Example sentences of "[subord] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a firm deals with or for a customer it must take all reasonable steps to deal on the terms which are the best available for the customer in the circumstances . |
| 2 | As she grew older , she looked upon herself , tragically , defiantly , with all the hopelessness of fourteen years , as a plant trying to root itself upon the solid rock , without water , without earth , without shade : and then , when a little older yet , when conscious of some growth , she had to concede that she must have fallen happily upon some small dry sandy fissure , where a few grains of sand , a few drops of moisture , had been enough to support her trembling and tenacious life . |
| 3 | Most ‘ educationists ’ subscribed to the same principle , although a few teachers in the National Association of Labour Teachers and the TUC had begun to look beyond ‘ equality of opportunity ’ to equality of provision . |
| 4 | The nine-year-old has been a fine servant for trainer David Nicholson and , although a few pounds below the very best over two miles , he picks up enough prize-money each year to comfortably pay his oats bill . |
| 5 | Much the same is true of the UK , although a few case-studies of school-based evaluation activities are beginning to appear in the literature . |
| 6 | Will he now confirm that one side effect of the appalling poll tax is that more than a million citizens of this country have not registered to vote ? |
| 7 | The Israeli potash and bromine works at the southern end produce more than a million tonnes of these minerals a year . |
| 8 | The tip , which has been called the biggest in Europe , receives more than a million tonnes of waste every year , nearly two thirds of it toxic . |
| 9 | Tarmac , the company behind £11m. worth of development , says more than a million tonnes of material has been removed and 500,000 tonnes of stones brought in . |
| 10 | More than half the programs we write at Bell Labs contain more than a million lines of code . ’ |
| 11 | A couple have won more than a million pounds on the pools — and are putting the jackpot down to the lucky pixie mascot they used to pick the numbers . |
| 12 | The Hampshire fourth division side , which is more than a million pounds in debt , have been given notice to quit their own ground . |
| 13 | The Howards had hoped for more than a million pounds in compensation … the cost of caring for Michelle , and paying for the court case , has stretched their finances to the limit . |
| 14 | Forty-eight hours after the Novell-buys-Unix announcement , Microsoft was out telling folks like The Wall Street Journal that it would sell more than a million copies of Windows NT the first year after it comes out . |
| 15 | It sold more than a million copies in Britain alone and won me the Billboard award for best singer/songwriter in America . |
| 16 | Professor Stephen Hawking 's popular guide to cosmology has sold more than a million copies in hardback around the world . |
| 17 | The H-bomb , with an explosive capacity of more than a million tons of TNT , had fallen into the Atlantic Ocean off southern Spain . |
| 18 | The scheme , which already covers more than a million motorists in the UK , can cost as little as £6.50 a year . |
| 19 | The Evangelical Alliance , representing more than a million Christians of all denominations , was so concerned over the increasing problems created by the occult that it published Doorways to Danger . |
| 20 | And here I am , Kate thinks , sitting opposite you and thinking there 's more distance between us in terms of class and sex awareness than a million years of chat over drinks at six dollars a go on the Oriental Hotel terrace could ever hope to bridge . |
| 21 | It means laying more than a million miles of underground cables in our streets at a cost of £6 BILLION . |
| 22 | Like the Brown University Corpus , the ‘ Lancaster Corpus ’ would consist of more than a million words of various kinds of English . |
| 23 | The American Civil War , the first ‘ modern ’ war with ultimately more than a million men under arms , divided families and friends as much as it split a great nation in two . |
| 24 | ‘ Two of the main Siberian pipelines pass through this station which has storage facilities on site for more than a million barrels of crude oil . |
| 25 | A Formula One racing driver has started court proceedings to recover more than a million dollars from a team which has hit financial trouble . |
| 26 | Platform weapons were set to allow nothing to rise more than a thousand kilometres from the surface of the world below — or in other words they had a killing range of about thirty-five thousand kilometres . |
| 27 | SLIMMERS have piled on more than a thousand pounds in little over a month … and they are delighted . |
| 28 | With more than a thousand videos at up to fifty pounds each and many more magazines fetching anything up to thirty pounds apiece this is the biggest haul ever for the Northants force . |
| 29 | I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be . |
| 30 | Last month more than a thousand women in Birmingham were recalled after a nurse was said to be using the wrong type of spatula . |