Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [prep] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pontikes also had direct personal experience due to a $500,000 investment in Saul Steinberg 's Reliance Capital Group Limited Partnership , a buyout and arbitrage firm with a roster of investors that amounted to a Who 's Who Among The Self-Made Rich . |
| 2 | The presence of a variety of concepts in the statement of one subject area has been referred to in Chapter 12 as a means of defining syntactic relationships . |
| 3 | ( b ) Means tested legal aid Those entitled to legal aid subject to a means test only must apply on form CLA 5 but are not required to complete page 5 of the form which requires a full statement of their case . |
| 4 | Under the archway one of a pair of glass doors led to a room , estimated ( wrongly ? ) by MRCVS as being about 10 feet long and six feet wide ; this was the combined consulting room for the Professor and the College library . |
| 5 | Although significant volume growth will occur in industrial production the level of energy demand will not increase in proportion due to a 25% improvement in energy efficiency . |
| 6 | For each n the coefficient is defined to be the n'th coefficient in the approximation to degree 4 by a series of Legendre polynomials . |
| 7 | Jane Austen , whose attitude to the Gothic will shortly be discussed , would certainly have thought Disraeli 's proposal ludicrous as a means of restoring authority to great houses ; but the notion has its actual antecedents in certain aspects of eighteenth-century Gothic taste . |
| 8 | The first flying commercial traveller : a salesman loads a sample of the Tellus Super Vacuum Cleaner onto an aeroplane ready for a sales trip throughout the UK , 1926 . |
| 9 | In addition to the old-style buff log book , the new owner also received the firm 's original guarantee for the car , still in its Rolls-Royce postage tube complete with a 2d stamp . |
| 10 | Have you noticed that most NDBs in the UK have frequencies that end with point five of a kHz — i.e. 350.5 , and maybe you have also noticed that almost without exception , the ADF receiver in light aircraft does not tune to these half kHz but only to whole numbers of kHz ? |
| 11 | Teams from the two regional operating companies met with Geco-Prakla staff at Stockley Park prior to a 3D seismic survey on Amethyst in the southern North Sea and the same techniques have subsequently been used for the survey . |
| 12 | The latter player , once a top-10 performer but now languishing at No. 31 after a series of injuries and a great loss of confidence , was a bag of nerves . |
| 13 | Sainsbury moved in around day two with a £200,000 press project that has now evolved into a £14.2m ( Media Register ) account . |
| 14 | A 60th at full bore is a bit dicey with a 500mm lens hand held in a stagnant bog . |
| 15 | The hero of his latest effort — volume one in a series — is Eupolis of Pallene , gentleman farmer , goatherd , and writer of comedies . |
| 16 | While we waited for Pam to repack her carrier-bags ( she always ends up with twice as many as anyone else ) I tried unsuccessfully to force my size sevens into a pair of Kath 's size fives . |
| 17 | Unlike his Game Boy alter ego , Mario 's hobbies do not stretch to space travel — a bit difficult on a £19,000 salary . |
| 18 | Or he was only knee high to a duck . |
| 19 | There is one on the facts of earthquakes , arranged in tabular form and number three of a series-a contribution to ‘ Humboldtian ’ science , occupying 326 pages . |
| 20 | This report one of a series commissioned by Lothian Region considers ways in which colleges have made input to the education of pupils still at secondary school . |
| 21 | Part four in a series . |
| 22 | The software requires a personal computer capable of running AutoCAD Release 11 with a 40Mb hard disk . |
| 23 | My system is an Elonex 286–120 with a 40Mb hard disk and a 4Mb of RAM ; installed are Stacker , DOS 5 , Windows 3 , Norton Utilities and Norton Commander . |