Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He occupies a 12th floor office in a building about as typical of a government department as you can get . |
| 2 | The folds look as if they are pushing Helmsdale right into the sea ; as though the river in spate had collected all the houses it could uproot inland and deposited them at the river mouth with just enough of a toehold to keep them there . |
| 3 | This is caused by the corneo-retinal potential — a standing potential across the retina of about one-tenth of a volt . |
| 4 | But murder it is , and whatever leniency is called for must find itself reflected either in a verdict of not guilty by a jury , despite the facts , in the sentence of the court ( though in England the sentence is at present fixed by law ) , or in the exercise of some executive discretion . |
| 5 | The PowerPC 601 , which incorporates Motorola 's 88110 bus architecture into IBM 's design , has 2.8 million transistors crammed into a dimension of approximately four-tenths of an inch per side , and uses IBM 's 0.6 micron CMOS process . |
| 6 | Stephen , a boy of about sixteen in a school not far from Susan 's , told me the following story : Extract 2 : Sounds are for big people Me was trodding down de road and me come across me bredder " e — me ask " im for some money an " e say " e na got . |
| 7 | They found themselves among a throng of about 10 at a Workers ' Revolutionary Party meeting at a local community centre . |
| 8 | The speaking clock is sponsored by a watchmaker , raising the awkward question of how much of a future it can have if everyone buys watches . |
| 9 | She found one little girl of about four under a pile of masonry . |
| 10 | The machine is scalable from eight to over 1,000 processors , in the latter case theoretically doing about 10,000 transactions per second against about 450 for a large conventional mainframe . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Sir Lewis does not intend to rush his decision on the future of the Country Court concept , currently on ice with only six of a planned 20 hotels off the starting blocks . |
| 12 | The figures demonstrate something about the characteristics of people with dementia referred to psychogeriatricians : that they are on average around 80 years of age , mainly women , mainly widowed or single , quite likely to be living alone but not without the involvement of relatives or friends , and with fairly advanced dementia ( assuming that this is the implication of a score of nearly seven on a scale , running from one to ten , designed mainly to measure impairment of memory ) . |
| 13 | I was by no means ill , and the ground by the road was firm enough for me to get to the Land Rover without too much of a struggle . |
| 14 | The element of exceptionalism , and a welcome one , was that , in contrast to France , Italy and Germany , Britain is for the moment at least free of a significant right-wing racist element . |
| 15 | To get the activity in isolation you have to think of someone suddenly coming into existence with just enough of a world around him so that what he does and believes is just what the postman does and believes in the real world , but without any real environment . |
| 16 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 17 | ONE of the happiest men in Basildon was Joe Mills , an Essex University student from Harlow , who claimed the 800 metres title by just four-hundredths of a second in the Championships ' best race . |
| 18 | At a formal ceremony on June 1 the two leaders signed a framework agreement on the major elements of a treaty on strategic arms reductions ( START ) , involving a reduction of each side 's long-range nuclear missiles by about one-third over a seven-year period . |
| 19 | He matured into a distinguished mathematician who enriched many branches of the science before he died at the age of only 44 from a ruptured appendix . |
| 20 | Ahead of them , a woman of about sixty in a blue tracksuit pawed the ground in the jogger 's equivalent of neutral . |
| 21 | His foresight has been especially important in transforming the ITF from a largely amateur , mainly non-international organisation , with a staff of just four plus a part-time accountant , into an all-embracing tennis authority , with a staff of 40 , capable of coping with increasing demands and responsibilities . |
| 22 | If the poll tax really became a tax on voting , was it non-registering residents , rather than any enthusiasm for Major or Lang , that pushed the Tory percentage in Scotland up from a poll average of about 21 to an actual 25.5 per cent , and proportionately diminished the impact of the Labour and SNP campaigns ? |
| 23 | Setting the master volume to around half as a starting point , the channels can be quickly matched for clean , crunch and lead levels . |
| 24 | For Big Blue , OS/2 is just one piece of a grand vision about how all of a company 's computers can work together . |
| 25 | Renamo wanted joint armed forces of only 15,000 during a transitional phase before a general election , whereas the government proposed armed forces of 50,000 . |
| 26 | The owner of the voice was a big man of about thirty-five in a black coat and very dirty trousers , with a brown hat on his head and a dirty handkerchief around his neck . |
| 27 | The Man With Not Much of a Name , perhaps . |
| 28 | It seems odd that a man with so much of a reputation for sexual encounters should cringe from public contact , but it was all part of his reserve . |
| 29 | He would look after the government on as much of a care and maintenance basis as circumstances permitted , deciding only urgent matters and then only with Cabinet consent if this were possible . |
| 30 | Lennie Lawrence 's side could feature in up to five live televised games at least one on a Monday night and one on a Sunday . |