Example sentences of "with [det] [subord] [det] a " in BNC.

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1 Will he give an undertaking today to give us information on recruitment levels , retention levels and the position of one base as compared with another before such a report is produced ?
2 An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,0000 ) , has hanged himself in his cell .
3 An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,000 ) has hanged himself in his cell .
4 With more than half a million driversstopped and breathalysed last year , people are more aware than ever that detection is a real possibility .
5 Thus , if the corporations in their study were divided into three groups depending on the size of their annual sales , then they calculated that those with sales over $1 billion constituted 42 per cent of all corporations but committed nearly three-quarters of not only all violations but all serious violations , whereas those small firms with sales with less than half a billion dollars constituted nearly one-third of firms analysed but only committed less than 10 per cent of all violations .
6 The result is that the aircraft is about 30° off the inbound holding track , with less than half a minute to run to the holding point .
7 ‘ On the whole we have to be reasonably satisfied — we can not be too disappointed with less than half a dozen call-outs . ’
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