Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A commuter on the M8 would encounter a series of messages on the speed of traffic just a few miles ahead and , if that slowed , or the road were blocked , information on the most suitable diversion could be given in plenty of time to allow a driver to leave the motorway and avoid the hold up . |
| 2 | And we 're gon na look at a passage in just a few moments in , it 's in the eighth chapter of acts where a group of people there , they were Samaritans how they came in to experience their pentecost . |
| 3 | It 's a million miles in style from our usual sweeping lawns and landscaped vistas , but in the latest in our series Summer Gardens , we visit the little piece of England where a little really HAS to go a long way . |
| 4 | In other words , if we choose coordinates so that the linearised flow near the origin takes the form we can use these equations to work out the point on the side of B where a trajectory emerges from B if it starts at a point on the top face of B. ( We assume that the box B is a cube with faces which are part of the planes . |
| 5 | Crosby has already decided that Irishman Brian Mooney will play on the right side of midfield tonight a vote of confidence after the midfielder 's mistake which provided Charlton with their winning goal on Saturday . |
| 6 | They had a good diet of bread , margarine , jam and bacon for breakfast , roast beef , potatoes and greens , and rice pudding for lunch , and bread and jam for tea with cake once a week . |
| 7 | Ladislav said later that there had been a murder in Roztoky just a few weeks earlier . |
| 8 | First , Clary did appear without make-up in a photograph in Time Out a few years ago . |
| 9 | In 1750 the town sought to have a linen market set up but met with opposition from Richhill where a linen market had been flourishing . |
| 10 | Will insists , downing tea in quantities only a survivor of the planet SquatWorld could manage . |
| 11 | Such structures also seem to provide a kind of elementary momentum in periods where a discipline is in the doldrums , and not a great deal is happening at the research level . |
| 12 | Sadly the Metroliner had lost confidence in being a train and wanted to be an airliner instead : the coaches were rounded like a fuselage there were airliner seats with fold-town tables from the seatback in front even a company magazine at each place . |
| 13 | Then Vernage noticed Sergeant King staggering down the road in a desperate bid to flag down a car . |
| 14 | The first part of the race is the easiest , downhill to the Bay Horse at Oxenhope where a second pint is drunk and the bale of straw , weighing between forty and forty-five pounds , is picked up . |
| 15 | Thank you Chairman , as er members will know there 's an experiment at Felixstowe where a few local members and the |
| 16 | Matthew Le Tissier is in danger of wrecking his England hopes after being sent off in Southampton 's FA Cup defeat at Norwich just a month after England manager Graham Taylor lectured him about his approach . |
| 17 | I flew into the monastery by helicopter just a couple of days after the fire and it was still smouldering . |
| 18 | Thirdly , in the study by Meshkinpour over a third of the patients were referred with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease compared with 14.2% in our study , and it was this patient population which yielded the smallest number of positive diagnoses in our experience . |
| 19 | That 's Andrea Chezeris , your other driver of course not a household name |
| 20 | The programme of many modern philosophers , therefore , has been to develop a conception of man and his mind which either disposes of or downgrades the inner , private arena , making the function of mind essentially a part of the public and physical world . |
| 21 | If you 're interested in either the design or purchase of jewellery then a unique opportunity has come to Glasgow this week . |
| 22 | Although the guidebook says it 's E2 5c , this is the kind of climb where a grade lacking some type of ‘ stomach shuffle component means it is n't that relevant . |
| 23 | He had become a legend and he ensured he got the kind of treatment only a legend deserved . |
| 24 | It could be argued that home-school links is precisely the kind of issue where a generalized LEA policy is least appropriate , since the chemistry of relationships between each school 's staff and its parents is a unique and subtle matter , hardly conducive to centrally determined procedures . |
| 25 | The following two case studies show the kind of situation where a family meeting is a helpful part of the social work plan . |
| 26 | It 's just the kind of situation where a man feels he 's the only guy in the world who does n't know the form and it 's embarrassing . |
| 27 | A special box was used , on to the lid of which could be flashed a variety of patterns whenever a bird approached it . |
| 28 | As Sperber and Wilson have shown , there is a variety of reasons why a hearer who was not in a position to process an utterance or block of utterances might want to be presented with a summary of it , and correspondingly , a variety of different sorts of summaries that a speaker might provide . |
| 29 | They are making an appeal for £3.5 million in order that it can be rehoused at the University of Cambridge where a special facility is going to be added to the university library . |
| 30 | When ‘ untreated ’ timber ( ie , wood which has not been impregnated with preservative ) is built into solid walls , it has no protection from dampness in the wall and it is common for joist-ends to be shielded by a skin of brickwork only a half-a-brick thick ( Fig 31 ) . |