Example sentences of "[prep] a [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also leaving Bishopsgarth in the summer will be Mrs Isobel Fraser after a 27year career . |
| 2 | The economy moved back into the black in February after a Dm412m deficit during January but the latest Dm1.6 billion surplus is still well below the comparable Dm2.1 billion a year earlier . |
| 3 | ( en ii ) the possibility of removing the 16+ as a series of examinations to be taken after a one/two year course for 14–16 year olds at the age of sixteen would remove a constraint which has a distorting effect on the pattern of the curriculum of schools . |
| 4 | The move came after a 2,000,000-tonne shortfall in Soviet oil deliveries , which was normally 13 million tonnes annually . |
| 5 | Wilkinson himself became involved in the controversy when Batty made his way to the touchline to be substituted after a 38minute flare-up . |
| 6 | Do Souza Silva reached Marrakesh only the day before after a 7000K flight from Rio , but he did n't seem jet-lagged . |
| 7 | As you know it is a 24 hours job looking after a child/young adult with special needs . |
| 8 | The increasing prominence of a cappella repertory in the choral institutions and the punctilious singing it requires , the marked prominence of younger singers with clearer , straighter voices ( principally men of pre-marital age , able to accept the low salaries offered to lay-clerks , albeit for brief periods only ) , the choirmasters ’ determination to raise standards by producing clearer textures in resonant buildings , the pervasive influence of boy trebles singing in high registers upon the whole choral sound these are factors that may all have their place in Taruskin 's stimulating argument but might also be regarded as vigorously independent of it . |
| 9 | Liverpool dockers recently turned back parts of a 1,500-tonne consignment of Canadian PCBs ( polychlorinated biphenyls ) bound for this plant in Gwent . |
| 10 | … a small wingy , leggy item runs across the screen of the VDU , interrupting my thoughts , which are dwelling on the possibilities of a 1,000-word essay on a woodlice-breeding camp . |
| 11 | Kevin also runs a pop quiz with a prize of a Q96 tee-shirt for those who win . |
| 12 | Already there is talk of a Richards-for-vice-president movement in 1992 . |
| 13 | He 's just taken delivery of a TA200S 200-watt stereo combo , as have Andy Summers , Seal , Greg Lake and Suzanne Vega . |
| 14 | 24 Paid Drake £682 after taking advantage of a 2.5% discount for prompt payment . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the activity of the promoter in the absence of a SV40 enhancer is sufficiently high to observe that activity is only increased two to three fold when the promoter is deleted from -300 to -190bp . |
| 16 | four days before The Observer published this statement by Wilson , Chapman Pincher wrote in the Daily Express that he had a copy of a DI6 report , detailing the heavy surveillance of Harold Wilson prior to the general election of February 1974 . |
| 17 | It 's , certainly erm well attended , there 's , you know thousands of people attend and basically it centres around erm , a fire , Beltane means erm , sacred fire and erm a procession of drummers leads me to top of a path and along Carlfa , Carlton Hill and erm fire sculptures are lit around me and I unfo ha have this great costume that I unfold in and erm process round the hill and round hill are different performers erm painted in different colours to represent different elements of nature , and finally we come to this big fire where which I light with hands , which have been sculpted and bannocks are given to the people to eat , and erm the tradition that you 're supposed to cross the fire as a sort of a erm purification ceremony or or through the ashes of the fire . |
| 18 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 19 | To further determine the location of the neuronal tissue specific element in the -300 promoter HNF-L promoter , we examined ( on the basis of the C1300 cell transfection experiments ) the expression of a 5' deletion containing 190bp of upstream sequence linked to the rest of the gene . |
| 20 | Vessey 's visit followed the announcement of a US$1,300,000 grant of official US aid to voluntary agencies working in Vietnam in various fields of post-war reconstruction . |
| 21 | The early expression is modified and becomes restricted to r2 and r4 and their migrating crest populations which is seen in a lateral view of a 9.0d.p.c. embryo ( i ' ) . |
| 22 | According to Home Office figures , Merseyside showed a 9.3pc fall in car crime against the national average of a 2.5pc drop . |
| 23 | To reach a fuller understanding of the blood differential — its origin , purpose and effect — it is necessary to dig a little deeper and attempt to trace the underlying reasons by means of a sociological/anthropological analysis — and this is what I have been attempting to do in the course of this essay . |
| 24 | It burned at the top of a 25Oft stack and we tried all sorts of things to get it to light again . |
| 25 | The first Plan identified a target of a 6.5% reduction in casualties by the year 2000 . |
| 26 | An F-16 from the Royal Dutch airforce connects to the boom of a KC135 Stratotanker out of Upper Heyford . |
| 27 | On the drinks front , a litre bottle of red Fitou is going for the price of a 75cl bottle ( £3.15 ) , as is a litre of Lutomer Riesling ( £2.85 ) . |
| 28 | Langbaurgh planning councillors refused permission for the upgrading of a 275,000-volt line to carry 400,000 volts . |
| 29 | Use 200g/7oz to cover the base and sides of a 1.2litre/2 pint pudding basin . |
| 30 | a third of a ye way through it . |