Hamlets , which is controlled by the Liberal Democrats — the 10 authorities with the highest percentage of empties in their stock are Labour controlled , and about 20,000 properties have been left empty for more than a year . |
| 14 | But in every age there have been poets who were uninterested in thus cutting their poems free of any but a linguistic reality , poets who are ‘ realistic ’ and ‘ mimetic ’ in the most straightforward senses of those two complicated words . |
| 15 | It rapidly demonstrated its power and haulage capacity despite teething troubles , and 140 of these and a slightly smaller variant transformed train operation over most of the steam-worked Southern lines . |
| 16 | It will be clear from this that a proper approach will locate not only the appropriate level at which to resolve issues , but also the appropriate problem-solver . |
| 17 | Quinn said : ‘ I 'm not interested in more than a month on loan here . |
| 18 | This dynamic could not indeed have developed as it did without the very considerable influence behind the scenes , particularly in the preparation of documents between sessions , of leading consultants whose theology was indeed far beyond that of any but a handful of bishops : Congar , Rahner , Philips , Chenu , Courtney Murray among others . |
| 19 | The writing of a biography is simply impossible for more than a few major churchmen and even fewer secular rulers in the early Middle Ages . |
| 20 | The future and prosperity of the north-west are best served by a Government who are determined to keep inflation down , who want to keep taxes down — and will not let interest rates rise as the Opposition would — and who recognise that the level of strikes is at its lowest for more than a century . |
| 21 | It was on ‘ evidence ’ such as this that a Gloucestershire jury on 22 May 1300 reduced the Forest of Dean to the king 's demesne lands and woods . |
| 22 | It was , then , in a context such as this that a Times correspondent could sum up in 1937 an entirely familiar series of complaints about mounting crime and dwindling authority : . |
| 23 | Because the negative evaluation was not as strong as it is now , Voltaire was able to talk about justifiable prejudices , such as those that a child might have in favour of a teacher . |
| 24 | local testing programmes — such as those that a state in the USA , or an LEA in the UK , would employ ; |
| 25 | Anyone wishing to advertise in this newsletter either a small ad such as these or a full ad ( full page or half page ) please contact any one of the newsletter team . |
| 26 | Anyone wishing to advertise in this newsletter either a small ad such as these or a full ad ( full page or half page ) please contact any one of the newsletter team . |
| 27 | The problem here is not so much to prevent partners leaving before reaching retirement age ( any such general prohibition would be unrealistically restrictive in all but a few firms ) as to ensure that as little damage is done to the firm as possible when they do . |
| 28 | Yes but a similar to that but a little bit darker . |
| 29 | it may sound impossible to many that a sergeant or a young junior officer coming straight from the Empire Training Scheme either in Canada or Rhodesia , was a far better prospect than shall we say a group captain or a wing commander , or even a squadron leader , who had spent the entire war in the training machine . |
| 30 | But Northern Ireland has remained untouched by all but a few Irish comedians . |