Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Coleridge and the Wordsworths met together once more after a separation of several weeks , it was in the knowledge that the Alfoxden year would soon be over . |
| 2 | It was repaired under warranty but recently we have noticed the engine crackles very loudly when we slow down after a journey of several miles . |
| 3 | Now , after a lull of several years , the boat people are heading for Australia again , this time from Cambodia . |
| 4 | After a succession of these experiences their capacity to cry at all may even dry up , along with the relationship between themselves and their partner . |
| 5 | After a period of some weeks without treatment , the rash and any other manifestations of secondary syphilis will regress and the disease enters the early latent stage . |
| 6 | Mitterrand accepted the resignation of Chevènement as Defence Minister on Jan. 29 after a period of several months during which his outspoken pro-Arab views and his opposition to war in the Gulf had become an increasing source of tension within the government . |
| 7 | These are people who have been restored to membership after a lapse of some years . |
| 8 | AB : Most recently I have been playing Brahms 's 2nd Concerto a great deal after a break of several years . |
| 9 | Often the coincidence turns out , on the shortest examination , to be unremarkable : typically , it might consist of two acquaintances from school or university running into one another after a gap of several years . |
| 10 | The two of them were walking by the Seine after a visit to some friends . |
| 11 | Ellen slapped Bernard back , and the next day , after a meeting of all parties at which the local Director of Social Services tried to please everyone and offended everybody , lingered after the meeting , provocative and yawning amongst the filing cabinets , until he caught on , locked the door , and embraced her thankfully . |
| 12 | The work experiences of a sample of these workers over their first twelve months after redundancy have already been the subject of extensive research under ESRC project F/00/23/2257 . |
| 13 | It allowed a maintained secondary school , or a primary school with over 300 pupils ( extended in 1990 to all primary schools ) , on the resolution of its governing body , with the consent of a majority of those parents who vote in a secret postal ballot , and with the approval of the Secretary of State , to opt out of LEA finance and control , and be given ‘ grant-maintained ’ status . |
| 14 | A measure having received the approval of a majority in both Houses and the Royal Assent is recognised by the common law as an Act of Parliament . |
| 15 | As a consequence of the technical complexities of reprocessing highly irradiated oxide fuel from AGR and PWR , the Board expects to pay more for the reprocessing of a tonne of these fuels than a tonne of magnox fuel . |
| 16 | I am thinking of a scene at this police post , the arrest of Tepilit , the intervention of Fairfax , the impressive dignity of the accused and the relentless , incomprehensible workings of the white man 's justice . |
| 17 | On the other hand , if parties use their own politicized technocrats to get more of a grip on some sectors of public policy , they must still defer to technocratic interests , and co-ordination across sectors is difficult to achieve . |
| 18 | You can not conceive of experiences which are not yours ( generalising now from the simple example of pain ) and you can not achieve in any other way a conception of a subject of those experiences who is not you . |
| 19 | If the presence of a blockage from both directions at 5'-GC ( 37 of UV5 ) can be ascribed to an interstrand crosslink , then the absence of a dual blockage with both 2 and 3 , which is present for 5 and 6 suggests that the complexes derived from PtpropCl 2 , 4 , have much greater crosslinking efficiency than their ethylenediamine counterparts . |
| 20 | The Foundation 's new strategy starts with a broad review of the Northern environment , in the context of a UK with many strengths but also considerable weaknesses . |
| 21 | It is an aid to guide the reviewer of a contract towards those areas of an acquisition contract which are of accounting significance and which might be sources of dispute in the future — it is not a comprehensive guide to analysing every acquisition contract . |
| 22 | It 's not common practice to register notice of a contract in all cases , but when , for example , there 's an unusually long deferred completion date , or when your buyer-client suspects the good faith of the seller , or if there is a contract by correspondence , or for any other special reason peculiar to the particular transaction , a Notice should be seriously considered and the client consulted and advised . |
| 23 | On the contrary , in both capitalist and non-capitalist states they have grown , in spite of a tendency in both camps to encourage private or other non-state direction , planning and management even in countries dedicated in theory to neo-liberalism , the sheer weight of what public revenue and expenditure represent in the economies of states , but above all their growing role as agents of substantial redistributions of the social income by means of fiscal and welfare mechanisms , have probably made the national state a more central factor in the lives of the world 's inhabitants than before . |
| 24 | These women were either married , cohabiting or were having some form of a relationship with these men . |
| 25 | At Coventry in that year , when the two sitting MPs ( both of whom were " eminent Tackers " ) returned to contest the election , they were greeted by a huge crowd of local supporters , lay and clerical , who marched in a ritualistic procession carrying a maypole and a banner with a picture of a church on both sides . |
| 26 | Whether or not these relationships cut through any red tape I do not know , but the red tape did not have much of a chance in these circumstances . |
| 27 | Indeed , man is much more of a threat to these lizards , by keeping them as pets ; their existence in the wild is now threatened by collectors . |
| 28 | In the middle of A Man for All Seasons there 's a ping , and on come the little red signs : FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT . |
| 29 | Uphill again to the 17th , a gem of a hole on many courses yet merely ordinary at Augusta , the distinctive feature being Eisenhower 's Pine encroaching into the fairway . |
| 30 | ‘ The section which the court is putting in force in the examination of a person under such circumstances is the section which places the decision as to an examination and as to its limits within the discretion of the court . |