Example sentences of "[det] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How , do they do that through a friends group or ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | they always do this on a supplies teacher , you have to go because you want to do it |
| 4 | They had regenerated with incredible speed , comparable with that of a bacteria colony increasing in a lab dish — doubling itself within hours . |
| 5 | But co-operation over matters such as a futures rulebook and joint compliance have indicated the economies of scale possible in combining with the TSA 's 1,000 members . |
| 6 | The communication unit might consist of a number of specialists such as a personnel expert in communications , a journalist , a technical specialist and a back up advisory group drawn from all levels in the organization , and perhaps supplemented by occasional outside consultants . |
| 7 | So you see that being a MIDI device has massive advantages : first , sound changes which might otherwise require the drastic resetting of several controls can be carried out instantly , by calling up a patch containing the new settings ; and second , when using another MIDI device , such as a multi-effects processor , the two can be linked via the MIDI sockets and a patch change on one can trigger a patch change on the other . |
| 8 | Last spring , the US Supreme Court dealt the unions a blow by ruling , in a suit brought by treasury employees and rail workers , that for critical occupations ( such as a customs agent ) testing does not curtail constitutional rights . |
| 9 | The bit about odd jeans was totally accurate , by the way ; Cousin Josh made his fortune firstly by dealing in cars , then by risking all on a jeans company which at the time was tottering on the very hem of bankruptcy ; under Josh 's regime , their jeans were n't any better or any cheaper than anybody else 's , but he had the garments made in odd sizes ; waists of 29 , 31 , 33 inches , and so on , as opposed to the products from all other companies , domestic and foreign , which tended to favour the even numbers . |
| 10 | And while IBM is undoubtedly now more of a computer-services company , much of this business is a spin-off from its installed base of mainframes — hardly a growing market . |
| 11 | Oh it 's a fill in , I thought that was sort of more like a personnel type phrase . |
| 12 | It 's the sort of question that a man and a woman might very well give different answers to , but it seems to me that there are different sorts of things that erm some women tend to notice , different sorts of ideas that tend to assume prominence in the imaginations of some women , and erm to that extent I think that George Eliot 's sympathy for other people , including people that she does n't actually agree with , is perhaps a characteristic that one might tend to find more in a women novelist than in a male novelist , although I 'm not sure that one can be absolutely dogmatic and say that one would never find a male novelist who could write the way that George Eliot does . |
| 13 | Same with a customs officer . |