Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well I 've done a bit of all sorts rea Mainly I looked after my dad while he was ill . |
| 32 | People typically watched a bit of many things instead of sticking rigidly to films or sport or news . |
| 33 | Now adjust preset VR1 either way to check that you get a range of 5V to 15V ; you may find you can actually go a bit beyond these limits but this is not of importance . |
| 34 | a bit like all men |
| 35 | It 's a bit like those planes that land in the fog at night . |
| 36 | She saved herself from falling further by clutching at a branch with both hands and then drawing her feet up to safety on a big branch . |
| 37 | Labour tried and failed to make the election a referendum on these changes . |
| 38 | At the LCY central committee plenum in October Simic also said that the new programme of reform could not be implemented by the LCY , and he called for a referendum on these questions and on the Constitution . |
| 39 | The majority of delegates favoured German reunification if approved by a referendum in both countries . |
| 40 | The Suez event was a parting of many ways ; but justice is not done to their complexity by perceiving it as merely the last spasm of an Empire-orientated Britain , a Britain conditioned to regard ‘ losing out in the Middle East ’ as immediate destruction . |
| 41 | , Evan James ( 1903–1945 ) , physicist , was born 8 June 1903 in Cwmsychpant , near Llanybyther , Cardiganshire , the youngest of the three sons of James Williams , stonemason , a zealous Congregationalist , and a winner of many prizes for Welsh lyrics at local eisteddfods , and his wife Elizabeth Lloyd , a local girl . |
| 42 | It is promoted as a curriculum for all children . |
| 43 | Yet it is condemned by some as inflexible to the point where it can not be a curriculum for all children . |
| 44 | We would also have to discuss the development of fast breeder reactors , a necessity for all countries with limited uranium resources . |
| 45 | In the meantime , to avoid cases like Berry arising , counsel should explicitly request a decision on all points of appeal raised before the Court of Appeal whenever there is a realistic prospect of a prosecution appeal to the House of Lords on any issue . |
| 46 | We have to make a decision on those responses just like in a normal network . |
| 47 | In the last analysis , the Parliament would be able to block a decision in those areas , but only if an absolute majority of its members turned out to vote the proposal down . |
| 48 | A Budget for all seasons Norman Lamont has laid out plans to increase taxation without nipping recovery in the bud . |
| 49 | Further publications followed , all aimed at a parliamentary audience : A Breviat of Some Proposals for the promoting of Industry ( 1679 ) , including wool as well as linen manufacture in the workhouse scheme ; A Method of Government for Such Publick Working Alms-Houses ( 1679 ) , proposing the union of small parishes for workhouse purposes and the election of ‘ delegates or overseers ’ by contributing parishes to oversee the new institutions ; and finally England 's Weal and Prosperity Proposed ( 1681 ) , a summary statement . |
| 50 | The minimum uplift maturity gradient established for the Westphalian ( Fig. 3 ) is based on a composite of several wells each displaying 100–300 ft ( 30–90 m ) of section . |
| 51 | There is a masterpiece in most churches , or placed casually in a small chapel in a field . |
| 52 | This carries up to eight channels of sound for each vision channel and opens up the prospect of broadcasting a soundtrack in several languages simultaneously . |
| 53 | However , the fact that there is a reduction in these figures is itself indicative of a change in Anderson . |
| 54 | Our human digestive system has a struggle with such things as alcohol , but we are resilient and are rather good at detoxifying the many dubious substances that we inflict on our long-suffering internal organs . |
| 55 | Finances and family responsibilities were a struggle in those days , with her eldest daughter minding her three-year-old youngest child while Brown was out acting . |
| 56 | The State would then be equated to a non-signatory for all purposes , including having a right to accede in accordance with any accession clause . |
| 57 | The conditions of life for the powerless created by the powerful are simply ignored by those who explain crime as a manifestation of individual pathology or local neighbourhood friendship and cultural patterns — yet in many respects the unrecognized victimization of the powerless by the powerful constitutes a part of those conditions under which the powerless choose to commit crimes ; |
| 58 | We have seen already how Local Authority power has changed in the last fifteen years , and how as a part of these changes , the Education Committees have become more and more political . |
| 59 | Because they have learnt to be a part of these tasks it is safe to ask them to differentiate , to take up the specialization which is appropriate to their gifts and skills and interests . |
| 60 | Recently both the Roman city authorities and the Ministero dei Beni Culturali have independently produced plans for exhibiting a part of these collections . |