Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | approach is is to work with people like I B M. In fact you may have seen in the press er this week the announcement of a strategic relationship between and I B M , and we will talk about that briefly a bit later . |
| 2 | Kids get used for this quite a lot , because it is n't as frightening for the lifers to be fetched by a kid . |
| 3 | After that only a matter of confidence . |
| 4 | It seems reasonable that they should share the cost of what is after all only a system of humane debt collection acting on their behalves . |
| 5 | I return again to the point that I made originally — why is it that this vulnerable , waif-like , often frighteningly naive girl who always speaks her mind — but is after all only a pop singer — is taken seriously at all ? |
| 6 | did , got rid of that about a year , twelve , eighteen months ago |
| 7 | The amount outstanding on bank credit cards increased by £0.13bn in the fourth quarter of 1991 following an increase of £0.21bn in the previous quarter . |
| 8 | It then moved to being paid so much per week , for an trainee , and we now have a mixture of such much a week , and so much for the output related fundings , the jobs , the N V Q's , the F E courses which I mentioned earlier . |
| 9 | In 1922 Mr Charles Hinks became articled to Mr Latimer and was given a partnership on qualifying five years later at the age of 21 quite a distinction as the custom was to buy a share in a practice . |
| 10 | Yet another way in which you might choose to use the second half of your daily Fibre-Filler is to divide it into two portions and eat one of these half an hour before each of the two main meals of the day . |
| 11 | savings and the use of these quite a lot of priorities . |
| 12 | Less than half of those who left the commune proceeded to consolidate their strips of land , and of these only a quarter actually moved their homesteads out of the village . |
| 13 | when I got there , several times he used to scruffle into the er packing room and come out with those two , three of those well a couple of those large sheets of brown paper that they pack , yeah , pack the few boxes in |
| 14 | At the end of 1989 following a meeting with Lancashire County Council Transport Department it was agreed that the minibus bringing children to Scorton School should be able to take fare-paying passengers to the A6 to connect with the bus services to Lancaster and Preston . |
| 15 | In practice , many of the fossil fronds that one finds are sterile , and for these there a number of form genera , units of classification based on the shape of the fronds alone ( see p. 23 ) . |
| 16 | Whatever the official view of police work , to those on the ground , it was above all else a job . |
| 17 | The company I worked for folded just a couple of weeks ago . ’ |
| 18 | He eventually capitalized on his knowledge of Europe by publishing in 1796 both a set of five maps of the Rhine , Meuse , and Scheldt and a survey entitled A Developement of the Views and Designs of the French Nation , which sought to warn the English of certain French activities . |
| 19 | when I was in that nearly a fortnight . |
| 20 | The next Council , that of Vienne , south of Lyons , took place from October 1311 to May the following year , and was unusual in that only a selection — though a geographically fairly wide selection — of bishops were invited . |
| 21 | Further protection is given to other creditors ( as Mr Berlyn mentions in his letter ) in that once a winding-up petition has been presented , the court may order that any other pending action or proceeding against the company should be restrained . |
| 22 | After a 15-week trial , a military court on Dec. 12 , 1989 , sentenced a police colonel to 15 years ' imprisonment for ordering the killing in cold blood of 124 unarmed inmates of Lurigancho prison in Lima in 1986 following an uprising [ see pp. 34607-08 ] . |
| 23 | Maria Carlita Rex Doran began developing the new fuel in 1980 following a government plea to scientists to devise new indigenous power sources to meet the country 's severe energy shortage . |
| 24 | From 1985 onwards a number of additional formidable barriers to progress towards a coherent , integrated under-fives policy began to emerge . |
| 25 | There followed a short lull , but from 1620 onwards a succession of attacks by small formations of S.79s commenced but all were successfully beaten off , mainly by the intense gunfire of the ships , although Yellow Section of 808 Squadron , two Fulmars flown by Lt. A.T.J. Kindersley and Lt. Hay , R.M. , caught one bomber at 1710 and claimed it shot down . |
| 26 | He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule , condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay . |
| 27 | In 1922 also an application was received from ‘ a few of the young ladies and the young men of the Edenderry Memorial congregation ’ for ‘ the use of the field at the rear of the church for recreation , viz. the playing of Lawn Tennis . |
| 28 | Legionnaires ' Disease was first recognised and named in 1976 following an outbreak of pneumonia amongst a group of American Legion delegates to a convention in Philadelphia . |
| 29 | This contest , for Under-15s , started in 1970 following a suggestion by The Cricketer 's chairman , Ben Brocklehurst , to the ESCA President Hubert Doggart and , together with the invaluable financial help of The Lord 's Taverners , The Cricketer has been proud to organise and support this competition ever since . |
| 30 | It was introduced in 1970 following an amendment to the articles of agreement of the IMF and the formation of a special drawing account . |