Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conference Room 1 is very useful for larger meetings , but there is scope for the use of a smaller room for groups of up to a dozen staff and/or external users . |
| 2 | They require a lot of maintenance and some may be out of action for up to a day a week on a regular basis . |
| 3 | The light fades to black , to be replaced suddenly by a crash and a burst of light from above as a giant ring pull seems to tear from the ceiling . |
| 4 | But as those boxing her in came away from the rails at the entrance to the home stretch she found a good run up the inside , and when Teleprompter ran out of stamina with just over a furlong to go Pat Eddery shot the favourite into the lead and made for the wire . |
| 5 | A reserve of justice remained with the King , and so those who could not get relief in the King 's ordinary courts might , with some hope of success , petition the King and his Council for redress , if not as a matter of right at least as a favour . |
| 6 | The Orc and Goblin army may include a proportion of allies worth up to a quarter of its total points value . |
| 7 | But the procurement of scientists from overseas as a novelty intrigued him . |
| 8 | The hired minibus , which was carrying a group of Newcastle United fans , collided with a Vauxhall Cavalier a mile west of Bowes at 8.10am on a section being converted to dual carriageway . |
| 9 | The hired minibus , which was carrying a group of Newcastle United fans , collided with a Vauxhall Cavalier a mile west of Bowes at 8.10am on a section being converted to dual carriageway . |
| 10 | Capitalism , Habermas argues , replaces the traditional mode of domination from above with a new mode of domination from below — bourgeois ideology . |
| 11 | The the tables are very erm old fashioned wooden ones and sort of you know how you get your legs under sort of well like a bottom lip . |
| 12 | Six people were killed and widespread damage caused as Hurricane Andrew swept from the Bahamas across Florida with gusts at up to a hundred and sixty-eight miles per hour . |
| 13 | Lloyd reached 100 in just 128 balls with a six and 11 boundaries in a thrilling run blitz as England A raced to 300 for five declared , leaving Western Australia to score 402 for victory in just over a day . |
| 14 | It is not going to require all schemes to increase pensions in payment by up to a maximum of 5 per cent a year . |
| 15 | We eventually arrived in Dunkirk at 2.00pm with a three hour wait until our ferry sailed . |
| 16 | As they migrate to their breeding sites , from distances of up to a kilometre and a half , many will be squashed by traffic ; sometimes singly , sometimes in pairs with the males already piggybacked on the females , in the characteristic prenuptial position of anurans ( tailless amphibians ) known as amplexus . |
| 17 | If so , it suggests that liberal policies will be implemented in Peru at least for a few months this year , whatever the general public thinks . |
| 18 | A handful of scraps provided enough encouragement , and soon I was catching starlings in batches of up to a dozen . |
| 19 | For example , an energy flow from left to right through a flow from foreground to background should produce an upwards driving force that becomes diagonally anticlockwise . |
| 20 | If we go from left to right along a row of p-block elements , the effect of increasing mass is outweighed by the increasing bond strength , and frequencies increase ( see Table 5.7 ) . |
| 21 | The activities of the far right have been a cause for concern over here for a while now . |
| 22 | Although he engaged in some pastoral work in the years after his ordination , preaching and hearing confessions , his time was spent almost entirely in the papal civil service and , until the appointment to Germany for just over a decade , almost entirely in Rome . |
| 23 | Despite the difficulties of his predicament however , Gould managed to return to Sydney in just over a fortnight after writing his letter to Eliza . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , incidentally Mark , I understand they want to use your office and mine for a couple of visiting Americans on assignment over here for a couple of months . |
| 25 | Coffee morning : Everyone is welcome to the village hall on Wednesday at 10am for a coffee morning held by members of the Children 's Society . |
| 26 | Firstly , Martin Coleman from High Wycombe has taken me to task for not including a power on/off switch in the circuit of Fig. 4 ( April ‘ 92 ) . |
| 27 | As a result of central government policies , Islington social services suffered 8 per cent cuts in 1987/8 and all departments were asked to produce proposals for cuts of up to a further 25 per cent which they might have to achieve over the next two years . |
| 28 | They drove several miles at speeds of up to a hundred and twenty miles an hour . |
| 29 | They escaped along the M-4 at speeds of up to a hundred and thirty miles an hour . |
| 30 | And the police chased the gang along the M4 , at speeds of up to a hundred and thirty miles an hour . |