Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | The Middle East was the most successful region and a three-fold increase in activity is in prospect there in 1993 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is a single-storey building of brick . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He arranged for them to adopt a dark-haired boy at birth . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He noticed that the ghost was smartly dressed in a cut-away coat with gilt buttons , a stand-up collar and Scotch cap . |
| 13 | For Abelard there is a transforming energy in love which can change people . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | However the supreme manifestation of " deaf pride " was the election of a deaf man as Chairman of the BDA . |
| 16 | A DEAF woman with speech difficulties was stunned , sexually assaulted and stabbed repeatedly by a killer who got into the flat where she lived alone , a court was told yesterday . |
| 17 | At the end , between lengthy visits to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington and crippled with arthritis as a result of a youthful bicycle accident , he turned a deaf ear to opposition calls to resign after losing his majority . |
| 18 | Hence the enormous success of Oldham , a hilly settlement in East Lancashire with considerable reserves of coal , situated only 11km ( 7 miles ) from Manchester , the greatest yarn market in the world in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 19 | In the former , Lord Macmillan hesitated ‘ to hold that in these days and in an industrial community it was a non-natural use of land to build a factory on it and conduct there the manufacture of explosives . ’ |
| 20 | The House declined to consider itself bound by the Rainham Chemicals case where it seems to have been taken for granted that such an activity constituted a non-natural use of land . |
| 21 | But the storing of water as in Rylands v. Fletcher , or industrial water under pressure , or gas and electricity in bulk in mains is a non-natural use of land . |
| 22 | It has been held that keeping a motor-car in a garage with petrol in the tank , and a motor-coach in a parking ground after the tank has been emptied is a non-natural use of land , but the decisions have been criticised . |
| 23 | Such an interpretation allows the courts to hold that a common activity such as the collection and storage of gas or water does not constitute a non-natural use of land , even though the injury potential of the activity is high . |
| 24 | Lawton J. refused to regard this as a non-natural use of land . |
| 25 | It would seem therefore that normal industrial activities properly carried out may no longer involve a non-natural use of land and many of the older authorities on this point will need reconsidering . |
| 26 | THE RUSSIAN and Ukrainian Presidents struggling for power over the Black Sea Fleet may be pleasing their nationalist countrymen , but the sailors at the fleet 's Crimean headquarters feel only shame and humiliation at the spectacle of a historic navy in chaos . |
| 27 | Introduced so hastily after the original abolition of flogging , and remaining on the statute book until judicial corporal punishment was ended as recently as 1948 , the Garotter 's Act was thus a historic landmark of reaction ; and it was quickly followed by measures to toughen prison discipline and to introduce a minimum penalty of five years of penal servitude for second offenders . |
| 28 | A typically Thatcherite product — classless , consumerist , guiltless — The Face always had a left-liberal stance on racism , feminism and homosexuality . |
| 29 | It 's a downhill race for cover |
| 30 | Fonda claimed that this first experience began the halt of a downhill slide into alcoholism , acquisitive , habitual spending on fast cars , Cessna airplanes , fine suits and provided him with the insight to revoke his staunch conservative opinions and adopt a liberalistic , casual , ‘ don't-give-a-fuck approach to life ’ . |