Example sentences of "[prep] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his early years Bill was a great competition golfer , fixing and playing in Artisan Matches of up to 18 a side , his opponent being the other Club 's Professional . |
| 2 | The Department of Trade and Industry has ruled out an official Companies Act investigation of the flotation , in which the ashes of up to half a million share certificates were discovered in a skip in South London and tens of thousands of other documents were botched . |
| 3 | Section 222 of the TCGA 1992 , provides that gains accruing on the disposal of , or an interest in , a dwelling house which is or has been an individual 's only or main residence ( together with garden or grounds of up to half a hectare in extent or other extent appropriate for the reasonable enjoyment of the residence according to the size and character of the dwelling house ) throughout the period of ownership ( but disregarding the last 36 months of that period ( TCGA 1992 , s223 ) are exempt from capital gains tax . |
| 4 | It makes its money by charging commission to creditors of up to half the value of the debts it recovers . |
| 5 | Sinn Fein complained that their election workers were being harassed and delayed for up to half an hour at checkpoints . |
| 6 | When the engine is hot and if I stop the engine for up to half an hour I get a smell of petrol in the cab and upon setting off again I experience severe fuel starvation causing the engine to stop unless travelling fast on an open road . |
| 7 | Each day , for up to half an hour , he pounds away on his cycling machine . |
| 8 | this is an initial interview for up to half an hour for which the maximum charge will be £5 . |
| 9 | The eight-man team train by hauling a barrel of concrete up a telegraph pole using a pulley system — and then digging in and holding the 810 kilo load aloft for up to half an hour . |
| 10 | In time , this practice led to highways with up to half a dozen parallel tracks ; the one in use at any given moment depending on the weather and on how much maintenance local labourers had carried out . |
| 11 | There had been considerable controversy over the method of presidential election , which had originally been expected to take place with up to half a dozen candidates in January 1990 prior to the legislative elections of March-April [ see pp. 37325-26 ; 37380 ) . |
| 12 | By late December the number of people leaving had risen to up to 600 a day , not far short of the total for the whole of the period 1987-89 . |
| 13 | Cecil Instruments has introduced the series 3000 UV-Vis scanning spectrophotometers which it claims have a specification and performance surpassing its main competitors , at up to half the cost . |