Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [conj] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pulling on a pair of ‘ Afro-American tribal dance boots ’ ( ie Nikes ) to complement his khaki tie-dye T-shirt and army trousers : ‘ It was a toss-up between this and a shell suit . |
| 2 | There is only one league match left after that and a West derby victory would put them out of reach . |
| 3 | For research purposes , these are special burrows with removable lids and it was from one of these that a research student from Oxford University picked out an adult and a chick like rabbits from a hat . |
| 4 | My village forest was not so large , about 100 hectares , but there were many big trees of more than a metre diameter . |
| 5 | But the stats do indicate certain things , such as that Tom Kite was the worst putter on Tour last year ( at least among those with more than a golf game ) , that Mark Calcavecchia was the best all-round player in America , his critics be damned . |
| 6 | He works this kind of stiff-upper-lip colonialist nostalgia very well , of course — if only the material he chose had been less plodding and lightweight , he might have emerged as more than a typecast cypher . |
| 7 | Fothergill says his company 's reputation has been built on a philosophy that views a lift as more than a metal cabin ; rather something which can add value to a building . |
| 8 | The Soviet Union has now been a socialist state for more than sixty years : many countries in Western Europe have been socialist for more than a quarter century ; and Asia has not only the Chinese experiment in socialism but other countries in Asia , Africa and the Americas have experimented with socialism . |
| 9 | She broke her shoulder as a human cannonball on Noel Edmonds ' ill-fated ‘ Late , Late Breakfast Show ’ , and she had no sooner recovered from that when a car accident delayed the venture for another two years ! |
| 10 | The royal couple were unpopular at court , inspired little personal loyalty even among those whose respect for the throne was greatest , and their mounting preoccupation with the haemophiliac Tsarevich — and devotion to Rasputin — cut them off from all but a minute family circle . |
| 11 | Real time evidence from more than a century back ( Patterson 1860 ) confirmed that the pattern had once affected the /a/ system in many more linguistic environments , and apparent time evidence obtained during the pilot study reflected this change ; for example one eighteen-year-old man normally produced the form [ käp ] ‘ cap ’ , in contrast with his mother 's habitual pronunciation [ kΕp ] . |
| 12 | The bungy cord is fixed to these and a safety rope goes on to the harness . |
| 13 | A failure to understand this essential point could lead to more than a trade war . |
| 14 | The history of Illustrator is an unusual one ; it was originally not a drawing package at all but a font manipulation tool . |
| 15 | Only the better-off could afford to travel at more than a walking pace in eighteenth-century England — unless , that is , they had access to a riding horse . |
| 16 | What had been pigeonholed by many as a niche market , for niche products , seemed to have come of age when Alain Pierrot of Hachette disclosed to the conference the total sales of the Grolier Encyclopaedia on a silvery disk . |