Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dating to the later first century , it later provided a foundation for at least one substantial masonry building . |
| 2 | Preliminary estimates suggest a cost of between £3.5 million and £7 million at May 1980 prices for the southern part of the Sighthill Section depending on the scheme adopted . |
| 3 | Public concern about war over such a trivial issue led Eisenhower to lower the temperature by offering to request a withdrawal of at least part of Chiang 's garrisons on the islands in return for a cease-fire . |
| 4 | She jerked a mouthful from between the spars and began to chew with quiet satisfaction . |
| 5 | In 1986 , the Dutch had the EC Presidency and proposed a cut of at least 50 per cent for West Germany and others , with 40 per cent for Italy and the UK . |
| 6 | In the discussions Gorbachev proposed a cut of at least 50 per cent in US and Soviet strategic arms , leading to their total elimination by the end of the century . |
| 7 | You want a chair for over here for doing |
| 8 | It was fairly crowded , but I found a place for at the side and bought a beaker of No-tox Fungi-beer which tastes like mouldy bread but leave your head clear . |
| 9 | For example , mouse chromosome 17 contains a cluster of at least five ZNF genes in a region of approximately 500 kb ( 47 ; P.Little , personal communication ) . |
| 10 | Was that my husband I caught a glimpse of through the open casement taking his ease on a sun lounger with a little pile of twigs by his side ? |
| 11 | Oh goodness yes , wh we if we dredged up , we 'd have a say a piece of on deck , we used to land them on deck until we got room , so we came up at Upper Dock . |
| 12 | However , if this holist conception is to provide a standard for at least some explanations within the social sciences , and if it is to avoid the difficulties discussed in Part II , it is obvious that it will need to be greatly refined and elaborated . |
| 13 | Thiercelin drew his sword , Epitot a horse-pistol from within his tunic . |
| 14 | We knew that if Thomas survived the cancer his only chance of a halfway normal life was to find a cure for A-T . |
| 15 | Will the Minister cast his mind back to the letter that he wrote to me last October — a soothing reply to the representations that I had made to him — pointing out that the Salford careers service , which covers my constituency , had forecast a shortfall of between 400 and 450 YTS places ? |
| 16 | I 'd forgotten that was what I 'd picked a Gnat for in the first place It sounded horrible , coming from him . |
| 17 | Mr Reed says Citicorp will not consider a merger for at least six months . |
| 18 | By then several million years have elapsed since the birth of the star and its iron core contains several solar masses and has a density of about and a temperature of about 109 K. Further collapse is inhibited by the electron degeneracy pressure : this pressure is the direct consequence of the Pauli principle requirement that two electrons can not occupy the same quantum state . |
| 19 | U has a range of from 5.6 to 7.5 and seems to be irregular . |
| 20 | EU has a range of from 6 to 7 and is said to have a rough period of 60 days , though I have never found much evidence of it . |
| 21 | Eta Aquilæ has a range of from 3.4 to 4.7 , and a period of 7.2 days ; Beta , Delta , Theta and Iota ( 4.4 ) are useful comparisons . |
| 22 | The little quadrilateral near Vega is made up of Gamma ( 3.2 ) , Zeta and Delta ( each 4.3 ) and the eclipsing binary Beta , which has a range of from 3.4 to 4.3 and exhibits alternate deep and shallow minima . |
| 23 | It is fairly rich , and is an easy binocular object ; it contains the Cepheid variable S Normæ , which has a range of from 6.8 to 7.8 and a period of 9.7 days . |
| 24 | He commented that if the process was to have practical importance ‘ we would have to find a different catalysing particle which has properties similar to the muon but has a lifetime of at least ten or twenty minutes . ’ |
| 25 | We consider that a child in care has a right to at least as good an education as any other child . |
| 26 | British Manufacture employs 300 , mainly at Grantham , Lincs and has a turnover of between £20m and £30m a year . |
| 27 | An average tunnel has a diameter of between nine and twelve inches ( 22–30cm ) , but the entrances may be much , much wider . |
| 28 | Today , it has a membership of over one thousand . |
| 29 | In the nineteenth century the various companies amalgamated and gradually merged their quarries into this one colossal pit , which has a circumference of about a mile and a depth of four hundred feet . |
| 30 | The museum for contemporary art , which cost DM48 million to build and was funded by the city of Frankfurt , needs an injection of at least DM250,000 ( £86,000 ; $155,000 ) to keep going . |