Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working Together , para 5.15.3 states that an initial child protection conference should take place within eight days of referral unless there are special reasons for delay when a maximum of 15 days may elapse . |
| 2 | In 1983 , the governing Conservative Party in Britain was keen to point out that the rate of increase in unemployment from 1982 to 1983 was higher in the United States , Germany , the Netherlands , and Canada than it was in the United Kingdom ( a 23.1% increase in the United States compared with 11.8% in the United Kingdom ) and that unemployment would be higher in other countries were it not in some cases for conscription and a retirement age for men of 60 . |
| 3 | Females tended to initiate courtship , and there were often fights between females when a hen approached a courting pair . |
| 4 | The enlarged group should be able to produce both good returns for shareholders and a raising of programme standards on Northern TV screens . |
| 5 | Terry kept badgering the guards for magazines and a radio . |
| 6 | To investigate these issues , the proposed study will provide a systematic assessment of relationships between unemployment and a range of political attitudes , over a period of 15 years , across countries with different economic and political contexts . |
| 7 | By 960–1126 there was trade in these between China and south-east Asia generally and it was extended to caradamons , which had been exported to Europe from India since Roman times , rattans , camphor , dammars , bananas and Dalheroia parviflora ( Leguminosae ) a liane with heartwood used in joss sticks ; the seeds of Adenanthera pavonina ( Leguminosae ) came into use as weights for goldsmiths and a system ( Ganda ) based on seeds half as heavy ( another legume , Abrus precatorius ) in India is derived from it . |
| 8 | Our children were fit and had opportunities for travel and a university education was there for those that wanted it . |
| 9 | Only five months after Ebbo and a handful of episcopal colleagues in the church of St-Medard at Soissons had ritually deprived Louis of weapons and insignia , he was restored to power . |
| 10 | As Sperber and Wilson have shown , there is a variety of reasons why a hearer who was not in a position to process an utterance or block of utterances might want to be presented with a summary of it , and correspondingly , a variety of different sorts of summaries that a speaker might provide . |
| 11 | But let's face it I mean if a lot of local authorities are in similar sorts of positions and a lot of balances are building up , well the money just might run away might n't it it 's happened before , I think it might happen again . |
| 12 | His trousers and shirt ( an old-fashioned shirt of striped flannel which should have had a collar but did not ) were motleyed with all sorts of paint and a welter of dirt and sweat . |
| 13 | I think also there was the sense that the sorts of books that a lady was expected to write were perhaps rather different from the sorts of books that a gentleman is required to write , and George Eliot had already made a name for herself as a writer of erm considerable independence of mind who , I think , wanted to be regarded as a writer , rather than as a lady novelist . |
| 14 | I think also there was the sense that the sorts of books that a lady was expected to write were perhaps rather different from the sorts of books that a gentleman is required to write , and George Eliot had already made a name for herself as a writer of erm considerable independence of mind who , I think , wanted to be regarded as a writer , rather than as a lady novelist . |
| 15 | The learner is seen as a passive recipient of this knowledge , so that didactic methods of teaching and a transmission model of the teaching-learning relationship are a natural consequence . |
| 16 | Neither was it beyond the bounds of probability that a man of eighty-three had been confused about the time . |
| 17 | The problem behind the complaint may be related to styles of teaching or a mismatch of goals and objectives . |
| 18 | It is necessary to look for concentrations of finds because a handful of finds could have got onto the land in any number of ways and is not necessarily an indication of the presence of a nearby archaeological site . |
| 19 | We settled down to nine channels of T.V. and a tour of the room-service menu , ordering things we 'd only read about — pastrami on rye ; blue-jack cheese ; sourdough bread and grits and black-eyed beans . |
| 20 | The garden is pretty and looks out onto six acres of fields and a copse , and contains a tennis court which guests are welcome to use . |
| 21 | By 1900 the works covered an area of 31 acres with 500 acres of quarries and a fleet of 30 sailing barges . |
| 22 | This is a very brief overview of some of the aspects of Homoeopathy and a view of the world which may help to shed a little light on what is happening with a person 's health . |
| 23 | Teclis spoke words of thunder and a sphere of coruscating energy leapt forth , its touch instantly casting the daemon back into the Realm of Chaos . |
| 24 | He pushed two packets of Players and a box of matches through the bars while the German stood miserably in the background looking furtively up and down the wire . |
| 25 | I FIRST came across Theatre de Complicite seven years ago in a show called More Bigger Snacks Now , which featured a definitive demonstration of just how much mess it is possible to make with a few packets of crisps and a couple of cans of Coke . |
| 26 | There were other signs , a ragged , empty bag bearing traces of oats and a clump of dark wet material which , Corbett realised , was once hay . |
| 27 | This is site No. 5 in the R.C.H.M. Inventory ( and fig. 11.1 ) , described as ‘ traces of walls and a scatter of occupation over 100 yards on a natural shelf in the hill-side ’ . |
| 28 | A factor will also advance more funds against invoices than a bank manager . |
| 29 | My speciality shifted from building to wading through the Bunyala swamps with wellies and a rucksack on my back . |
| 30 | At one time there were six schools in Kilham and a lunatic asylum . |