Example sentences of "[det] [prep] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you would n't buy that for a grand off them people he said at no price |
| 2 | The research shows that an average of 15,000 square kilometres of trees was cleared annually from 1978-88 , half to a third of other estimates . |
| 3 | And as with Rembrandt we can watch his face and figure change , in countless paintings , prints and drawings , from that of a young to that of an old man . |
| 4 | It appears to be that of a forty to fifty year old prince or aristocrat . |
| 5 | An insidious and intrusive pressure may be laid on pupils which , under the guise of a friendly and honest account of a pupil 's interests and activities , may prove just as much of a turn-off for the imaginative or deviant as the examination system itself , and may come quite soon to be regarded with cynicism by both pupils and employers alike . |
| 6 | I did n't get much of a lay in this morning either . |
| 7 | ‘ I never did hold much of a brief for your father , but it seems as if your mother was n't much better ! ’ he said , his voice making clear how lacking in sympathy he found her family . |
| 8 | I 'd probably best to put it all in a all in the corner there . |
| 9 | we tend to do it all on a one to one basis |
| 10 | Is n't five years a normal , more of a normal for er , er , business purposes . |
| 11 | You have up here you 've got neither win lose but it 's like it 's a respectable thing you know you respect each other you do n't trust them completely and you do n't co-operate completely but they just respect just not you 're just not willing to go that further little bit and it becomes more of a more of a rather than a win lose or a win win it 's more of a people half and half okay I 'll give this much if you give that much . |
| 12 | There 's Robin Smith , who 's moved a little straighter in fact , you ca n't call him silly point now , he 's more of a silly mid-off , on that 's sort of line , and he 's about three yards on bat , two men out , deep on the leg side , there 's tough on the who 's hoisted that one away on the leg side , I think that could well be safe for , who 's chasing wicket , two bounce it 's over the rope , and four more runs to , he 's kept up his one hundred per cent boundary rate , moves on to twenty , five fours , and it , again , his eye very much on that short leg side boundary and Tufnell and Gooch they 're having further consultations and that leg side field being adjusted again . |
| 13 | However , the sight of two women making love was less of a turn-off for women viewers than the sight of two men making love was for male viewers . |
| 14 | Unsuitable for those with a personal of family history of strokes , heart attacks or raised blood pressure , and some diabetics . |
| 15 | No , times that by a thousand over one . |
| 16 | So why did you multiply that by a thousand over one ? |