Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only has much explanation had to be included , but it is also difficult to make many useful comments after a visit of only a few days . |
| 2 | Erm we have twenty people in , in a group and we go around and ask then how much post school technical and professional training they 've had , we would come out with an average group of a total of about a hundred years of post school professional and technical training . |
| 3 | This is a sweeping assertion , and naturally there are some glowing exceptions to this , but the growing recent interest in the teaching of information skills , whether under the title of study skills or of library-user skills , is indicative of a realisation of both a need and a weakness in much present educational practice . |
| 4 | Fees are payable , on the basis of Sched 1 , scale A , on the value of the land less charges secured thereon if there is a transfer of the whole and in the case of a disposition of only a share in the land on the equivalent proportion of the value of the land which is the subject of the dealing , after deducting therefrom an equivalent proportion of the amount secured on the land ( by way of mortgage ) . |
| 5 | I can sit in the warm and sip their hot froth of a brew for maybe the best part of an hour with any luck . |
| 6 | We all fell about laughing at the idea of a man with virtually no English suddenly coming out with such a word . |
| 7 | Quite simply , having no formulated statement is like walking through your own minefield without the benefit of a map of where the mines were laid . |
| 8 | Because really big bream are too much of a mouthful for even the biggest pike does not mean that a big bream has lost its natural , cautious instinct . |
| 9 | I have sat on the opposite bank of a river to where a match was being fished and seen barbel breaking line time after time , and the reaction has always been the same : the tying on of a hook of the same size to the same line that barbel had already treated with the contempt it deserved . |
| 10 | Clearly in his " either/or " formulation , Eikmeyer does not admit the possibility of the omniscient analyst who is capable of judging the effects of a text on both the author and the reader . |
| 11 | Crewe boss Gradi is the only manager of a club in either the Premier or Football League not a member of the organisation — and it 's partly down to the incorrect spelling of his surname . |
| 12 | His wife , severely disappointed to find that her husband was happy to sink to the status of a businessman with only a distant connection with the movies , ran off with a more committed actor . |
| 13 | An importer of a product from outside the EEC is treated as a producer . |
| 14 | More important , since Pound 's use of indentations conveys visually the effect of the verse-lines being ‘ stepped ’ down the page , to speak of ‘ step ’ shifts attention from what rhythmically happens between the start and end of a line to how the poet manages to turn from one line to another . |
| 15 | For example , in the solo waltz the dancer marks the three beats of a waltz in roughly every other bar , usually with her feet , but in the third musical phrase she poses in arabesque and marks the beat by gradually lowering her hand three times . |
| 16 | And another instance of that was well this was not so long ago when we had a loan of a barge from just a mini landing craft sort of thing where the front of it folded down . |
| 17 | I can now go past a tractor with only a little twinge . |
| 18 | Decorative , framed mirrors can be hung against a wall in much the same way as a picture , but to avoid having an exposed wire or chain , glass plates are often used . |
| 19 | All enrolling students are assigned to a personal tutor , normally an academic teaching in one of their fields , who has responsibility for a total of about a dozen students in various years of the Course . |
| 20 | Try Keezer 's own tune , Leilani 's Mirror for a cross-section of both the quality of the quartet and the young New Yorker 's evident writing abilities . |
| 21 | Planting began in 1969 , but in 1981 , 15 years after the scheme had begun , the whole was sold off for a fraction of almost the billion dollars that had been invested in it . |
| 22 | No more was heard for a while about how the Masai were straining to get at the Kikuyu . |
| 23 | It is possible for a candidate for either the LL.M. or M.Sc. |
| 24 | If she works in a shop or office , she could take samples of her work to show her colleagues or she could offer to make a garment for a friend for just the price of the yarn . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , once the initial silting has taken place , the weathering of the ditch is very slow , and such experiments need to run for a period of over a hundred years to gain the maximum results . |
| 26 | JEB Fasteners had purchased all the shares in a private company having relied on its accounts for a period of about a year since incorporation . |
| 27 | I have selected these six passages because they appear to me to call effectively for a rethinking of practically every aspect of the pre-1967 school curriculum in Tanzania — its underlying values , the structure , the balance between in-school and out-of-school activities , the content and pacing of the materials in relation to the age of the learners and the whole process and attitude towards evaluation . |
| 28 | For a time at least the Bank as monopoly supplier can charge any rate it chooses . |
| 29 | Kelly , however , ventured the opinion that asking the manager for a statement on where the club were headed did not constitute a threat to Brady 's position . |
| 30 | They were themselves a witness to the success of the ecclesiastical promotion of lay education in the faith although , in their case , it stimulated a sectarianism which exploded in the first quarter of the fifteenth century as a threat to both the doctrinal and social establishment of authority . |