Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those who were destined for university , for whom A levels and S levels were first invented , they could go even further . |
| 2 | Later , on the picket line , there was a minor confrontation accompanying the arrival of morning convoy during which a police riot shield was captured and symbolically set alight . |
| 3 | it had been designed by an architect who was a follower of the new brutalism in architecture for which a police building gave full scope . |
| 4 | The remaining items tended to be of the titillating variety of which a teenagers ' Christmas party is fairly typical : ‘ 8-in-a bed ’ sex romp . |
| 5 | In one a hunts man , his hunting-horn swinging free from his neck , is sticking a stake into a wild boar , which also has a dog sinking its teeth into its neck ; in another , two lions , one very heraldic and standoffish , are attacking a gazelle , helped by a bird of prey ; in the third , which is decidedly curious , a mule leads a lolling-tongued , wolf-like animal captive while ahead of it a hunts man is tensing his bow to fire at some unseen target . |
| 6 | He left behind him a police force outraged by his treachery and a judicial establishment unable to believe that , for the first time , a South African policeman was prepared to tell all about the dirty tricks departments , the hit squads , the assassination detachments and the enormous , shabby , meritorious , violent conspiracy so interwoven into the blood and guts of the South African security services that its agents can no longer tell the difference between criminal pursuits and active police work . |
| 7 | This provision against set off enables clearing members to comply with reg 3.04 of the Financial Services ( Client Money ) ( Supplementary ) Regulations 1991,5 which requires the opening of a client transaction account6 ( money credited to which must be segregated ) with every exchange or clearing house with which a futures broker authorised under the 1986 Act registers client transactions . |
| 8 | How does she think she 'll do with her A levels ? |
| 9 | ( 1 ) This subsection specifies the only grounds upon which a seamen 's canteen licence may be refused . |
| 10 | Communist sympathizers like John Strachey saw Communist affiliation as " the indispensable foundation stone upon which a Peoples Front for Britain can alone be built " . |
| 11 | A review of the way in which a systems viewpoint has been adopted by physical geography textbooks as well as in some research is justified because the alacrity with which the approach was adopted perhaps emphasizes that there was a clear need for a unifying approach . |
| 12 | ‘ THERE has to be something wrong with a tax system in which a police sergeant falls into the same tax bracket as a multi-millionaire ’ — Tory MP Keith Hampson . |
| 13 | Polysemy again operates as an agent of transition between contexts in the following sentence in which a customs declaration becomes a declaration of love : |
| 14 | In one a hunts man , his hunting-horn swinging free from his neck , is sticking a stake into a wild boar , which also has a dog sinking its teeth into its neck ; in another , two lions , one very heraldic and standoffish , are attacking a gazelle , helped by a bird of prey ; in the third , which is decidedly curious , a mule leads a lolling-tongued , wolf-like animal captive while ahead of it a hunts man is tensing his bow to fire at some unseen target . |
| 15 | The Interior Minister , Augustín Mantilla , was reported to have resigned on Feb. 7 , the day on which a police officer shot and wounded Henry Pease , the United Left Coalition ( UI ) candidate for the April 1990 presidential election . |
| 16 | Labour 's deputy shadow transport secretary , Brian Wilson , accused the Government of ‘ writing for themselves a plunderers ’ charter ’ . |
| 17 | The time at which a futures contract gets sold is vitally significant . |
| 18 | It follows that X should to some extent overshadow A , restricting the amount of associative strength gained both by its a elements and its c elements . |