Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the collapse of communism , the concomitant crisis in left-wing ideas and the unravelling of the Eighties consumerist fantasy , they still maintain , as they have for years , that socialism is an evil malaise , while professing a support for Conservatism , as unblinking as that of a home counties Tory loyalist . |
| 2 | At one end of the scale the death of a spouse rates 100 points . |
| 3 | to identify the range of values of a sale prices acceptable to you |
| 4 | Serious divers will have to pay over £500 for a Nikon Nikonos underwater camera . |
| 5 | For a tank up to 15″ high you need at least two tubes , and for a tank 18″ high at least three tubes . |
| 6 | As a result sectors such as Paper and printing , that are dominated by large companies , are more likely to show improved export results . |
| 7 | Xcelerated claims to support most of the 5,000 off-the-shelf Mac apps and have 10,000 users worldwide including virtually every Fortune 500 with a Sun Microsystems Inc or Hewlett-Packard Co workstation . |
| 8 | ‘ Aye , ’ replied another , slim and small as a child but with a face centuries old . |
| 9 | Small enough to squeeze into a box 22ins square — or the minuscule engine bay of a Formula 3000 racing car , having been designed by TVR 's Al Melling primarily as a racing engine — the ‘ AJP8 ’ thumps out 350bhp in road trim and up to 130bhp more as a racer , along with class-beating torque . |
| 10 | Three positive clones were also obtained from a M. eugenii genomic library . |
| 11 | Turner worked in a security systems retail outlet on Rocket Boulevard . |
| 12 | Aachen , Germany-based Parsytec GmbH 's US subsidiary in West Chicago has announced Parix , the ‘ second-generation ’ parallel Unix-based development environment developed for its indefinitely-forthcoming GC Series of T9000 Transputer-based MIMD supercomputers by Amsterdam-based Associated Computer Experts BV : aimed specifically at scientists and research engineers , it can be used on any Parsytec system with 16 or more nodes , which is hooked up to a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation as a front end ; a Parsytec 62-node MultiCluster I with Parix is from $100,000 . |
| 13 | Getting Microsoft Windows to run remotely on a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation was seen as the last step in the development effort . |
| 14 | The alert was in response to a similar crash last year in Taiwan when two engines on a China Airlines 747 cargo jet went down soon after take-off . |
| 15 | Do you think this er really goes back to the fundamental issue which the Good Committee did n't really address which was the issue of ownership of the pension funds and assets and that whilst pensioners and to an extent employers these days regard the pension fund as deferred pay and pensions payments as deferred pay , the ownership of those funds is still left erm neither still er an argument about wh wh who owns the funds and er a lot of this follows on from that . |
| 16 | An earlier attempt at a Picture Prices Current had already folded some years before . |
| 17 | Unlike serious pollsters , the brewer 's flaccid organ fails to report the size of the sample of Scousers interviewed but it is believed to be adjacent to the number of fans at a Tranmere Rovers away match . |