Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [coord] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to pay an installation charge for the meter and then a quarterly standing charge plus an amount for each cubic metre ( 1,000 litres/220 gallons ) used . |
| 2 | The messages or responses your receive around May 2 , 5 and 9 will be flattering and good for the ego but also a bit misleading . |
| 3 | The Irish Director of Public Prosecutions , Eamonn Barnes , said in a statement that the evidence provided by the British Crown Prosecution Service was ‘ not sufficient for the purpose and accordingly a prosecution could not be justified ’ . |
| 4 | Bournville , the community that has grown up around Cadbury 's Birmingham factory , is widely regarded as a company town , although from its foundation it has been open to people who do not work for the company and only a minority of the residents now have any link with Cadbury 's . |
| 5 | A follow-up study showed that very few of them ever had any higher ambition for using the money than buying a house or two for the family and perhaps a shop or pub . |
| 6 | The trees stood at intervals down the Main Street and provided a meeting place for the villagers and presumably a resting place whilst they journeyed to Lowry Field at the bottom of the village , which had the communal St Laurence Well and provided water when all the house and farm wells were dry . |
| 7 | A rainy-afternoon refuge for the children or just a wonderful place to relax — whatever the weather ! |
| 8 | Foster qualified for the Telford finals having won her division for ‘ middle club ’ rated tennis players in a LTA Volkswagen Nationals county qualifying tournament during the summer and then a regional final in September . |
| 9 | Here and there , they caught sight of a fluid red-gold figure in between the trees and once a huge oak tree seemed to bend forward as if inclining its head to inspect them . |
| 10 | From Hamsterley village , it is approached through the forest and finally a spectacular tree-lined avenue . |
| 11 | Lined up each other off th off the ball and then a little dummy by er Speedy . |
| 12 | His marriage , too , although it presumably owed much to Gloucester , also allied him with the Percies , since his new brother-in-law lord Scrope was not only a neighbour of the duke but also a Percy retainer . |
| 13 | His marriage , too , although it presumably owed much to Gloucester , also allied him with the Percies , since his new brother-in-law lord Scrope was not only a neighbour of the duke but also a Percy retainer . |
| 14 | Morrissey , formerly lead singer of the Smiths and now a solo artist , is the central figure in this demi-monde and he has successfully mounted a long career based on a delightfully British blend of prurience and prudery . |
| 15 | We expressed concern about the poor quality of head-staff relationships in some schools , admittedly not always the fault of the head but often a consequence of an indefensible degree of autocratic behaviour . |
| 16 | There was , in particular , a renewed surge of spending on state schools , part of it to finance the rapid completion of the comprehensive secondary education system now being finished under the aegis of Shirley Williams , a right-wing member of the government but also a critic of private schooling . |
| 17 | One suggested reason is to protect public bodies from vexatious litigants with no real interest in the outcome of the case but just a desire to make things difficult for the government . |
| 18 | It is half the height of the parent and quite a treasure , especially for small gardens . |
| 19 | And Jonathan was justice of the peace and quite a leader in ar area . |
| 20 | But he was n't going to risk going for the green in two — he 's a gambler , but he 's not stupid , not with a one-stroke lead — and so he hit a wedge for his second shot short of the lake and then a 155-yard 9-iron directly over the flag for his approach . |
| 21 | Anyway , at the party , there was the aristocracy of the land and quite a lot of celebrities and of course , David and his group turned up in scruffy jeans . ’ |
| 22 | They were a political statement , providing an account of the past and also a programme for the future . |
| 23 | Although they are a standard device in parliamentary elections in most of the democracies of continental Europe , they are an abomination for the evangelists of the STV and sometimes a stumbling block for less prejudiced supporters of electoral reform . |
| 24 | Fragments of paper were missing from some of the pages and quite a few names were faded , some almost beyond recognition . |
| 25 | ‘ When travelling in the country , you sense an enormous fear and anger at the present reforms ; in well-healed suburbs , there is approval of the reforms but still a great fear of the random violence they have released . ’ |
| 26 | All subsequent Conventions have required as a condition of their applicability not only internationality of the transaction but also a connection with a Contracting State . |
| 27 | You know the form : lots of booze on arrival , a tour of the factory and then a buffet lunch with lots more booze , and plugs for Supersight products should duly appear in the trade magazines and maybe some of the newspapers . |
| 28 | The judge found , however , that it was a direction to the executors varying their obligations in the administration and distribution of the state and neither a contract nor a gift . |
| 29 | So there will be an accumulation of electrons on the surface of one of the plates and consequently a deficiency of electrons at the other plate 's surface . |
| 30 | Alex Goldfarb , executive director of the ISF and formerly a biochemist at the Engelhardt Institute in Moscow , sees the gap between the number of applicants and the number of eligible scientists as a sign that many of his colleagues have left the country for greener pastures in the West or have taken up another occupation . |