Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [prep] [det] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , according to the laws of Leviticus , women were forbidden to enter the Temple or touch any hallowed thing during their times of menstrual uncleanness , whilst with regard to childbirth they were similarly removed from cultic activity , this time for forty days following delivery of a boy and significantly eighty days after that of a girl . |
| 2 | Shafts of red sunlight illuminated the timbers as they moved from the support of one building to another across a street filled with people . |
| 3 | In this respect , it is quite capable of spreading from one building to another through a thick party wall . |
| 4 | The karate kata is a carefully devised procedure for teaching a beginner how to flow from one technique into another without a break . |
| 5 | This was a case of Gentlemen versus Players in the golden age when such distinctions still applied and when it was obvious to anyone with an eighth of an intelligence that no paid journeyman could ever begin to compare with the rapier-like ‘ amateurs ’ who flitted with effortless superiority , solving one crime after another with a brilliant insouciance which was the dismay of the criminal fraternity , the envy of the constabulary , and a source of immense satisfaction to most of the upper middle class , especially those with an aptitude for the Times crossword . |
| 6 | At least sufficient transport was found to carry these Special Forces from one action to another in a land battle , a far cry from 1940 when one or two trucks might be the only vehicles a Commando had on its strength . |
| 7 | Just like the CEGB and ‘ proof ’ of a link between pollution and damage to lakes , the Commission put up one condition after another as a ‘ test ’ of whether Britain 's trees were showing decline , and then replaced it with a new argument if it was satisfied . |
| 8 | I repeat my view , which is shared by my constituents , that a squalid and cowardly decision was announced last week , spelling out the fact that there is one law for those with a voice in the Tory party and another for the ordinary individual in the urban and rural communities of Wales and England . |
| 9 | Does the script allow a smooth transition from one scene to another without a recording break ? |
| 10 | He says the most obvious way is to use it for fireproof doors — for ceilings , lining internal paritions , all of which require to prevent fire going from one room to another for a given period of time . |
| 11 | Let me make it clear , football is a game played by one team against another with a ball . |
| 12 | Scene one is the elderly gent wearily prowling round one bookshop after another in a hopeless search for a volume on fly-fishing by J R Hartley . |
| 13 | One limitation of this as a punishment is that it may not be very severe — it may imply a moderate loss of profit relative to the collusive agreement — and so may support collusion only for a small set of discount rates . |
| 14 | In religious terms punning is indicative of sin : the covert substitution of one meaning for another by a linguistic sleight of hand is practised by Milton 's Adam and Eve after the Fall , indicating that they have sundered the prelapsarian unity of divine order . |
| 15 | Nerve impulses pass from one neuron to another at a synapse , where two neurons are separated from each other by a space , the synaptic cleft . |
| 16 | Mechanical joins such as rivets are easily recognised but , from as early as 2500 BC in Sumer , smiths developed methods of joining one metal with another of a lower melting point . |
| 17 | GRADIENT HILLS : Blend from one colour to another from a palette . |
| 18 | Cation exchange is the substitution of one cation for another of a different element in a mineral structure . |
| 19 | The extent of the surrender varies from one person to another , and the assumptions about the claim to privacy also vary — not only from one person to another within a given group or society , but from one society to another and from one historical period to another . |
| 20 | This and other studies revealed that shifts of posture , head movements and changing facial expression all have a part to play in the way a conversation moves from one person to another in a group . |
| 21 | The Arrowcrab is notable in one respect in that as a predator of annelid worms it will prey upon the bristleworms ( Hermodice carnuculata ) that sometimes plague aquariums . |
| 22 | Like a jockey choosing one ride over another before a Grand National , Tip finished up with the winner in 1961 . |
| 23 | If the view condition is to be incremented from one state to another in a given number of steps , two complete sets of parameters need to be held . |
| 24 | Even when we are balancing one consideration against another in a quite particular case , to decide which of two conflicting prima facie obligations is the more stringent , we are trying to reach such an intuition , but the wealth of detail which determines the relative degrees of stringency in this case will make it inexpressible in a formula mechanically applicable to other cases . |
| 25 | Down a steep hard-heading , that is a part of the drift driven from one seam to another through a fault . |
| 26 | Novae are now believed to be caused by gas spilling from one star to another in a close double-star system , but 30 years ago they were a complete mystery ; only two dozen had been spotted in time for astronomers to study them while they were still erupting . |
| 27 | Make it a habit to move your eyes smoothly and rapidly across the page , continuing from one line to another without a break . |
| 28 | There are systems of fitting a bead on one line into any of a series of keyholes on another but to date only for light loads on small kites . |
| 29 | Its most subtle use is as a colour modifier where it can be used to transform one shade into another in a smooth and , apparently , stepless transition . |
| 30 | CRITICALLY ill patients are being moved from one hospital to another in a desperate search for hospital beds , a medical expert revealed yesterday . |