Example sentences of "the [num] [noun sg] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this potential for mobilizing worker commitment to change which makes the 1985 agreement a land-mark in Ford 's industrial relations and work organization . |
| 2 | In the 1921 election a leaflet in support of the candidature of Kerrison argued that the Labour Party had been responsible for implementing the 1918 Act , providing home helps for poor mothers and supplying free milk in necessitous cases . |
| 3 | Tony Benn , who acknowledges that ‘ Jim Callaghan … ran the Cabinet with considerable skill ’ , brought to the 1976 Cabinet a set of Cabinet minutes from August 1931 ‘ in which exactly the same discussion took place … to remind them that there was a history in this matter ’ . |
| 4 | Within the first year of the 1987 Parliament a quarter of Conservative back-benchers rebelled against the government at least once . |
| 5 | In practice , the distinction between the two categories seems to reflect , as I have suggested , the existence of two kinds of interest in the past : on the one hand a concern with steady constraints on social life , and on the other an interest in large-scale patterns of change . |
| 6 | On the one hand a series of publications demonstrated to planners at the local level why they should adopt the approach of restraining traffic and how they should put such plans into practice ( figure 5.3 ) . |
| 7 | Thus , the study concluded , on the one hand a number of the best practice companies relied on technology ( existing and new ) to generate a stream of new ideas , while on the other less successful companies could improve their position significantly by upgrading their technological competence , and by forging links with other companies and academia possibly with the help of government support schemes . |