Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teacher in Example 3 provided a box of dolls ' clothes of different sizes and designs . |
| 2 | We 're there for , to give the help and advice that people need on the day to day living , er because a person with say with a respiratory illness , er would need a lot of benefits er they , their lifestyle has to change , and often their home and adaptation has to change with , around it . |
| 3 | Because mulberry trees are usually found in the centre of a lawn , not hidden away in the kitchen garden or grown in an orchard , they often provide a focus for children 's play . |
| 4 | Crime prevention covers a multitude of things er and we 'll bring it back to what actually effects you . |
| 5 | The statements suggest that annual reports of plcs and large private companies should include a statement about directors ' responsibilities , acknowledging the role directors ' play in the preparation of the financial statements , and their responsibilities for the decision on whether a going concern basis is appropriate , and for ensuring that adequate financial controls are in place . |
| 6 | THE Home Secretary , Mr David Waddington , yesterday proposed a cut in prisoners ' parole rights as a main ingredient of a shake-up of the criminal justice system to be set out in a government white paper next month . |
| 7 | The aim was to monitor only those outpatient referrals which incurred a charge against fundholders ' budgets and the corresponding referrals in the control practices . |
| 8 | Clearly as we build a package of measures er within the urban areas , then we 'll be looking for schemes that will encourage use of the outer northern relief road and w attempting to increase the er the flow of traffic on that route . |
| 9 | He 's booked a load of bands ai n't he ? |
| 10 | While Tove Jansson 's world is founded on family and guests , many stories , particularly older ones , centre on same-sex relationships : The wind in the willows , Norman Lindsay 's The magic pudding , and Richmal Crompton 's William Brown stories are concerned with groups of males ( indeed The wind in the willows has a son of gentlemen 's club atmosphere ) . |
| 11 | The stator of each stack has a number of poles Fig.l.3(b) shows an example with four poles — and a part of the phase winding is wound around each pole to produce a radial magnetic field in the pole . |
| 12 | On April 29 , JS sponsored a lunch at Stationers ' Hall in the City of London held to honour the person identified by the horticultural industry as having made the biggest contribution to commercial horticulture in 1992 . |
| 13 | For free copies of Travellers ' Diarrhoea and Avoiding Viral Hepatitis , send an sae to Travellers ' Advice , BDF , 3 , St Andrews Place , London . |
| 14 | Work on parenthood , like Bowlby 's early studies , frequently contains an equation of women 's psychological normality with biological motherhood . |
| 15 | This involves gaining an idea of villagers ' senses of their past and future fates , their senses of history , and their identities with others sharing or differences from those not sharing their fates . |
| 16 | The expectation is that by increasing patient participation in this way the project will achieve a reduction in patients ' forgetting and misunderstanding of instructions and advice , and a reduction in the number of questions which occur to patients after their consultation . |
| 17 | But Mary Daly , for example , in GynlEcology , sometimes writes as if most women were really little more than the programmed , robotic puppets to which women were reduced in Ira Levin 's novel The Stepford Wives ; the language of ‘ fembots ’ and ‘ mutants ’ and ‘ puppets ’ , whilst intended , I am sure , to enunciate a critique of women 's oppressors , veers perilously near to sounding like contempt for those who are subject to that oppression . |
| 18 | It might be interesting to actually If if the paren if the children are insisting , cos children put a lot of parents er a lot of pressure on their parents . |
| 19 | THE CAASE FOR PROBLEM SOLVING The Chartered Accountants ' Advisory Service on Ethics answers a variety of members ' enquiries . |
| 20 | They could have it done professionally , he supposed , wearily imagining a pile of builders ' estimates . |
| 21 | The Wimbledon midfield player was severely punished for his oration in ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ , a video in which he describes a host of footballers ' dirty tricks . |
| 22 | The government banks with the Bank of England , therefore the daily flows of funds between the private and public sectors are reflected in equal but opposite changes in two of the Bank 's liabilities , a flow towards the government , for example , causing a fall in bankers ' deposits and a matching rise in public deposits . |
| 23 | So I think caution is erm very important in buying a computer , and if you wait a couple of months erm you wo n't have done any harm , because something newer and more beautiful is always on the way . |
| 24 | Jess Reid 's chapter undertakes an analysis of children 's literature , which involves instances of the written speech and thought of individuals other than the author of the story . |
| 25 | I do n't think that after the triumph , we are going to experience a drop in women 's involvement . |
| 26 | erm Yes , I 've got a couple of copies erm from years gone by . |
| 27 | Got a couple of shiners ai n't he ? |
| 28 | Yes but of of course we 've got a number of estates er around the Mansfield er but we have made inquiries we 've er er we 've made appeals through the press and the radio as you well know . |
| 29 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 30 | It 's alright for a couple of days and I have had a couple of days er peace and quiet , and then er I do n't like it any more after that . |