Example sentences of "of [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( S. ) 460 , which established that where a juvenile pleaded guilty to an offence for which he could be ordered to be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) , it was open to the sentencer to impose a term of 12 months detention in a young offender institution , if he considered that apart from the plea of guilty a sentence of detention under section 53(2) would have been warranted . |
| 2 | Under the Child Minders Regulations Act of 1948 a person caring for reward for one or more children under five years of age to whom they are not related is required to be registered with the local authority . |
| 3 | Foreigners suffering poverty , but not political persecution , have been flocking to Germany at a rate of 400,000–500,000 a year . |
| 4 | From this converted shed next to the pub , he 's producing ninety gallons of each a week . |
| 5 | Er there 's another book which is similar to the other one in the sense that it made up of some papers by Phillips , Steel and Tants and that has some information about Mexicano in it , er and you find that some people er were giving Mexican language a low a low prestige rate whereas other group in the community were doing the opposite and giving a high prestige rate or certainly a less low one , er in favour of spanish a lot of the Because it was in I think it 's in South America I guess , er you find that a lot of the locals were switching to spanish because it was coming the dominant language er because of societal pressures and constraints and so on . |
| 6 | In April of 1925 a vacancy for the post of superintendent nurse was advertised and the appointment went to Miss May W. Hall , who was 32 years old , and had been the assistant tutor and deputy superintendent nurse at St.James ' Hospital , Chester . |
| 7 | On top of that a percentage is added to cover the chemists ' overheads and profit . |
| 8 | Senses ( b ) and ( c ) however can both be treated in terms of the notion of " passively experiencing " some event , with ( b ) implying on top of that a refusal to stand by passively and let someone do something without intervening . |
| 9 | However , assuming that it is and that Winchester became for the purposes of the Act of 1986 a member of Lautro , then the assumption does not lead to any relevant conclusion . |
| 10 | At the end of 1986 a group of professors , doctors and nutritionists in Britain produced a book repudiating ‘ crude and simplistic propaganda ’ about foods alleged to be healthy and unhealthy . |
| 11 | In the early part of 1986 a number of local authorities throughout the UK instructed the libraries under their jurisdiction ( mainly public libraries , but also a number of college libraries ) to suspend their subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals published by News International . |
| 12 | There the warden arrested him , imprisoned him in his gaol at Allexton , and afterwards released him for a fine of half a mark . |
| 13 | A hutch containing four mature working ferrets should have not less than 1 lb ( 450g ) of fresh meat daily — that 's the equivalent of half a rabbit . |
| 14 | But she was the first in recent memory — for Gentle the past had a way of evaporating after about ten years — who had conspired to remove everything from him in the space of half a day . |
| 15 | The introduction of a trading lag of half a day reduced , but did not eliminate , these arbitrage profits . |
| 16 | There are also some local variations in the measurements and because of this reliable detection of growth over a period of half a day seems unlikely . |
| 17 | 1 seminar of half a day or 1 day |
| 18 | People see advertisements out of the corner of their eye as they drive along a road or look through a newspaper or magazine ; they catch a glimpse of half a TV commercial round their wives ' or husbands ' broad backsides as the biscuits are brought in during a commercial break . |
| 19 | Even though Matthew seems to exaggerate in talking of half a hundredweight of flour , the principle of yeast increasing the size of dough still stands . |
| 20 | Usually wind-blown , they fill pockets among coarser rubble , or on a larger scale cover many hectares of flat ground to depths of half a metre or more , firm and sometimes consolidated . |
| 21 | The only surviving group of such installations can be explored at Curry Mallet near Taunton , Somerset , where three large gun emplacements with three-foot-thick concrete walls were built to house six-pounder anti-tank guns with a range of half a mile . |
| 22 | Overall , in Britain , more than one in three of all journeys are made door-to-door on foot and pedestrian journeys of half a mile or less make up one-sixth of total personal transport demand . |
| 23 | Astronomers can observe this happening because of the emission of infra-red energy , with dense clouds collapsing in on themselves at a rate of half a mile per second . |
| 24 | At the other end , a court refused to enforce a six-month restraint against a Mayfair hairdresser , extending for a radius of half a mile . |
| 25 | Sailplanes are often launched by means of half a mile or so of wire , reeled in by a winch . |
| 26 | THE PURCHASE OF half a mile of track by Avon Valley Railway members signals the start of the railway 's long awaited southern extension and the hope that passengers will be able to steam towards Bath during the second half of 1993 . |
| 27 | Under the supervision of ‘ Nobby ’ Clarke , many younger visitors and adults enjoy the long ride of half a mile alongside the standard gauge platforms . |
| 28 | The paper published photographs , taken by Crowe , from a distance of half a mile , that purported to be of a topless Trevor and a scantily overcoated Yvonne sucking toes on the lawn of Proby 's Thornham Bridge hacienda . |
| 29 | So long as we 're talking about sort of half a mile away ma maximum or with other sort of proper travelling arrangements . |
| 30 | So a 20-storey building has a period of about 2 seconds , a natural frequency of 0.5 hertz ; a five-storey building has a period of half a second , a natural frequency of 2 hertz . |