Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Our children were fit and had opportunities for travel and a university education was there for those that wanted it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Neither was it beyond the bounds of probability that a man of eighty-three had been confused about the time . |
| 8 | The problem behind the complaint may be related to styles of teaching or a mismatch of goals and objectives . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mrs Hannaway faces a fine of up to £2,000 or six months in prison and a disqualification from keeping animals . |
| 13 | A stepping motor system has a pullout rate of 500 steps per second and a microprocessor is to be used for its open-loop control . |
| 14 | This policeman was having to give evidence and he 'd come to talk , oh I see you 've had the baby , cos he was talking to me it had happened I said , oh what did you have blah blah blah , blah blah blah , but the little devil went in the witness box , he denied about not being there on duty about putting his mac on , ooh and he 'd never clapped eyes on barrister or a solicitor and they said he 'll meet you before the case , so we had to go extra early meet this barrister and he never came and so they took us in this little room in all his wig and his gown , we got , oh what happened ? |
| 15 | PROFITS at engineering group Meggitt fell £400,000 last year to £23.5m , thanks to rationalisation and a reduction in interest charges after the company 's £40m autumn rights issue eliminated net borrowings . |
| 16 | I looked naked under the lace ( the desired effect ) , but in fact ‘ M ’ always makes built-in underwear out of fine flesh-coloured fabric with several linings of asbestos and a Liberty bodice under the lot for good measure . |
| 17 | ‘ What we need … is a big , open , extrovert movement , which is rich in diversity , which even encourages it , a movement gathering all those who share the values of solidarity and a goal of transformation , ’ he said . |
| 18 | The kibbutz child does well in the army and is comfortable living in a group ; the man reared in middle-class boarding schools and residential colleges learns skills of suppressing emotion , and develops attitudes of tolerance and a capacity to work productively with others whom he may not like . |
| 19 | The American constitution can not be changed except through a very cumbersome and difficult constitutional procedure which requires the vote of two thirds of the members of both houses of congress and a resolution from three quarters of the leg state legislatures , so it 's not a simple majority , you ca n't just simply say oh let's add something to the constitution , very difficult indeed erm er and there has n't been a significant recent amendment to the constitution . |
| 20 | Now according to forensic it looks as if the explosion was set off by two sticks of gelignite and a couple of detonators trapped under the table and wired into the lamp that stood , as it were , beside the chairman 's right hand . |
| 21 | The ability to read and write was confined to churchmen ( this was common throughout the whole of northern Europe ) , not even William or his Norman Barons were able to read , so William appointed Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury and he set up a diocesan pattern which endured and encouraged the growth of ecclesiastical courts of law and a succession of ‘ clerks ’ who became the forerunners of the civil servants . |
| 22 | In a recent case , the police posed as ordinary civilians in order to trap a shop owner , licensed to sell liquor by the case only , into selling them a few cans of lager and a bottle of wine . |
| 23 | I was gon na get well I 'm contemplating but I 'm either getting four cans of Strongbow and a bottle or just eight cans of Strongbow . |
| 24 | Graham the guitarist is still dry to the point of death , only showing signs of life when a football appears . |
| 25 | But now , inspired by the example of their neighbours in the restless Islamic Soviet Central Asian republics , one group of Chinese Muslims in Xinjiang province , which borders Afghanistan , Pakistan and the Soviet republics of Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and Kirgizia , is showing signs of dissatisfaction and a desire for greater autonomy which manifested themselves in a small but bloody rebellion in March of this year . |
| 26 | They 've all been very responsible and they seem to have loads of energy and a sense of fun , which is essential if they 're babysitting for my three-year-old during the day . |
| 27 | The high esteem in which gold has been held in most parts of the world , the relative ease with which it can be wrought and not least its capacity for combining with other desirable things have led to its being favoured above all others for jewellery , objects of parade and a variety of insignia of status . |
| 28 | Before we went down to the kitchen Elinor patted all the Napoleana into place , violets and Redouté roses ; a picture of him riding his horse , Marengo , and that one of him feeling for his wallet ; matchstick models made by French prisoners of war and a tricolour flying at half-mast . |
| 29 | The expert clause is a clause in a contract and it will therefore be subject to the same rules of interpretation as a contract . |
| 30 | In practice , as the Party learned , so its patience diminished : it shifted to incorporating territories by force , while conceding the forms of federation and a measure of cultural autonomy ( those things formerly ruled out as institutionalizing division ) . |