Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prices range from £9.95 for a three-metre black , blue or red cable up to £13.95 for a 5 metre orange or green version , £15.95 for a 5m translucent pink jobbie and £17.95 for a 5m toaster-type . |
| 2 | Terrorists often used an athletic stopwatch as a timing device . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've had enough X-rays for a while , so I 'm going to do nothing for the moment . |
| 4 | Pool midfielder David McCreery is fit after precautionary X-rays for a chest infection and could return to the side . |
| 5 | And shipping lines are exploring the technique as a way of stripping paint and barnacles from hulls . |
| 6 | The other thing we 're looking at of course is your technique as a driver . |
| 7 | That voice is ever changing as we learn and develop our technique as a group . |
| 8 | Pearson 's technique as a biographer derived from his career on the stage . |
| 9 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE THREE OCTAVE ARPEGGIO |
| 10 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE SUSPENDED SECOND |
| 11 | Michael also has a record out on Music Maker Records , so catch Mr Fath in London and see what he means by ‘ technique as a result of harmony … ’ |
| 12 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE DORIAN MODE |
| 13 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE PENTATONIC MAJOR SCALE |
| 14 | MICHAEL FATH Technique as a Result of Harmony THE SEVENTH & MINOR SEVENTH |
| 15 | During the months preceding the accident , a set of underground workings , easiest thought of by the layman as a tunnel 18 feet wide and 7 feet high , had been following a seam of coal which was rising very steeply towards the surface . |
| 16 | It might appear strange to classify a retailer as a manufacturer but this will only happen where he is under a duty to inspect the goods and fails to do so . |
| 17 | Britain 's IT firms , in company with any others that use electronic equipment , rely on universities and other institutions for a supply of skilled people . |
| 18 | Thus the duty of care prevents directors from acting wholly unreasonably ; the duty of loyalty ensures that their decisions are not biased ; and the duty to act bona fide in the interests of the company and not for any improper purpose is almost identical in its formulation as a standard of review to the administrative law test striking down decisions which are taken for an improper purpose . |
| 19 | An attendance rate of 90% for a week means that out of the 1000 possible attendances over the week , 900 were recorded . |
| 20 | All I need was a blooming all I need was five point nought point five baking powder about a teaspoon |
| 21 | Instead , the orbit as a whole twists a little further round each time , so that a true drawing of the planet 's course should really look more like one of the patterns produced by a children 's Spirograph toy . |
| 22 | Round was signed from St Helens for a club record of £65,000 in the summer of 1987 but he damaged a knee in his only game this season — at Carlisle in October — and needed a cartilage operation . |
| 23 | The image of the housewife as a cabbage makes a number of appearances in answers to the question about writing housewife on a form ( it is mentioned by twelve of the forty women ) . |
| 24 | We can now turn right to the other end of the book , where there should be another paste-down and free endpaper , though in earlier books the latter will often be missing , having been appropriated by some seventeenth or eighteenth century housewife as a shopping list or for copying a cooking recipe . |
| 25 | Remembering that I am not defining housewife as a woman dancing attendance on a healthy but indolent male but as a person looking after babies and others who need looking after , what do feminists think the housewife should live on ? |
| 26 | In general this was the pattern for Polish industrialisation as a whole — a phenomenon that took place when there was the least chance of Poland ever regaining an independent existence . |
| 27 | The specimen pictured is displaying , either to an adjacent female in courtship , or to a competing male as a warning . |
| 28 | Making yourself aware of bias and adopting alternative usages should prevent the tacit presumption by your reader of the white male as a norm . |
| 29 | A businessman and a man who puts up ramps for a living ? |
| 30 | The Forum has tried to collect views through a biennial request to individual organisations and associations to bring forward suggested areas for research but this did not prove fruitful . |