Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That and other systems sales accounted for a whacking 50% of SunExpress revenues last year when it was getting off the ground , with end user sales pegged at just 35% . |
| 2 | RALPH DELLOR examines a fast-bowling study at Alsager College |
| 3 | Instead , it is sometimes useful to envisage a three-fold classification of constraints on transport availability for households . |
| 4 | And the outstanding debt which excludes mortgages has seen a three-fold increase to £40 billion . |
| 5 | And the outstanding debt which excludes mortgages has seen a three-fold increase to £40 billion . |
| 6 | The Middle East was the most successful region and a three-fold increase in activity is in prospect there in 1993 . |
| 7 | Increased oil revenues in 1990 [ see p. 38071 ] accounting for a rise in foreign exchange allotments for several industries , were reported to have made possible a three-fold increase in car production , announced by the Ministry of Heavy Industries on Aug. 6 . |
| 8 | As for London , a three-fold increase in tonnage cleared did not lead very quickly to a solution to the severe congestion of the Pool , on which was concentrated a cargo handling facility employing 120,000 men . |
| 9 | It is a single-storey building of brick . |
| 10 | But when curiosity got the better of us we found ourselves almost immediately drawn to a highland community where , like a long-awaiting gift , we were invited to build a house for about a thousand pounds on a verdant piece of property . |
| 11 | Emerging from a concealing butte , Ollokot , wearing a sash and riding a magnificent cream-coloured mount , led fifty warriors in a frontal assault against Theller . |
| 12 | One report described observers in Baghdad as surprised that what was expected to be Iran 's final offensive , taking in the Shatt island of Bovarian , began as a frontal assault against earthworks and water barriers east of Basrah where Iraq 's defences were at their most formidable . |
| 13 | However , it was only in September 1937 , at the Party Rally , that he returned to a frontal attack on Jewry , framed in general terms , in connection with his main attack on Bolshevism , which he explicitly dubbed a Jewish creation . |
| 14 | Thus , Marxists blame him for not anticipating Marx , war between classes as they define them ; and the need , as they see it , for a frontal attack upon rights in property . |
| 15 | Encountering the first pair of sentences in the context in which they occur , the reader does not assume that they describe a connected sequence of events and consequently does not interpret the potential linguistic cues ( like groom — he ) as referring to the same entity . |
| 16 | The meaning of a connected set of sentences is greater than the sum of their individual meanings . |
| 17 | A dark-haired girl with firelight on her face , the smell of turf burning on a winter night , the sound of the sea raging at the shore in a fury of storm . |
| 18 | He arranged for them to adopt a dark-haired boy at birth . |
| 19 | On the Vistula delta the Mennonites bred black and white Friesian cattle just as their ancestors in Holland had done , and grew sugar-beet , tomatoes , rye , and a resilient variety of wheat on the rich alluvial soil . |
| 20 | ‘ lt does when you are in love with a moody crackpot like Harvey . |
| 21 | Jim was a moody sort of individual , was n't he , he had n't liked being asked ; in Philip 's opinion there was more to Jim than met the eye . |
| 22 | Out next spring is David Ryley Marshall 's study of Viviano e Nicolo Codazzi , a father-and-son team of landscape painters active in Rome and Naples in the seventeenth century . |
| 23 | He noticed that the ghost was smartly dressed in a cut-away coat with gilt buttons , a stand-up collar and Scotch cap . |
| 24 | For Abelard there is a transforming energy in love which can change people . |
| 25 | In 1878 , the Citterio family started selling their cured meat to a grateful public in Milan . |
| 26 | He was nicknamed Joe the Toe by a grateful Duchess of York after helped improve her appearance . |
| 27 | WSR Company Chairman Dennis Taylor flagged off the first passenger train to call at the halt since 1990 on Tuesday , July 14 , accompanied by a grateful family of holidaymakers from the nearby holiday park who were spared the longer walk to Watchet . |
| 28 | And — ’ with a grateful glance at Benedict , who was standing by , mute , moved as he had not expected to be by this reunion he had brought about ‘ — thanks to this intelligent and resourceful young man , it is over now . ’ |
| 29 | In 1829 in Cork ( it must be remembered that Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom then ) a sergeant in the 21st Fusiliers was charged with the brutal assault and rape of a deaf girl without speech , Mary Brien , who was uneducated . |
| 30 | However the supreme manifestation of " deaf pride " was the election of a deaf man as Chairman of the BDA . |