Example sentences of "[det] [prep] a [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tivoli Management Environment Release 1.6 adds configuration and change services to the software , claimed to simplify and automate the process of setting up , maintaining and changing large-scale client/server networks , a task that often takes up over half of a system managers time , according to Tivoli . |
| 2 | A WOMAN badly injured when she was hit by a police car on a pedestrian crossing is likely to lose half of a £48,500 damages award after an appeal court ruling yesterday . |
| 3 | Yeah when we 've had a look at fractions a bit erm we 'll play with those and we 'll find out things like what 's half of a quarter things like that . |
| 4 | We took over the entire eighth floor of the Grosvenor House Hotel , had a suite each , turned one bedroom into a VIP lounge , another into a Space Invaders arcade for Davis and yet another into a private cinema for Tony Meo to watch Rocky films . |
| 5 | Despite the collapse of communism , the concomitant crisis in left-wing ideas and the unravelling of the Eighties consumerist fantasy , they still maintain , as they have for years , that socialism is an evil malaise , while professing a support for Conservatism , as unblinking as that of a home counties Tory loyalist . |
| 6 | Another name was that of a property services company headed by a son of Shin Kanemaru , one of the LDP 's most senior members . |
| 7 | Pete says they set off and race around a course … they are given a landmark such as a cross roads or a church and they have to fly to that point take pictures of it and the fastest there and back takes the points |
| 8 | I shall be asking him questions such as ‘ Is it a good idea for parents to encourage their children to become interested in science by buying them toys , such as a chemistry sets , for Christmas ’ . |
| 9 | Mounting criticism of the inadequacy of the 1959 Act led to a number of proposals for a tax on betterment , by way either of a capital gains tax or of a betterment levy . |
| 10 | C E C are accepting both these with a statement colleagues and I ask Edna to put that view for the C E C. |
| 11 | All of a sudden things that you had never discussed with your parents come into the forefront of things . |
| 12 | For example , if all of a sudden households discover that they can no longer sell as much of their labour services as they would ideally like , their realized incomes will be reduced . |
| 13 | We are all structural-functionalists today , just as we are all in a way Freudians and Marxists whether we like it or not ; but we must also recognize that we do gain additional insight into the significance of social phenomena when we know where they come from spatially and temporally . |
| 14 | The relationship display in a thesaurus is often more extensive than that in a subject headings list . |
| 15 | All the comfortable , fully carpeted bedrooms have a private bathroom , mini bar and we recommend those with a lake views . |
| 16 | Roses on junction-box systems have only one cable present , while those on a loop-in systems have two or three , depending on their position on the circuit . |