Example sentences of "[noun pl] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I Jordan de Blossevilla give in free alms to God and St Pancras and the monks … for the welfare of my soul and of my ancestors and successors a portion of my land in Bevenden lying by my well on the south side containing 4 perches in length and 2 in breadth ; to hold in tree alms , with a tree way of going in and out with the easement of drawing water in any well . |
| 2 | It was a brilliant tactical move which killed seven birds with one stone , gave The Smiths four pages in Melody Maker and gave the fanzines a slice of national exposure . |
| 3 | Since the arrival of the very first ship , the Annika , this Belfast to Rotterdam service has grown from a weekly to a twice weekly sailing , offering importers and exporters a choice of shipping at the beginning or at the end of the week . |
| 4 | It bottles only 4% of its production under the Cellaro label , paying growers a bonus for healthier grapes with a better balance of sugar and acidity . |
| 5 | At Langan 's Bistro , with its gallery full of prints , plates and drawings , a waiter stood ready to whisper into more receptive ears a list of the day 's specialities . |
| 6 | Simply to pass risks a sense of purposelessness ; but the purposefulness of approach requires delicacy and tact . |
| 7 | Here developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries a centre for the arts which attracted artists and craftsmen from all over Italy . |
| 8 | During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries a school of Dalmatian humanists , still writing mainly in Latin or Italian prose and poetry , broke away from the narrow ecclesiastical concerns of men like Thomas and became part of the mainstream of the European Renaissance . |
| 9 | To counter these tactics , larger and thicker walls were built , walls with much enlarged bases ; and in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries a variety of devices were invented to harry the attacker and make his work more difficult . |
| 10 | Over the long centuries a series of massive offensives rolled them back through the Shadowlands and eventually culminated in the storming of Anlec . |
| 11 | Over the centuries a number of species have become extinct , among them the Mexican grizzly bear , great auk and passenger pigeon . |
| 12 | It may be taken as fact that during the late fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries a number of joint muderris/muftiliks came into existence in the provinces . |
| 13 | Through the centuries a host of famous people have been proud to call this charming county ‘ home ’ . |
| 14 | Time to give the old legs a rest on a steep descent into the beautiful Farndale Valley |
| 15 | a mere skeleton , legs a mass of sores . ’ |
| 16 | That did my poor legs a world of good , of course . |
| 17 | An example might be to show informants a series of drawings , models , or other stimuli , and ask them to name them . |
| 18 | We had a nice stare at each other and gave the fans a bit of excitement . |
| 19 | Linebacker Gary Plummer said : ‘ We have n't given the fans a heck of a lot to cheer in the seven years I 've been here . |
| 20 | THE Questor Selection offers readers a choice of shares suitable for inclusion in long-term portfolios , with execution — only broker services provided through our arrangements with ShareLink — although it is usually not worth dealing in sums below £1,000 . |
| 21 | The issue of January 29 , 1972 offered readers a taster of the future in the shape of a small box proclaiming ‘ We 're Freaking Out At NME ’ and hinting arcanely at big changes afoot . |
| 22 | Still , he wanted to keep something of that spirit , if only its dauntlessness in what looked like a hopeless future ; for similarly contemporary reasons he wanted to offer his readers a model of elementary virtue existing without the support of religion . |
| 23 | The first in a new series of Bookseller features , in which people in the book business offer readers a flavour of the hurly-burly of their daily lives . |
| 24 | We ca n't give away Sue and Richard 's dream home , but we can offer BBC Gardeners ' World Magazine readers a taste of the good life . |
| 25 | If we were to take a formal view of the entailments of such a declarative sentence ( like that , for example , expressed in Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 150f. ) , we would be obliged to accept as entailments a set of sentences which would include the following : |
| 26 | Everywhere and all over the vault of heaven is a marvellous blue , and the sun sheds a radiance of pale sulphur , and it is soft and lovely as the combination of heavenly blues and yellows in a Van der Meer of Delft [ sic ] . |
| 27 | She ought to be playing ten chukkas a day with really good players , and she ought to get miles away from you so she ca n't kick the shit out of you . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ No disrespect for the other players who may be left out , but I want to give the kids a bit of experience . ’ |
| 29 | Some parents still give their kids a clip round the ear , some of em send the children to their room or whatever , but when the children are in care you ca n't do any of these things because if you lock the child in the room , if the child gets sent to the room , you 're accused of pindown when there 's a report done . |
| 30 | Her unusually youthful looks meant Kylie could play a girl four years her junior and her portrayal of the spirited 12-year-old Charlene helped make The Henderson Kids a hit in Australia . |