Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | after a couple of hours overtime , . |
| 2 | The case is hard to argue against , and even harder after a couple of Tories just get up and say flatly that they will be voting for the lady . |
| 3 | I 've been a sportsman all my life and after a couple of years away from the game on a daily basis , I 'm happy to be coming back . |
| 4 | Some Johannesburg hotels provided armed escorts for their guests after a spate of muggings recently . |
| 5 | Income tax was minimal ; Marie Webster had an old demand showing that of a total of $604 only $3.90 was payable . |
| 6 | of a description of property ordinarily intended for private use , occupation or consumption ; and |
| 7 | Thus s5(3) states : ( 3 ) A person shall not be liable under section 2 above for any loss of or damage to any property which , at the time it is lost or damaged , is not- ( a ) of a description of property ordinarily intended for private use , occupation or consumption ; and ( b ) intended by the person suffering the loss or damage mainly for his own private use , occupation or consumption . |
| 8 | In the course of a description of Henchard late in the novel , Hardy says , " [ QUOTE ] " . |
| 9 | In the case of a buy-out of assets rather than shares , the apportionment of the consideration to each of the assets may itself have tax implications . |
| 10 | It had long been thought that many seventeenth and eighteenth century blocks in Rome were of a type of construction essentially Medieval or Renaissance , but Ostia shows that the basic plan of these is Roman . |
| 11 | Indeed fluidity — of both form and texture is perhaps the chief characteristic of a type of music so free and richly varied that it defies definition . |
| 12 | Following the secondment of a member of staff overseas , a vacancy for the above post has arisen in the Department of Agricultural Water Management . |
| 13 | At the other end of the table from Dowd , sitting in front of a heap of newspapers doubtless carrying the Burke reports , sat a professorial man in his sixties , white hair oiled to his scalp . |
| 14 | Even from this distance of a couple of tables away one could sense the crackle of electricity between them . |
| 15 | There 's a portfolio of properties at the high values of a couple of years ago . |
| 16 | The race started under heavy cloud — a contrast to the brilliant sunshine of a couple of days earlier and saw many contenders trying to push Swanson to the limit . |
| 17 | Do you think there was more of a sense of community then or |
| 18 | But I watched , out of a sense of duty admittedly , most of the election news programmes , feeling all the time , these are not relating to me in any way . |
| 19 | They form part of a range of diseases now more logically termed inherited prion diseases , and a new nomenclature has been proposed . |
| 20 | In a number of large irrigation schemes in the tropics , the continuous cultivation of a range of crops now allows certain key pests to survive ; previously a closed season or fallow provided a natural check on insect populations . |
| 21 | In this series of articles we examine the performance profiles of a range of applications so that you may better define and refine your system . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're not in need of a change of underwear then ? ’ |
| 23 | While this does not rule out the risk of a change of regime there , it does cut down the danger of a simple change of heart by the existing government . |
| 24 | In all these cases regional incentives might be important , but only in the context of a need to reduce costs and an ability to move , rather than as the initial motivation , and as part of a bundle of considerations rather than as a separable ‘ factor ’ . |
| 25 | One version of what then ensued caused an uproar in France when it was published , a few months later , in Le Matin — through the evident complicity of a coterie of officers ardently desiring to install de Castelnau on Joffre 's throne . |
| 26 | I 've got a bit of a conflict of interest here straightaway because the actual case that Roy is talking about is actually my brother and I at this moment have been complaining to the Lloyds Policy Unit in respect of erm this particular policy , because the company that was actually trading went into liquidation . |
| 27 | Imagine a hollow tube made up of a layer of cells just one cell thick with contractile filaments located near the outer surface . |
| 28 | The girls they left behind had need of a bit of relaxation now and then . |
| 29 | If it is not possible to define the idea of numerical identity in terms of the criteria of re-identification , surely the idea of a plurality of particulars similarly can not be defined in terms of the criteria under which such particulars are differentiated from each other . |
| 30 | Most of us want , at times , to speak of the ‘ truth ’ of a work of art as much as , or even more than , its ‘ beauty ’ . |