Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditionally parents , through direct appeals or through a parents ' organisation have provided additional funds for ‘ extras ’ for the children and the school . |
| 2 | The ‘ Auxiliary ’ section has three jacks : ‘ Tuner ’ , which can be used either for plugging in an electronic tuner or as a non-effects direct out ; ‘ Phones ’ which is self-explanatory ; and ‘ Mastercontrol ’ , a special socket for use with a volume pedal — very useful for electro-acoustics without onboard volume controls , or even violins or mandolins . |
| 3 | In short , local government 's future financial base will have to be a hybrid — either of two or more taxes or of a tax-and-grants kind . |
| 4 | These may arise if there are minority shareholders in a company and pre-emption rules apply either under the Articles of Association or under a shareholders ' agreement . |
| 5 | No one in the room is excluded , as they might be from a maths activity that some of them ca n't do ; or from a games session , where physical prowess is such an important factor . |
| 6 | There can be no doubt that this sort of help is most valuable for teachers , and where it can not be provided from a curriculum development project itself might in less ambitious form be offered from a teachers ' centre or from a schools library service , although in the latter case the advice on sub-themes and topics would necessarily be tentative rather than prescriptive . |
| 7 | Up to the passing of the new Act , the loan societies recovered money owed to them either by a summons to a Court of Requests or to a Police Court . |
| 8 | Its commitment to standards will also be reflected the various impending ISO 9000 approvals planned for this year — as a multilayer and plated through hole board supplier in May ; as a single-sided board supplier in October ; and as a services operation , in September . |
| 9 | I 've had weeks with no work at all , and as a sans-papiers there is no such thing as social security for me or my children . ’ |
| 10 | As well as being used for corn grinding , the mill was also used for cider production , and as a maltings , confirmed by the presence of the adjacent oasthouse. , |
| 11 | As a parish priest he also served as a diocesan representative on the first National Liturgy Commission and as a schools commissioner with the North Riding of Yorkshire in the diocesan office . |
| 12 | We all knew that the Repubblichini were tools of the Nazis , used as spies and as a police force ; but they did not know us well enough to denounce us as anti-Fascists . |
| 13 | He 'd been posted to the Far East in the 1930 's and as a police office , he was captured at the fall of Singapore and imprisoned in the Japanese death camps . |
| 14 | I want to go back the year , nineteen hundred , and let's hear the causes of death , because when many infectives caused by viruses and the bacteria , the life expectancy for a male was fifty , and for a women was fifty four . |
| 15 | At a further ministerial meeting in August and after a heads of government meeting in Grenada in September , the four Windward islands agreed to create a regional constituent assembly to discuss unity plans and to prepare for a referendum to be held in mid-1991 . |
| 16 | But our greatest find was the friendly Dolphin pub , serving excellent local seafood , and with a games room for children of all ages . |
| 17 | This was in four storeys and in a no-frills , prefabricated style that could have been anything-a tax office , a really dull hotel , a leaking hospital doomed never to come fully into service . |
| 18 | Elsewhere , other strategies will roll out in two to three months Pyramid says , and in a years or so 's time it claims it 'll have servers capable of competing with IBM mainframe class systems . |
| 19 | To take an extreme illustrative case , one can imagine a situation where broadly similar relationships exist between direct land-users ( pastoralists or peasants ) and other groups and the state , and they develop historically in a steep-sloped area and in a plains area nearby . |
| 20 | Go on to Trecadifor Farm and over a cattle grid . |
| 21 | So , with a day to spare after Watergate , I flew out to Kearney and over an eggs and hash brown breakfast at Captain Smith 's , heard the story of his life and how he came to be piloting the Catalina that sighted the Bismarck . |
| 22 | The Times agreed : ‘ It brings back Old London , unlighted and without a police . ’ |
| 23 | There was a bar on the premises , and on a YCs night it would be filled with the laughter and gossip of young drinkers , some below the legal age of drinking . |
| 24 | Nor , do the back , because that can be removed you put it on a surface , the side or underneath that can not be removed , and on a surfaces that 's not regularly dusted and polished because eventually it will wear off . |
| 25 | Well , erm , Adrian goes on a Mondays and Tuesdays to nursery , and on a Wednesdays and Fridays to his dad , and Tiffany goes on a Tuesday and Thursday and Friday to nursery . |
| 26 | A limited number of studentships available to UK students and on a fees only basis to EC applicants . |
| 27 | She failed , too , to get jobs in boarding kennels and at a vets ' practice . |
| 28 | It has little that 's revolutionary in terms of innovative spreadsheet design , and working with multiple worksheets could be made easier , but as a Windows spreadsheet , Excel excels . |
| 29 | The President was amused , conceding that not much cricket or rugby was played in the United States , but as a sports fan himself he understood — especially as a Southerner , aware of the significance of sport in the Deep South , and of the fact that I came from an ever Deeper South than he did … |
| 30 | But with a price-earnings ratio of 62 using next year 's official earnings forecast , the company 's shares are hardly cheap . |