Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have liked the look of me because after a bit more discussion he said , ‘ Well , we 'll have to learn you to milk , and learn you to feed calves and the rest will follow on . |
| 2 | But after a century this ‘ artificial ’ system had created a political life and interests of its own which were strong enough to resist its replacement . |
| 3 | I had been warned on the ground to expect the phenomenon ; after a couple more practice stalls , and later in the circuit , I almost got used to it . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most important law change to emphasise that rugby is played by players standing on their feet ; this season after a tackle any other player must be on his feet when he plays the ball immaterial of what distance he is away from the tackle . |
| 5 | After a year these shares could be sold freely . |
| 6 | After a goal each from Tony Marchant , for Northern , and Tony Thorniley , loose forward David Heron and skipper David Hobbs combined to put Great Britain second rower Fairbank over for his fourth try of the season in the 17th minute . |
| 7 | After a while all of the others , except Wellington , followed . |
| 8 | To the extent that these arenas support and acknowledge people 's feelings and their search for greater clarity , they must presuppose a set of values that is different from the one which underlies the common staffroom ethos ; and after a while this clash of values may become explicit . |
| 9 | She told herself that if she did not look up she would not need to see it and after a while this not-looking would become habitual , but in the event she could not prevent her eyes from turning up to the campanile . |
| 10 | She was like a young dog , the kind her mother scorned , and she could only leap and lick after a blow such as he had fetched her . |
| 11 | McClair stressed : ‘ Funnily enough , I 've never felt better after a game this season . |
| 12 | After a time this gentleman leant forward and tapped Baldwin on the knee . |
| 13 | After a time this ability becomes as instinctive as is the power of singing or whistling a note of any pitch desired , but it should be obvious that horn parts should keep to ‘ vocal ’ intervals or stepwise movement as far as possible . |
| 14 | Some firms have a large supply of good water that meets their process needs , usually after a pre-treatment such as sedimentation in a mill lodge , with some additional treatment for the boiler water . |
| 15 | After an hour most people had left . |
| 16 | When , after an evening such as this , you go home , and I go home , I miss you . |
| 17 | ‘ Will thoo tek notice of an old man wi' a bit more wool on 'is back ? ’ he asked . |
| 18 | THIS bronze handle ( fig. 6.1 ) was picked up in April 1967 by Mr J. A. Hadman from the surface of a field half a mile to the north-east of Oundle , Northants. , on the east side of the River Nene ( Nat . |
| 19 | Even though the epidermis appears to be stretched taut over the surface of a structure such as a growing limb bud , its response to wounding is to close over the lesion , rather than to gape more widely . |
| 20 | End of a school Many teachers were displaced in the fighting . |
| 21 | As points of reference for the total curriculum of a school each of these falls within the usual definition of broad aims . |
| 22 | The relationship between an entity CUSTOMER and another entity ORDER is usually of a degree one-to-many ( 1:m ) . |
| 23 | The use of a facility such as ‘ Office Power ’ would thus reduce the pressure on staff dealing with more complicated cases where a much more detailed and individual response is required . |
| 24 | The use of a facility such as ‘ Office Power ’ and its electronic mail capabilities would ensure that all aspects of a case could be considered timeously without fear of hard copy correspondence being lost between different sections inadvertently or otherwise not actioned . |
| 25 | It was Brainsby 's idea for Richard Branson to arrive at the inaugural press conference wearing a brown leather aviator 's helmet , à la Biggles , in an attempt to lend the launching of an international airline something of the savour of a Boys Own adventure . |
| 26 | The amount of phenol discharged with the water has consequently dropped 50 fold from one third of a tonne each day to less than six kilograms per day . |
| 27 | There are in the Musée two memorable and characteristic El Greco portraits , of a duke all in black and a cardinal ; some excellent Ingres , including a full-length portrait of the depressing King Charles X , looking depressing , and an ample-backed Baigneuse or Woman Bathing ; a Goya self portrait , among other pictures by him , making him look mild and harmless ; some British pictures , by Constable , Lawrence , Reynolds and Raeburn ; a Géricault and an agitated Delacroix showing Job tormented by Demons ; and some fine drawings , of which Bonn at had a most notable collection , too large to be displayed in toto , by artists from the early Italians onwards . |
| 28 | Its purely endogenous nature is well illustrated by the facts that it can be evoked by the absence of a stimulus such as a gap in a long sequence of evenly spaced tones and that the actual probability and significance of the stimulus is less important in determining whether or not the P300 will occur than the subject 's perception of its probability and significance . |
| 29 | Saxton Bampfylde represents a more recent example of a breakaway this time from John Stork — suggesting that there is still scope for start-ups in headhunting . |
| 30 | Of course , the use of a category such as " the English people " requires some sense not only of what that phrase encompasses , but of what is necessarily excluded from it . |