Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were navel-defluffers and snot-rollers to a man . |
| 2 | It 's all your life and activities with a woman called Stephanie . |
| 3 | Focusing upon the development and activities of a number of groups in contrasting counties , the study pays close attention to their social composition , ideology and role in attempting to ensure that a consensus can develop around the provisions of the Act . |
| 4 | The authorities had come under growing pressure to act more vigorously against extreme right-wing organizations and activities after a hotel used as a temporary refugee centre was firebombed on Jan. 17 , the first incident of its kind in Austria . |
| 5 | Play and Say uses puppets to present language and activities in a way which will interest young children . |
| 6 | For determining the cost of programmes , functions and activities in a manner which facilitates analysis and valid comparisons with established criteria , among time periods , and with other governmental units . |
| 7 | The teaching community is composed of the body of students and lecturers within a subject field ; the research community is the group of staff , post-doctoral , and post-graduate research workers ; and the smallest communicating unit is the seminar group , which usually consists of the group of post-graduate students who regularly give formal presentations and discussion sessions on the state of their current research to their research supervisors , and other interested individuals . |
| 8 | The police discretion and powers under the legislation already referred to will , as usual , bring industrial protesters and pickets into a relationship with the police and it is on that relationship that the quality of freedom to protest and its scope will be worked out . |
| 9 | Among Mr Powell 's successes in his five years in the hot seat were EastEnders and Birds Of A Feather . |
| 10 | Whatever the subtlety which is brought into arguments about the quality of teaching , those classes and groups within a school which , regardless of individual children 's difficulties and disadvantages , regularly register high attainments will enhance the name of the school . |
| 11 | At 2.30 a.m. a concentration of four hundred guns opened on a front of eight hundred yards , and the barrage began to march across the minefields and defences at a pace of one hundred yards in three minutes . |
| 12 | His parents were probably having coffee and pastries in a place among people ; Stu would be laughing and larking about with his mates at the wallpaper shop . |
| 13 | Soakaways to the roads and houses of a development will usually be cheaper than surface water sewers . |
| 14 | The greenwoods of Sherwood fill with music and outlaws during a week of jousting , jesting , fancy dress and feasting ! |
| 15 | Each in turn raised questions about the decision-making process by which some handicapped babies were allowed to die ; one by investigating the actions and attitudes of a consultant paediatrician , and the other by challenging the attitude of the parents . |
| 16 | It became the best selling tennis book ever and has affected the competitive approach and attitudes of a number of sportsmen . |
| 17 | Emotivism claims that the distinctive meaning of ethical words lies in their power ( in virtue of our early linguistic conditioning ) to stimulate emotions and attitudes in a hearer , and vent them on the part of the speaker . |
| 18 | Horatio Alger 's notion of success is the traditional one : the familiar tale of triumphant individuals , of enterprising heroes who win riches and rewards through a combination of Dale Carnegie-esque self-improvement , Norman Vincent Peale-esque faith , Sylvester Stallone-esque assertiveness , and plain , old-fashioned good luck . |
| 19 | They reject the reduction of the diversity of black histories , experiences and cultures to a response to racism , not least because this inhibits the productive exploration of the economic , cultural and sexual differentiations within black communities — for example , ‘ positive images ’ tend to privilege middle-class , heterosexual , familial respectability . |
| 20 | Here , we report on the combined use of preparative pulsed-field gel electrophoresis ( PFGE ) and interspersed repetitive sequence ( IRS ) polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) amplification to isolate two DNA markers from a 660 kb Sfi I fragment that contains locus DXS14 and maps to a region between disease-specific incontinentia pigmenti type 1 ( IP1 ) chromosome translocation breakpoints ( 1 ) . |
| 21 | Richard Long : Mountains and Waters which comprises photographs , text works and maps as a record of his ‘ walks ’ and siteworks from 1974 to 1992 ( $35 ) . |
| 22 | Using polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies for developing immunoassays is also covered in relation to the development of radioimmunoassays ( RIAs ) and enzyme immunoassays ( EIAs ) , and assays for a number of different analytes such as trinitrotoluene and the avermectin family of macrocyclic lactones are covered in specific chapters . |
| 23 | The Ice Bowl Sports Shop carries a full range of equipment and accessories from a variety of leading manufacturers . |
| 24 | These commands can be used to draw maps and graphs by a programmer writing in a high-level language such as FORTRAN or BASIC ; the D and M commands are used to draw line segments , given the x , y coordinates of the start and end of each segment , while the P command is used to add annotation . |
| 25 | Answer : a notched wooden roller that is turned gently back and forth between the palms and fingers for a couple of minutes a day . |
| 26 | China is regarded as possessing the largest untapped hydro potential of any country and projects to a capacity of over 6,000 MW are currently under construction . |
| 27 | [ Hilary Spurling , Ivy When Young , 1974 , and Secrets of a Woman 's Heart , 1984 ; A Conversation between I. Compton-Burnett and M. Jourdain , Orion : a Miscellany , vol. i , 1945 ; personal knowledge . ] |
| 28 | This bird , born around 1762 , lived in such comfortable circumstances that it had already reared eight broods when , to the consternation of its noble owner , it suddenly developed the plumage and spurs of a male and thereafter refused to lay another egg . |
| 29 | ‘ Following this decision , the Community will have for the first time a single framework within which takeovers and mergers of a Community dimension can be dealt with , recognising the importance of maintaining fair competition throughout the single market . ’ |
| 30 | Life and times of a man on the move Steve Cropley |