Example sentences of "to a [noun sg] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be constructed easily and cheaply by tacking a square of white or green flannel to a board 24 ins by 24 ins ( 60 cm by 60 cm ) . |
| 2 | Trevor Spanswick walked into the Centurion pub in Overfields , Middlesbrough , to talk to a friend five days after the ban but when landlord Eric Curren told him to leave he threatened he would go and get a hammer . |
| 3 | ‘ I treated my own father abominably and no sin in my whole life now seems to be so serious , ’ Lewis blurted out to a correspondent twenty-five years after A. J. Lewis 's demise . |
| 4 | VERA Daniels , 66 , was reunited yesterday with long-lost brother John Stokes , 63 — last seen in 1942 — after tracing him to a village TEN MILES from her home in Newcastle-under-Lyme , Staffs . |
| 5 | As he hit the water , his legs flailed in the mid-air running motion like a character in a Tom and Jerry cartoon and he quickly struck out for a convenient ladder as I hastily brought Venturous to a standstill some feet off the pier . |
| 6 | His object attained , the remaining nine years of his life brought to a head many problems between himself and the labour movement which had been latent since his first incursion into a very different labour scene in 1887 . |
| 7 | Murray 's death bears similarities to a case two years ago when sixteen year old David Nock was stabbed to death as he jogged home through the town . |
| 8 | Recent vault clearances of over 2,000 coffins of the period 1729–1865 from St Marylebone Parish Church and Christchurch , Spitalfields , 18 exhibit a change in attitude ; for here , whilst it was not unusual to find wedding rings and dentures in situ , there were two instances — both men — of day-clothes having been used in place of the shroud : one in military uniform , the other an octogenarian macaroni with his walking stick , sporting an outfit more suited to a man sixty years his junior , as did the coiffure of his wig . |
| 9 | She is married for the second time to a man 15 years her junior . |
| 10 | Generally speaking , a dependent item is expected to bring to a construction semantic traits not already prefigured in the head ; if the dependent item contributes nothing new , the resulting combination is pleonastic . |
| 11 | The process of mourning , so clearly mapped out in bereavement studies , applies also to getting married , starting a family , letting children go , retiring , and to a myriad other changes which affect marriage . |
| 12 | Thankfully our landing was cushioned by the deep new snow and we came to a rest 100 metres lower , badly bruised and half strangled by the rope , but somehow down the couloir in one piece . |
| 13 | They wished instead to send their children to a school two miles away . |
| 14 | If you listen to a text enough times you will come to a point where you more or less know it by heart , and the correct tunes will be sort of " ingrained " in your ind to such an extent that you will yourself react if you would say the text with the wrong intonation . |
| 15 | He improved his championship best to a wind-assisted 10.39 seconds in the 100 metres semi-finals and the organisers have agreed to pay his expenses for competing in the Olympic trials in Birmingham on June 27 and 28 a bonus normally offered only to winners . |
| 16 | He was eventually classified tenth even though engine failure to the Ford HB V8 had brought his race to a halt six laps from the end . |
| 17 | A police car emerged from the other alleyway and screeched to a halt ten yards in front of Whitlock , blocking his shot . |
| 18 | Ron had pounced from his car , screeching to a halt ten yards ahead of them . |
| 19 | They 'd lope out to a mesa two miles away and walk back . |
| 20 | Later this year , it will be towed to a location 130 miles north-east off Aberdeen where it will be anchored permanently as a floating oil storage unit for the new Alba oilfield under development by Chevron . |
| 21 | Thanks to a story two weeks ago in InformationWeek headlined ‘ Take One , It 's Free , ’ Unix System Labs is having to explain to potential Destiny customers why they ca n't have a free copy of SVR4.2 . |
| 22 | The existence of the tape has been known for months and a copy of it was made available to a newspaper many weeks ago . |
| 23 | It swerved wildly towards the wall , bounced over the pavement and came to a stop four feet from the concrete wall . |
| 24 | The fuselage broke into three major sections when it separated at the wing leading edge and wing trailing edge and the wreckage came to a stop 625 feet short of the runway pavement . |
| 25 | Alright , is that significantly different from zero or you could go to a pie squared tables , look at the degrees of freedom , which is one , right . |
| 26 | A lack-lustre school five minutes ' walk from home with no major roads to be crossed may be preferred to a showpiece two miles away . |
| 27 | The duration of copyright may be extended across the European Community to a uniform seventy years from the year of death of the artist or author . |
| 28 | You can go to a stream fifty times in a year , but you 've got to poke your head over the bridge — both sides — to be sure . ’ |
| 29 | Private businesses would be limited in the size of workforce , from a maximum 200 employees in an industrial of construction company down to a maximum 15 employees in the retail sector . |
| 30 | Greg Thomas came close to a wicket three times in his first over in Test cricket , but Greenidge and Haynes survived to give their usual start before Greenidge had to retire with a cut forehead after mishooking Botham . |