Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manufacture industry barely surviving thousands of job losses a public service borrowing requirement at a staggering fifty billion pounds Black Wednesday devaluation government climb-downs , U-turns , defeats on Maastricht , the mines , education , railway privatization V A T on heating bills . |
| 2 | In discussion of particle sizes a standard form of notation is used . |
| 3 | If the sedimenting layer had a range of crystal sizes a graded bed could form , thereby providing an alternative mechanism to magmatic density currents . |
| 4 | Any old string of amino acids a hundred amino acids long will have some kind of enzymic activity pretty well , or at least a very great many of them will . |
| 5 | And in the absence of government initiatives a non-governmental health organization has started training ‘ mental-health promoters ’ to work with their own communities . |
| 6 | In the Ministry of State Properties a long memorandum of October 1855 brought together information from the provinces concerning the abject condition of state-owned peasants . |
| 7 | For symptom scores a significant increase was defined as a rise in score of two points or more over the score at euglycaemia , again for two or more consecutive readings . |
| 8 | As dawn appears in the sky our progress quickens ; after crossing a few fields and climbing several hedgerows we are suddenly on a road with farm buildings a short distance away . |
| 9 | The main aim of a modelling language is to establish in computer terms a rational environment in which the complex methodology for policy design and model analysis can be implemented . |
| 10 | Within sublanguage applications a generative approach may be of more use than a probabilistic method . |
| 11 | For the full-time M.Ed. in Education Studies a one-term option course is provided in ‘ Language and Learning ’ ( 10 students ) ; up to c. 5 students will be supervised for M.Ed. dissertations on aspects of language in the school curriculum . |
| 12 | However , it would be useful to include in credit transactions a formal reminder to lender and customer that the decision to lend is not a matter of chance or prejudice , and ( as it generally does ) reflects the objective facts of the applicant 's ability and willingness to pay . |
| 13 | Another difference : within Renaissance metaphysics a constituted identity might nevertheless be essentially fixed ( e.g. the soul as divine creation ) in a way the post/modernist would probably reject ( identity is not only constructed but contingently so ) . |
| 14 | This was very common in the past and I 'm sure many shop stewards here who 've dealt with redundancies in the past , know about the poor members who get quite a nice lump sum redundancy , but in fact , they 've only been in pension schemes a short while , so they ca n't provide for themselves in old age , once they 've spent the redundancy money . |
| 15 | In school textbooks a certain amount of information is given , for example in a maths problem . |
| 16 | On let-down patterns a specific distance is flow outbound and the time adjusted for this distance according to groundspeed . |
| 17 | For one thing Barthes 's perverse perspective on difference foregrounds a different history , one wherein there is no simple privileging of the marginal : the paradoxically perverse interrelationship between centre and margins , whereby the marginal returns to the centre in a way which disarticulates the centre/margin binary itself , is signified , in this instance , by Barthes inaugurating his professorship with a lecture on the significance of perversity vis-à-vis language . |
| 18 | Before embarking on care proceedings a local authority should always consider whether it could improve the family situation sufficiently by the provision of services on a voluntary basis ( Guidance , vol 1 , para 3.11 ) . |
| 19 | Gradually , competition between the entrepreneurs as buyers , and again as sellers , will succeed in communicating to market participants a correct estimate of the other market participants ' eagerness to buy and to sell . |
| 20 | Standing at traffic lights a Koenig-designed Jumbo is , save for the chatter inside , completely silent . |
| 21 | In the wintertime , schedules to France may include a day stop , whereas at peak periods a split duty might comprise both morning and afternoon round-trips to Dinard from Guernsey , for example . |
| 22 | At threshold concentrations a second phase caused by ADP release from the platelets is seen and at high concentrations a single phase with irreversible aggregation is observed ( Hardisty et al , 1970 ) . |