Example sentences of "[noun] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any instant , three of them are the current required settings of the three motors ; three are the previous required settings , a third of a second earlier ; three are the required settings a third of a second before then ; and so on . |
| 2 | JEALOUS husband Michael Arthurs threatened to give his wife 's half-naked lover a roasting with a sharp-pronged meatfork . |
| 3 | And this was expressed in a very imaginative presentation by Professor a young in her keynote lecture when she called for three significant changes . |
| 4 | In the quarries at Chapel Stile , Dave Birkett has added Keep On Keeping On , E7 7± : in effect a direct on his own Scared Rabbit . |
| 5 | Lifting his lips a thousandth of an inch from hers , he said , ‘ Forgotten her . ’ |
| 6 | IPSWICH boss Mick McGiven is ready to give his side a roasting before today 's Premier League game against Sheffield United at Portman Road . |
| 7 | And the wind got up in the night and pretty strong and we had a hut a twenty by twenty five foot fourteen eighteen war hut in the middle of a square and there was a shop and a storeroom besides . |
| 8 | ‘ Mr Major will tell the Queen a slimmed down Royal Family is more in tune with the times . ’ |
| 9 | Through the rigging of the schooner a five of Palernians could be seen , making a nuisance of themselves on a flimsy raft . |
| 10 | Little ball up to Speedy drops it off to Thomson a good through ball to a running forward Jochim . |
| 11 | No wonder the police had given Wheeler a roasting about security ; it was amazing they had a piece of altar silver to bless themselves with . |
| 12 | I hope that the foregoing has served to give some idea of the private legislation procedure from the point of view of a parliamentary agent , and I think in conclusion that it would be useful if I were summarise a few of the problems which appear to affect solicitors , executive officers and advisers locally . |
| 13 | Mrs Yaxlee gave her grandson a long considering look . |
| 14 | This costs £20 a year and enables two adults to get reductions off fares a third off First Class and Standard , a quarter of Savers and Supersavers . |
| 15 | Confident that there was enough evidence to support the move , Branson now appointed himself to the board as an ‘ A ’ director , giving the Virgin Group a three to two majority over Fields . |
| 16 | Two minutes from the interval a perfect through ball from Sheedy enabled Peacock to beat the offside trap . |
| 17 | You should introduce fish a few at a time , over a period of several weeks . |
| 18 | In the first two years a third of the course work is in economics . |
| 19 | BTW , if there are cameras … how about flogging the tape to Jez beadle ( every man has his price , and mines a grand to publicly humiliate old thunder boots ) ; - ) ) ) ) |
| 20 | Mr Harland added : ‘ Unfortunately in this case a few of our postmen failed to interpret those rules correctly . |
| 21 | Finally , I 'd like to mention that we shall be recommending for shareholders a one for one scrip issue . |
| 22 | The Parliamentary Accounts committee has recently given English Heritage a roasting for having produced a slash-and-dash strategy document last autumn without having consulted any of the relevant professional bodies . |
| 23 | They used to be sent to London and various places ; and when we 'd done all that we got four shillings a hundred for them . |
| 24 | He was assuming that the slice had come from Miss Tuckey 's kitchen a makeshift to arm ‘ Praeger ’ while the others went to get a van or just new instructions since they would n't have planned on removing a body . |
| 25 | Pompey take some beating … they proved that on saturday by coming back with an equaliser within two minutes a first for their new striker Lee Chapman … |
| 26 | Pompey take some beating … they proved that on saturday by coming back with an equaliser within two minutes a first for their new striker Lee Chapman … |
| 27 | About 90,000 people in the region qualify for concessionary travel , at present a fifth of the normal fare on buses and rail services . |
| 28 | It is amazing what damage a few of these can do to your plants . |
| 29 | A hundred to the half times a hundred to the half , made a hundred . |
| 30 | Fifteen times a hundred plus the eight hundred yeah two thousand three hundred . |