Example sentences of "[vb past] a [det] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reuters reported a half year profit before tax of £187.4m , a rise of 10.2% on the previous period . |
| 2 | Lasmo reported a half year profit before tax of £72m ( v £132m ) . |
| 3 | Legal & General reported a half year profit before tax of £74m ( v £56m ) . |
| 4 | President Roh appointed a former Education Minister , Chung Won Shik , as Prime Minister on May 23 , and , on May 26 , he made several other changes among the senior members of the Cabinet . |
| 5 | One produced a half gallon flagon of Johnnie Walker Red Label and six little cups . |
| 6 | We got a same day driver picking me up at five fo , five thirty outside the hotel . |
| 7 | if she buses she got a half hour walk there |
| 8 | Julian Davidson , 30 , unmarried , and a consultant in design , printing and advertising , was selected from a short-list of three , which included a former Treasury minister , John Maples , who lost his Lewisham West seat at the last general election . |
| 9 | In so far as the French Union was a federation which would group Indochina , Black Africa , and North Africa it was , as Raymond Aron pointed out , a grandiose objective but at least in the original proposals of the drafting committee which included a former governor general of Indochina , Alexandre Varenne , it was to be a union based on free consent . |
| 10 | She signed as she sifted a little icing sugar on to her home-made mince pies . |
| 11 | Soon she saw a little glass box near her on the floor . |
| 12 | Then she saw a little glass table with three legs , and on the top of it was a very small gold key . |
| 13 | In the most serious corruption scandal to face the government of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro , the Comptroller-General Guillermo Potoy made public on July 17 a report which accused a former deputy Minister of the Presidency , Antonio Ibarra , of misappropriating US$1,000,000 in foreign aid funds intended for the most disadvantaged sectors . |
| 14 | While agreeing with this description of Hoccleve 's illness as of psychotic severity , our own evaluation is that it had a more depressive quality , many of the symptoms described by Hoccleve meeting the modern criteria for serious depression . |
| 15 | The church attracted quite large congregations and the Sunday School not only offered pupils a full day trip to the sea during the summer but also splendid Christmas treats , thus somewhat upstaging the Anglicans who had a half day trip to the New Forest with an ordinary Christmas Tea . |