Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This order is basically a First In First Out method with a simple modification . |
| 2 | A verb form , especially a finite of to be , that connects a subject and the complement or the nominal part of the predicate : His brother was a sailor . |
| 3 | As Horton Davies , who has explored this subject deeply , wrote : ‘ More worshipful churches proved incentives to , if not a deeper , yet a better ordered and more dignified worship among congregations that had previously regarded worship as merely a preliminary to preaching . ’ |
| 4 | In a Labour Monthly article , " The United Front and Revolutionary Unity " , Palme Dutt developed the theme that the United Front created on 17 March 1933 was merely a preliminary to the creation of a new Left party . " |
| 5 | His flailing tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them on the earth . |
| 6 | He stretched his throat and gulped down a third of the liquid in the glass . |
| 7 | Despite profits which were down a third on last year , Stoddard Sekers International outperformed the bulk of the beleaguered textile section . |
| 8 | Sukarno 's repressive nationalist regime led directly to the massacre of perhaps a million of his communist supporters , gross civil rights abuses , torture , the illegal invasion of East Timor , and the current police state . |
| 9 | The great ecclesiastical towns lived on the churches and monasteries — perhaps a twentieth of the population of Valladolid depended on the Church — while soup and bread doles from the episcopal palaces and monasteries were an important element in the budget of the urban poor . |
| 10 | Then again , perhaps a scaled down 5-series would have been too predictable . |
| 11 | could use the same report cover by printing a s perhaps a thousand of those . |
| 12 | Because the cell was designed for only half-a-dozen prisoners , perhaps a hundred of the captives died in the night , and in later decades all Englishmen in India remembered the Black Hole of Calcutta as a dreadful atrocity . |
| 13 | Such programs take a comprehensive analysis ( more than twenty elements ) on each sample in turn , and compare it with perhaps a hundred to two hundred other samples to try to find a close ‘ match ’ . |
| 14 | It seems that they chase somebody like John who , at the outside may end up after five years owing them perhaps a hundred to two hundred pounds |
| 15 | I 'd like us to ask another question this week , it 's slightly different , perhaps a strange on the surface and it 's how much faith does God have in you ? |
| 16 | about the Olympic champion , he 'll be in Rome , he 'll be ready for the World Championships , I think he 's had an easy summer so far , but we 've got the likes of Sergio Lopez who 's just taken my European record away , there 's two Americans ; Kirl Stattel and Mike Barryman who 've just gone under the old World Record , so there 's perhaps a dozen of us that are really shouting and trying to get up to number one position . |
| 17 | Griffith 's calculations showed that the cracks , whatever they were , must h quite narrow , perhaps a hundredth of the wavelength of ordinary visible light . |
| 18 | The idea is simple : a group of people with different building skills team up to build each other 's houses , saving perhaps a third of the cost of a ready-made home . |
| 19 | Perhaps a third of first births in Victorian times were so conceived . |
| 20 | What about the people to whom it will have cost perhaps a third of their lifetime ? |
| 21 | The imminent loss of perhaps a third of the cream of Russian science , he says , demonstrates the importance of taking rapid action , by whatever means available , to help those still willing and able to do science . |
| 22 | So I mean think about it as long term planning , and certainly for those under er sixty the long term becomes extremely long term because er you know you 're looking at perhaps a third of your life er which is er still to be accounted for . |
| 23 | It contained a large number of royal estates : perhaps a third of those which have been identified in the Carolingian Empire . |
| 24 | This means that it accounts for perhaps a third of the sales of ICI Chemicals & Polymers — about the same proportion as does the latter in the whole of ICI . |
| 25 | Many of you will remember Her Majesty the Queen 's visit in 1984 when she opened the Queen 's Library at Sighthill , and perhaps a few of you will recall the Duke of Edinburgh 's visit in 1965 . |
| 26 | In the first half of the eighteenth century the London trading turnover of the Company ran between £1m. and £2m. a year , of which about half went on bullion and other items to export , perhaps a sixth on transport costs , and a third for English customs duties . |
| 27 | A fine copy of Pride and Prejudice in original boards , uncut , and with paper labels , can take the buyer into four figures ; a beautiful set in calf or morocco costing perhaps a tenth of that , and one in cloth considerably less still . |
| 28 | Investors who would be badly upset by a further fall of perhaps a tenth in the value of their holdings , if the market turns sour , should consider weeding out a couple more of their holdings . |
| 29 | Erm so a hundred to the power half , is actually equal to ten , let's say if we did erm sixteen to the power half , times sixteen to the power of a half . |
| 30 | So a chopped off finger 's not good enough . |