Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [conj] 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 | ‘ Mrs Henry Cox ’ , too busy for some but a favourite with many for over a century |
| 3 | Early retirement may be a release from employment for some and a refuge from the severe insecurity of the labour market for others . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | There were a lot of arguments for this and a lot against . |
| 6 | Not all the the MPs are voting for this because a lot of people ca n't have work , let alone have a pay increase . |
| 7 | Digital Equipment Corp systems management provider Raxco Inc , Rockville , Maryland , and UK-based UIS Ltd , Epsom , Berkshire are to merge after more than a year of negotiations . |
| 8 | After more than a year of " the war to end wars " Wilson was still pressing the need for the accumulation of a strike fund of such a size that when the war was over , the union " would be able to put up such a fight that their opponents would never be able to withstand " . |
| 9 | After more than a century of classical architecture , the mainstream of which became plainer and duller towards the end of the Georges , it is no wonder that the second Sir Robert wanted to go ‘ Tudor ’ . |
| 10 | After more than a century of relative obscurity , Gordon 's A Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever of Aberdeen ( 1795 ) was recognized for what it is , a masterpiece of early epidemiology based on astute clinical observation and written with exceptional clarity . |
| 11 | After more than a decade of Sikh terrorism in which 25,000 people have died , Punjab is peaceful again . |
| 12 | After more than a decade of restoration work , Peter Paul Rubens 's renowned triptych ‘ The Raising of the Cross ’ ( 1609–10 ) is back on view in Antwerp cathedral . |
| 13 | After more than a decade of concern over different aspects of the bail process , steps were taken to reduce the number of defendants remanded in custody by introducing a statutory presumption in favour of bail ( section 4 of the Act ) , and by seeking to structure the decision-making process so that magistrates would give effect to it . |
| 14 | After more than a decade of decline , the numbers have been rising since 1985 . |
| 15 | Consequently , there was some shock but no great surprise when on 11 March it was announced that Taurus — after more than a decade of planning and more than £400m in development costs — was to be scrapped . |
| 16 | Rocked by an interminable succession of scandals , shamed by its inability to stop the inexorable rise of unemployment to a record three million , and increasingly alienated from ordinary people after more than a decade in power , the Socialist Party was no longer simply ailing ; it was moribund . |
| 17 | Rocked by an interminable succession of scandals , shamed by its inability to stop the inexorable rise of unemployment to a record three million , and increasingly alienated from ordinary people after more than a decade in power , the Socialist Party was no longer simply ailing ; it was moribund . |
| 18 | They reembarked and returned to the UK after more than a month at sea . |
| 19 | The prime minister , Ro Jai Bong , submitted his resignation on May 22nd after more than a week of public roasting . |
| 20 | After more than a week of evidence , twenty seven year old Daniel Ahearn changed his plea on charges of assault and robbery and attempted extortion . |
| 21 | Turkish diplomats say they 're hopeful the couple will be freed unharmed after more than a week in captivity . |
| 22 | Stephen Pinnock and Lawrence Foster were under the protection of the British United Nations forces in Vitez , Bosnia , today , after more than a week in detention . |
| 23 | Welcome back : After less than a year in football management , Swindon Town boss Glenn Hoddle has been chosen to take charge of a Football League team for a top match in Italy . |
| 24 | KEVIN McKeever has been transfer-listed by Glentoran after less than a season at the Oval . |
| 25 | After less than a month with Tito 's partisans , Brig Fitzroy MacLean was brought out to write the ‘ blockbuster ’ report in which he claimed that Tito was the most important force , holding down 14 German divisions . |
| 26 | The Mechelen striker , who is owned by his club president and leased out to the Belgian team , was on his way home last night after less than a week on Tyneside . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ A bit of this and a bit of that . |
| 30 | Bit of this and a bit of that . |