Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing of the old building remained and the long extension to the bar , dignified by the name Banqueting Hall , provided for the undiscriminating a venue for weddings and local functions and on other nights served a predictable menu of prawns or soup , steak or chicken , and fruit salad with ice-cream . |
| 2 | For all these reasons some economists have for years advocated this approach to monetary policy and during the 1970s a number of governments began at least to pay lip service to it by announcing target rates of growth for the money supply over the coming year . |
| 3 | During the 1970s a forum of scholar-critics gradually became established in England . |
| 4 | During the 1980s a number of such co-operative enterprises came into existence — for example ESPRIT , EUREKA , FAST and RACE . |
| 5 | During the 1870s a group at Cambridge under the leadership of Henry Sidgwick , an eminent philosopher whose Methods of Ethics ( 1874 ) is a standard work of utilitarianism , began systematic experiments . |
| 6 | By contrast , after the 1720s a levelling off of population growth and the increasing economic problems of the ruling élite led to an absolute decline in the population of many towns and cities . |
| 7 | Twelve year old Emma Butler died during a kickabout after a five a side football match … she 'd been watching her younger brother , Matthew , play in a tournament organised by the St Edmunds Football Club at the European School in Abingdon … details of what exactly happened are still sketchy … but it 's believed a hockey goal post which was leaning against a hut fell down crushing Emmas chest … |
| 8 | Diego Dobrilla of the 287 a Squadriglia R.M. had taken off from his base at Elmas with a Naval tenente aboard his Z.506B as observer . |
| 9 | Giuseppe Sanguettoli of the 74 a Squadriglia being killed ; the pilots of the 23° Gruppo claimed one Hurricane shot down between them . |
| 10 | By the end of that decade , it promised , the strongest and richest capitalist country , the USA , would be overtaken in total production ; by the end of the 1970s a state of abundance would be created and a communist society ‘ in the main' would be constructed , to be ‘ fully completed ’ over the following period . |
| 11 | What we are presented with is a range , from almost completely ‘ dependent ’ work at one end ( exaggerated by Adorno , neglected by Benjamin ) , to relics of aura tic art and new types of critical practice at the other ( the effectiveness and interrelationships of the two a matter of dispute ) . |
| 12 | A few peaks due to the excitation of overtones of vibrations of lower symmetry ( e.g. 2ν 9 ) can also be seen , but the main feature of the spectrum is a set of progressions in ν 1 , with or without excitation of one of the other a 1g modes . |
| 13 | The latter is primary ; the emergence , or at least acceleration , of the former a consequence of measures adopted by newly confident conservative states to cope with the re-entry of the world system into a succession of capitalist crises after the exhaustion of the Long Boom . |
| 14 | During the day a Cant Z.501 flyingboat of the 184 a Squadriglia R.M. was also lost , apparently to Malta fighters , and probably while searching for the downed German aircrew ; the crew of this aircraft were rescued near the Sicilian coast . |
| 15 | Despite this one Macchi of the 79 a Squadriglia was seen to go into the sea between Gozo and Cap Scalambria possibly due to oxygen starvation of the pilot , Serg.Magg . |
| 16 | Agnes dived into one of the last a pharmacist 's with tall free-standing shelves . |
| 17 | Since the middle of the 1870s a world monetary depression had thrown trade into confusion . |
| 18 | At the beginning of the 1980s a group of community activists , trade unionists , community educators , peace workers and feminists met and agreed that what was needed was a reappraisal of previous efforts in the field , a conscious effort to determine their own social and political position and to choose an educational model or approach which reflected the latter . |
| 19 | Armando Boetto , commanding officer of the 49 a Squadriglia , Blue 1 getting in the final burst before it disintegrated and fell into the sea . |
| 20 | In the later years of the Eighties a series of events and episodes has served to direct the attention of British readers to the issue of authorship and its autobiographical character or constituent . |
| 21 | Considering he had been in possession of a thousand a year from carefully invested family money , a very good unearned income in 1925 , he had not done well . |
| 22 | The total numbers of students involved would be of a hundred a year and if the courses are to start they will require the approval of the Secretary of State . |
| 23 | ‘ Ninety-nine times out of a hundred a kid will tell you what he thinks you want to hear , ’ Vito said . |
| 24 | There was no foreseeable possibility of a such a scheme . |
| 25 | On a day basis , it 's about forty five pence a day , which is er less than the price of a half a glass of beer . |
| 26 | Of a sudden a gull which has died on the wing crashes to the sand at my feet , its feathers brushing my forehead as it falls . |
| 27 | ‘ Forgot a lot o' things , did old Blackberry ! ’ observed Forest , addressing Richard as if he were of a sudden a force to be reckoned with . |
| 28 | In the late fifteenth century and throughout the sixteenth a number of Slav scholars from Dalmatia achieved European fame in a wide range of intellectual and artistic fields . |
| 29 | I might just add that what we are deeply disturbed by , is that as the fighting continues in Cambodia with Phol Pot trying once again to get into control , already a hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced by that fighting and that er the number of amputees has reached something like a thousand a month which is twice last year 's figure . |
| 30 | He sounds like a such a wanker when he does it though . |