Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you receive an application form as a response to a job application or as a preliminary to an interview it should be filled in and returned promptly . |
| 2 | Or with a bretherhed to been withhold . |
| 3 | It is used at full strength for immediate odour elimination , or in a 6 to 1 dilution for ongoing preventative maintenance . |
| 4 | As in previous economic crises , capital expenditure was hit hardest , but on a scale not experienced before — cut to a half or to a third of previous levels in some cases . |
| 5 | Patients who respond to antibiotics do not harbour propionibacteria resistant to the therapeutic drug , except for a few of those treated with topical erythromycin . |
| 6 | But it should be made clear that any time limit within which the landlord is to act is to be of the essence , otherwise the contractual notice will be ineffective except as a preliminary to the service of yet another notice making time of the essence ( Phipps-Faire Ltd v Malbern Construction Ltd [ 1987 ] 1 EGLR 129 although this relaxed approach has not been taken in Scotland ( Visionhire v Britel Fund Trustees [ 1992 ] 1 EGLR 128 ) . |
| 7 | The problem is more of income distribution than of a failing in the technical working of the credit market itself . |
| 8 | ‘ The brent [ German brand = burned ] goose looks as if it has stuck its head and neck up a chimney and emerged sooty black — although with a little of its ‘ clerical collar ’ still clean . |
| 9 | has the Minister er studied the Royal College of Nursing Report which was published early last month , which shows that in a third of accident and emergency units in hospitals , patients actually have to stay overnight er before they are admitted to er a ward and would she a accept that this really is not a satisfactory situation , it 's actually worse i outside London than it is in London , contrary to some views . |
| 10 | There 's more of worth , more that uplifts in a single chorus of ‘ We Need Money' ’ than in a dozen of your picky , pedantic articles ! ’ |
| 11 | The grass is greener than in a commercial for lawn-mowers ; something , as at a Test match or at Wimbldeon , hangs in the air or on the hum of the crowd 's voice . |
| 12 | Pétain inspires terror except among a few of his old hands . |
| 13 | In autumn 1940 Japan moved into northern French Indo-China in an attempt to restrict supplies to the Chinese , and as a preliminary to creating a Japanese-controlled zone in Southeast Asia . |
| 14 | Agricultural pollution accounted for more than 10 per cent of total incidents , and for a third of the major ones . |
| 15 | It was April , and after a warmer in Poosie Nansie 's , another West of Scotland custom , we thrashed away on the Ayr , casting amongst chunks of ice floating down the river ; frozen stiff , getting colder and colder as the grey day grew older and older . |
| 16 | The Hong Kong government guesses that what would follow is a fall of 5–7% in the colony 's total trade , and of a third in its rate of GDP growth . |
| 17 | Zipped up the inside , and with a squared off toe , it was the last word in futuristic chic that was to be adapted and toned down for the mass market . |
| 18 | In the development of their writing , children have to move from casual to formal language , from spontaneous to planned language ; and from a known to an unknown audience . |
| 19 | And in a free for all there are those who survive and those who perish . |
| 20 | Neurological deterioration in adulthood has also been recorded in some late and untreated subjects , and in a few in whom a neuropathological report was available the findings suggested active and diffuse demyelination as well as hypomyelination and reduced brain size . |
| 21 | And in a few in a fraction of a second , if you try and if you short it all out , give it a very you know great big wide pipe to rush through , the virtually the whole contents of the electricity of the battery tries to get through that , and a spanner is like that , very |
| 22 | Operating profit was well ahead of budget and on a like with like basis ( after excluding the two food ingredients businesses sold in 1992 ) was 80 per cent higher than 1991 . |
| 23 | Such statements derive from the meetings of a specially convened working party on national objectives , but as a preliminary to this a national debate on the purposes of primary education has already taken place in 1978 , culminating in a widely publicised and widely representative National Seminar on the Content of Primary Education . |
| 24 | But as a preliminary to an explanation of the statutory pre-emption provisions it is necessary first to refer to a further reform introduced at the same time , i.e . |
| 25 | The peak of production was reached between 1850 and 1875 , during which period up to 200 men and women were employed in the trade , mainly in Mauchline but with a few in neighbouring villages . |
| 26 | So oligarchy meant government not simply by a few , but by a few of the " rich and well-born " ; democracy was government by the many poor . |
| 27 | The position could arise whereby the United States attempts to ensure one of the parties ' access through these waterways as against a non-party to the Peace Treaty . |
| 28 | At Slapton , as on not a few other manors , a degree of confusion is understandable , for tenures were complex , embracing not only freeholds and copyholds — mostly heritable , though including a few for lives — but also what were described in a survey made in 1548 as ‘ The Farme Landes ’ , which were probably parcels of the demesne that were let by copy of court roll , the larger ones for fifteen years , the rest at will . |