Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 They 'll cover a route taking in all Ulster hospitals providing services for children .
2 I did make my escape from Roundhay — by a route taken by many of my contemporaries : higher education .
3 Its stated intention was that Mary should not marry any foreign prince ; she must marry a prince born of this realm — and Arran 's son was the most suitable candidate .
4 A trial run along both lines is recommended to ensure that planning is correct .
5 This year is something of a trial run for this new service .
6 With loop-in wiring , the wires are labelled carefully , and drawn up into the space above the ceiling , where they should be reconnected in a junction box , in exactly the same way that they were connected in the ceiling rose , and a cable taken from this junction box to the light fitting through the hole in the ceiling ( if the new light fitting is in the same place ) .
7 A skater comes to this blue pond ,
8 Once the formation of PFF was fait accompli , and apparently against the personal wishes of the Bomber C-in-C ( and the majority of his Group commanders ) the Bomber Groups were instructed to send selected volunteer crews to a squadron raised by each Group and , thereafter , each squadron would be supported by its parent Group .
9 Luke claims that Caesar Augustus ordered a census to be taken but there is no record of a census happening at that time .
10 A census taken in this way each year follows the fortunes of individual species ; it is an indicator of population change , and perhaps of changes in the environment .
11 Managers therefore may find that the only solution to continuity is to be thoroughly familiar with all case records in order to be able to smooth the transition as one volunteer picks up a case started by another .
12 What makes you a bit disturbed about that ?
13 At the beginning of Aspel and Company I felt a bit daunted by this team of brilliant people who were , in some ways , doing my legwork for me , and the odd hiccup still arises from having lots of people on the case .
14 Ooh could do a bit swapping with some of those could n't you ?
15 Cos they 're a bit squashed in this one .
16 I 'm getting a bit spooked about this exam now .
17 Oh aye , she 's gon na put like er erm , you know , trailing stuff over the fence , I suppose that 's what we 'll use as well to brighten it up a bit look at that , int that a waste ?
18 Further computer training : I have to confess to feeling a bit stumped by this .
19 ‘ Well , I 'm a bit torn on that .
20 Yeah but I got a bit stuck on that one
21 Major quietly or to you quietly in some back room and said , Look I 'm a bit bothered about this .
22 For British lakes with limited alkalinity , critical loads of sulphur are put at 3–6 kg/S/ha , a level exceeded over most of the country .
23 Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client .
24 It 's quite normal for a mum to feel like that and they can talk to each other about it and support each other .
25 A curriculum based upon such a content is to be found in virtually all schools .
26 One of the three members had been unable to attend the meeting at which these appeals were heard and a decision made on all the appeals .
27 In the ordinary case , the law applicable to a decision made by such a body is the general law of the land .
28 Erm our members and the County members have come to a a a judgement and a decision based on all that information , all the information that you you have just mentioned to this E I P .
29 The obvious reply to this argument is that we need a reason to accept a decision reached behind this veil of ignorance , and the claim that no decision would be reached behind a differently constructed veil of ignorance is not such a reason unless it has already been shown , as it has not in fact , that we are bound by the results of some veil of ignorance , whatever it may be .
30 The approaches which have been here categorised as elite approaches do not suggest that a small clique were responsible for a decision taken at some unspecified point in the past that government should grow .
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