Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 The NEC had suggested that the matter should be advised to Divisions , for each to nominate a person to attend and report back , with the possibility of the creation of a certificate of attendance .
2 Other cash has gone to Mitsubishi and Toshiba for each to develop a 5 kW laser .
3 For centre David Lougheed and uncapped lock Jeff Knauer , the CANZ series will be a special challenge for neither had a game during the '91 World Cup .
4 To some extent , these sectoral preferences are related to ethno-religious lines of demarcation ( Boal and Poole 1976 ) ; certainly it is reasonable to view inner-city communities east and west of the river as each having a higher-status ethnic counterpart .
5 But for that to happen a Great Russian culture had to be identified and fostered .
6 A sentence like That 's a dog can be used to express an indefinitely large number of propositions ( every distinct referent for that creates a different proposition ) .
7 A debate such as this imposes a special obligation on those who take part in it .
8 The writer who adapted this H.E.Bates piece clearly understood that viewers want to feel cosy , and programmes such as this have a feel-good factor .
9 Ding Dong Bell is another good nursery rhyme , and for this make a well out of a round piece of sponge cake laying on its side .
10 In order for this to happen a decentralised partnership between residential workers and social service teams is required , which ensures joint participation and influence in child care decisions .
11 I ask for this following a serious breach of security at the prison last Friday , when a visitor inside the prison drew a knife and sought to attack another visitor .
12 For this give a prize for the best creation .
13 But COS influence was at its most profound in passing on to the service the principle of casework , for this embodied a number of middle-class assumptions about individualism , character , and family responsibilities .
14 Reasons given for this included a 10 per cent fall in production as compared with the same period in 1990 , lower than expected revenue from taxes , the cost of social compensation for price rises , high wage settlements , and the conflict between the republics and the centre which was preventing the implementation of unified financial policies .
15 And in no time after that built a massive big bungalow for himself .
16 After that came a stint in the ambulance service , while Jean worked for a catering business .
17 Returning to government with his mentor two years later , he was briefly a lord of the Treasury , but in 1711 became comptroller again and not long after that took a peerage as one of Harley 's ‘ dozen ’ new lords ( created en bloc to guarantee the Upper House 's acceptance of the peace of Utrecht ) and retreated to the lucrative but undemanding post of teller of the Exchequer .
18 We crossed the western main line by a bridge to get to the G.W.S. Outside the first shed was King George V. We went to see the broad gauge track layout with the transit shed and broad gauge signal and after that took a look at the carriage shed which contained some clerestory coaches .
19 While Scotland 's qualification for the 1994 World Cup finals hangs in the balance , what happens after that has a more substantive look to it .
20 Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry .
21 Well what we shall probably do is erm if you like get the bus down to McDonalds and like after that have a look around Wood Green .
22 Well when it comes in from the cow it 's at blood heat , and e you put it through your strainer and then you drain it and er you leave it be and it coagulates , goes consistency of yoghurt , slightly thicker than yoghurt , and after that stood a certain time you apply heat then you warm it up and you stir it , you break up the curd , and the whey gradually rises to the top and your curds settles to the bottom .
23 Bunker knew instinctively that Clasper could not , and would not , resolve the dispute himself and that the effects of the stoppage would very soon be felt far beyond the confines of United Motors as one supply industry after another experienced a precipitous drop in demand .
24 The chants were now accompanied by signs as one member after another thrust a right arm in the air to stab a pointing finger at the man on the platform .
25 He had after all had a good conference .
26 Bert , who had after all spent a fair bit of time with Jasper , was surprised that a brother had never been mentioned .
27 He left her , lying disordered on the sheepskins ; and after all left a coin beside her , walking out into the night .
28 It has after all become a commonplace that the creative imagination of the philosopher , mathematician or scientist is not much different from that of a prophet or poet ; what distinguishes him is how he treats his findings in retrospect .
29 Following some intense telephone diplomacy between Bonn and Paris , Chancellor Helmut Kohl and President Franois Mitterrand agreed that the Strasbourg EC summit , which opens here today , should after all agree a date for revising the Treaty of Rome and preparing for supra-national monetary union .
30 Then , in 1965 radar echoes from Mercury showed that the planet did not after all have a period of 88 days , but about 60 days .
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