Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [coord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I said , you 're gon na come in at two per cent , and I 'm gon na come in at twenty-two , and we both know that actually we 're gon na up finish between eight and a half and nine , do n't we ? |
2 | Yes , well you are talking about children 's services , but , I , I think if Mr 's going to talk later to this , if you want , but we are absolutely at the moment , we know that eighty nine percent of work at the child care centre is to do with child protection with to deal with it , and by that I mean abuse , physical and sexual abuse , er , concerns about that and a lot of that of course is , is tied up in procedural ways , and we 're dealing with events almost after the situation has er , got going , er , and of course , with the courts , you know that we 've got duties in relation to the courts , that we , we have to fulfil or else we are the subject of criticism from the er , courts , and we have been rapped at various er , times . |
3 | At a meeting on Sunday , the 300 strikers indicated they were prepared to agree to management plans to resolve a dispute over lay-offs , but would return to work under protest at part of the package which included a wage freeze for 1993 and a cut in fringe benefits . |
4 | At a post-crisis discussion between Mikoian and a State Department official , Mikoian was ‘ clearly influenced by commitments to Castro to make a strong case on Castro 's behalf ’ and tried to establish the idea of a protocol signed by all three countries ‘ [ attaching ] a good deal of significance to Cuba being one of the signatories ’ . |
5 | ‘ Mrs Henry Cox ’ , too busy for some but a favourite with many for over a century |
6 | The Home Guard became a joke for some and a remark once passed in my company was " What use do you think you would be against trained troops ? " . |
7 | Early retirement may be a release from employment for some and a refuge from the severe insecurity of the labour market for others . |
8 | As I say I was sitting there adding it up , a pound for this and a pound for that and your meal , a fiver for Maggie , I 'm twenty pound short off you |
9 | There were a lot of arguments for this and a lot against . |
10 | Pulling on a pair of ‘ Afro-American tribal dance boots ’ ( ie Nikes ) to complement his khaki tie-dye T-shirt and army trousers : ‘ It was a toss-up between this and a shell suit . |
11 | There is only one league match left after that and a West derby victory would put them out of reach . |
12 | There 's about another two weeks after that or a week . |
13 | ‘ What are you after all but a journalist ? |
14 | Thanks to Mrs Castle 's Diary , we have some intelligence on Wilson Mark I. Elected in October 1964 , he had by early 1969 ( i.e. after four and a quarter years ) reached his 236th ad hoc group . |
15 | After four and a quarter years , some firms will already have had at least two visits and many in category 1 will be facing a second visit in the near future . |
16 | That means that two-thirds of the population can be expected to sleep between six and a half and eight and a half hours a night , about 16 per cent regularly sleep over eight and a half hours , and another 16 per cent sleep under six and a half hours . |
17 | Powerful material for 1963 but a sample of how the show should have developed its characters to make them more rounded and believable . |
18 | The generic label ‘ poststructuralist ’ is here useful merely as a shorthand to designate those contemporary writers who share not a hostility to history as such but a distrust of simple historicisms . |
19 | Fine Gael had a PV of 27.1 and a PS of 30.7 . |
20 | There was also the occasional case of petty theft , street fighting or traffic offences which often ended up with a plea of Guilty and a fine of a few dollars or a short period in goal . |
21 | Within the Cabinet , it was , paradoxically , Snowden — usually regarded as a sea-green incorruptible on the issue of free trade — who , overcome by hatred of Labour and a desire to smash his old party , appeared to relish the idea of an early election in which Labour would go down to defeat . |
22 | A coalition consisting only of Labour and a party to its left would have immense trouble foisting the trauma of withdrawal on Israel . |
23 | With the drive cache disabled , it turned in a power rating of 14,203 and a WinTach rating of 3.75 , which is n't bad . |
24 | The race will be over 5 miles instead of eight and a quarter and is being arranged with the help of Loftus AC road race organiser Peter Clifford . |
25 | The faintly stoned Indian vocal line does n't help , and somehow this seems to me like a cross between ‘ What Time Is Love ’ and ‘ Fools Gold ’ with the charm of neither and a lot of other unnecessary junk . |
26 | The FT Government Securities index currently stands at 88.18 against a high for the year to date of 89.75 and a low of 85.11 ( see panel ) . |
27 | Eddie Polland was the winner of the card and pencil contest with a four rounds total of 290 but a year later Barry Brennan bettered that score by nine shots . |
28 | Determine your total daily calorie intake at a minimum figure of 850 and a maximum of 1,500 . |
29 | And my instructions were that I I used to either let them have two thirds of that or a half , you see ? |
30 | The demes were organized into three groups ( or trittyes ) , coastal , in land and city , and these were artificially aggregated into bigger units called tribes , phylai : a trittys of coastal , a trittys of inland and a trittys of city demes went to make up one of the ten tribes of Attica , each of which sent fifty councillors to Athens . |