Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This flouting of a maxim results in the speaker conveying , in addition to the literal meaning of his utterance , an additional meaning , which is a conversational implicature . |
| 2 | One the manager of a tiling manufacturers in Swindon , the other a colleague of his brother 's : neither of the men he 'd wished to know better . |
| 3 | And that this structure plan was merely indicating the policy of building a relief road and the key diagram was merely indicative as as I understand that is its purpose , not to show routes , but indicative of a location whereabouts in the County is this does this polic policy relate to . |
| 4 | They can have far reaching consequence in the development of an organism , e.g. one error of a base results in haemoglobin S being produced which results in sickle cell anaemia . |
| 5 | Indeed , animal studies have shown that the presence of a tumour results in increased hepatic protein synthesis . |
| 6 | In the glow the lazy blue smoke of a cigarette folds in slow waves to vanish in the sepia shadows of the room Everything about us says come here , you , and our fingertips are first to arc between us and hover on cheeks , lips , chin . |
| 7 | The birth of a baby results in some loss of intimacy in marriage , a loss of space at home , a loss of time to oneself , and a loss of physical and financial resources to manage additional demands and responsibilities . |
| 8 | The same holds good today and it would be idle to suggest that the victim of a robbery consents in any way to hand over his property , much less to transfer its ownership , to the robber . |
| 9 | Despite poor trading , the bank stumped up another £70,000 for a second premises in Chelsea last year . |
| 10 | Editor 's comment : The Australian government are quite entitled to apply sanctions against South Africa if they so wish but the correct time to apply them is not after competitors have arrived for a World Championships in Australia to which they have been invited . |
| 11 | It started in 1953 as a village grocers in Streatley , but expanded to become Britain 's most famous cheese shop . |
| 12 | She became interested in Medau just over ten years ago and qualified as a Medau teachers in 1979 . |
| 13 | Since qualifying as a Medau teachers in 1968 she has taught regular classes for adults , children and the mentally handicapped . |
| 14 | As a result journalists in Nigeria either depend on press releases , speeches , statements and hand-outs or go on hearsay , rumour and stories fed to them by politicians . |
| 15 | As a result schools in leafy , middle-class , suburbs have become richer and more successful , whilst those in the inner-cities have become poorer and more deprived . |
| 16 | As a consequence wives in social class I and II in 1986 produced their first child when they were more than four years older than wives in social class IV and V. From the 1930s until the 1970s the average couple 's first baby arrived about twenty months after their marriage . |
| 17 | Now Eleanor , already with a BA Hons in French and German , can add M.Inst.P.S. after her name . |
| 18 | Sharon with a B.A. Hons. in Textiles from Galashiels , previously worked for Courtaulds Automotive Textiles for three years . |
| 19 | The roads were bad and hotels poor ; in a Kentmere caravanserai in 1820 according to the Lonsdale Magazine , there is a good description of a mixture of farmhouse and public house , serving as hotel : ‘ The floor was bespread with tubs , pans , chairs , tables , piggins , dishes , tins and the other equipage of a farmer 's kitchen . |
| 20 | Bombarding metal carbonyls with electrons in a matrix results in the production of negatively-charged ions . |
| 21 | These vehicles were seized after more than 50 police officers swooped on a farm buildings in a village north of Milton Keynes . |
| 22 | These vehicles were seized after more than 50 police officers swooped on a farm buildings in a village north of Milton Keynes . |
| 23 | A puppy which may have rabies is being held at a quarantine kennels in the region . |
| 24 | PEOPLE travel from all over the world to look at a scrap-metal merchants in Shrewsbury . |
| 25 | Well it , it , at least it 's gold , I mean , I , I , I was in the jewellery trade when I first left school , between school and national service I worked at a manufacturing jewellers in Birmingham and I 've never really gone along with the idea that nine carat is actually gold . |
| 26 | In both modes , dive time reads in minutes and seconds , while the time left at a stop decrements in minutes . |