Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counc tonight it was mentioned the actual the work of the Regional Health Authority and , again , I worked for the Regional Health Authority a long time ago . |
| 2 | Also , bear in mind that for the single horse owner a bag of coarse mix will be used up while the feed still retains its value . |
| 3 | During the Second World War a nudist village for evacuee naturists was set up twenty miles outside London . |
| 4 | During the Second World War a similar problem arose with regard to the publication of Alexander Ratcliffe 's Truth about the Jews , brought out by the British Protestant League . |
| 5 | Indeed during the Second World War a British officer of some distinction , Fitzroy Maclean , had actually arrested Zahedi on grounds he had been intriguing with German agents . |
| 6 | During the First World War a box of matches cost 1d and a matchbox grip 4d : a price just substantial enough to warrant a ‘ Thank you ’ when given free to a pub or grocer 's store customer , and just substantial enough to make money for a stationer or the many charities which sold them . |
| 7 | During the First World War a number of Ministries set up regional offices and the newly created Ministry of Health set up nine regions — an experiment to be rudely terminated in 1921 as an economy measure . |
| 8 | Partly through Agitprop and partly through the Black Dwarf group a free-sheet was produced to be handed out on the dockers ' march . |
| 9 | Just after the Second World War a village was sentenced to death by planners who called it a rural slum . |
| 10 | Just after the Second World War a film crew made a documentary about life in rural England . |
| 11 | Shortly after the official opening ceremony a collection of no less than 11 Norseman floatplanes that had gathered at Red Lake , started-up , taxied around Howey Bay , took-off ( a tremendous effect as the sound of 11 Pratt and Whitney R–134s revving at full power reverberated around the bay ) and performed a series of fly-bys and overshoots over the bay in salute of CF–DRD and the weekend events . |
| 12 | A year later Frederick I of Prussia ordered that in future deserters should have their nose and one of their ears cut off and be sent to hard labour for life , while after the Seven Years War a chain of military posts was set up on France 's frontiers to prevent the escape abroad of soldiers fleeing from their units . |
| 13 | The European balance of power was thus after the Seven Years War a more subtle problem in many ways than in the first half of the century . |
| 14 | Professor Wiechers was the architect of the controversial Turnhalle constitution a decade ago when South Africa tried to undermine UN Resolution 435 . |
| 15 | Methodical , precise and administratively cautious , he carried over from his earlier experience as a member of the Poor Law Board a determination to subordinate medical experts to the lay administration . |
| 16 | It was Morgan 's handling of the attempted bank raid a few days earlier in Cardiff which turned the trick . |
| 17 | From the end of the First World War a body claiming to be the Korean government in exile functioned at Shanghai and afterwards , during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45 , at Chungking . |
| 18 | In the heart of the African rain forest a chameleon crouches on a branch , stalking an insect . |
| 19 | Although it is difficult to assess its importance , on the eve of the second reading debate a letter appeared in The Times , signed by eight peers , including Lord Devlin . |
| 20 | Immediately following the nationalisation of the coal-mines in Britain at the end of the Second World War a team of social scientists from the Tavistock Institute in London began an extensive series of studies of work organisation in that industry . |
| 21 | No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in the south and the American , American commitment to the global containment of communism meant that they had to go and do something about it and domestic political pressures were there too er President Kennedy came out of the Cuban missiles crisis a hero because his people mistakenly believed that he 'd won a foreign policy success and that he 'd acted in a restrained and statesmanlike manor . |
| 22 | Listening to the autumn wind moaning across this corner of the sparse Northumberland coastline a few miles south of Berwick-upon-Tweed , where Nora Simpson had lived for all of her married life , their memories of her were vivid . |
| 23 | In short he 'd heard of the last minute vacancy a sort of electoral bucket shop familiar to Hexham Conservatives through Tony Blair , a friend through Cranston 's sideline as a Labour front bench trade and industry adviser . |
| 24 | For instance , in one eruption of the Andean volcano Cotopaxi a 200 t volcanic bomb was hurled a distance of 14 km . |
| 25 | Affairs of the heart are not unknown to travel agents in the 1990s either : in the middle of a recent travel consultation a young man proposed to his girlfriend and the travel consultant was asked to arrange the wedding in Mauritius . |
| 26 | Until that fatal weakness is overcome , I fear that the understandably-depressed Dr David Marsh will continue to find chairmanship of a professional football club a far less rewarding pastime than captaincy of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club . |
| 27 | Without probing too deeply into the reasons for the emergence of that national consensus — and the cogency of the Munn report 's argument and the compactness of Scotland as an educational entity , can not be disregarded in this connection — the existence of that consensus is beyond question and it undoubtedly made the introduction of a national curriculum framework a relatively unproblematic matter . |
| 28 | Hotel : ( For a wider choice head a mile north to Glenridding ) . |
| 29 | His interest in the British empire was stimulated by a schoolmaster 's setting for a Latin essay prize a subject involving imperial federation . |
| 30 | For a year-round foliage plant a variegated Persian ivy ; Hedera colchica ‘ Dentata Variegata ’ has large leaves generously splashed with yellow and grey . |