Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has n't been a prince for some years . |
| 2 | Across the Channel , Sherwood had indulged in a similar restoration exercise with a variety of former Wagons-Lits coaches , arranging the professional refurbishment of the sleeping cars , diners , day cars and staff vehicles by the Wagon-Lits shops at Ostende , and the Bremer Waggonbau company at Bremen . |
| 3 | In Zambia , as in most other parts of Africa , music has been the vehicle for the communication of a variety of such emotions and comments . |
| 4 | History shows a variety of such sources : immemorial custom , divine law , the law of nature , a constitution . |
| 5 | ( Mason , 1986 , offers details of a variety of such innovations . ) |
| 6 | A variety of such theories has been proposed . |
| 7 | One can speak loosely of a ‘ non-fullerene cluster ’ , but there is likely to be a variety of such clusters and the collapse size must depend on the chemical bonding in the cluster . |
| 8 | She said that there was a variety of such measures . |
| 9 | This project examines a variety of these initiatives in a small number of English cities looking at how they began , their strengths and weaknesses , capacity for job creation and training , links to other groups and use of financial and technical support services . |
| 10 | If all or a variety of these motives are present , some redistribution of income or in-kind government provision is expected within limits , although its pattern is likely to be complex . |
| 11 | On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people . |
| 12 | For any single client a variety of these actors are likely to be involved in their care and maintenance in the community ; hence concerns among policy makers about coordination between agencies in the actual provision of care . |
| 13 | The value of a religious noviciate which asks novices to try out a variety of these functions in turn is that it exposes novices to the value of each . |
| 14 | Mouse ICM is much more susceptible to lethal damage by X-irradiation or anti-metabolites than TE and treatment of embryos ( starting from the 2- to 8- cell stage ) with a variety of these reagents has been used to generate trophectodermal vesicles devoid of any apparent ICM ( discussed in ref. 28 ) . |
| 15 | It 's always exacting to work a patchwork sweater , simply by joining together a group of your test pieces , but a similar idea is to mark out patches on a squared sweater diagram and work a variety of these patterns for a sampler sweater . |
| 16 | Fig. 3.2 Amount of a saline solution consumed by rats pre-exposed to water ( W ) , saccharin ( S ) , Lemon ( L ) , coffee ( C ) , almond ( A ) , sodium chloride ( Na ) , or to a variety of these flavours . |
| 17 | A Soviet legal specialist wrote in 1958 , for example , that the neutralisation of a certain territory was formed by an agreement between two or more states not to transform the territory concerned , which was generally of strategic significance , into a theatre of military operations or a base for such operations . |
| 18 | It remains to be seen whether courts will be prepared to read such a provision into those Conventions , for example by reference to the requirement of good faith as a canon of interpretation . |
| 19 | A Guide is friendly and a sister to all Guides . |
| 20 | Yet a regression from those principles soon occurred after it became apparent that the orderly industrial relations which were sought were not being achieved ( Levine , 1958 ; Barkin , 1980 ) . |
| 21 | When looking at the changes in this offer probabilities over the assumed two period , notice that the former probability is a function of all variables , not just demand , that may affect the individual 's search intensity . |
| 22 | When schematic drawings of faces have been used as stimuli visual hemifield asymmetry has been found to be a function of several factors , including the degree of similarity between the stimuli to be compared and the inter-stimulus interval employed ( Patterson and Bradshaw , 1975 ) . |
| 23 | Perhaps his aspect was a function of those involutes of memory of which I have spoken ; and his combination of these attributes , the brutish apparel of the Malay , the features of a bibulous beadle and his predilection for opium were no mere chance but a deep expression of my own pain ? |
| 24 | Whether the clays remain as discrete particles or cluster together to form flocs or aggregates with diameters much larger than the individual component particles is often a function of these waters . |
| 25 | Durkheim saw relations within localities as having a function in these processes , albeit a mainly facilitating one . |
| 26 | A case on these facts would now be covered by the Motor Insurance Bureau Scheme , whereby motor insurers provide a fund to meet claims against uninsured drivers . |
| 27 | ( a ) Transfer to another magistrates ' court A magistrates ' court must transfer a case to another magistrates ' court if this would be in the child 's interests : ( i ) because it will significantly accelerate determination of the proceedings ; ( ii ) because it would be appropriate for the case to be heard with other family proceedings pending in the receiving court ; or ( iii ) for some other reason ( APO , art 6 ) . |
| 28 | Indeed , throughout the 1960s successive governments were struggling to balance the books and it was rather a case of some years being less bad than others . |
| 29 | There is certainly a case for both approaches . |
| 30 | And I think that for me , having learnt quite a bit about these differences , I find what I want to do now is go forward to see how we can build some sort of unity and on what basis and whether in fact that is required . |