Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her only concession to the occasion was that she wore silk , a green silk trouser-suit with the shirt open and a black camisole top beneath it . |
| 2 | When a candidate is preparing to be interviewed ‘ on air ’ , there is usually a period of five to 10 minutes before the interview proper when a live satellite link will be sent back to network headquarters . |
| 3 | For the next six hours — or a little less , because at Battersea the flood lasts five and a half hours , and the ebb six and a half — they would be living not on land , but on water . |
| 4 | Mike Cooke took up the sport two and a half years ago . |
| 5 | ‘ Apart from earning very good money , I find the work interesting and a challenge . ’ |
| 6 | ( 1 ) " licence " means any licence granted under the Act other than a seamen 's canteen licence ( see 5.139(1) ) . |
| 7 | ( 1 ) " licence " is defined in s.139(1) as being any licence granted under the Act other than a seamen 's canteen licence . |
| 8 | In computing values for cumulative distributions it is normal to consider values in terms of the percentage coarser than a given grain size . |
| 9 | He pointed to experiments in the process two and a half centuries before ( and could , in fact , have gone back to the fifteenth century ) . |
| 10 | This committee , like the CNAA , gives the approval necessary before a course can be funded ( and thereby receive students ) . |
| 11 | There was no furniture in the room other than a cupboard in the far corner in which were kept special foods such as plates of dates selected from the great storehouse or the enamel pots poured full of the sweet of the area . |
| 12 | Asbestos pellets and waste brake pads were strewn about the site unburied and a large waste bin left on the site was covered with substantial quantities of asbestos dust ’ . |
| 13 | Tell somebody that ‘ It 's just a joke ’ , ‘ It 's supposed to be a poem ’ , ‘ No speeches please ’ or ‘ Let's have the meeting first and a chat later ’ and they will process or produce the discourse quite differently . |
| 14 | The examination requires an essay on one of the themes of the period concerned and a commentary on a piece of text . |
| 15 | It was also during the period 1924–35 that a forging of closer relationships between the WEA and the Trade Union movement was attempted . |
| 16 | They set something like 50,000 km of net a night , enough to go around the equator one and a quarter times . |
| 17 | I was on the communal house phone , which is chained to the wall tighter than a medieval Bible , when the doorbell rang . |
| 18 | They still hoped in 1980 that the Palestinian issue — the demands of Palestinians who lost their homes in what is now Israel — could be dealt with as part of a general Arab–Israeli peace settlement , that the whole two and a half million Palestinian diaspora could be given a lump-sum , once-and-for-all payment of compensation . |
| 19 | The power lead from the transformer has to go to the keyboard first and a short lead from here connects to the PCB . |
| 20 | After saving up my hard-earned wages for the past four and a half years I managed to scrape the 1750 or so quid together and bought myself the most stunning quilted maple P.R.S. Custom you ever saw . |
| 21 | This article will look at the work of the Commissioner during the past four and a half years , the problems which she has faced , and will conclude that she provides a model for other areas of dispute resolution . |
| 22 | An exhibition including the Irises and six other Impressionist works has travelled round the capital cities of Austrlia over the past two and a half months , ending in Perth . |
| 23 | Experience in the past two and a half years has shown both the general effectiveness of such schemes and the need for a much wider extension of them . |
| 24 | Fund raising for the £130,000 project had , said Mr. Kirby ‘ been an up-hill struggle ’ over the past two and a half years , but the end was now in sight . |
| 25 | I take this opportunity to pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for all the work that he has done in the past two and a half years to improve the future and administration of Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | However , it has surely been to the mutual advantage of the people of Scotland and England that we have had that union for the past two and a half centuries . |
| 27 | She has been a member of the Finance Committee for the past two and a half years and has taken a great interest in the Society 's financial affairs . |
| 28 | She is 24 and has been in prison or special hospital for the past five and a half years . |
| 29 | For the past 11 and a half years , Michelle Howard has been paralysed from the chest down ; the result , she claims , of a routine jaw operation she underwent at Poole General Hospital in 1982 . |
| 30 | For she 'd literally been shaken to her roots when the clothing firm she 'd worked for for the past six and a half years had collapsed , making the entire work-force redundant . |