Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] a " in BNC.

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1 Even after years of marriage an ex-wife will get no benefit from this if her former husband dies .
2 In the July 1952 issue of Essays in Criticism a young academic , John Peter , offered " A New Interpretation of the Waste Land " , the gist of which he summarized thus : " At some previous time the speaker has fallen completely — perhaps the right word is irretrievably — in love .
3 If the x coins of year a were made , for example , a hundred years before the 2x coins of year b , it would be unwise to conclude that twice as many coins were made in year b , since to do so would take no account of the gradual wastage or erosion of coins of year a from circulation ( by accidental loss , hoarding , export of coinage , melting down , etc . ) .
4 It is the ratio of the number of moles of gas a to the total number of moles of gas present .
5 Until there is a change in the law , charity shops will continue to lose thousands of pounds of income a week because they ca n't sell most of the toys donated to them .
6 Sharpness on the Severn estuary normally handles hundreds of ships and thousands of tons of cargo a year , but that all stopped at lunchtime when the dockers walked out .
7 This category is much more controversial and inherently implausible , as it contains the alleged abductions of humans on board a UFO .
8 The ‘ Alterations , Additions ’ etc. may have been corrections to bring closer into line with happenings on stage a publication seriously misleading as first issued — difficult to sell , when word got round .
9 In cases of doubt a bone marrow aspirate , which is the best guide to body iron stores , should be examined .
10 The practical significance of this distinction is that in cases of ambiguity an exception will be construed against the landlord , while a reservation will be construed against the tenant ( St Edmundsbury & Ipswich Diocesan Board of Finance v Clark ( No 2 ) [ 1975 ] 1 All ER 772 ) .
11 It is often the case that when all is going well in life , tackling a heavy job can seem a treat , whereas in times of stress a dirty footprint on a new-washed floor is the last straw .
12 But in times of uncertainty a clear division of black and white seems comforting .
13 The scandal had first come to light in mid-January when officers of the State Security Committee ( KGB ) had uncovered 12 new T-72 battle tanks in crates on board a freight train at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk , concealed as part of a shipment of scrap metal intended for export .
14 With most other designing systems , from punchcards to electronics an ‘ average ’ proportion such as three to five , or five to seven for instance is used , sometimes making the drawing of shapes a bit of a problem .
15 In Dogs of War a Cockney extra gave me
16 Setting aside the physical hardware , in terms of power a Macintosh performs roughly the same as a PC/AT , there are other fundamental differences between the two systems .
17 Here , fortunately , beer sales are increasing by just over 2 per cent per annum , or in terms of malt an additional requirement of 250,000 tonnes each year .
18 There we read in line seven of the desirability of retaining a bilateral contact between our two churches on matters of doctrine a desire express , I 'm glad to note , by our Roman Catholic friends and that 's good .
19 The argument put forward by the member states mentioned above is tantamount to seeking to graft on to the derogation from the principle of non-discrimination on grounds of nationality a second derogation as regards fishing vessels relating to the nationality of the owners or operators of such vessels .
20 At moments of crisis a nation needs a leader able to lead in the way Margaret Thatcher led then .
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