Example sentences of "and a [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To imagine what a girl 's prospects actually were , we should bear in mind three by now well-established points about the employment of women in general : by and large women were doing different work from men of similar age and class ; women were concentrated in unskilled and low-paid jobs ; and a majority of women in paid work were young and unmarried . |
| 2 | Discussions are currently under way between M Prior and a firm of opticians on the provision of eye and eyesight testing to workstation operators . |
| 3 | Various ‘ exclusive ’ remixes of Altern-8 , Digital Boy and a variety of Italians including Anticapella , Antico and DJ Professor and Art Of Noise ( a Prodigy mix of ‘ Instruments Of Darkness ’ 0 etc . |
| 4 | This was followed by further legislation in 1924 ( the ‘ Wheatley ’ Act ) and a variety of measures during the 1930s . |
| 5 | Everything in Italian politics is subject to change as the old order is swept away and a variety of designs for the future are proposed . |
| 6 | Thin films of liquid between two plane-faced salt windows are simplest to prepare , and a variety of designs of spaced-window cells , with fixed or variable sample thickness , are commercially available . |
| 7 | The application of the Newtonian paradigm in astronomy involves the use of a variety of approved kinds of telescope , together with techniques for their use and a variety of techniques for the correction of the data collected with their aid . |
| 8 | ICI has important patents in the field , covering a number of different monomers and fillers and a variety of techniques for their use and we intend to exploit the position by developing a range of filled dispersions and materials based on them . ’ |
| 9 | It was one of those restaurants with paper tablecloths and a pot of crayons on each table and we both started drawing . |
| 10 | It was no coincidence that these decades saw new programmatic statements of papal ideology and a revitalising of contacts between Rome and all parts of the west . |
| 11 | The Green Man wore a coronet of leaves and a girdle of stems at his waist . |
| 12 | Festin in Palacio is one of Gironella 's latter-day altarpieces , and a digest of elements from three paintings — Queen Mariana , Las Meninas and the portrait of the dwarf Francisco Lezcano , popularly known as El Niño de Vallecas ( Fig. 9 ) . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , between a fifth and a quarter of firms within the zones considered that their output , employment and productivity would be lower without on-site incentives . |
| 14 | Sergeant Collier — the prisoners may refresh themselves. , The party was drawing up with a jingle and a grinding of hooves on a cobbled forecourt . |
| 15 | ‘ It has n't come to that yet , ’ began Tina , but now the van was lurching through the hospital gates , pulling up with a screech of brakes and a grinding of gears at the Casualty entrance . |
| 16 | He tried out a badly scratched recording of Dame Nellie Melba singing an operatic aria from Pagliacci which he had found tucked away between a box of rusting tools and a sack of potatoes in the corner of his shed . |
| 17 | These are a tenant health survey ( Farquhar and Williamson , 1988 ) and a survey of moves to further care ( Altschul et al , 1988 ) . |
| 18 | The research methodology involves a study of the area around a junior school , the social organisation of its population ; an in-depth study of a number of households spanning a range of class and ethnic origins , and a survey of households with children in the same school . |
| 19 | She looked round the room , furnished only with a small table , a steel chair with a plastic seat and a chest of drawers with a Formica top . |
| 20 | Not that there was much furniture in the room : a table , covered with copies of Motor Cycle News , two dining chairs , a bed with a duvet cover illustrating a big Honda bike and a chest of drawers with a Midi stereo cassette unit on it . |
| 21 | Medical data were recorded shortly before the renal ultrasonographic examination , and included age , sex , admission diagnosis , and a history of episodes of colicky pain or tenderness in the flank , macroscopic haematuria , and hypertension . |
| 22 | he was a ‘ principal doer ’ in promoting the first voyage to Muscovy of 1553 , a founder and active member of the Russia Company , and a promoter of voyages to West Africa in 1553 and 1554 . |
| 23 | Moreover , these net additional jobs are offset by reductions in jobs in surrounding areas — by a diversion of activity into the zones , and a displacement of jobs in firms out of the zones . |
| 24 | In recent months the company , based in Birstall , West Yorkshire , has fallen victim to a false accounting incident at a subsidiary as well as profits downgradings by analysts and a flurry of rumours concerning the sales of large blocs of shares . |
| 25 | Westminster Press had three dailies and nineteen weeklies in the north and a spread of publications across the south . |
| 26 | Remember the days when a big do was a white dress made by the bride , the luxury of one bridesmaid and a spread of sandwiches in the Co-operative Halls afterwards ? |
| 27 | At bottom , this is the grip which the story of Jonah and the whale still has on us : fear of being devoured by a large creature , fear of being chomped , slurped , gargled , washed down with a draught of salt water and a school of anchovies as a chaser ; fear of being blinded , darkened , suffocated , drowned , hooded with blubber ; fear of sensory deprivation which we know drives people mad ; fear of being dead . |
| 28 | We shared our courtyard with a large colony of sparrows , who resided in two stunted trees , and a company of merchants from Berber . |
| 29 | There were three malai personnel carriers in the centre of the Praça and a company of troops at one end . |
| 30 | He presented Eddie with a watercolour painting and a bouquet of flowers to his wife Frances on behalf of everyone in the sales force . |