Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Shelley smiled only faintly , Byron roared with laughter and said , ‘ Let me tell you of an inscription I once saw scrawled on the wall of a low jakes in Chelsea . |
| 2 | Because it , cos people were you know erm as is often said generally of of a of a general staffs of armies . |
| 3 | Pennano had leaked an " alternative economic plan " , advocating indexation of salaries and key prices and the creation of a new inti with a fixed parity against the US dollar . |
| 4 | Superheating occurs if the temperature of a liquid rises above its boiling point . |
| 5 | Suggested drawbacks of a sylvopastoral systems with pigs include the need to protect the trees from the damaging behaviours of the animals , wet patches under trees and increased difficulty in stockman control of the herd . |
| 6 | On application for licentiateship a person is given an assessment and is advised of a suitable course(s) of management study to bring his score to 10O points within five years . |
| 7 | Without any experience of that industry he found a useful partner in Thomas Gray , the manager of a small ironworks at Coatbridge , with whom in 1861 he formed the business of Colville & Gray . |
| 8 | John Moran , 73 , the owner of a small ironworks at Stillington , near Newton Aycliffe lived at Cotherstone in Teesdale . |
| 9 | These experiments demonstrate the presence of a brain-specific element(s) between -300bp and -190bp relative to the cap site which is conserved between the human and mouse genes . |
| 10 | We added 5 µmol/ml of a single phospholipids to human biles which contained an average of 21 µmol/ml of various native phospholipids . |
| 11 | Carter dutifully pose for snaps in front of a scaled-down Houses Of Parliament and toy with the idea of burning the wooden model to the ground . |
| 12 | Analysis in cell lines and transgenic mice using a combination of these sites has revealed the presence of a conserved element(s) between -300bp and -190bp which is required for neuronal-specific expression . |
| 13 | I am a lifetime supporter of British membership of the European Community , but I have never believed that that support implies acceptance of a united states of Europe . |
| 14 | Mr Colin Sheaf , Christie 's Chinese porcelain expert and auctioneer , mounted his rostrum against a vast reredos of 1018 blue-and-white bowls and vases — for all the world like a Harrods sale in 1690 , had Harrods then been invented — and presided over mayhem from Lot 1 . |
| 15 | More general overviews , and interpretations of recent changes in the economic geography of the UK are provided in : Unequal Growth , by Steve Fothergill and Graham Gudgin ( London , Heinemann Educational ; 1982 ) , which focuses on the urban-rural shift in manufacturing ; Spatial Divisions of Labour : Social Structures and the Geography of Production by Doreen Massey ( London and Basingstoke , Macmillan ; 1984 ) which argues for a spatial divisions of labour approach to uneven development ; and Long Waves of Regional Development by Michael Marshall ( London and Basingstoke , Macmillan ; 1987 ) which uses a long-wave perspective , but draws also on aspects of the regulationist approach , in an analysis of the last century-and-a-half of uneven development in the UK . |
| 16 | There is an increasing demand for A Level courses to be rooted in practical experience , and Compact provides many opportunities to meet this demand . |
| 17 | Traders at Goldmans Sachs new London headquarters need no longer leave their desks for a minute thanks to a new system devised by CCG . |
| 18 | We can not stop our European partners arguing for a united states of Europe . |
| 19 | If Smith were to fall under a bus — or , let us be blunt , drop dead during a European heads of government meeting — the effect on the nation 's stability and standing could be devastating . |
| 20 | Citation is here an act of revenge against what is seen as a liberal apologetics for black crime . |
| 21 | This procedure takes a new snapshot and does pixel counts for various subareas such as a narrow strips at the edge of the region of the reference area which is supposed to contain the reference card . |
| 22 | For children under 5 in Lothian the number of casualties in 1991 was nearly one third greater than the 1981–85 baseline total , whereas for Scotland as a whole casualties in this age group rose by less than 5% . |
| 23 | The decrease in GSH in our study was accompanied by an increase in lipid peroxides measured as a TBA-reactive substances in the gastric mucosa . |
| 24 | They 're just the same with the police force , there could be er , er , an increase in police pay , or there could be any , a very large incident which would require planning , if these happen then it has always been the case , if there was n't the money available then a precept could be put upon us as a local authorities to er , cover that erm , directly . |
| 25 | Recently , all our members were mailed with information about a forthcoming women in arts symposium called ‘ Notions of Equality ’ . |
| 26 | The central plank of the proposals is to give the county court the power to deal with a substantial numbers of cases , particularly injury cases , reserving the High Court for complex and specialist cases . |
| 27 | The central plank of the proposals is to give the county courts the power to deal with a substantial numbers of cases , particularly injury cases , reserving the High Court for complex and specialist cases . |
| 28 | Much of the value of the method outlined in 6.1 for converting into numbers the phonetic values associated with a variable lies in its simplicity and replicability in a wide range of cases . |
| 29 | Indeed , the line between ‘ predation ’ and dispersal mechanism is hazy in that plants with a small numbers of seeds in any season may lose the whole crop to ‘ dispersal agents ’ . |
| 30 | Most keys of this type appear to be marked in this way , with a varying numbers of Xs used to aid identification . |