Example sentences of "[det] [n mass] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place each mackerel in a parcel of foil with the orange juice , ginger and black pepper . |
| 2 | The next step will be to ask individual Departments if they can supplement the data and provide updates to that data on a regular basis . |
| 3 | This section also covers the Policyholder in a personal capacity e.g. the Policyholder 's pet dog may attack and kill some sheep in a field . |
| 4 | And no sooner was he inside when he heard Mrs Brown singing that her true love had sent four calling birds three french hens two turtle doves not to mention another partridge in a pear tree . |
| 5 | Later it transpired that the INAO ( Institut National des Appellations d'Origine des vins et eaux -de-vie ) would accept this 10% as a stock régulateur , a reserve without appellation to be kept for possible classification should any future shortfall require it . |
| 6 | Lifestyle target marketing systems , in contrast , capture data on named individuals regarding their professed interests and needs , but such systems offer this data on a limited volume of individuals from whom such data has been solicited . |
| 7 | These then go out into the environment , are reflected back in a multitude of different ways according to the objects encountered , are picked up by the most amazingly refined hearing organs , matched against an inner mind structure capable of interpreting this data as a full and complete three-dimensional world and used as a major sensory means of perceiving their watery or aerial world . |
| 8 | Esso and Shell are putting four and a half pence on a gallon of petrol from Monday . |
| 9 | ‘ Lend us a few pence for a pint , mate . |
| 10 | She could cancel her newspapers and for a few pence from a local jumble sale acquire an old-fashioned cookery book , and a heavy stew pot . |
| 11 | Paper Tiger is spending some £10,000 on a promotion for its graphic and fantasy art list in April . |
| 12 | Only 10% were for advanced material , and another 12% for a category defined as ‘ standard ’ works . |
| 13 | ‘ And this fish in a bag is his latest accomplishment . |
| 14 | And I think being a father means something quite different than dep , from depositing some sperm in a tube or in a woman ! |
| 15 | Spain 's Alcatel Sesa SA has taken control of two Polish companies , PZT Telkom , which employs 640 people in Warsaw , and Teletra , which has about 1,300 employees making public telephone exchanges ; Alcatel Sesa said it would guarantee jobs for 1,650 people at the two firms for the next 18 months and committed itself to increasing the capital of the two companies by another $25m within a year ; it plans to start manufacturing the Alcatel 1000 S-12 exchange in Poland , where it says it has already built eight digital exchanges in Poland with a $60m credit that was put up by the Spanish government . |
| 16 | ‘ You c-ca n't … ’ she spluttered , trying not to panic that , if she 'd got it right — and she could n't see how else this swine of a man could threaten her — he was saying that her job was on the line ! |
| 17 | ‘ Pawing ! ’ she exclaimed , and illogically started to feel angry that this swine of a man she had given her heart to should still be so ready to think the worst of her . |
| 18 | Electric windows and mirrors , central locking , rear heating , rear wash/wipe and a tilt wheel are on all models , but today 's hard-pressed executive has to find another £701 for a sunroof and £1,092 for air conditioning . |
| 19 | Like at a party some people at a party smoke |
| 20 | Although its connection with a political party , and the fact that some of its ministers and elders are leading figures in the DUP , provides some people with a good ulterior motive to participate in the life of the Church , it is often the case that people have more than one motive for church involvement . |
| 21 | There is enough overdrive here to suit some people for a lead sound , let alone crunch rhythm . |
| 22 | The problem occurs with some of his followers , who turn the technique from one of limited use with some people into a total dogmatic world view , ignoring Freud 's own strictures against such tendencies . |
| 23 | We shall have to wait until each is announced , but the possibility of reopening new routes — a far cry from bus substitution — raises a new image for the sector which ten years ago had been written off by some people as a collection of unremunerative passenger railways . |
| 24 | A further problem for the Church is that it may be seen by some people as a stepping-stone to a political career . |
| 25 | Nor did we reflect on the way in which work can be used by some people as a substitute for living an authentic life . |
| 26 | And some people in a family intervention turn around and say , ‘ Bugger off , it 's my own life , and I never want to see you again . ’ |
| 27 | Indeed , even in the as yet relatively non-totalitarian welfare states of the West some have already discerned the same paternalistic and enslaving trend : ‘ government 's role is to serve as a parent charged with the duty of coercing some to aid others , ’ while government-funded welfare programmes ‘ put some people in a position to decide what is good for other people . |
| 28 | Thus drugs can be said to act on people and relax them ( 26 ) or bring them around ( 27 ) ; information can put some people in a favourable position with respect to others ( 28 ) ; and pointers can be seen as guiding people ( i.e. as somehow active or operative ) in the proper discharge of their duties . |
| 29 | Well , the most serious one , I suppose , is that there were some people in a car driving down the bottom end of Commerical Street and they had their windows broken by stones thrown by Hereford lads . |
| 30 | I mean you 've got to be careful at the end of the tax year that you 're actually okay on that ground , er but , and you can make a declaration to the revenue if you 're over the limit , it 's just that I mentioned that because some people like a joint account for it to be received into so that they can both spend it basically . |