Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah so minus times a minus is plus . |
| 2 | But Allen was only wrong in that the price collapsed suddenly to ls a pound . |
| 3 | I was too young to remember him , but later at intervals a number of remarkable men , among them Arnold Hodson , Hugh Dodds and Arthur Bentinck , served on my father 's staff and were to remain our friends over the years . |
| 4 | For those who find it hard to work with or explain coherently to others a set of numbers which have been raised to a power or logged , Mosteller and Tukey ( 1977 : 194 ) suggest a technique which they call ‘ matched re-expression ’ to rescale the transformed values to fall within the main range of the original number scale . |
| 5 | In the West Indies the incident of wanting to go to the airport , and the fact that he turned up late for matches a number of times , had gained him a reputation for lack of discipline . |
| 6 | The accepted practice in other cultures on these occasions is a kiss on each cheek ; yet in others a kiss on the lips : in some it is nose-rubbing ; and in others only reciprocal hand-shaking is acceptable . |