Example sentences of "an [noun sg] to [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 2 | Among many demonstrators , with their calls for ‘ Freedom ! ’ and ‘ We stay here ! ’ , there remains an attachment to some aspects of life in East Germany : perhaps best described as socialism with a very small s . |
| 3 | ‘ You may ask about his daily routine when abroad ; he attends matins at church and priestly services either alone or with a small following , and worships so devoutly that he has set an example to all Italians of the honour and reverence that should be paid to bishops and clergy . |
| 4 | and we would like to see an end to all experiments on animals , for cosmetics , toiletry , household product purposes . |
| 5 | I want to hear them discuss how they will bring an end to all forms of intensive animal farming , ban bloodsports , end testing on animals , stop animals being used in circuses , ban imports of fur products and end this disgraceful trade . |
| 6 | The Marxist claim that a socialist revolution will inaugurate a classless society , an end to all forms of domination and the withering away of the state is just another myth of popular control , propagated by an emerging counter-elite , the leadership of the new industrial working class . |
| 7 | Howie Armstrong , Scottish co-ordinator of the EPOCH campaign , End Physical Punishment of Children , said the organisation would continue to press for an end to all forms of corporal punishment against children . |
| 8 | An introduction to many forms of imaginative writing , from poetry to plays . |
| 9 | These two programs are an introduction to these schools of thought as implemented on the IBM PC . |
| 10 | These two programs are an introduction to these schools of thought as implemented on the IBM PC . |
| 11 | But the signs are that street-wise teenagers who caused the Chipie boom are moving on again , leaving the brand to settle back to what it is meant to be , a broad-based fashionable collection with an appeal to all members of the family who like off-beat colours and tradition given a twist . |