Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a lot of herbs for when a child falls ill . |
| 2 | The proposal is likely to divide the group since some councils are voicing doubts about whether a referendum is the best way forward . |
| 3 | Disputes about whether a reference had been to an expert or an arbitrator have produced many lawsuits . |
| 4 | John twitched his great shoulders as if a wasp had landed on them . |
| 5 | I was on 1,000 grams of that a day , now I 'm on 187 , so although I 'm still on medication it 's a very minute amount of medication to what I was on before , and I 'm existing on that , so for me it 's worked . |
| 6 | In other cases , individual workers made their own judgements about whether a person was likely to benefit from the care programme approach . |
| 7 | The journey ended , six days on and a world of difference at Chepstow Bridge , just below the walls of the castle . |
| 8 | ‘ After the date of the publication of a complete specification and until the sealing of a patent in respect thereof , the applicant shall have the like privileges and rights as if a patent for the invention had been sealed on the date of the publication of the complete specification : Provided that an applicant shall not be entitled to institute any proceedings for infringement until the patent has been sealed . |
| 9 | Lucy had her serious office-work glasses on and a sheaf of papers . |
| 10 | So you ca n't buy me a box of chocolates for and a card ? |
| 11 | In these cases one never finds a whole tree fossilized , and it is necessary to piece together the whole plant by making intelligent guesses about whether a frond of one kind is persistently found with a particular fossil trunk . |
| 12 | The term includes : ( i ) any income chargeable to income tax by deduction at source or otherwise ( first limb ) and any income which would have been chargeable to income tax if it had been received in the United Kingdom by a person domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( second limb ) ( s681(1) ( a ) ) ; [ ( ii ) where the amount of the income of any body corporate has been apportioned ( ie shortfalled ) under Schedule 16 to FA 1972 or could have been so apportioned if the body corporate were incorporated and resident in any part of the United Kingdom , so much of the income of the body corporate for that year or period as is equal to the amount which has been or could have been so apportioned to the trustees of or a beneficiary under the settlement ( s681(1) ( b ) ) [ abolished in relation to income of bodies corporate for accounting periods beginning after 31 March 1989 by FA 1989 , Sched 17 , Part V ] ] . |
| 13 | The hotel and its newly dug garden are protected from the winds and passing cows by a handsome new stone wall made in the old way — using the enormous smooth round boulders that litter the fields as if a giant 's child had grown bored with a game of marbles . |
| 14 | Steam rose here and there , not in puffy , damp , friendly clouds as if a kettle was boiling , but in hissing , angry spurts , as if some unseen being was venting its spleen . |
| 15 | Just instinct , because I had my painting clothes on and a bit of water would n't have done any harm . |