Example sentences of "a [n mass] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sex was a means of access both to the life of the body and the life of the species . ’ |
| 2 | Tell you what you can have a pair for Christmas instead of a computer . |
| 3 | One year , in June , we found a pair of swans still at Toftingall . |
| 4 | He wore a natty black business suit and a pair of sunglasses just like Rex 's . |
| 5 | mm , not bad are you gon na get erm a pair of trousers then from Mark 's ? |
| 6 | The Teesside TransPennine link is part of a series of changes now under way or in the pipeline for local services : — Northallerton and Thirsk will get hourly trains to York , Leeds , Manchester and Liverpool instead of two hourly ; — One train a day in each direction will take in Stockton , Hartlepool and Sunderland , terminating at Newcastle ; — The Monday to Saturday Darlington to Hartlepool service , barely used and regularly cancelled , will be axed next month . |
| 7 | The Teesside TransPennine link is part of a series of changes now under way or in the pipeline for local services : — Northallerton and Thirsk will get hourly trains to York , Leeds , Manchester and Liverpool instead of two hourly . |
| 8 | One of the recent visitors to Giverny was Roy Lichtenstein , who in 1969 had used Monet 's Rouen and Haystack series as the basis for a series of lithographs. then in 1991 he used the water-lilies theme of the Nymphéas for a series of works employing a new technique , the decorative machine turnings made by abrading metal in shining whirls , which , while looking like water have the reflectiveness of stainless steel . |
| 9 | The National Bowl is one of what we hope will be a series of venues all over Europe and we hope this one will become the first stop for major artists as they come to Europe |
| 10 | It invariably turns out that an operator makes a series of decisions partly on the basis of what is currently displayed ( on-line information ) and partly on the basis of other material obtained from his knowledge of the system performance , his briefing and his operating instructions ( off-line information ) . |
| 11 | Inspect the dpc 150mm ( 6in ) above ground level — a series of holes just above the dpc at 150mm intervals will indicate that a chemical dpc has been added . |
| 12 | A series of alerts all over the mainland came as the IRA yesterday declared a 72-hour Christmas truce for Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | A series of documents both in the First and in the Second Book of Maccabees reflects — I believe quite authentically for the majority of them — the decline of Syrian power in Judaea , but does not offer any precise clue to the intentions of Antiochus IV in Hellenizing Jerusalem . |
| 14 | From 1904 he was Connexional Evangelist and conducted a series of missions all over Ireland . |
| 15 | GMT ) on Feb. 24 , and consisted of a series of feints together with a three-pronged attack across a 480-km front . |
| 16 | Framed in the grimy windows is a series of pictures rather like a personal film show : fleeting dramas of everyday life , and sometimes the astonishing beauty of an untouched landscape . |