Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | On a hot day the engine-out rate of climb did little for the blood pressure . |
2 | That will do little for the Vance-Owen plan 's chances of success and little , therefore , for the vigour of the principles of international conduct . |
3 | The problem simply Mr Mayor is that during the morning peak period traffic enters the city via causeway , going erm I think erm this traffic that 's coming over the is joined by local traffic from roads leading off causeway and the result of that is that er on many occasions er we get a long tailback of traffic er waiting to turn right at the junction of causeway and road . |
4 | Er you can do that during the coffee break if you have n't already done so . |
5 | The 1559 Elizabethan injunctions had specified that , while not in use , the holy table should be ‘ set in the place where the altar stood ’ , but that during the communion service it should be moved down ‘ in good sort within the chancel ’ so that the minister could be more clearly heard . |
6 | He knew so little about the serf question that at first he thought it involved no more than granting the peasants their personal freedom . |
7 | We know very little about the world history of such ideas and their dialectical development , but we do know a good deal about how things have gone in the main literate civilizations over the past four thousand years . |
8 | In actual fact I have seen valuations which are so wide of the mark ( more than 50% in one case ) that one suspects that some valuers know little about the property market and even less about rebuilding costs , which constitute the basis for insurance . |
9 | How , do they do that through a friends group or ? |
10 | Iberia hopes to do that through a marketing agreement with Carnival Airlines , a 14-aircraft carrier based in Fort Lauderdale . |
11 | thank you , is that through the service charge or through the management charge ? |
12 | Erm as regards erm pension rights , well my understanding is that through the Maastricht treaty and the social social contract , certainly , many of the protections at work , er will include those of people who have finished work . |
13 | Aqualisa kindly offered two thermostatic showers worth over £300 each for a prize draw . |
14 | You owe me £19.50 each for the electricity bill . |
15 | In what United States officials described as a " very positive " development for the 23-country Vienna negotiations on conventional forces in Europe ( CFE ) , the Soviet Union on June 27 signalled its acceptance of a Polish-French plan for limiting tank numbers to 20,000 each for the Warsaw Pact and NATO forces . |
16 | ‘ How can they say that about a transport contract ? ’ demands one creditor . |
17 | I though that about the poll tax anyhow . |
18 | And put that as a work top |
19 | They , na , nan and granddad may have that as a sitting room to start with . |
20 | Right we , we 'll we 'll treat that as a fail safe then . |
21 | The second reason that , that we 're delighted to see you is that as a Trades Council we have been trying very hard over the last six or seven years to raise the profile of the trade union movement and this has been quite difficult in in during the Thatcher years , during the anti-trade union legislation , the onslaught by the media , trade unions er , the profile of trade unions has not been easy to raise . |
22 | How 's that as a consolation prize ? ’ |
23 | ‘ I wonder if I could ask you to comment on that as a career structure , ’ he said levelly . |
24 | We could use that as an escape vehicle . ’ |
25 | Are you offering me that as an option chairman ? |
26 | I would regard that as the nightmare scenario . |
27 | The papingo shoot lasts for two hours with contestants shooting in rotation and taking as many shots each as the time limit allows . |
28 | I can not express to you the charm that hangs about a mountain like Ben Each as the mists swathe its rocky sides ; they rise , they fall , they whirl , they soar as on wings of light , they cast shadows , they give grand mystery , and anon reveal some hidden dell , some great bare precipice , or perhaps display a glowing patch of verdure . |
29 | He worked each through a transition training programme with the assigned aircraft and schooled them on the forthcoming filming . |
30 | The distinction between overseas and defence policy in 1951–5 was for Churchill almost as clear as that between the Defence Committee , which , with the Chiefs of Staff , he used to prosecute the Second World War , and the Lord President 's Committee under Anderson and Attlee , which he allowed to get on with handling the Home Front . |