Example sentences of "[det] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How , do they do that through a friends group or ? |
| 2 | The second reason that , that we 're delighted to see you is that as a Trades Council we have been trying very hard over the last six or seven years to raise the profile of the trade union movement and this has been quite difficult in in during the Thatcher years , during the anti-trade union legislation , the onslaught by the media , trade unions er , the profile of trade unions has not been easy to raise . |
| 3 | The Tropical Forestry Action Plan ( TFAP ) , which is seen by some as a loggers ' charter , is to be reformed . |
| 4 | All twelve bedrooms have en suite facilities , and are equipped with remote control colour TV ; the larger suites have mini bars , large bathrooms ( one with a corner bath , another with a jacuzzi ) , and one has a very pretty four-poster bed with lace trimmings . |
| 5 | they always do this on a supplies teacher , you have to go because you want to do it |
| 6 | Onlookers paying £40 a head might have disagreed , for though the clothes were gorgeous and the models undeniably pretty , the atmosphere was more like that of a girls ' boarding school than an haute couture show . |
| 7 | In cases such as that of a personnel file , for which the number of attributes is relatively low and the same for each record , a bit-pattern index can be a compact way of storing information about the file . |
| 8 | The depth of two bricks laid flat , with a flagstone on top , will give a riser height different to that of a 4″ thick walling block topped with the same flagstone . |
| 9 | They had regenerated with incredible speed , comparable with that of a bacteria colony increasing in a lab dish — doubling itself within hours . |
| 10 | Stella Fearnley replies : In response to Richard Harwood 's comments , I feel I should point out that my article did not imply that the only perception of district societies is that of a practitioners ' club , and that this perception emerged from market research carried out among our members last year , not from my own opinions . |
| 11 | Sheltered housing is accommodation in a group of self-contained flats ( or sometimes bungalows ) with a resident warden , alarm system and some shared facilities such as a residents ' lounge , guest room and laundry . |
| 12 | But co-operation over matters such as a futures rulebook and joint compliance have indicated the economies of scale possible in combining with the TSA 's 1,000 members . |
| 13 | The communication unit might consist of a number of specialists such as a personnel expert in communications , a journalist , a technical specialist and a back up advisory group drawn from all levels in the organization , and perhaps supplemented by occasional outside consultants . |
| 14 | A tenancy in common is usual in a business situation such as a solicitors ' partnership . |
| 15 | This they term ‘ internal work motivation ’ to distinguish it from motivation which arises from extrinsic factors such as a payment-by-results wage system . |
| 16 | So you see that being a MIDI device has massive advantages : first , sound changes which might otherwise require the drastic resetting of several controls can be carried out instantly , by calling up a patch containing the new settings ; and second , when using another MIDI device , such as a multi-effects processor , the two can be linked via the MIDI sockets and a patch change on one can trigger a patch change on the other . |
| 17 | Rhos-on-Sea where the new breakwater forms its own natural harbour , has a continental atmosphere , and many amenities , such as a Children 's paddling pool and par putting . |
| 18 | lf you go to a specialist shop , such as a plumbers ' merchant or central heating specialist , you will be able to find other sizes . |
| 19 | Last spring , the US Supreme Court dealt the unions a blow by ruling , in a suit brought by treasury employees and rail workers , that for critical occupations ( such as a customs agent ) testing does not curtail constitutional rights . |
| 20 | No , we , we 're looking at individual cases still , and , indeed they will be reviewed as ind individual cases in the future , with the Health Authority clearly recognizing that it has n't much of a responsibilities on them . |
| 21 | What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardens photo-call , carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead . |
| 22 | But such a manoeuvre is all in a days work if you are a teacher on a placement scheme . |
| 23 | The bit about odd jeans was totally accurate , by the way ; Cousin Josh made his fortune firstly by dealing in cars , then by risking all on a jeans company which at the time was tottering on the very hem of bankruptcy ; under Josh 's regime , their jeans were n't any better or any cheaper than anybody else 's , but he had the garments made in odd sizes ; waists of 29 , 31 , 33 inches , and so on , as opposed to the products from all other companies , domestic and foreign , which tended to favour the even numbers . |
| 24 | From St. Albans , Harpenden , Leighton Buzzard and Luton came many to a Sports and Recreation Afternoon for Active Retired at Luton Regional Sports Centre . |
| 25 | And while IBM is undoubtedly now more of a computer-services company , much of this business is a spin-off from its installed base of mainframes — hardly a growing market . |
| 26 | He was a contented , if not an ambitious man ; he took pride in his shop , which he looked upon as more of a gentlemen 's club . |
| 27 | Oh it 's a fill in , I thought that was sort of more like a personnel type phrase . |
| 28 | It 's the sort of question that a man and a woman might very well give different answers to , but it seems to me that there are different sorts of things that erm some women tend to notice , different sorts of ideas that tend to assume prominence in the imaginations of some women , and erm to that extent I think that George Eliot 's sympathy for other people , including people that she does n't actually agree with , is perhaps a characteristic that one might tend to find more in a women novelist than in a male novelist , although I 'm not sure that one can be absolutely dogmatic and say that one would never find a male novelist who could write the way that George Eliot does . |
| 29 | Same with a customs officer . |