Example sentences of "pair of [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are pairs of things in a fundamental way like causal circumstances and effects . |
| 2 | If single cells are required subject these pairs of blastomeres to a second cycle of disaggregation as previously described . |
| 3 | So , for example , if a retailer buys 20 pairs of jeans from a wholesaler at a cost of £10 a pair ( after discount , see p 114 ) and then charges the customer £15 a pair , he will have made £5 profit on each pair of jeans he sells . |
| 4 | Some crafty young entrepreneurs steamed in and relieved her of several pairs of Pumas at a knockdown price . |
| 5 | At the beginning of February the Coastguard sector officer in Kirkcudbright had to deal with a pair of canoeists from a college in the middle of the Lake District who strayed into the Abbey Head ranges on the north side of the Solway Firth two days in succession . |
| 6 | We should remember , too , that " emphasis " has an insidious tendency to become an all-purpose cause credited for a whole variety of syntactic and phonological variations where intuition suggests that there is a difference to be explained but where no other cause can immediately be brought to light ; all that is needed , apparently , is that a speaker ( or even a linguist ) should be able to imagine himself uttering one of a pair of variants with a certain emphasis on some occasion , while at the same time feeling that he could have said the other without any emphasis being implied . |
| 7 | In place of the modest flannel bags Lord Woodleigh had on , this fellow had a pair of white trousers , much too short for him , stained heavily on one side and showing beneath a pair of socks in a hideous approximation to a Scottish tartan . |
| 8 | I have one pair of shoes at a time , and I wear them out pretty quick because I 'm doing all the canvassing for our lot . |
| 9 | ‘ And he sent this pair of shoes to a London address ? ’ |
| 10 | Ever since she brandished a pair of handcuffs during a debate on law and order at the Conservative Party conference in 1981 , Mrs Currie has demonstrated an irrepressible ability to draw attention to herself . |
| 11 | ‘ Only I found a couple of freshly killed rabbits and a nice pair of boots under a bush on the bank early this morning . |
| 12 | I 'd like to have a pair of boots like a German officer . |
| 13 | I have a breeding pair of Severums in a four foot tank . |
| 14 | A pair of swifts with a family to feed may catch twenty thousand insects in a single day . |
| 15 | The Sky-Claw has a patented means of retaining a pair of handles on a dowel with locating cross-pegs . |
| 16 | We have linearly interpolated each pair of sections onto a common grid with points 40m apart vertically and 0.25° of longitude apart horizontally , and we have subtracted the earlier temperatures from CONVEX-91 temperatures ( Fig. 3 ) ( the west sections are not shown ) . |
| 17 | A pair of metapodials from a white headed vulture from Zimbabwe ( Table 2.1 ) show heavy digestion , as do the rodent bones from a captive South American condor four pellets of which contained the heavily digested remains of rodents . |
| 18 | In Scott [ 1987 ] Crim LR 235 the accused took a pair of curtains from a store . |
| 19 | A fresh pair of eyes of a relative new boy and the first thing I noticed was my family 's reaction . |
| 20 | Finally , Frank Crockford showed a clear pair of heels on a run to the corner after that man Powell had again made the opening by bursting through the centre . |
| 21 | Magnificent though Rasari was , you were left wondering just how much they needed him when newcomer Ratu Sakeasi showed Tim Horan and Jason Little a clean pair of heels in a 60-metre chase for the line . |
| 22 | ‘ When you needed an extra pair of hands in a hurry so that you could get on with a job , Roger was always the first to drop what he was doing and help you . ’ |
| 23 | It would be extremely rash to add a pair of leleupi to a tank in which you have brichardi breeding . |
| 24 | Dynamic programming is used to compute a shortest path between every pair of vertices in a weighted directed graph G. This algorithm does not require all edge weights to be positive , but we have to ban negative length cycles . |
| 25 | Too late she saw that — about a fraction of a second after seeing Luke Denner naked , except for the briefest of underpants , standing in front of a wardrobe , pulling a pair of jeans from a hanger . |
| 26 | Thieves stole a pair of jeans from a washing line on Biglands Terrace , Bishop Auckland , on Wednesday night . |
| 27 | TO calculate the depth difference between a pair of points on a three-dimensional surface from binocular disparities , it is necessary to know the absolute distance to the surface . |
| 28 | Their place is taken by geodesics which are the straightest lines that can be drawn between a pair of points in a curved space and as such have no component of curvature in that space . |
| 29 | Beck was 33rd in driving accuracy but 147th in hitting greens , a starting pair of numbers from a pro who is reputed to hit the irons more solidly than anyone else on Tour . |
| 30 | Last year I used a pair of Colorados for a week 's climbing in the Verdon and a pair of Solos for a week 's backpacking in the Pyrenees . |