Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [coord] 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 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Tonight we find out what the effects would be of a seventeen and a half per cent tax on books and newspapers . |
9 | Such combinations of a religious and a scientific approach to biology are particularly obvious in impressionistic work of this kind . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Morland is the subject of a one and a half million pound bid from a Suffolk based company , Greene King . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | He also admitted fingering the private parts of a two and a half year old child for whom he was baby sitting . |
14 | 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 ? |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 ) . |
17 | 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 |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Loss of a clear or a bloodstained , watery fluid from the nose or ear . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | SUMMARY : The thermal histories of a Palaeozoic and a Tertiary coal have been investigated by laboratory simulation experiments in which a suite of samples , with natural maturities ranging from 0.4–3.0% vitrinite reflectance ( VR ) , were heated under identical conditions of time and temperature . |
23 | Then I heard the snap of a lighter and a cloud of blue smoke came out of the doorway , followed by a rattle sound . |
24 | However , the potential political pitfalls involved in any attempt to confront the contradictions of a socialist and a Catholic Nicaragua were clearly demonstrated by the events of the pope 's 1982 visit . |
25 | It is plain that the notions of a superior and a supreme criterion merely refer to a relative place on a scale and do not import any notion of legally unlimited legislative power . |
26 | On the spectrum of improbabilities , the spotlight turns out to illuminate only the narrow range from the left-hand end ( certainty ) up to minor miracles , like a hole-in-one or a dream that comes true . |
27 | Edward felt like a colonial or a schoolboy , and it irked . |
28 | Privilege tickets at fares somewhere near a third or a quarter ordinary rate were issued at any booking office on presentation of an application form . |
29 | Food imported for a million and a half people . |
30 | Here is the source of the cunning factor and Kent are unashamed — indeed almost gleeful — in their avowed intention to take full advantage of the Lord 's dispensation that , in order to encourage slow bowling , the same pitch may be used for a one-day and a championship match . |