Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , you 're gon na come in at two per cent , and I 'm gon na come in at twenty-two , and we both know that actually we 're gon na up finish between eight and a half and nine , do n't we ? |
| 2 | Yes , well you are talking about children 's services , but , I , I think if Mr 's going to talk later to this , if you want , but we are absolutely at the moment , we know that eighty nine percent of work at the child care centre is to do with child protection with to deal with it , and by that I mean abuse , physical and sexual abuse , er , concerns about that and a lot of that of course is , is tied up in procedural ways , and we 're dealing with events almost after the situation has er , got going , er , and of course , with the courts , you know that we 've got duties in relation to the courts , that we , we have to fulfil or else we are the subject of criticism from the er , courts , and we have been rapped at various er , times . |
| 3 | At a meeting on Sunday , the 300 strikers indicated they were prepared to agree to management plans to resolve a dispute over lay-offs , but would return to work under protest at part of the package which included a wage freeze for 1993 and a cut in fringe benefits . |
| 4 | One thing is clear none of this OO stuff is imminent in Oracle as SQL 3 is pencilled in for 1995/6 and an object storage manager will most likely follow that . |
| 5 | At a post-crisis discussion between Mikoian and a State Department official , Mikoian was ‘ clearly influenced by commitments to Castro to make a strong case on Castro 's behalf ’ and tried to establish the idea of a protocol signed by all three countries ‘ [ attaching ] a good deal of significance to Cuba being one of the signatories ’ . |
| 6 | The Home Guard became a joke for some and a remark once passed in my company was " What use do you think you would be against trained troops ? " . |
| 7 | Early retirement may be a release from employment for some and a refuge from the severe insecurity of the labour market for others . |
| 8 | As I say I was sitting there adding it up , a pound for this and a pound for that and your meal , a fiver for Maggie , I 'm twenty pound short off you |
| 9 | There were a lot of arguments for this and a lot against . |
| 10 | Pulling on a pair of ‘ Afro-American tribal dance boots ’ ( ie Nikes ) to complement his khaki tie-dye T-shirt and army trousers : ‘ It was a toss-up between this and a shell suit . |
| 11 | Get a definition in , get an application in , get empirical evidence in , get measurement problems in erm , get sort of contentious issues type of , or criticisms in erm , do n't draw , do n't do diagrams as they 're probably , the only , the only principal difference between this and an essay , you just have n't got the time , right , so do n't be tempted , unless you can do a very quick diagram that sum , sums it up . |
| 12 | There is only one league match left after that and a West derby victory would put them out of reach . |
| 13 | Thanks to Mrs Castle 's Diary , we have some intelligence on Wilson Mark I. Elected in October 1964 , he had by early 1969 ( i.e. after four and a quarter years ) reached his 236th ad hoc group . |
| 14 | After four and a quarter years , some firms will already have had at least two visits and many in category 1 will be facing a second visit in the near future . |
| 15 | That means that two-thirds of the population can be expected to sleep between six and a half and eight and a half hours a night , about 16 per cent regularly sleep over eight and a half hours , and another 16 per cent sleep under six and a half hours . |
| 16 | Fine Gael had a PV of 27.1 and a PS of 30.7 . |
| 17 | There was also the occasional case of petty theft , street fighting or traffic offences which often ended up with a plea of Guilty and a fine of a few dollars or a short period in goal . |
| 18 | Within the Cabinet , it was , paradoxically , Snowden — usually regarded as a sea-green incorruptible on the issue of free trade — who , overcome by hatred of Labour and a desire to smash his old party , appeared to relish the idea of an early election in which Labour would go down to defeat . |
| 19 | A coalition consisting only of Labour and a party to its left would have immense trouble foisting the trauma of withdrawal on Israel . |
| 20 | With the drive cache disabled , it turned in a power rating of 14,203 and a WinTach rating of 3.75 , which is n't bad . |
| 21 | The British branch employs a fund raising team of eleven and an information staff of the same size . |
| 22 | The race will be over 5 miles instead of eight and a quarter and is being arranged with the help of Loftus AC road race organiser Peter Clifford . |
| 23 | The faintly stoned Indian vocal line does n't help , and somehow this seems to me like a cross between ‘ What Time Is Love ’ and ‘ Fools Gold ’ with the charm of neither and a lot of other unnecessary junk . |
| 24 | The FT Government Securities index currently stands at 88.18 against a high for the year to date of 89.75 and a low of 85.11 ( see panel ) . |
| 25 | Determine your total daily calorie intake at a minimum figure of 850 and a maximum of 1,500 . |
| 26 | Recognition of that and an agreement to forego the linguistic tricks and the cheap jibes would help convince all sides that their arguments have been listened to with respect . |
| 27 | In each tribe , as we have seen , there were a number of coastal , a number of inland and a number of city demes , about sixteen councillors from each type going to make up a trittys ( only in the tribe to which Acharnai belonged was this system modified , because twenty-two out of fifty councillors is already well over a third ) . |
| 28 | He must be a physician , having books of physick and a herbal by him . |
| 29 | When he died in 1980 , the brothers decided to buy the landscaping division and concluded the deal almost four years later , when Waterers was losing money on a staff of 12 and a turnover of £400,000 . |
| 30 | The following example explains how a bar of 12/8 translates into a bar of 4/4 , a bar of 6/8 translates into a bar of 2/4 and a bar of 9/8 translates into a bar of 3/4 : |