Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Females tended to initiate courtship , and there were often fights between females when a hen approached a courting pair . |
| 2 | The enlarged group should be able to produce both good returns for shareholders and a raising of programme standards on Northern TV screens . |
| 3 | Terry kept badgering the guards for magazines and a radio . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By 1900 the works covered an area of 31 acres with 500 acres of quarries and a fleet of 30 sailing barges . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | A factor will also advance more funds against invoices than a bank manager . |
| 16 | My speciality shifted from building to wading through the Bunyala swamps with wellies and a rucksack on my back . |
| 17 | It has five domes on drums and a belfry , also a loggia . |
| 18 | There are now two active groups of doctors and a group for nurses which were set up specifically to oppose the use of animals in medical research on the grounds that it is unscientific . |
| 19 | A personalised nine man 's morris board or an original game might be produced by individuals or groups of peoples or a description with illustrations of popular tattoo motifs , like . |
| 20 | It 's all different here — there 's loads of shops and a cinema and that . |
| 21 | In the case of little Hans , with his phobia towards horses , there were ambivalent feelings present , of both interest and positive attitudes towards horses and a hatred for them . |
| 22 | He had a piece of bread , a rough shirt , two pairs of socks and a penny . |
| 23 | MOVES to demolish a historic former engine shed near Whitby railway station and to build two blocks of flats and a house on the site have been given the thumbs down by the Department of the Environment . |
| 24 | ELEVEN people were treated for the effects of fumes after a truckload of chemicals caught fire yesterday at the M62-A1 junction in West Yorks . |
| 25 | There was some confusion about the seat numbering : two women with armfuls of overcoats and a crying baby had the same seat ticket that I had . |
| 26 | We do not want fossilised museum pieces of countryside but communities with jobs and a living , dynamic and healthy social fabric . |
| 27 | I was surprised to seen that in April 's Hands On that you had awarded Zwi Rotem of Israel the winner 's prize for his tip on extracting nails with screwdrivers and a washer . |
| 28 | New features in this release include 3D effects in graphs and a range of coloured . |
| 29 | To avoid competition with Anglesey an agreement was signed between the company and the Anglesey companies on prices and a division of markets . |
| 30 | Visitors will be able to see the eight-sided Octagon Room , a giant digital clock showing GMT to the nearest tenth of a second hands-on science stations for children and a sound and light show in the darkened dome , which houses the largest refracting telescope in the country . |