Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the makers of the Jolly Roger ales believe they can find customers for the 100 barrels a week they soon hope to produce . |
| 2 | In addition to classroom support Mrs says that Paul needs general support for three hours per evening in relation to his er social well being in his leisure activities three hours per evening for the four evenings a week which he spends at school , in relation to this I think it right to bear in mind Mr evidence about the school , being a special school of course has generous staffing levels , staffing levels which would make the mouth of any head teacher of any other school water I suspect . |
| 3 | Almost a million new jobs have come to the state since 1990 , many in pharmaceuticals and electronics , making up for the 1,000 jobs a month which have been lost in mature heavy industries . |
| 4 | St Mungo 's shelter for the homeless offers a new alternative |
| 5 | argue that for the social sciences a key research priority should also be an improved understanding of the deep-rooted social and instinctive relationships and processes to which the conscious aspects of the mind are subjected . |
| 6 | If the point of the reference to Marx is to show that emergent English trade unionism had anticipated his conclusion that workers must take control of the means of production , that , to re-iterate his contemporaneous quotation from A Member of the Building Union : ‘ labour and capital will no longer be separate but they will be indissolubly joined together in the hands of the workmen and work-women ’ ; and again , this time from Bronterre O'Brien to the effect that the object of combination was ‘ to establish for the productive classes a complete domination over the fruits of their own industry … . |
| 7 | During the early dynasties a two-horned genus extended into the northern heartland of Chinese civilization . |
| 8 | The lavatory was below ground , and in the white brick walls between the two cubicles a hole had been hacked , one of the best glory-holes in existence at that time . |
| 9 | The left fork goes on to the village of Glenelg and in a field between the two roads a gaunt ruin will be noticed : this in its eighteenth-century heyday was the barracks occupied by Hanoverian troops . |
| 10 | After tricky negotiations between the two professors a judicious compromise was reached by which Heisenberg was allowed to pass but at the lowest level . |
| 11 | A stand-off agreement was struck between the two parties a couple of years ago but observers say the recent death of Savoy president Sir Hugh Wontner may have triggered a fresh attack . |
| 12 | Shiny swathes of gold , scarlet and black fabric had been draped from the ceiling , while between the gaudy bolts a brand-new wallpaper of rose-covered trellis disguised the damp patches of the ballroom 's plaster . |
| 13 | Even when all intended partners of the new firm have indicated assent it will still be necessary to establish some order of seniority and to select the first senior partner : though joint senior partners are not unknown , the better arrangement may be for some restriction to be put upon the time that office is held by any one individual so that by rotating it between the participating firms a reasonable balance is achieved . |
| 14 | After the one-day strikes a small number of pits in the Donbass and Kuzbass had remained on indefinite strike , but in the course of March the action had snowballed , especially after the breakdown on March 9 of talks between strike committee leaders and government representatives in Moscow and Kiev . |
| 15 | After a few hours a rustling noise nearly shocked me off my boulder . |
| 16 | After a few moments a truce was arranged . |
| 17 | Her mouth opened and after a few moments a strange ululation sounded , a despairing cry , a death cry . |
| 18 | After a few moments a voice said , ‘ Hello , is there anybody there ? ’ |
| 19 | After a few minutes a little flame blossomed at the far corner . |
| 20 | After a few minutes a woman in a grey fur coat began to cross the street from my building . |
| 21 | After a few minutes a young woman came out of the street door below them and walked away . |
| 22 | After a few minutes a barman came in and asked everyone to move outside with the other hotel guests who had been evacuated from the building . |
| 23 | He dialled and after a few rings a female voice answered . |
| 24 | After a few years a department may be left with serious gaps in its library and a load of superannuated computing equipment . |
| 25 | so it meant that for some time before contingency fund development was introduced you must of had some concerns er about the accuracy of the figures you were putting forward for the publication , can , can I explain that a little more ? if after a few years a major repair needs to be carried out there was no contingency fund , it might mean sticking another two or three hundred pounds a year on the service charges , might it not , to cover a major repair |
| 26 | After a few days a population of adherent migratory cells is found surrounding the initial explant , which by various criteria , including contribution to melanocytes in vivo ( 13 ) , appear to be a relatively pure population of neural crest cells . |
| 27 | After a few seconds a second fin appeared . |
| 28 | Their body plan , which is radially symmetrical , contains in each of the radiating arms a complete set of the basic body organs for locomotion , digestion , respiration , and reproduction . |
| 29 | She spoke recently of the strain of the six days a week work schedule that she said had left her shattered . |
| 30 | Betacom is giving each of the six finalists a Betacom Venture cordless telephone ( £79.99 ) . |