Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a critical few weeks of talks with the Minister-Presidents a compromise was reached by which a German government would be created , but without giving the impression that this meant a permanent division . |
| 2 | Recently , experimental work has investigated the use of the programmed technique in what is now called computer-assisted learning , where the programmes are fed into the computer ; the machine can then , if the initial preparation has been thorough enough , monitor the responses of a great many students at a time , switching them to the appropriate branching sequence as their responses demonstrate the need . |
| 3 | This may be true — it is already true of a great many regulations with which companies must comply — but it may also reflect the fundamental nature of financial regulation . |
| 4 | But where a parish was mostly in the hands of a small peasantry , and this was true of a great many parishes in Midland and eastern England , the effect would have been entirely different . |
| 5 | So here I am , nursing a bruised bum , dented ego and the loss of a fair few possessions including dear old Wat Son ! |
| 6 | Like a great many others in Tollemarche , he had made it his goal and his God . |
| 7 | That I know is the very strong view of my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and indeed , also amongst a good many members in another place and indeed in Your Lordships House . |
| 8 | Without explaining to where they were going she walked regally from the room swinging her brief-case which , unlike a great many brief-cases on the streets of Berlin , was filled with notes and papers and not stolen goods . |
| 9 | Mrs. Davey , whose husband had been an agent for a good many years on £16:0s.:0d. per month was granted £16 : 12s. : 8d. upon his death in 1847 . |
| 10 | Authors in both traditions happily wrote away in the footsteps of the great Sherlock for a good many years after his second , slightly less flamboyant departure from the scene . |
| 11 | Padding behind them were the demolition squads , Corran Purdon 's men held for a tense few moments in the open when every second might draw more fire as they smashed the northern winding-hut door ( 'A' ) . |
| 12 | Untold billions have been poured into research and building working reactors in return for a relative few penn'orths of electricity . |
| 13 | Since this arises in a great many examples with help , one might well wonder whether the two infinitives do express different meanings here . |
| 14 | It would appear , from more recent studies , that food additives are important in a great many children with hyperkinetic syndrome , but that it is unusual to find a child for whom additives are the sole problem . |
| 15 | The sacral horns appear in a great many images of religious significance . |
| 16 | When the Liberation came , the French dealt with the open collaborators in a brutal few weeks of epuration — a purge in which some innocents suffered . |
| 17 | Of course , you can change the fellow , as for instance Margaret Allingham did over a good many years with her Mr Campion , who started out as a form of imitation Scarlet Pimpernel and ended as an acute and compassionate observer of human follies . |
| 18 | She had been left outside a great many pubs on warm summer evenings while models and some younger aspiring painters had occasionally checked to see if she was still there . |