Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [coord] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , well you are talking about children 's services , but , I , I think if Mr 's going to talk later to this , if you want , but we are absolutely at the moment , we know that eighty nine percent of work at the child care centre is to do with child protection with to deal with it , and by that I mean abuse , physical and sexual abuse , er , concerns about that and a lot of that of course is , is tied up in procedural ways , and we 're dealing with events almost after the situation has er , got going , er , and of course , with the courts , you know that we 've got duties in relation to the courts , that we , we have to fulfil or else we are the subject of criticism from the er , courts , and we have been rapped at various er , times . |
| 2 | At a meeting on Sunday , the 300 strikers indicated they were prepared to agree to management plans to resolve a dispute over lay-offs , but would return to work under protest at part of the package which included a wage freeze for 1993 and a cut in fringe benefits . |
| 3 | ‘ Mrs Henry Cox ’ , too busy for some but a favourite with many for over a century |
| 4 | Early retirement may be a release from employment for some and a refuge from the severe insecurity of the labour market for others . |
| 5 | As I say I was sitting there adding it up , a pound for this and a pound for that and your meal , a fiver for Maggie , I 'm twenty pound short off you |
| 6 | There were a lot of arguments for this and a lot against . |
| 7 | Powerful material for 1963 but a sample of how the show should have developed its characters to make them more rounded and believable . |
| 8 | The generic label ‘ poststructuralist ’ is here useful merely as a shorthand to designate those contemporary writers who share not a hostility to history as such but a distrust of simple historicisms . |
| 9 | Fine Gael had a PV of 27.1 and a PS of 30.7 . |
| 10 | There was also the occasional case of petty theft , street fighting or traffic offences which often ended up with a plea of Guilty and a fine of a few dollars or a short period in goal . |
| 11 | A coalition consisting only of Labour and a party to its left would have immense trouble foisting the trauma of withdrawal on Israel . |
| 12 | The faintly stoned Indian vocal line does n't help , and somehow this seems to me like a cross between ‘ What Time Is Love ’ and ‘ Fools Gold ’ with the charm of neither and a lot of other unnecessary junk . |
| 13 | The FT Government Securities index currently stands at 88.18 against a high for the year to date of 89.75 and a low of 85.11 ( see panel ) . |
| 14 | Determine your total daily calorie intake at a minimum figure of 850 and a maximum of 1,500 . |
| 15 | The demes were organized into three groups ( or trittyes ) , coastal , in land and city , and these were artificially aggregated into bigger units called tribes , phylai : a trittys of coastal , a trittys of inland and a trittys of city demes went to make up one of the ten tribes of Attica , each of which sent fifty councillors to Athens . |
| 16 | In each tribe , as we have seen , there were a number of coastal , a number of inland and a number of city demes , about sixteen councillors from each type going to make up a trittys ( only in the tribe to which Acharnai belonged was this system modified , because twenty-two out of fifty councillors is already well over a third ) . |
| 17 | He must be a physician , having books of physick and a herbal by him . |
| 18 | When he died in 1980 , the brothers decided to buy the landscaping division and concluded the deal almost four years later , when Waterers was losing money on a staff of 12 and a turnover of £400,000 . |
| 19 | The following example explains how a bar of 12/8 translates into a bar of 4/4 , a bar of 6/8 translates into a bar of 2/4 and a bar of 9/8 translates into a bar of 3/4 : |
| 20 | ‘ A bit of this and a bit of that . |
| 21 | Bit of this and a bit of that . |
| 22 | Take a pinch of this and a pinch of that , stir well under a slow heat , and see what happens . |
| 23 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 24 | I 'm certainly not going to er w to say let's give you a trial of this or a trial of that , until we know what 's happened with your chest , so |
| 25 | I live in a parish of 12,000 and a town of 30,000 . |
| 26 | I simply went and fetched a squeezer of magi-blue and a pair of my socks , in a pleasing electric blue . |
| 27 | I 'm 32 and have two children from a first marriage — a daughter of 10 and a son of 13 . |
| 28 | Li , a veteran of the Long March of 1934-35 and a commander of the Red Army prior to its revolutionary victory in 1949 , was a self-taught economist from a peasant family . |
| 29 | If you would like copies of any of these or a list of the other factsheets produced send a stamped addressed envelope ( 9″ by 6″ ) to Age Concern England . |
| 30 | A scale was formed by simply scoring the number of times the respondent said that he or she was satisfied ; the resulting scale started with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 6 , but it was dichotomized at the median value into a scale of political alienation with two values ( high and low ) . |