Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did they plan portfolios of prints , as Die Brücke did ; a practice , by the way , followed by a variety of artists ' organisations including the Senefelder Group in England , which has sold its members ' lithographs from the nineteenth century to the present day . |
| 2 | Indeed , I recall that shortly after Miss Kenton 's departure to Cornwall in 1936 , myself never having been to that part of the country , I would often glance through Volume III of Mrs Symons 's work , the volume which describes to readers the delights of Devon and Cornwall , complete with photographs and — to my mind even more evocative — a variety of artists ' sketches of that region . |
| 3 | ICL Plc and Hoskyns Group Plc have beaten the competition from IBM ( UK ) Ltd and Digital Equipment UK Ltd to win a prestige contract to provide the UK 's Department of Social Security with an Analytical Services Statistical Information System — Assist : the system , which is designed to enable users to extract , analyse and tabulate data for modelling and forecasting , will be based on a variety of ICL 's Openframework hardware and software products , running under Windows 3 , and includes data analysis tools from Berkshire-based SAS Software Ltd ; Hoskyns is to provide bespoke development effort where required . |
| 4 | THE CAASE FOR PROBLEM SOLVING The Chartered Accountants ' Advisory Service on Ethics answers a variety of members ' enquiries . |
| 5 | It will 1 ) examine more fully the extent to which primary schools vary in their effects on a variety of pupils ' educational outcomes , including progress in reading and maths ; 2 ) establish whether the composition of pupil intakes is related to effectiveness ; 3 ) find out whether school vary in their effectiveness from year to year and whether their effects on pupils persist into secondary school . |
| 6 | Their plush London home provided a base for Jane 's voluntary work with the Samaritans . |
| 7 | Republican Senator John C. Danforth , the self-appointed mediator between the two sides , expressed his dismay over Bush 's opposition to a provision of Danforth 's proposed compromise bill which would prohibit employers from adopting employment standards which were not directly related to job performance . |
| 8 | Mr and Mrs Jones also chose to use star charting with a star being fixed to a chart above Olwyn 's bed on successful nights . |
| 9 | Alain Robbe-Grillet , admired in The French Lieutenant 's Woman as a mentor of Fowles 's own tactics , once suggested : |
| 10 | His team , World Cup finalists and dotted with household idols , were taken to the cleaners by a bunch of Australian students and farmers in the first Test , and the second Test at Lille promises to be not only a trial of Fouroux 's incumbency as coach but also his tactical shrewdness in selection . |
| 11 | It is possible that for all its lofty consequences , Nietzsche 's willingness to expose himself to Meistersinger in the first place arose out of nothing loftier than social contacts : the coincidence that a sister of Wagner 's living in Leipzig was friendly with Professor Ritschl and his wife , with whom Nietzsche was on excellent terms at the time . |
| 12 | You hurry slowly in the Atlas : at the highest village we were taken in for tea again , by a sister of Ali 's . |
| 13 | Four men were on the run last night after smashing their way with a sledgehammer into Harper 's jeweller 's shop in Montpelier Parade , Harrogate . |
| 14 | Wendy , very kindly , checked Billy 's carriage on her own machine when it was giving trouble and when , rather embarrassingly , it blew a fuse on Wendy 's console , she did n't even charge Billy for the replacement and repairs . |
| 15 | ‘ For your information I 've been making a cradle for Maggie 's baby while you was gone , ’ she said . |
| 16 | On the evening before his body was found she had organised a baby-sitter to look after their two children and invited him to accompany her to a function at Dowman 's British Steel Club , but he had refused to go and instead went out alone . |
| 17 | Is this a function of the mainframe business , or is it a function of IBM 's actions in this market ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Frost at Midnight ’ , perhaps the finest of the Conversation Poems , is a meditation on Coleridge 's own childhood , and a passionate expression of hope for Hartley 's future . |
| 19 | A census of Britain 's butterflies is being carried out to find out which species are most in need of protection . |
| 20 | What the ‘ teacher ’ volunteer did not know was that the whole experiment was a set-up and that the ‘ learner ’ was in fact a co-worker of Milgram 's . |
| 21 | If Stein 's action can be seen as a rearrangement of Cristofori 's action , then the Viennese action , formally speaking , can be seen as a transformation of the English . |
| 22 | Building and sculptures certainly underwent repairs in antiquity ; but a theory that the present order of the metopes is due to a rearrangement before Pausanias 's time , the six Peloponnesian labours having been originally together on the west , the others on the east , seems to me unnecessary ; indeed certainly wrong , since I find a stylistic distinction between the two ends as they are which cuts across the geographical division . |
| 23 | George may have lost his Lancashire accent , George may be a Bencher of Lincoln 's Inn . |
| 24 | A bencher of Lincoln 's Inn in 1657 , he became a judge in the sheriff 's court of London in 1659 . |
| 25 | ‘ We were just talking about a case of Camille 's . ’ |
| 26 | In conclusion phlegmonous gastritis was found as the presenting symptom in a case of Sjögren 's syndrome and reacted well to steroid treatment . |
| 27 | However , the similarities were more compelling than the differences : and , by chance , the courts were considering a case of valuer 's negligence at the same time . |
| 28 | There was also a case for Bangor 's David Feherty , a howling success in the last Ryder Cup match at Kiawah Island . |
| 29 | Recollections such as these provide excellent ammunition for arguing a case for Nizan 's growing disenchantment with the Soviet experiment and communism in 1934 . |
| 30 | A case concerning Britain 's polluted beaches due to be heard in March at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg was delayed until July ( after the April general election ) at the request of the British government . |