Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freer : a Legacy of Art by Thomas Lawton and Linda Merrill ( £40 , $49.50 ) tells Freer 's story as a collector and celebrates the reopening of the Smithsonian 's Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC on Sunday , 9 May , its seventieth anniversary , after a four and a half year renovation project . |
| 2 | I had my problem hamstring and knew that I had n't had the necessary training to run a 200 metres after a 100 and a relay . |
| 3 | I have returned this year after a two and a half year break ) to a 100% improvement within your magazine — correction my magazine . |
| 4 | Is it a stylishly cute picture of a rhinocerous or a clever way of pushing young people into smoking . |
| 5 | So the demise of a flat or a particular floor of a building will include a roof space accessible only from that flat where there is no reservation to the landlord of any rights relating to the roof space ( Hatfield v Moss [ 1988 ] 40 EG 122 ) . |
| 6 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 7 | Cauterets claims to have a more plentiful supply of sulphurous waters than any other spa on earth , to the tune of a million and a half health-giving litres a day , and this is a claim you will not wish to dispute once you have pushed open the swing doors to the neo-Roman ‘ Baths of Caesar ’ and breathed in the warm and all too recognizably sulphur-laden air . |
| 8 | Group testing received its first big boost when the US entered World War 1 in 1917 to provide for the rapid classification of a million and a half recruits who needed to be assigned to suitable roles in the military machine . |
| 9 | Tonight we find out what the effects would be of a seventeen and a half per cent tax on books and newspapers . |
| 10 | Such combinations of a religious and a scientific approach to biology are particularly obvious in impressionistic work of this kind . |
| 11 | The broad-minded opinions and solid common sense of this robust story-teller are expressed sometimes in dialogue in which officers ( and , interestingly , sometimes officers and men ) exchange views on slave-trading , naval punishments , privateering , or discuss the attributes of a good or a bad captain . |
| 12 | Morland is the subject of a one and a half million pound bid from a Suffolk based company , Greene King . |
| 13 | It consists of a two and a half foot length of narrow clear plastic tube which is fixed to your cleaner by means of an adaptor . |
| 14 | He also admitted fingering the private parts of a two and a half year old child for whom he was baby sitting . |
| 15 | If you sold to the target on a on a revenue there of a two and a half thousand , which is one of the smaller surgeries , we will pay thirty percent on all of that right ? |
| 16 | Usually , the claim that a randomised trial ( whether of a preventive or a therapeutic regimen ) is unethical presumes that the answer to the question that the trial is designed to answer is already known . |
| 17 | Most of the parents , however , had come intending to talk about their boys , either out of a genuine or an assumed interest in them ; and few of them were prepared to waste time on Onyx when there were real teachers on whom to vent their parental concern . |
| 18 | In the last interview he gave to a French journalist before the war began , Ho , in envisaging the way in which ‘ at all costs war must be averted ’ , seemed to accept independence within the French Union ; although unless this was based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of the French Union , which also seems unlikely , this was probably more of a smoke-screen than a smoke-signal . |
| 19 | ‘ It was a hell of a standard and an enormous challenge . |
| 20 | The estimates of a 1 and a 2 are a source of the substitution and income derivatives in equation ( 12–1 ) , which , when combined with the mean values for H , W and Yin the sample , can give the three elasticities in ( 12–3 ) . |
| 21 | More of a revolutionary than a reformer . ’ |
| 22 | The figure is , precisely , that of the existence of a secret or an absent essence , and he traces it in various forms through a number of different tales . |
| 23 | It is possible to express any square matrix as the sum of a symmetric and a skew-symmetric matrix ; this is shown by the identity |
| 24 | If each family was to have the services of a senior and a junior counsel , the costs would be enormous , and at that stage no one knew what the position would be regarding the question of Legal Aid . |
| 25 | The researcher engaged in the social study of baptism may well decide at an early stage of the study that in modern British society baptism is more of a social than a religious ceremony . |
| 26 | Finn , in turn , often appeared in the guise of a hind or a hunting dog , and his children took the form of fauns ( see FAUNUS ) when wishing to escape danger . |
| 27 | Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Schools is more of a lap-dog than a rottweiler . |
| 28 | Loss of a clear or a bloodstained , watery fluid from the nose or ear . |
| 29 | We find similar striking juxtapositions in the finale of the ‘ Jupiter Symphony , where the contrast between the signs helps set off two of the five main motives of the movement : the angular four-note motive with its downward leaps of a 5th and a 7th is marked throughout the movement by strokes , and the linear , stepwise ascending six-note motive is marked throughout by dots . |
| 30 | There is a real risk of mice , especially young animals , drowning or dying from the effects of a soaking if a bottle or nozzle of an automatic system leaks . |