Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , you 're gon na come in at two per cent , and I 'm gon na come in at twenty-two , and we both know that actually we 're gon na up finish between eight and a half and nine , do n't we ? |
| 2 | Yes , well you are talking about children 's services , but , I , I think if Mr 's going to talk later to this , if you want , but we are absolutely at the moment , we know that eighty nine percent of work at the child care centre is to do with child protection with to deal with it , and by that I mean abuse , physical and sexual abuse , er , concerns about that and a lot of that of course is , is tied up in procedural ways , and we 're dealing with events almost after the situation has er , got going , er , and of course , with the courts , you know that we 've got duties in relation to the courts , that we , we have to fulfil or else we are the subject of criticism from the er , courts , and we have been rapped at various er , times . |
| 3 | Also , the program has knowledge of qualitative physical principles relevant to its actual tasks , such as that if an object sticks out too far it will fall , and that it will pivot around the support point nearest to the centre of gravity . |
| 4 | The surprise is not that an accountant stands for Labour while an iron and steel worker is an Alliance candidate , but rather that the class basis of the two sets of candidates is so distinct . |
| 5 | At a meeting on Sunday , the 300 strikers indicated they were prepared to agree to management plans to resolve a dispute over lay-offs , but would return to work under protest at part of the package which included a wage freeze for 1993 and a cut in fringe benefits . |
| 6 | One thing is clear none of this OO stuff is imminent in Oracle as SQL 3 is pencilled in for 1995/6 and an object storage manager will most likely follow that . |
| 7 | At a post-crisis discussion between Mikoian and a State Department official , Mikoian was ‘ clearly influenced by commitments to Castro to make a strong case on Castro 's behalf ’ and tried to establish the idea of a protocol signed by all three countries ‘ [ attaching ] a good deal of significance to Cuba being one of the signatories ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Mrs Henry Cox ’ , too busy for some but a favourite with many for over a century |
| 9 | The Home Guard became a joke for some and a remark once passed in my company was " What use do you think you would be against trained troops ? " . |
| 10 | Early retirement may be a release from employment for some and a refuge from the severe insecurity of the labour market for others . |
| 11 | As I say I was sitting there adding it up , a pound for this and a pound for that and your meal , a fiver for Maggie , I 'm twenty pound short off you |
| 12 | There were a lot of arguments for this and a lot against . |
| 13 | Not all the the MPs are voting for this because a lot of people ca n't have work , let alone have a pay increase . |
| 14 | Pulling on a pair of ‘ Afro-American tribal dance boots ’ ( ie Nikes ) to complement his khaki tie-dye T-shirt and army trousers : ‘ It was a toss-up between this and a shell suit . |
| 15 | Get a definition in , get an application in , get empirical evidence in , get measurement problems in erm , get sort of contentious issues type of , or criticisms in erm , do n't draw , do n't do diagrams as they 're probably , the only , the only principal difference between this and an essay , you just have n't got the time , right , so do n't be tempted , unless you can do a very quick diagram that sum , sums it up . |
| 16 | There is only one league match left after that and a West derby victory would put them out of reach . |
| 17 | There 's about another two weeks after that or a week . |
| 18 | Maximilian , however , is desperately hungry for blood , and after 3 rounds of combat he must make a Cl test ( and at 2-round intervals after this until a test is failed ) . |
| 19 | ‘ What are you after all but a journalist ? |
| 20 | ‘ What was it after all but an experiment ? |
| 21 | In September he returned , after more than a year , to visit Henry Poole at Shurton Court , and to renew his friendship with Tom Poole , now master of the Castle Street house since the death of his father in July . |
| 22 | Digital Equipment Corp systems management provider Raxco Inc , Rockville , Maryland , and UK-based UIS Ltd , Epsom , Berkshire are to merge after more than a year of negotiations . |
| 23 | In July I was readmitted a second time , having finally obtained recognition of my French doctorate after more than a year . |
| 24 | After more than a year of " the war to end wars " Wilson was still pressing the need for the accumulation of a strike fund of such a size that when the war was over , the union " would be able to put up such a fight that their opponents would never be able to withstand " . |
| 25 | After more than a century of classical architecture , the mainstream of which became plainer and duller towards the end of the Georges , it is no wonder that the second Sir Robert wanted to go ‘ Tudor ’ . |
| 26 | After more than a century of relative obscurity , Gordon 's A Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever of Aberdeen ( 1795 ) was recognized for what it is , a masterpiece of early epidemiology based on astute clinical observation and written with exceptional clarity . |
| 27 | But after more than a decade , and scores of contacts with the press . |
| 28 | After more than a decade of Sikh terrorism in which 25,000 people have died , Punjab is peaceful again . |
| 29 | After more than a decade of restoration work , Peter Paul Rubens 's renowned triptych ‘ The Raising of the Cross ’ ( 1609–10 ) is back on view in Antwerp cathedral . |
| 30 | After more than a decade of concern over different aspects of the bail process , steps were taken to reduce the number of defendants remanded in custody by introducing a statutory presumption in favour of bail ( section 4 of the Act ) , and by seeking to structure the decision-making process so that magistrates would give effect to it . |