Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Education Act of 1870 set out to provide elementary schools for children up to a minimum age of ten throughout the country . |
| 2 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 3 | At Cheltenham , they recoup early losses with a late hat-trick of winners ; at Brighton , they come badly unstuck ; and at Redcar they pull off a major coup , smuggling suitcase-loads of money on to a 7–1 shot past the eagle eye of the bookies . |
| 4 | One way to bring these different aspects of quality together in a concerted way is through total quality management , discussed later in the chapter . |
| 5 | He enjoyed good relationships with adults especially on a one-to-one basis . |
| 6 | This account of the formation of nation states in Western Europe , and of the development of the sense of nationality as a fundamental social bond , is far more comprehensive and thorough than the rather abstract and historically restricted theories which purport to explain modern nationalism and the emergence of new nations in terms either of a reorientation of European thought , or of some general process of industrialization . |
| 7 | Brian Atkinson goes hunting for goals at Peterborough today in a bid to cash in on his new role at Sunderland . |
| 8 | ( Let's face it , when was the last time you heard references to ‘ Cliff Richard 's lip ’ , Iggy Pop and the annual ceremony marking the opening of the Houses of Parliament side-by-side in a song ? ) ; indecision and apathy are confronted in ‘ Not Superstitious ’ ; ‘ Dead Industrial Atmosphere ’ details the decline of the North-East as an economic force and the subsequent social fall-out and , of course , we get a few long songs thrown in to spice things up , or down , as is more often than not the case . |
| 9 | In the ‘ cleft ’ , ions of energy up to a maximum of 5.5keV ( i.e. velocity of 1,000kms r-1 ) are observed , revealing acceleration to above magnetosheath energies . |
| 10 | Dame Sirith has 397 lines of dialogue out of a total of 450 . |
| 11 | Erm what is now being proposed is a somewhat less regimented plan than we had before , if you remember there were lines of trees before in a very grid-like pattern across the marketplace . |
| 12 | Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade . |
| 13 | These agencies may be seen alternatively as implementers that affect the character of policy or as independent creators of policy forever in a relationship of tension with the ‘ centre ’ . |
| 14 | Is this because stylistics feeds off other , more clearly defined , areas within linguistics rather like a poor relation , or because it is in some sense at the interface of these other disciplines ? |
| 15 | Mr Kinnock exploited political and City tensions over sterling yesterday with a call for the Government to enter immediate negotiations to become a full member of the European Monetary System . |
| 16 | The X-ray showed clean breaks on both sides of my ankle , as if someone had miraculously scythed the pieces of bone off with a knife . |
| 17 | What I really could not understand was why the senator did not beat ten kinds of nonsense out of a son who told him to cool it , but telling middle-class Americans to thump their kids is like asking them to burn their flag , so I did not waste my time . |
| 18 | Lying in bed at dawn on Tuesday morning at Swans ' Meadow , she felt the stirrings of grief more as a physical process than a mental one . |
| 19 | These requirements are : ( 1 ) filing by the plaintiff of the appropriate documents with the court , which are : ( a ) either a request for the issue of a summons in the appropriate form ( N201 — 204 ) or , if allowed by the court ( Ord 3 , r 3(1A) , the summons itself prepared by the plaintiff together with a copy for each defendant or both ; and ( b ) particulars of claim together with a copy for each defendant . |
| 20 | His expert knowledge of classical history was sharpened by a deep interest in Indian law based upon his years of service there as a senior legal official . |
| 21 | But it ties it in to a date and I think in a similar way , erm centenary which is the only thing we 're going to do offic I think that it could be the only thing we do to celebrate our hundred years of existence apart from a small exhibition in . |
| 22 | For another five years work , so I served five years in Germany too as a , as a miner . |
| 23 | On the information that I have , densities range quite considerably , from as low as ten workers per hectare up to a hundred workers per hectare , but on average somewhere around thirty four , forty three could be taken if one wished to choose an average . |
| 24 | I could n't permit someone of your abilities to moulder away in a backwater . |
| 25 | That would probably do little to bring so-called advances on royalties back to a more sensible level , but it might give the publisher some added stability , and therefore a greater incentive to put sustained effort into an author 's career . |
| 26 | For these reasons it is seldom used for current measurement nowadays but it does find application in a modified form of operation that enables electrical power to be measured in both direct and alternating-current circuits at frequencies up to a few hundred hertz . |
| 27 | When buying a property on a registered building estate or other development in respect of which the layout plan has been lodged and officially approved , make your search on Form 94B , when ( unlike other searches against part only of a title ) reference to the approved plan avoids the need to enclose a plan with your search . |
| 28 | The X-ray flux is so great when it emerges from the machine 's vacuum that it causes the air to fluoresce and , if focused , it can burn holes in paper rather like a powerful laser beam . |
| 29 | Yes , but they , you would n't have to pay twelve pounds per person just for a talk . |
| 30 | In Britain , the IT industry is small by world standards , producing £3000 million worth of goods per year out of a world total of £50000 million . |