Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun Microsystems Computer Corp and Oracle Corp say that under the Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark A the eight-processor model of Sun Microsystems ' new Sparcserver 1000 under Oracle7 Co-operative Server delivered 400.80 transactions a second for price-performance of $5,987 a tpsA . |
| 2 | Among his works , Mills was responsible for building in London a handsome , pilastered terrace of houses in Great Queen Street , c .1640 ; houses in Holborn in 1641 and in Budge Row in 1668–9 ; and for extensive works at Christ 's Hospital in 1667–8 . |
| 3 | She now has a bill of £500 from the council for over-payment of housing benefit , a sum that she has difficulty in repaying on a net income after rent of £23 a week . |
| 4 | Fry said his farewells to the players who regarded him as a father figure before heading for home in Bedford a devastated man . |
| 5 | For peace of mind a combination of both types of bacterial filtration is recommended . |
| 6 | History is already repeating itself as farce in Beijing a year after the massacre . |
| 7 | Pius XI had sanctioned for recital after Mass a special prayer to St Michael ‘ for the conversion of Russia ’ , imploring him to thrust down to hell ‘ Satan and all wicked spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls ’ . |
| 8 | When Florey came to the chair of pathology at Sheffield a year or two later , Paine mentioned the matter to him but aroused no obvious interest . |
| 9 | Duregar , a kinsman of Belegar from Karaz a Karak , immediately gathered an army and marched southwards along the western flanks of the mountains . |
| 10 | On the westward side of Heart o' Corrie a path is traced winding up the hill ; it is reached by fording the burn that flows through the glen . |
| 11 | Where persons set out deliberately to prevent others from conducting perfectly lawful business , they do the cause of freedom of speech a disservice . |
| 12 | It was most fortunate that we sailed from Cape Town at the appointed time as he had many engagements in Australia — most important the Opening of Parliament in Melbourne a day or two after his arrival . |
| 13 | He became a cult figure in Russia as the first cartoon character in space , the guest of honour on board a rocket celebrating the end of the Cold War . |
| 14 | Why should it be zero or below before they receive the small amount of assistance of £6 a week ? |
| 15 | The National Library of Scotland , as you may know , is one of the ‘ libraries of deposit ’ entitled in terms of the Copyright Act , 1911 , Section 15 , to receive free of charge upon claim a copy of every printed work published in the United Kingdom . |
| 16 | The National Library of Scotland , as you may know , is one of the ‘ libraries of deposit ’ entitled in terms of the Copyright Act , 1911 , Section 15 , to receive free of charge upon claim a copy of every printed work published in the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | The National Library of Scotland , as you may know , is one of the ‘ libraries of deposit ’ entitled in terms of the Copyright Act 1911 , Section 15 , to receive free of charge upon claim a copy of every printed work published in the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | The National Library , as you may know , is one of the ‘ libraries of deposit ’ entitled in terms of the Copyright Act , 1911 , Section 15 , to receive free of charge upon claim a copy of every printed work published in the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | He and a few of his colleagues were inspired by the early struggles of Solidarity in Poland a decade ago . |
| 20 | High spirits that would be of use on board a man-of-war or on the march find vent in ‘ bashing ’ ’ the casual pedestrian or demolishing coffee stalls . ’ |
| 21 | Thus there could be no economies of scale in case a sleeve cut from one lay of medium blue had to go with a dress cut from another lay of so-called medium blue . |
| 22 | , In a policy document on transport , the Green Party has called for a rise in the price of petrol to £6 a gallon ( a 170 per cent increase ) , a halt to new road building , a speed limit of 50 mph on motorways , and heavy investment in public transport . |
| 23 | It is said that they would increase the cost of petrol by 20p a gallon . |
| 24 | OIL giant Shell is to cut the price of petrol by 18p a gallon from midnight tomorrow . |
| 25 | Was Time magazine 's recent dissection of feminism in fact a postmortem ? |
| 26 | In historical periods a loss factor of about 2 per cent per annum is known to have occurred ; compounded over a period of as long as a century , this will clearly drastically reduce the amount of coinage of year a available to the hoarder at the later date . |
| 27 | The summary which follows is a guide to the probable areas of difficulty , based on the current levels of performance of pupils a year or more younger than those who will be taking GCSE . |
| 28 | 18 Find the cost of 6½ metres of cloth at $1.36 a metre . |
| 29 | In addition to criminalizing both the practice and receipt of abortions , the law also made the provision of information concerning abortion a crime punishable by up to one year 's imprisonment . |
| 30 | This leads them to conclude that between 1931 and 1936 the Spanish right as a whole played a role analogous to that of fascism in Italy a decade earlier . |