Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well I 'll do my best and if er if they 're stuck for somewhere with a leaf then er we 'll send them round . |
| 2 | While some agreements in this area might not endure for long during a war , others might be more effective ( Towle , 1980 ) . |
| 3 | The use of a petrol block on a diesel engine is not a problem as the parts are exactly the same The problem is with the crankshaft The diesel unit is of forged steel and carries a ‘ D ’ stamped on the web of the crank The petrol version , whilst sharing exactly the same dimensions is marked P and it is made from cast iron and will not run for long in a diesel unit — as you have discovered Some military petrol engines however are fitted with the forged steel crank and these will fit and run in diesel units |
| 4 | Subtle but damning variations of idiolect are unlikely to count for much in a country where people go around wearing tee-shirts inscribed with things like ‘ The essence of brave 's aerial adventure : the flight 's academy of the American east club with the traditional gallery of Great Britain diesel ’ . |
| 5 | But he proved , when he joined the illustrious band of Yorkshire bowlers to take 1000 wickets for the county , that experience and craftsmanship still count for much in a game which seems to reserve its greatest acclaim for the lean , young gunslingers . |
| 6 | ‘ Could it be somebody working for Connelly with an axe to grind ? ’ asked Martin Bates , running his finger around the rim of his glass . |
| 7 | It has come about entirely as a result of privatisation . |
| 8 | The FRED retains the proposal made in the Discussion Paper , which was supported by the majority of respondents , that convertible debt should be accounted for entirely as a liability until such time as it is actually converted , in preference to methods which seek to reflect the dual nature of convertible debt as part liability and part equity . |
| 9 | He had been reported missing shortly after 5.30pm on a flight from Teesside to Carlisle . |
| 10 | The grim find was made shortly after 9am by a grave-digger who noticed a patch of disturbed ground inside the cemetery garden near the Seafield entrance to the crematorium . |
| 11 | The grim find was made shortly after 9am by a grave-digger who noticed a patch of disturbed ground inside the cemetery garden near the Seafield entrance . |
| 12 | So you can go for longer without a tint . |
| 13 | The improvements in the accident rate have come about largely as a result of increased awareness about safety matters and a developing safety culture . |
| 14 | Firstly , Martin Coleman from High Wycombe has taken me to task for not including a power on/off switch in the circuit of Fig. 4 ( April ‘ 92 ) . |
| 15 | Although he engaged in some pastoral work in the years after his ordination , preaching and hearing confessions , his time was spent almost entirely in the papal civil service and , until the appointment to Germany for just over a decade , almost entirely in Rome . |
| 16 | She 's been with them now for just over a month , and Angelica has never known a worker like her . |
| 17 | From here you walk north-east following forest paths and tracks for just under a mile . |
| 18 | For around £20 each we enjoyed the simple pleasures of being able to dance the Gay Gordons round a bonfire at midnight , vomit into a loch instead of on to a pavement , and stumble up hills for the remainder of the week walking off hangovers . |
| 19 | These men and women always belong to and are made sense of only as a part of the collective — the race , the nation , the state , the republic , the class , etc . |
| 20 | Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time . |
| 21 | I enclose herewith the principal , duplicate , Copy List of Assize and List of Assize to be summoned in conjunction with the instructions shown below together with a warrant for citation in respect of the above mentioned High Court Sitting . |
| 22 | Durkheim commented on the difficulty of regarding ‘ an enlightened Catholic of to-day as a sort of retarded savage ’ , but he provided the reminder that ‘ the most primitive religions are not the only ones which have attributed this power of propagation to the sacred character ’ . |
| 23 | I sat next to Grant at a private screening of Just Like a Woman . |
| 24 | The danger of not including a statement of subject to contract is that one party may subsequently argue that the heads are a binding agreement either as the main contract or as a collateral contract . |
| 25 | Ken Ellis , county trading standards officer for Devon , said : ‘ C & G was convicted on three charges of giving more prominence to a flat rate charge rather than the annual percentage rate , and three charges of not including an example in those advertisements . |
| 26 | WITH no obvious metamorphosis , the Diary spent part of yesterday among an organisation called Teesside Women at a ‘ meet the politicians ’ lunch . |
| 27 | He was preparing a series of six documentaries with the overall title of Once in a Lifetime and said the situation regarding the Women of the Year lunch fitted in perfectly . |
| 28 | The Hilary of once upon a time would have done it and taken great pleasure in confronting him , but the Hilary of now seemed to have become a spineless coward . |
| 29 | It 's sort of more like a pyjama top than a blazer . |
| 30 | I 'm wondering whether it was erm one ti er we , we walked up a hill and the the erm sculpture was sort of up on a hill . |