Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basil 's Notes for a Teachers ' In-Service Course at Hoyland Teachers ' Centre February 1953 |
| 2 | 5.3 There are two further reasons for not accepting any sort of identification between adverbal adjectives and predicate qualifiers , apart from the indications given by ambiguity , and by the fact that they correspond to different types of question , and by the intuitively close relationship which is found in many cases between a verb + adverbal adjective pair and a single lexical verb . |
| 3 | Farmer Jack Gibson submitted plans for a visitors ' centre , caravan site , holiday cottages , log cabins and homes for sale at Hall Hill Farm , near Lanchester , which attracted 20,000 visitors to open days last year . |
| 4 | The Labour Party unveiled plans for a women 's ministry , which would have a seat in the cabinet . |
| 5 | John Major juggled a pledge to privatise the rail and coal industries with plans for a citizens ' charter to guarantee public services . |
| 6 | His grand plans for a hero 's welcome disintegrated into a mass of fears over how the High Command would view this night . |
| 7 | There are distant plans for a Burke 's range of repro furniture and wallpaper . |
| 8 | When you had recovered substantial damages against the hawker , you would have instructed your attorney to sue in the ecclesiastical courts for a divorce a mensa et toro . |
| 9 | After four weeks of aerobic workouts , you have built the foundations for a lifetime 's health and fitness . |
| 10 | A frequently cited example of this situation is a doctor 's surgery where the doctor may wish to take notes during a patient 's examination . |
| 11 | A new telephone hotline will be established by York City Council to deal with parking problems in the Barbican area under new revised proposals for a residents ' parking scheme . |
| 12 | Screening tests for vision are given on average three times during a child 's life . |
| 13 | For that purpose , nice judgments about a force 's size are not really needed ; but a weak force will usually be worse than useless if the UN 's planners and hopers have got it wrong . |
| 14 | THE shipping minister , Lord Caithness , yesterday dismissed calls for a sheriff 's inquiry into the Braer oilspill in spite of a petition signed by more than a third of Shetland 's adults being handed over in London . |
| 15 | Such an improvement would rewrite the record books , taking perhaps ten minutes off a runner 's marathon time , but E P O can also be deadly , leading to heart attacks and strokes in apparently healthy people . |
| 16 | Two by-elections at the Wrekin and one at Dover showed the threat that independents could pose on the anti-spending tack , and Lord Salisbury tried to guide the agitation into respectable channels through a People 's Union for Economy . |
| 17 | Consequently , whilst corporate crime can not be understood without grasping the fact that it stems from contradictions between a corporation 's goal(s) and its environment , that understanding remains one-sided if individuals are left out of the analysis . |
| 18 | Export credits : Various OECD countries provide subsidised buyer credits ( see Chapter 3 ) to finance the import component supplied by their own manufacturers for a LDC 's project . |
| 19 | It can lead people to linking arms at Blackpool and , depending on whether it 's the Labour Party Conference or the annual darts team binge singing The Red Flag or the Okie Cokie but it can also lead to a group of skins bunging bricks through a Pakistani 's shop window . |
| 20 | The contenders for a tribe 's leadership come from the group of especially large Orcs known as Big'uns — the closest that Orcs get to a ruling class . |
| 21 | Spence , 57 , of South Shields , Tyneside , contacted a hospital saying she wanted to raise funds for a children 's unit . |
| 22 | Mr Hapless books for a fortnight 's holiday for himself , his wife and two children . |
| 23 | County have sent us five draw books for a doll 's house . |
| 24 | The use of all other opportunities for a director 's own benefit must first be approved by the company 's shareholders in a general meeting , with full disclosure of all material facts . |
| 25 | I found this an extremely comfortable sack for lugging climbing equipment , tent and food into some of the more remote Scottish crags for a weekend 's sport . |
| 26 | But dialect features are not errors in this sense at all , but are characteristics of a pupil 's native language . |
| 27 | This is because the characteristics of a region 's economy and the supply of air transport usually change slowly and hand-in-hand with one another . |
| 28 | It sounds like a man who has squashed five centuries of a nation 's literature in his palm . |
| 29 | In this chapter , we intend briefly to survey some of the cultural and technological correlates of a society 's attitudes towards child upbringing generally ; and , more specifically , to examine a few of the ways in which the individual methods which parents adopt in the handling of their small children are defined or modified by the intricate pattern of cultural pressures to which they find themselves subject . |
| 30 | In the same way , the ears , which we had been led to believe revealed the horse 's emotions , are not really good indicators of a horse 's feelings on their own . |