Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teacher in Example 3 provided a box of dolls ' clothes of different sizes and designs . |
| 2 | THE Home Secretary , Mr David Waddington , yesterday proposed a cut in prisoners ' parole rights as a main ingredient of a shake-up of the criminal justice system to be set out in a government white paper next month . |
| 3 | The aim was to monitor only those outpatient referrals which incurred a charge against fundholders ' budgets and the corresponding referrals in the control practices . |
| 4 | On April 29 , JS sponsored a lunch at Stationers ' Hall in the City of London held to honour the person identified by the horticultural industry as having made the biggest contribution to commercial horticulture in 1992 . |
| 5 | The Danish parliament on June 17 passed a law on patients ' records , which from January , 1994 , will give every citizen the right to access their medical records . |
| 6 | Background music made a change from bookies ' cries . |
| 7 | Thank you for the lovely , lively lunch ‘ hour ’ … made a change from children 's chatter & ’ baby 's gurgling ! |
| 8 | BUSINESSMAN David Clark made a bunch of builders buzz off yesterday — after he set a swarm of angry bees on them . |
| 9 | He went to his desk and produced a sheaf of agents ' reports . |
| 10 | It did a Big Ben chime , and I heard a chorus of kids ' shouts from inside . |
| 11 | Coupled with the neglect of diagnosis and assessment in the ‘ needs ’ part of the programme , this constituted an approach to children 's learning which was too generalized and unfocused to have any significant impact . |
| 12 | He announced an increase in Members ' salaries from £400 to £600 . |
| 13 | Mr. McAvoy : If any bid included a reduction of employees ' pension rights , may we have a firm commitment from the Minister that the Government would not give that bid the go-ahead ? |
| 14 | They specialised in questions which , to quote Bowley , " required an answer of 'yes ' or 'no' or a simple number or something equally definite and precise " . |
| 15 | She died a couple of years a er three years ago . |
| 16 | OUR recent series commemorating the life of comedy king Frankie Howerd brought a flood of readers ' letters . |
| 17 | Cicely Hamilton 's Marriage as a Trade , 1909 was a superb polemic in favour of celibacy , which reasoned that marriage represented a narrowing of women 's hopes and ambitions . |
| 18 | He did a couple of hours ' work , and he got two free tickets to Canada . |
| 19 | And er we did a couple of weeks erm teaching in schools and we helped run a erm a lunching club for old people . |
| 20 | On the other hand , if it was quite clear and unambiguous then a written form was preferred Okay , now a study by Daft et al , Daft as in y'know one marble short of a whatever yeah or okay er Daft et al nineteen eighty-seven had a look at managers ' use of er of these two different media and found that in general most managers were media sensitive . |
| 21 | The reforms entailed an increase in employees ' contributions from 3 to 11 per cent of gross wage ; the raising of the pensionable age from 63 to 65 for men and from 58 to 60 for women ; the abolition of special allowances for particular categories of employees ; and the merger of pension funds . |
| 22 | As one rose in society this problem , paradoxically , became more acute as the possibilities of domestic service or involvement in a family enterprise were reduced Although writing remained an outlet for women 's talents , many women who published were attacked as whores . |