Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So a chopped off finger 's not good enough . |
| 3 | Victor sucks in a Hooverful of cigar smoke , then strains it out through tight lips . |
| 4 | Ruth heard Gran talking to her in the office — which was only a partitioned off slice of the kitchen , so Ruth could hear every word as she stacked the dishwasher . |
| 5 | Well apart from those things erm tt when , when you were talking about the back erm Steve sort of gestured , in a way , that yes my back was erm oh my back , yes , that 's only a one off thing , there may have been some other health problem there which could 've gone into . |
| 6 | When they got to St-Jean it was only a little past midnight and the cafes were still open . |
| 7 | Yet language is too important to be left either to amateurs who know British education but know only a little about language , or to professionals who know much about language but have little close contact with British education . |
| 8 | An estimate for 1802 suggests that only a twelfth of relief recipients were inmates . |
| 9 | Even so , a rise in the proportion of appliance sales on hire purchase from only a tenth on nationalisation to nearly a half ten years later enabled them to retain their share in the growing retail market for electrical goods at about the 25 per cent level which they inherited on nationalisation . |
| 10 | Environmental regulation has focused on other forms of pollution ; only a third of air pollution expenditure goes on removing particles and most of this is spent on catching larger particles , those that are more than 10 microns in diameter . |
| 11 | Without submarine work , Rosyth would run at only a third of capacity for its MoD work . ’ |
| 12 | Over the weekend only a third of ambulance crews were working in London , where the dispute is taking the biggest toll because of staff shortages . |
| 13 | Towards the end of field-work , after a neighbourhood policeman had been murdered in another area , which up until then had been considered ‘ soft ’ , with no threat from terrorists , Easton 's neighbourhood men began going out in threes , with two men providing cover , so that only a third of beat time was devoted to each neighbourhood patch . |
| 14 | I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom . |
| 15 | I also give a guarantee that it is n't just a one off situation , meeting we all go away and forget about what we 've said I can assure you that wo n't happen minutes have been taken and and what 's been said this evening that will be conveyed to the management committee meeting the board meeting and I think we need to look very clearly at a very closely what 's been said and respond to what 's been said and I think that it 's been suggested also raised this evening about having a further meeting to report back and say erm this has been said this is our response . |
| 16 | Has that been a recurring thing or was it er was it just a one off situation ? |
| 17 | And that experience that took place on that initial day that is the birthday of the church was not just a one off thing , but as others came into the church they experienced not another pentecost , but if you like , their own pentecost . |
| 18 | I shall select just a few for analysis , and readers are directed to the reading list for additional sources of information . |
| 19 | Poles — originally upright poles which restricted access , not A shaped for ease of entry . |
| 20 | An Anglo-Catholic priest helped me accept the desert experiences of prayer — no-one had ever told me , after an experience of personal renewal , to expect the stripping and refining that was not a falling from grace but a growth in it . |
| 21 | It 's not a third of metre , a third of a millimetre or a third of a kilometre , it 's just a third , the ratio of that length to that one . |
| 22 | Not a falling-away from faith , but a falling-away from faith in Christianity . |
| 23 | Yellow Pages everybody gets a free entry so there 's already a warm up situation . |
| 24 | Er my Lord it 's rather a complicated of transaction and the the essential heading this case was that he failed to advise in relation to title er the person who goes from with respect to a land transaction he 's entitled to expect that the lawyer investigates the state of entitlement to arrange the matter and to explain to the trial exactly what that is , what it is that is portrayed by the state of the title . |
| 25 | Part of the principle of equal treatment is that a compulsory bid must be made when a certain level of shareholdings is actually exceeded , namely a third of voting stock . |
| 26 | Comparison is also a preliminary to ordering . |
| 27 | In addition to the hotel income which a bank holiday encourages , the group was also aware of its importance in generating day-trip revenue which , at £5b a year , provides nearly a third of tourism expenditure by Britons in this country . |
| 28 | Consider financial services , for example , which already account for nearly a third of GDP . |
| 29 | The Harris/ITN exit poll shows that , overall , one in five people who voted Labour had done so tactically ( nearly a third of Lib Dem voters also did so ) . |
| 30 | The new system will run under MS-DOS or Windows , transmits at a faster 10Mbps than its predecessor and takes up a fifth less memory space : 37Kb on a satellite , 46Kb on a server . |