Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is a more immediate aim for striker Ian Wright who is fighting a fitness battle to return in the live Sky TV game against the club which sold him to Highbury less than a year ago and show he is still the man England need . |
| 2 | I also asked him to look at the Twyford Down plan with a view to having a tunnel under the Down rather than a cutting . |
| 3 | Police found the knife … the muggers found Mr Humphries less than a pushover |
| 4 | The major tournaments are now looming , Hong Kong this weekend and the World Cup Sevens at Murrayfield less than a month away , but Morgan remained adamant there is no need to feel gloomy about Scotland 's cause . |
| 5 | Officers surrounded a house in Argyle Avenue , Hounslow less than a mile from Heathrow . |
| 6 | From the 1660s , however , Louis XIV began to press very intransigently pretensions of this kind which had already been raised unsuccessfully by Cardinal Richelieu more than a generation earlier . |
| 7 | Mortimer , armed with a Browning rather than a rifle , called out orders to his squad , and directed them to positions around the two-storey customs building . |
| 8 | The other older one had been in Chicago , moved to Washington less than a year back , and Erlich knew his name because he 'd the distinction of having run the sting in the Board of Trade 's soybean futures pit . |
| 9 | Siena is about nine miles south east and Florence less than an hour drive . |
| 10 | Indeed , he has never really fitted in since Kendall brought him down from Scotland more than a year ago . |
| 11 | In the recital series , Demidenko ( inspired by a series given by the great Anton Rubinstein in Russia more than a century ago ) will explore the development of music for piano from the 18th century to the 20th . |
| 12 | It did n't take Ray Doyle more than a minute to realise that he was backing a loser . |
| 13 | Certainly , from the beginning there were clear links with extra academic initiatives , especially in publishing : its editor for the whole of this period , R. B. McKerrow , was a partner in the publishing firm of Sidgwick & Jackson rather than an academic . |
| 14 | American Airlines , which began the daily flights to Chicago less than a year ago , and an airport spokesman accused the Government of being partly to blame for the decision . |
| 15 | ‘ What 's the matter with him ? ’ demanded Perdita , who was busy trimming the hairy fetlocks of a gelding that resembled a Clydesdale more than a polo pony . |
| 16 | By normalizing its relations with China , South Korea accepted the Chinese position that Taiwan was a province of China rather than a country in its own right . |
| 17 | Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’ |
| 18 | At present Statutory Maternity Leave is available in the UK only if a woman has two or more years of continuous service with her employer ( see also below ) . |
| 19 | Travellers have been camping at Yoke Farm , Upper Hill near Leominster ever since a landowner sympathetic to their cause bought the farm in 1969 . |
| 20 | The sole Dino Berlinetta Speciale is now part of the permanent collection of the Le Mans car museum in France , a fitting place for a car that drew its design inspiration from the first mid-engined Ferrari sports racing cars and which shocked the world at Paris more than a quarter of a century ago . |
| 21 | The stone referred to here is clearly a symbol of God rather than an embodiment of God , but at the same time it has an element of sacredness , which is what Gandhi may be implying when he maintains that God resides in the stone in a special way . |
| 22 | Further proof of Gaddafi 's guilt , in the paper 's view , was the mysterious Libyan who had bought the clothes wrapped around the bomb from a boutique in Malta less than a month before the tragedy . |
| 23 | Designer-suited Mase — who has appeared in EastEnders , Return of the Saint and Godfather III — offers Sharon more than a sip of la dolce vita . |
| 24 | When she left Australia more than a decade before she had prayed that God would fill her heart with love for the people to whom she was to minister . |
| 25 | Despite a string of appearances from the bench it took Watson more than a year to open his account , finally breaking his duck in the 2-1 second leg win over Spora in Luxembourg in the last round . |
| 26 | It 's not beyond the wit of the Tories to move in European people into the country , into this country in certain seats from the right in Europe to make sure those seats are won for them again , and I think it 's an extremely dangerous precedent to allow European voting if you 're not , if you 're just resident within Britain rather than a citizen . |
| 27 | For it neatly encapsulates the state of public morale in Britain less than a year into the fourth consecutive Conservative term . |
| 28 | By the middle of February , when the Shah had been in Morocco more than a month , it had become common gossip in the diplomatic corps that Hassan was giving him the cold shoulder . |
| 29 | An ex-director and an employee of D M de Bruijn , the suppliers of lead-contaminated cow feed , were released from custody in Holland yesterday after a witness withdrew testimony . |
| 30 | Before we 'd sailed out from Calabar more than a day , three more were born . |