Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that it is important not to lose sight of the fact that the judgment relates specifically to Claus Ramrath 's circumstances and , in particular , the fact that Mr Ramrath had already obtained authorisation locally as a reviseur d'entreprises . |
| 2 | So as a result papers would fly round of , I 'm afraid , rather a shallow kind — a last minute dash by some bright brain on a subject which very able people in departments and outside advisers might have worked on for months and months and months . |
| 3 | Great imperial systems propelled by steam have broken down into a myriad nationalities propelled by the internal-combustion engine and oil . |
| 4 | This additional information will be provided together with a draft heads of agreement . |
| 5 | As they searched , they wrote down in a notebook details of all the things they found . |
| 6 | Last summer HP decided to proliferate its SoftBench framework source code beyond CASE and stripped out the CASE-specific utilities , getting down to a core communications technology known as the Broadcast Message Server which can coordinate messages among different software applications in a common environment . |
| 7 | The water soaks into the ground and becomes sucked in to a sandstone strata , which holds it like a sponge under the city . |
| 8 | ‘ I do hope it 's nothing serious , ’ said Julia politely , thinking that it was rather hard on his wife to spend her honeymoon feeling ill while her husband sat in on a war crimes trial . |
| 9 | A SPECIAL constable was shot dead at point-blank range and his colleague gunned down at a routine police check , an Old Bailey court heard yesterday . |
| 10 | Meeting together at a disability arts event can also provide rare opportunities for disabled people to exchange ideas . |
| 11 | Just as a doctor links smoking at 20 with chest disease at 50 , research can indicate to social workers the long-term outcomes of current actions . |
| 12 | Straight back into the routine just after a coupla weeks . |
| 13 | Now Eleanor , already with a BA Hons in French and German , can add M.Inst.P.S. after her name . |
| 14 | All of the boards actively involved in training practised some form of activity as a whole group , generally within a board meetings . |
| 15 | But he goes off just before a ship sails , without telling anyone . |
| 16 | Despite the ominous row of trespassing hatchbacks , we saw nobody on the ridge at all , and luxuriated in the surprising solitude that one should n't expect so near a town like Fort William , which grows more like a Highland Gorbals every day . |
| 17 | The day started off with a breathing techniques class to help relieve the stress of everyday life and was followed by a Yoga class . |
| 18 | She was on her way home from a school governors ' meeting when she had a puncture . |
| 19 | But there 's a whole range of behaviours which one can include in sexual harassment , going from fairly mundane every day things which just grind people down and which grind people down because they happen on a constant basis , to very serious once in a while sorts of behaviours , and to try and categorise them as major or minor does n't really get us very close to being what the issue is about . |
| 20 | Once upon a time magistrates had been dull , stolid figures , worthy but uninspiring , above all remote and anonymous . |
| 21 | Once upon a time teams from Britain and all over the world were seen under the lights . |
| 22 | Once upon a time muezzins had had to climb such towers to call the people to prayer , the little round room at the top giving resonance , enlarging the human voice . |
| 23 | A prerequisite for a school 's involvement in the project is the setting up of a library resources committee to undertake the detailed development of the proposal and its associated spending plans . |
| 24 | As figures be the instruments of ornament in euery language , so be they also in a sorte abuses or rather trespasses in speach , because they passe the ordinary limits of common vtterance , and be occupied of purpose to deceiue the eare and also the minde , drawing it from plainnesse and simplicitie to a certaine doublenesse whereby our talke is the more guilefull & abusing . |
| 25 | MOTORIST Peter Beer battled for eight hours to free himself from his crashed car while vehicles roared past on a motorway yards above . |
| 26 | Aachen , Germany-based Parsytec GmbH 's US subsidiary in West Chicago has announced Parix , the ‘ second-generation ’ parallel Unix-based development environment developed for its indefinitely-forthcoming GC Series of T9000 Transputer-based MIMD supercomputers by Amsterdam-based Associated Computer Experts BV : aimed specifically at scientists and research engineers , it can be used on any Parsytec system with 16 or more nodes , which is hooked up to a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation as a front end ; a Parsytec 62-node MultiCluster I with Parix is from $100,000 . |
| 27 | The system is now geared to be accessed on-line , typically through a specialist systems house , such as Donovan Data Services ( DDS ) , and the thick weekly two-volume printed reports familiar to all TV buyers and planners for many years are no more . |
| 28 | The applications programming interface is available now as a Software Developers Kit at $200 , and Novell DOS 7 will include several Protected Mode Services client components including disk cache and compression drivers , a peer-to-peer server , and CD-ROM extensions . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've invested our money back into a system others can come through , which is a way for us to stay fresh and help people we believe in . ’ |
| 30 | Primarily a religious holiday , it has also been for hundreds of years a secular holiday , often with a travelling showmen 's fair visiting the village at the time . |