Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In preparation for this a UK CIME Day will be held in London on the 15th March and details will soon be available from PA . |
| 2 | This poses insurmountable problems of effectively transporting the powder through such a system and therefore they are not likely to have application in the warehouses under consideration . |
| 3 | Mr Evans seems to have recognised that the prospective decade of self-sufficiency in oil promised a unique opportunity for such a revival and hence the conditions in which a sympathetic government could satisfy the movement 's ambition . |
| 4 | Jerry refuses with zest ; he has obviously been springing to his own defence for many a long year . |
| 5 | God knows how they had conjured up the planning permission for such a venture , situated as it was on the borders of Essex in a green-belt area . |
| 6 | Only the Holy Father can give permission for such a tomb to be opened . ’ |
| 7 | From the left bank of the canal , the green fields of Gloucestershire swept up in a gentle rise for half a mile , there to be a terminated by a line of stately elms . |
| 8 | Chapter 9 considers some of the issues arising when a contract for such a project is placed with an outside organization . |
| 9 | Relying heavily on a low sulphur coal strategy in place of FGD , may create problems which could yet undermine even the short-term economic case for such a policy . |
| 10 | There may be a case for such a restraint upon popular power , but it can not be a democratic one . |
| 11 | Next week we must have Brian or Gerry telling you why I 'm wrong and they 'd be as persuasive , or more persuasive than I 'm being , but I ca n't see the case for such a thing as a law of form . |
| 12 | We had absolutely no budget for such a venture ( already undertaken by the Italian and United States Governments ) until Lord Carrington of Christie 's suggested this collaboration ’ . |
| 13 | There could be no excuse for such a death . |
| 14 | The various Nationalists had also expressed their sympathy for such a move . |
| 15 | It is further suggested that funding for such a programme might be available through the European Community 's information technology programmes . |
| 16 | The Community 's " structural funds " — designated for restructuring uneconomic industries and supporting depressed regions — represent a potential source of funding for such a scheme . |
| 17 | There were too many pretenders to the weak Syrian throne for such a return to be feasible . |
| 18 | If this is the case , rather than attempt to invent a new conceptual framework , there is much to be said for turning to marriage as the one , already existing legal concept which has the obvious potential for expansion so as to provide the institutional framework for such a union . |
| 19 | The cooling-earth theory provided the perfect framework for such a model of successive adaptive stages . |
| 20 | SIR — There are at present about half a million United Kingdom citizens living in other parts of the European Community , and if Britain is to compete successfully in the Single Market , even more Britons will find themselves spending longer periods elsewhere in the EC . |
| 21 | His parents ' cottage was restored to make it a suitable birthplace for such a great man . |
| 22 | So far the company has not registered any enthusiasm for such a payment either . |
| 23 | Germany , Italy and the Benelux countries are particularly critical of Britain 's apparent lack of enthusiasm for such a tax . |
| 24 | So opens Blaze 's ‘ 25 Years Later ’ , perhaps the best soul debut for half a decade . |
| 25 | A mixture of gratitude and pity held her captive through many a long , polite , sad , dull declaration of admiration , and kept her smiling through many an impolite drunken assault on her brassiere straps . |
| 26 | Yet would he use a PC or a Notebook computer for such a document , and if so would he edit it as he re-read the text and his thoughts on the subject became more succinct ? |
| 27 | Most important , there may be no interesting similarity whatsoever that could be formulated in the vocabulary of physics between such a system and the brain . |
| 28 | His objection was specifically against the idea of a married diaconate , and he accused three periti ( unnamed but thought to be Rahner , Martelet and Ratzinger ) of distributing pamphlets to the fathers soliciting support for such a project . |
| 29 | i The discussion in the previous chapter provides a degree of support for such a conclusion . |
| 30 | There is support for such a pragmatic concept of reference in Strawson 's ( 1950 ) claim that ‘ 'referring ’ is not something an expression does ; it is something that someone can use an expression to do' ; and in Searle 's view that ‘ in the sense in which speakers refer , expressions do not refer any more than they make promises or give orders ’ ( 1979 : 155 ) . |