Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is this a struggle inside Frodo 's soul , between his conscious will and his unconscious wickedness ( the sort of wickedness which might earlier have made him reluctant to hand over the Ring to Gandalf ) ? |
| 2 | Was this a miracle in Bohemia ? |
| 3 | Patient John Lyon , 74 , who has a daily dose of half a pint of Guinness , said : ‘ It 's a great idea and takes the tension out of staying in hospital . ’ |
| 4 | Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados . |
| 5 | Magnús had Norway then , remember , and half a foot in Orkney already through Thorfinn 's nephew Rognvald . |
| 6 | He did not enumerate them , but it is not hard to reconstruct them from the records of over half a century of Masai administration . |
| 7 | Within half a century of Anselm 's death the only traces of the once-active policy were to be found in the ecclesiastical calendar used by the church of Dublin , which had many peculiarities of Canterbury origin . |
| 8 | For half a century after Matcham 's retirement his theatres were widely disparaged by architects and others who preferred unbuilt European projects to what the public and theatre profession still prized as ‘ real theatres ’ . |
| 9 | The Clapham accident of December 1988 , the first for half a century in Britain due to the failure of the signalling , appalled the public in demonstrating how poor morale and discipline were in a vital part of the service at a key point . |
| 10 | but we spent , spent the , well half a day at Queens Terminal at Paper Gallery |
| 11 | I desire you will send by y bearer 2 quarts of Sugar Hotspur peas to set the first crop , & half a peck of Windsor Beans , & pray bring y Hammer with you w . |
| 12 | A mile and a half down Green Lanes , half a mile down Nassington Green Road , one and a half miles the wrong way down Balls Pond Road , two miles down Kingsland Road , and then she was lost . |
| 13 | Easily Accessible : Redlands is half a mile outside Ladybank village which is served by British Rail and buses . |
| 14 | But you see that would have given , one , two , three , four crossings on that , within half a mile in Driffield , so they closed that one and put a footbridge over and erm thanks . |
| 15 | Strung out along the Bridlington road , Thornholme is about half a mile from Burton Agnes . |
| 16 | These apartments are 350 yards from the beach and half a mile from Villasimius with its shops and trattorie . |
| 17 | Now , 8 years later , a builder working beside the River Cam , half a mile from Mrs Bilney 's home , has found the purse in the river . |
| 18 | Zeno 's house was in woodland , half a mile from Longrock and in sight of the sea . |
| 19 | At first light it became clear that HMS Impregnable had carried five miles across shoal water from the Dean to a position about half way between Langstone and Chichester harbours , approximately half a mile from Hayling Island . |
| 20 | This hotel is set on a beautiful bay about half a mile from Diamante . |
| 21 | And it was at that moment , half a mile before Carrick-on-Suir , that they heard an actual clamour — of angry voices , hundreds of angry voices . |
| 22 | On that floor they found a variety of soft drinks , and took some bottles of lemonade , soda water and Irn Bru , and also half a bottle of Gordon 's gin . |
| 23 | I shivered as if I had an actual fever , smoked a dozen cigarettes and drank half a bottle of Cyprus sherry . |
| 24 | ‘ It were half a bottle of Evian , 12 grapes , a piece of cheese and a small tomato . |
| 25 | I still get half the blow — and half a blow from Casey is ten from anyone else . |
| 26 | Marmite , heels , three shirts , half a pound of Plectra , and some product called Syntax , which I now envisage as being like a health-food called Bemax that my father used to sprinkle over his breakfast cereal . |
| 27 | Now I have half a page of Winnie the Pooh , if I 'm lucky , and do n't get the jokes at all . |
| 28 | It took up half a block of Tollemarche Avenue and was gaily painted in red and white . |
| 29 | By then , the DIA had satisfied itself that Asmar 's murder was the work of drug-trafficking elements in the Lebanese Forces , the ultra right-wing Christian faction whose secret war council complex was barely half a block from Asmar 's office in Karantina . |
| 30 | Stranded in the Kalahari desert we had no water and half a packet of Marie biscuits . |