Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we need is , firstly , a more specific indication of what is meant by a route to chaos and , secondly , some ideas on which we can draw in Sections 24.5 and 24.7 . |
| 2 | If the non-Tory intelligentsia truly wants to do more than tinker in its own backyard , it must look for a route to power that can connect Cambridge with Basildon . |
| 3 | The premium may be a payment in cash or a payment in kind ( such as the carrying out of substantial repairs or improvements ) . |
| 4 | The emphasis is on interpretation and evaluation of a variety of primary and secondary source material . |
| 5 | The children of the school regularly prepare and sing the Sunday Mass ; parents and school unite in preparing children for First Communion ; the Mothers and the Men have a variety of fund-raising and other tasks not least supporting each other ; the S.V.P. look after the elderly , and the senior citizens , particularly those who are housebound , pray for us all . |
| 6 | Separate the individual flowers since , as they are trumpet-shaped , they can either be pressed whole or cut in half : this gives a variety of colour and thickness . |
| 7 | He takes the idea of " culture " and disassembles it into its constituent parts ; he then goes on to argue , or assert , that it depends upon a class system , upon a variety of regionalism and upon the family . |
| 8 | Each issue contains authentic reading texts , a variety of listening and speaking activities , and carefully structured writing exercises . |
| 9 | Here she created opportunities for social workers to train in more advanced skills and set up a variety of support and counselling groups . |
| 10 | Expert comes with an RS232 lead and a disk of utilities , so you can connect the box to your PC 's serial port and run a variety of configuration and diagnostic tools . |
| 11 | A variety of Government and company schemes are outlined . |
| 12 | The use of children to tutor other children has been widely acknowledged as a successful teaching strategy in a variety of curriculum and ex-curriculum subjects . |
| 13 | Simply by providing a variety of equipment and allowing the children to experiment , we are effectively increasing the possibility for incidental mathematical experience and learning . |
| 14 | The earlier work of historical demographers of households was concentrated on examining the simple measure of household size , and they were able to establish by a variety of evidence that the average size remained remarkably consistent between the seventeenth century and the twentieth . |
| 15 | a loss of personal enjoyment from performing a variety of activity and a loss of opportunity to maintain practice in certain skills . |
| 16 | At Woodchester and , to a lesser extent , at Stonesfield , we find such a variety of motif and patterning that the pavements themselves could well mirror a page ( or the page ) of design : at Woodchester especially , they comprise an array from which all other instances of closely related pavements could have been taken . |
| 17 | Left FIGURE 5 Here you can see the visual effects from combining scumbling and glazing techniques , with the surface of the canvas giving a variety of depth and texture |
| 18 | Several important European trading centres established banks to enable traders to deposit a variety of gold and silver coins then in circulation , in exchange for paper claims , e.g. Bank of Amsterdam , Holland . |
| 19 | The College offers a variety of initial and in-service teacher-training courses , including Dip.HE , BEd . |
| 20 | The Mini Vac is very reasonably priced at £10.95 to include p&p and is ideal for cleaning dust and dirt off knitting machines as well as a variety of home and office equipment including typewriters , computer keyboards , video recorders , answering machines , stereos and so on . |
| 21 | The provision of such a variety of telecommunication and travel facilities makes it impossible for any community however large or small to develop in isolation . |
| 22 | Therefore , this T lymphocyte product has been implicated as an important mediator of pathology in a variety of autoimmune and inflammatory conditions . |
| 23 | Their long legs allow them to stride through tall vegetation and shallow water to forage for a variety of animal and plant items . |
| 24 | The issue of child abuse , or child protection as it is often now described ( Parton and Parton , 1989 ) , perhaps more than any other area of child care policy and practice has brought the activities of a variety of health and welfare professionals into considerable public , political and media focus in recent years . |
| 25 | Thus they might involve users and ex-users of a variety of health and social services , together with their friends and supporters . |
| 26 | Much of the employment for women was in a variety of food and clothing concerns located on Chirton industrial estate which had a predominantly female labour force . |
| 27 | Easily Accessible : Rodmell is situated on the South Downs Way , so the immediate area is excellent for downland walks , and the River Ouse provides a variety of scenery and wildlife . |
| 28 | The severe drought , unprecedented in this country , in Southern Africa has created the need for a variety of logistics and distribution resources . |
| 29 | Many people have employed a variety of mouse and rat poisons without stopping to think that the initial effect of such toxins is to slow down the victim which then becomes an easy target for a hunting cat . |
| 30 | A friend can attempt to recall to your mind some utterance which you both experienced by a variety of place and time tags : |