Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be a colonel required an income of £1000 a year and a captain needed £200 ; the intermediate ranks were suitably graded . |
| 2 | Twice married , a former BBC Radio 4 panellist and one-time Harlech TV ‘ weathergirl ’ , Amaranth was a woman in search of a husband , an income of £100,000 a year and a seat in Parliament . |
| 3 | The Wirral Hospital Trust says the shops will generate an income of £100,000 a year which will be used to support the staffing costs of a vital new service , a body scanner . |
| 4 | Legally an income of £40 a year rendered a freeholder liable to take up knighthood , but as a result of inflation £120 was now desirable to support the dignity . |
| 5 | For a town of this rank it seems almost incredible until we recall that Walsingham enjoyed a lucrative tourist trade as far and away the most popular resort of pilgrimage , the shrine alone deriving an income of £250 a year from the pious offerings of the faithful , compared with the meagre £36 to which that of St Thomas at Canterbury had by then shrunk . |
| 6 | Mr Doig said yesterday : ‘ No grower in his right mind can be happy with an income of £10 a tonne . |
| 7 | I lost an income of £9,000 a year . |
| 8 | His so-called Magnum Opus , the forty-eight volumes of his novels , generated an income of £5,000 a year . |
| 9 | He already has an income of £800,000 a year . |
| 10 | Living alone , with no electricity , no water on tap , one cow and a calf , and an income of £280 a year — ‘ if things go well ’ . |
| 11 | Each £250 or part of £250 will be treated as if it were bringing in an income of £1 a week . |
| 12 | Although explicable as an instance of context-specificity the results of this experiment have apparently put paid to the only explanation for the phenomenon that we have so far considered . |
| 13 | ‘ In the event of an assessment of stress the purchase would be aborted . ’ |
| 14 | He left money for the poor and the sick , and an endowment of £20 a year for Bridgnorth School . |
| 15 | The electromagnet shown in section in Fig. 3.21 is designed to give radial magnetic flux density B in an annulus of radius a and width unc when energized with constant voltage V. Its coil is wound from copper of conductivity unc and is located in the annular space inside the electromagnet which has the dimensions a , b , c shown in the figure . |
| 16 | The High Availability Work Group is supposed to provide requirements for technologies that by 1995 will give System V a Class 4 Availability Rate meaning less than an hour of downtime a year in a 24 hour-a-day seven-day-a-week operating situation . |
| 17 | An hour of pleasure every week , I suppose . |
| 18 | To complete development of an algorithm for simulation the ‘ ragged edge ’ ( partial macro information ) within rational expectations models . |
| 19 | I checked through the rest of his diaries and every year it was the same , an entry on February the eleventh saying : ‘ Today Elsie is … ’ ' and then her age . |
| 20 | Over five years , an investment of £10 a month into a hypothetical fund based on the average performances of all the ethical/green funds listed would now be worth £822.32 which as the table on average sector performance shows , is the best performance of any sector bar Far East Excluding Japan and North America . |
| 21 | Biya had announced the holding of the elections , originally scheduled to take place in March 1993 , in early September , in a move regarded by many observers as an attempt to wrong-foot the opposition . |
| 22 | In April 1050 he and Bishop Hermann [ q.v. ] of Ramsbury visited Rome on an errand of Edward the Confessor [ q.v. ] ; according to later and possibly unreliable sources it was to secure the king 's release from a vow of pilgrimage made before his accession . |
| 23 | Is the culmination of an obsession with Koi a need to go completely Japanese ? |
| 24 | The answer to the question ‘ who sold to Z ? ’ depends upon whether Y was a buyer and re-seller or whether he was merely an agent for X. The answer is not helped by the fact that people who are in fact buyers and resellers are often termed in the trade ‘ agents . ’ |
| 25 | The supporters do not consistently play some of the Club 's best players out of position to accommodate players so far past their sell-by date that if they were a tin of fish paste there 's be an outbreak of salmonella the length and breadth of Mersey Street ! |
| 26 | We arranged an interview for noon the next day at his house on Rocky Point . |
| 27 | Section 6 , like many other sections of the Act is no more than an attempt to put into an Act of Parliament a rule of common law . |
| 28 | 10.1 Where an employee has been absent from work as a result of an act of violence the Director of Social Work will give due consideration to referring the employee to the medical adviser either prior to or immediately following their return to work . |
| 29 | So , similarly , in the First World War , we assumed proudly as an accolade of honour the Kaiser 's ridicule of the first British Expeditionary Force as that ‘ contemptible little army ’ . |
| 30 | The desire for quality is an attitude of mind the Profitboss cultivates throughout the whole organization . |