Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This system , devised by Rentokil 's Research and Development department , offers for the first time a non-chemical , twenty-four hour detection and protection system . |
| 2 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 3 | American production soared , largely to meet overseas demand , and the Soviet Union , despite some impressive gains in production , became for the first time a large importer . |
| 4 | Although the accommodation remained spartan with bunk beds arranged in segregated dormitories , nevertheless , at a cost fixed at 1/ per night plus a shilling for breakfast , extended holidays in the countryside became for the first time a practical possibility for thousands previously denied them . |
| 5 | Her heart still pounding nineteen to the dozen , she looked over towards the window , seeing for the first time a familiar , powerfully-built figure standing there . |
| 6 | In those early days in our relationship , Basil was still adjusting to the Northern scene and I , a callow young teacher , encountering for the first time a man of impeccable manners , charm and sensibility . |
| 7 | This is a second series , using as a conversational resource a different set of modules ; these modules are designed to obtain information which can be used to plot out speakers ' interpersonal network relationships both within and outside the neighbourhood . |
| 8 | Bissett had once met the gaunt technician from A45 who had apparently received through a faulty glove a particle of plutonium the size of a pinhead and whose body had been cremated six months later before there could be an inquest . |
| 9 | Even the Darwinian theory of evolution was impressive , not because the concept of evolution was new — it had been familiar for decades — but because it provided for the first time a satisfactory explanatory model for the origin of species , and did so in terms which were entirely familiar even to non-scientists , since they echoed the most familiar concept of the liberal economy , competition . |
| 10 | I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked . |
| 11 | The Senate included for the first time a black woman and a native American ( Ben Campbell in Colorado ) . |
| 12 | Who cares about the possible queue a week next putative Saturday at the Gatwick guichet ? |
| 13 | Although an early election will sometimes be necessary , we will introduce as a general rule a fixed parliamentary term . |
| 14 | We may also consider the value to A and to B of a bet , say for a simple example a 50 per cent chance of £0 and a 50 per cent chance of £1000 . |
| 15 | As members will recall , the Association petitioned for a Royal Charter a few years ago . |
| 16 | Where the local authority is to be required to adopt the roads , the developer will be given the alternative of either : ( a ) Depositing with the local authority a cash deposit covering the full estimated cost of the work . |
| 17 | I would propose that we explore with the Managing Director a possibility of a deal at the higher end of this range but this may mean some form of earnout . |
| 18 | It lies in a shallow valley a couple of clicks north of Redondo . |
| 19 | That time , last year , it rose in a great cloud a long way away , and stayed in the sky for two weeks . |
| 20 | Why will not the Minister introduce nutritional guidelines for school meals to ensure that the school meals service plays a vital role in child nutrition , as recommended in the Black report a decade ago ? |
| 21 | I never thought to find in the same establishment a Gooseneck , a Ramsbum and a Blitherdick . ’ |
| 22 | But it would be difficult to find from the surviving evidence a single case history of this kind . |
| 23 | The requirement is equally complied with if he receives a document of title from his seller and then transfers to the innocent sub-purchaser a different document of title relating to the same goods , Mount v. Jay ( 1960 Q.B. ) . |
| 24 | It exposes on a minuscule scale a widely misunderstood but tiresome fact which Australia , Canada and other nations spawned by Britain have learned and taught on a larger scale . |
| 25 | And finally , surely at this present moment , only four miles east of Harrogate and about three miles east of Ripon the A s A one is at this very moment in time being lifted to an acceptable standard A motorway standard at this stage and not in the year two thousand which is what you 're talking about for this road . |
| 26 | 281 had added to the protected class a case in which vulnerable elderly parents had agreed to provide security for the debts of their adult son . |
| 27 | Then there 's a lady over here who comes or used to come on a regular basis a couple of times a month she comes now a couple of times a year . |
| 28 | On July 15 the Iranian Foreign Ministry protested about the action of some 230 United Kingdom members of parliament ( MPs ) in signing on the previous day a statement supporting the exiled National Council of Resistance , which was dominated by the Mojahedin-e Khalq . |
| 29 | Nesting on a high ledge a long way above our tent were two lammergeirs — yellow-bellied vultures . |
| 30 | And Herbert Morrison moved at the same conference a resolution condemning the government 's introduction of conscription : the resolution was carried by more than three to one . |