Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [subord] 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 | In other cases , individual workers made their own judgements about whether a person was likely to benefit from the care programme approach . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |