Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Make sure that you do not get a link-wire in the wrong place so that it short circuits a secondary winding . |
2 | One of the most beautiful things about Ballycollton is its setting ; runners follow a route along country lane with the sea as a backdrop/ The sounds just perfect , unless it rains ! |
3 | As a route into Europe the Danube valley has been a funnel for migrating peoples since before history . |
4 | It needs to be sharp , of course , since you will use that to clear away surface vegetation and for cutting a route into a hedgerow to obtain easy access to the mouth of a burrow . |
5 | This can provide a route into the body for HIV from infected semen — and out of the body from the rectum into the penis via infected blood ( blood can enter the penis through the hole in the end ) . |
6 | One of the best starts for later work in public relations , and one which can sometimes prove a route into a job , is working for a charity , organization or event which needs publicity . |
7 | After that bypass opened , congestion was greatly reduced — but it is beginning to increase again because of the greater use of the A12 as a route into the hinterland of East Anglia , to the ports of Ipswich , Harwich and Felixstowe . |
8 | He said : ‘ We were the most exposed vessels going ahead to clear a route into fire support areas for the American ships . |
9 | Micro-routes in the Duddon are no match , after all , for a route on any of the limestone crags in Yorkshire or Derbyshire . |
10 | But Hebbert was there , guide in hand , picking out the classics on the Left Wall ( he reasoned it had to be a route on the left wall to provide a contrast to the big slab route just completed ) . |
11 | Routes like the Nameless/Autumn Flakes combination , a cuddly VS which can be protected , but a route on which climbers have lost their lives through belay failure . |
12 | I was busy cooking , blissing out on the aroma of cod in a yoghurt and fresh coriander sauce , and was n't really listening , but through the vapours there penetrated the fact that in Derbyshire they were queuing up recently to do a route on Raven Tor which is ‘ easy 8a , ’ in order to get into a book which David Jones has assembled on climbers — particularly those who can climb 8a . |
13 | There is no doubt that Saul 's Crack is not a route on which to learn the mystical art of jamming , but it is a good test of technique . |
14 | From an old book of local walks I read of a route up the Remarkables , the jagged range of peaks which overshadow Queenstown across the lake , and which rise to nearly 8,000 feet . |
15 | It could signal the need for food when the rivers overflowed their banks , or for volunteers when snow-drifts were piling up and people were needed to come out and reinforce the banks and dig a route through the snow . |
16 | A well-known example is the micro gallery at the National Gallery 's new Sainsbury Wing , where visitors can see high quality reproductions of the pictures , learn more about them and plan a route through the rooms . |
17 | So the search for a route through was on . |
18 | Tweed 's finger traced a route through Liège to the east and then down through the Ardennes , a remote hilly district . |
19 | There was to be a review for them , when any man who would like to go back to France would be sent back by a route through Marseilles , and he would provide for any man who wished to serve with his newly formed force , the Free French . |
20 | They descended a flight of steps , entered a classroom block by a side-door and began to thread a route through corridors and passages busy with bustling knots of purple-blazered schoolboys . |
21 | When my right hon. and learned Friend meets the chairman of London Transport to discuss improvements , will he draw to his attention the importance of providing for south-east London , which is so ill-served by the underground system , and of driving a route through Camberwell , Dulwich and onwards to Crystal Palace ? |
22 | The shadow transport spokesman , John Prescott , described a route through Dartford , Thurrock and Swanscombe , saying it would come within 300 yards of a Gravesend housing estate . |
23 | I knew I was courting disaster without a rope and partner on , so rushed around below the ice cliffs of the snout to see if I could force a route over the smooth slabs and close to the col . |
24 | So I map out a route over familiar country near home which takes in some old hedges and one-time mushroom pastures , hoist a gathering bag over my shoulder — and then curse the fact that the mid-October day that I have carefully planned for this expedition turns out to be the most dismal of the autumn so far . |
25 | If you wrote up a route between September 1990 and April 1991 it would be helpful if you repeated the description in the new book . |
26 | There is , for instance , a route between Tokyo and Honolulu — known , because it is not fixed in cement , as it were , as the TYO-HNL Flexible Track System — which carries millions upon millions of Japanese to and from honeymoons and shopping expeditions ; there are routes now between Honolulu and San Francisco , between Honolulu and Nadi ( in Fiji , and pronounced Nandi ) , Nadi and Tokyo , and Nadi and Sydney , between Los Angeles and points south-west . |
27 | This beeline may be reversed and used as a route of ascent from Horton but until a clear path has been formed by foot-traffic over the rough higher ground , it is not a way to be preferred to other more pleasant routes of ascent : apart from an exciting interlude midway , the climb becomes tedious . |
28 | Jim Simpson 's Zig Zag ( VS ) in 1948 was a fine effort up the Raven Wall — a bold venture taking a route of considerable quality . |
29 | This is not , of course , a route of any substantial technical difficulty , but it does present many would-be suitors with severe altitude problems , ranging from headaches to full-scale nausea , and some people thought the idea of taking the girl to altitude was an unjustifiable kind of medical experiment . |
30 | This may be your principal guide in choosing a route of re-entry . |