Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the mid-twenties , on average , most men and women will be satisfying their search for relationships through either a series of relationships or one stable relationship . |
| 2 | The next Bishop of Rochester to reside here at Halling was Laurence but this is not to say that the palace was vacant during these intervening years for as we have noticed earlier monks of Rochester lived here for periods with possibly a steward to maintain the household . |
| 3 | Apart from the doctor and his wife and Giles Carnaby they were all people from the village who had not had an opportunity for a good look at the inside of Greystones for quite a while and were busy taking note . |
| 4 | And of course for quite a while we were from . |
| 5 | As a result , it was out of action for over a year . |
| 6 | Almost before he got used to wearing the famous blue and white , Agnew suffered an injury which put him on crutches and out of action for virtually a season . |
| 7 | ‘ In some cases managers are stuck in the middle of supporters with only a couple of inches of space between them , ’ said chief executive John Camkin . |
| 8 | Others pack up a tent , put the dinghy in the back of the car and disappear up to the west coast of Scotland with only a collection of Arthur Ransome books for company . |
| 9 | Experimental phonetics has been an important part of phonetics for almost a century , and experimental work in phonetics laboratories has produced many important discoveries about how speech is produced and perceived . |
| 10 | Then , inexplicably , I had been out of work for over a year and my few friends were drifting away . |
| 11 | Almost any substantial group of buildings with perhaps a shop , or village hall is today called a village and this leads to great confusion , both for researchers looking at earlier arrangements , and for the inhabitants for whom finer definitions are not needed . |
| 12 | The Nordic states were reluctant to enter into any kind of commitment , but would perhaps have been willing to follow a British lead , while in France and the Low Countries British participation was regarded as an indispensable guarantee of security against both a resurgence of German militarism and the shadowy threat of the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | To avoid this , start your new method of contraception at least a week before the IUD is removed . |
| 14 | But these really hard scrappers have come on short lines when float fishing , and a short line makes a lot of difference to how a fish fights when the elasticity is negligible . |
| 15 | Only then , as they swung in a half-circle with a hiss of blades between them , changing places on the slope like a pair of dancers with only a foot of air separating their faces , did Isambard know his mason again . |
| 16 | Mr Ramsay said sorting out Mr Bond 's finances would take a team of accountants at least a year , with the investigation stretching around the world . |
| 17 | Now a polymer represents a different state of affairs from either a crystal or a gas . |
| 18 | There is no evidence that I 've finished , I 've finished eating and I 've finished my meal involve different senses of finish , so we must say that complete is a cognitive synonym of finish in only a sub-set of the grammatical occurrences of the latter . |
| 19 | Most booking conditions are hedged with all sorts of exclusions about why a tour operator ca n't be held liable when things go wrong . |
| 20 | In 1922 the percentage of households without even a plough was 32.7 in the Central Industrial Region , 33.6 in the Siberian guberniia of Omsk , and 55.8 in the guberniia of Tsaritsyn to the south of Saratov . |
| 21 | Belgium had been a part of France till just a year before , and many folk in this part of the province resented being made a part of the Netherlands . |
| 22 | But of course the very same argument could have been used in favour of broadcasting in any of over a and of childhood for only a minority of Tanzanians . |
| 23 | My and colleagues ' data has shown that for uncomplicated acute pyelonephritis five days of treatment with either an aminoglycoside , a β lactam , or a quinolone is highly effective . |
| 24 | The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal . |
| 25 | The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal . |
| 26 | The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal . |
| 27 | But from the British point of view at least a breathing space had been secured . |
| 28 | Prior to July 1 Soviet Jews had been able to leave for Israel with only a visa . |
| 29 | Bruce added : ‘ Things had n't been going well with Phonogram for quite a while . |
| 30 | It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours . |