Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the Royal Bank of Scotland says its taking court action over a half a million pound overdraft . |
| 2 | With the wide coverage and freedom given to pupils to develop their own individual lines of inquiry , the identification of a large an detailed collection of keywords was one of the major tasks at the design stage . |
| 3 | By means of the defence of act of a stranger the basis of the liability is shifted to responsibility for culpable failure to control the risk . |
| 4 | One unconsidered move and too little or too much colour could give the complexion of a rustic the appearance of a corpse and transform the face of an angel into the countenance of a harlot . |
| 5 | First to be cleared was a string of a half a dozen caravans . |
| 6 | But even but even in that case we did have er did have a case with a young a youngish lad who his accountant had written it |
| 7 | You know , once a woman 's got a name as a neurotic no one takes her seriously any more . |
| 8 | On a day basis , it 's about forty five pence a day , which is er less than the price of a half a glass of beer . |
| 9 | Richards also had the benefit of solid support at the other end as Haynes steadily made his way to 184 , the highest West Indian innings at Lord 's , and with Lloyd chipping in a fifty the total reached 518 . |
| 10 | We 've done research in other places and there 's mercury from a hundred a hundred and fifty years back . |
| 11 | Sections of 25 µm were cut from each block with a sterile no touch technique , and new blades were used for each to reduce contamination . |
| 12 | In the strictest sense of the word Iceland is not a ‘ Arctic ’ country ; the Circle nicks only the northern tip of the isle of Grimsey and so leaves the main island in a sub-Arctic no man 's land . |
| 13 | The screens , which could be available in small quantities in July building to a thousand a month in the fall , may become OEM products . |
| 14 | Twelve year old Emma Butler died during a kickabout after a five a side football match … she 'd been watching her younger brother , Matthew , play in a tournament organised by the St Edmunds Football Club at the European School in Abingdon … details of what exactly happened are still sketchy … but it 's believed a hockey goal post which was leaning against a hut fell down crushing Emmas chest … |
| 15 | Erm , because it seems to , with the changing nature of organisation of authorities , it 's used as a comparative purpose , must be er , very doubtful , and we 've always criticised it , er beginning the position snapshot on a particular the day , it does n't say what 's in the pipeline or what 's going out of the pipeline at the other end . |
| 16 | There are two very strong pieces of evidence confirming that the examples of inherently restrictive predicative adjectives accompanied by articles must indeed be regarded as entity-identifying expressions : First , they can quite generally appear where entity expressions appear , including positions which are not even superficially available to an ordinary adjective : ( 24 ) the rudest came from your cousin she gave motherly advice to a second , and a stern warning to a third the oldest of the aircraft should be scrapped ( 25 ) the honest deserves the appointment Bert offered a peanut to the untidy the elegant of the vases lay on its side |
| 17 | At the close of a moot the judge or judges declare which counsel or side performed best ; he , she or they then go on to the next round . |
| 18 | It is one in which a repertory with a large a cappella element is cultivated on a daily basis by men and ( usually ) boys , all of them relatively young , who hold positions in a cathedral or chapel ( often for a relatively short time ) for which there is much competition . |
| 19 | In an interview last month Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said that technical advances now make it possible to create relatively inexpensive public databases , with telephone companies acting as the backbone for what he termed ‘ a huge emerging market , ’ enabling subscribers to store and recall voice messages and receive what he calls ‘ home mail ’ electronically , and that by matching the latest parallel processors with Oracle 's software , new data services could deliver information at a tenth the current cost . |
| 20 | There was no foreseeable possibility of a such a scheme . |
| 21 | Considering he had been in possession of a thousand a year from carefully invested family money , a very good unearned income in 1925 , he had not done well . |
| 22 | Ace had spoken of his intention to try and pull strings on her behalf , but she had n't thought he 'd have that much clout with a multi-national the size of IMP . |
| 23 | The millionairess on a round the world flight . |
| 24 | At present , however , many people are absolutely riveted by what is happening , or could happen , in this country at a such a crucial moment in world history . |
| 25 | The French press was bubbling with stories last week about the Franco-Italian semiconductor maker SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV , with one report saying it was planning an increase by a third the capacity at its test and assembly plant in Muar , Malaysia , and another promising an accord on tomorrow with Mitsubishi Electric Corp on Flash memories . |
| 26 | A sum in the region of a half a million pounds has already been raised or pledged . |
| 27 | Yes I got those from the office without a graphic a graphic artist 's exhibition on the Plaza . |