Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Football : Why Robson must discover innovation : Patrick Barclay , Football Correspondent , on England 's overriding need for understudies now a place in the Italian sun has been secured |
| 2 | It is becoming difficult to imagine that for centuries even a nun receiving daily Communion was never once in her life permitted to receive the cup . |
| 3 | Free range chicken production has recently attracted a great deal of interest from our friends in Brussels and for months now a battle royal has been going on to tie up the system of rearing birds to a ‘ given ’ free range name . |
| 4 | This is hard to quantify in the abstract and will depend on the demands and the receptiveness of the individual schools , but it could add up to hundreds of hours and dozens of activities over a year . |
| 5 | This is hard to quantify in the abstract and will depend on the demands and the receptiveness of the individual schools , but it could add up to hundreds of hours and dozens of activities over a year . |
| 6 | A couple of years previously a letter had been sent to Keswick suggesting as much . |
| 7 | Now a couple of weeks ago a man called Mr Lamont actually resigned I understand or was he sacked I 'm not quite sure , but when he disappeared off the scene , Mr Major said I am still keeping forward with my policies . |
| 8 | If the user only wishes to check the consistency of a predetermined set of contigs then a program contigorder may be used instead . |
| 9 | Hundreds of yards away a fire suddenly broke out , a bizarre sight in the midst of all this water . |
| 10 | John Wesley was a reluctant convert to open-air preaching — " I would have thought the saving of souls almost a sin , if it had not been done in a church " — but at Bristol in 1739 he followed the example of George Whitefield and " submitted to be more vile , and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation " . |
| 11 | More and more people from urban areas are using off-road cycles out of towns so a tolerance towards them is also necessary . |
| 12 | We 're talking about concepts rather a lot this morning . |
| 13 | I go into schools quite a lot because I 'm concerned with the training of graduates as teachers , and I 'm very interested in what goes on in schools . |
| 14 | Erm it 's , it 's , negative numbers are n't a natural thing , fractions are actually easier and that was what happened in the history of mathematics , fractions were developed a long long time before negative numbers , the old Greeks used to play about with fractions quite a lot . |
| 15 | If you spend much of your time dealing with figures then a spreadsheet is invaluable . |
| 16 | ( 6 ) Have as much activity as possible : work through problems ; discuss orally with friends once a week ; write notes . |
| 17 | If blanket assertions regarding business methods can be broken down into categories then a claim of confidence may succeed . |
| 18 | Well what what you could do is put in brackets somewhere a list of accents you can think of so that if people really do n't know what to do . |
| 19 | The presbytery of Hamilton 's proposed solution was a repeal of the nineteen sixty three act and a reversion to the nineteen thirty three act which required from parents only a profession of faith . |
| 20 | It may lead us to compare the relative increase in costs over a year , believing that we were comparing like with like . |
| 21 | The island is little more than a dozen miles long and in places only a mile or two wide . |
| 22 | I work in pastels quite a lot , but I tend to work in colour all the time rather than pencil or charcoal . |
| 23 | Will insists , downing tea in quantities only a survivor of the planet SquatWorld could manage . |
| 24 | allocated in August 1991 and another £50,000 in loans only a week or so ago . |
| 25 | Although my right hon. Friend the Member for Worthing ( Mr. Higgins ) and my hon. Friend the Member for Horsham ( Sir P. Hordern ) mentioned in interventions yesterday a situation in my county of West Sussex which is replicated in many other local authority areas , there should be an opportunity — within order — to raise matters of concern and to obtain assurances from Ministers about them . |
| 26 | Good yes so I 've got that right , erm across states , military , economic issues etcetera from others so a range of activities goes on , that 's fair enough . |
| 27 | I had Darren home for weekends once a month . |
| 28 | Mrs Field rode to hounds twice a week , and I had to prepare and lay out her clothes before and after the hunt . |
| 29 | En route the 41 club exchanges news and views and puts the world to rights once a day before we take our individual paths into the isolation of a busy office . |
| 30 | Present guidelines advise that you stick with breast or formula milk until at least six months , although some nutritionists feel that , because cow 's milk is low in iron and vitamin D , it should n't be given to babies under a year . |