Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've had enough X-rays for a while , so I 'm going to do nothing for the moment . |
| 2 | Pool midfielder David McCreery is fit after precautionary X-rays for a chest infection and could return to the side . |
| 3 | Britain 's IT firms , in company with any others that use electronic equipment , rely on universities and other institutions for a supply of skilled people . |
| 4 | A businessman and a man who puts up ramps for a living ? |
| 5 | The Forum has tried to collect views through a biennial request to individual organisations and associations to bring forward suggested areas for research but this did not prove fruitful . |
| 6 | The British people have not been allowed to express their views through a referendum , although the trend in opinion as measured by opinion polls has been firmly against a Federalist structure . |
| 7 | now at the end of the day , whatever your own views about a contingency fund are , bearing in mind that it 's service , not management charged , if the residence do n't agree can you simply dictate to them that they 've got to have a contingency fund ? |
| 8 | Obviously , since the whole economy was engaged in this process there could not be , according To Bukharin , a wholly unbalanced growth , even though there would be certain imbalances as a result of growth taking place in different sectors at somewhat different rates . |
| 9 | This compression of definitions is achieved by a process involving the ’ filtering ’ of definitions through a filter set chosen to represent the core vocabulary of a domain ( in this case , that of banking ) . |
| 10 | ( See Culler 1975 and the essay ‘ Semiotics as a theory of reading ’ in Culler 1981 . ) |
| 11 | The place is itself cheerless , its one great attraction being a wonderful seascape extending to Skye and the Outer Hebrides , with a landward view of the Torridon giants as a bonus . |
| 12 | Indeed , several employ the recently established body of appraisal and synthesis contained in Oliver Neighbour 's Keyboard and consort music of William Byrd and Joseph Kerman 's Masses and motets as a launch-pad from which to commence the process of establishing the next generation of new observations . |
| 13 | This is bloody hard work — if I 'd wanted a holiday like this I could have gone down the mines for a fortnight . ’ |
| 14 | Praps leeds should scout the old raves for a pill popper and nobble the opposition similarly ? |
| 15 | All these activities , to varying degrees , require students to make notes as a record for future reference . |
| 16 | In other cases which have attracted recent headlines , trainee firemen in London were hosed with cold water and left in the street in baby doll nightdresses , a young policewoman in Manchester was handcuffed to railings through a freezing night , and army recruits in Colchester were forced to call out musical notes as a sergeant hit them on their naked buttocks with a baseball bat . |
| 17 | Try to capture the architectural shape of the lecture Think of your notes as a skeleton or outline of the lecture you 'll give to your fellow students who are absent . |
| 18 | The results are preserved in some notes for a course of undergraduate lectures on Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex and an essay called " The Dionysiac Philosophy " , in both of which Greek tragedy is the primary object of attention . |
| 19 | There were location notes for a film and sheets about the physical appearance of the characters and the sort of actors who might play them , these surrounded by doodles , mazes and uninspired drawings of faces . |
| 20 | Basil 's Notes for a Teachers ' In-Service Course at Hoyland Teachers ' Centre February 1953 |
| 21 | He has dumped down the notes for a greyhound , has given his heart to the beast , and is derided for this by his friends in the pub . |
| 22 | He was collecting notes for a book of random observations , a Thackeray-like Sketchbook , called An American Journey . |
| 23 | In his fifties he was to return to the Liskeard area , the ‘ land of his fathers ’ , and make notes for a book on Cornwall ; alas , never to be completed . |
| 24 | Outside , a camera-strapped tourist haggles before he hands over some notes for a photograph of a mother lost in a dome of ragged blankets and the two children who peep out behind her . |
| 25 | The sleeve pictures of the band are priceless , naturally , but forget fashion notes for a moment . |
| 26 | The investigation found no evidence that the then Democratic candidate had been engaged in illegal activities during a trip to Moscow in 1969–70 . |
| 27 | The report also summarizes the global value of peat bogs , their special plant and animal communities , the archaeological evidence preserved in peat , and the role of peatlands as a store of greenhouse gases . |
| 28 | Internal relations will also be furthered if those who have featured on filmed material are told when they might expect to see themselves , and the company personnel as a whole will be interested in watching a program me featuring their company . |
| 29 | Gilmont said he did not expect the bank to lay off personnel as a result of increased EDI use ; rather , they would be redeployed to more ‘ value-added ’ jobs . |
| 30 | Mr Churchill-Coleman said he believed the IRA would suffer further setbacks as a result of new intelligence gathering resources including the involvement of MI5 . |