Example sentences of "[that] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Stephen Leatherwood , of the UN Environment Programme , estimates that between a half to one million small cetaceans each year are caught in set-nets . |
| 2 | WHO estimates that between a half and one million Europeans are infected with the AIDS virus . |
| 3 | Writing in the British Medical Journal recently , she points out that between a quarter and a third of 15-year-olds smoke . |
| 4 | I remember that between a death and the subsequent funeral the street would be very quiet , pianos were locked , children were not allowed to play anywhere near the house and on the day of interment , all blinds were drawn , whilst as the cortege made its way to the Cemetery people would stop , the men always removing headgear . |
| 5 | I never thought I 'd live to say that about a film from the BFI . |
| 6 | The bishop declared that for a clerk in holy orders to sit as a justice in eyre for forest pleas was contrary to the canons of the Church , and rendered him ineligible for an office involving the cure of souls . |
| 7 | The fatal , fateful thing was that for a century the device appeared to work : Canada felt and behaved as if it was still part of the empire . |
| 8 | In a very timely book , Israel 's Fateful Decisions , published shortly before the Intifada broke out , the Israeli scholar , General Yehoshavat Harkabi , wrote that for a settlement to be possible , both sides must first renounce their respective dreams or ‘ grand designs ’ — for the Zionists , the ‘ redemption ’ of all the Land of Israel , for the Palestinians , the ‘ liberation ’ of all the territory that once was theirs — and thereby end what he calls the absolute , ‘ existential ’ nature of the struggle . |
| 9 | It follows that for a shape to assume constancy it must be closed and possess a skin , or comprehensible boundary . |
| 10 | I forgot that for a while during the '80s but I 'm back now , ’ Starr said . |
| 11 | He says it was coincidence that all these Mr Nasty roles came at once , but admits that for a while , playing a succession of evil characters had a rather bad effect on his personal life . |
| 12 | When Ariel gently lifted the old woman to move her to her own quarters up the path in the forest , Sycorax gave a huge cry , the folding of her body in Ariel 's arms shot fiery rivers of pain through her that for a while swallowed up all the others she suffered from her burns . |
| 13 | She was able to warn her manager that for a while she might be a bit slower and occasionally a bit tearful . |
| 14 | They were so shocked that for a while I was convinced they would go away and not only cancel our betrothal but probably the wedding between Boz and Alamena as well . ’ |
| 15 | The international banking community was so nervous that for a while no forward foreign exchange markets operated properly anywhere . |
| 16 | ‘ Micky , you 've said that for a fortnight , and there 's no sign of it happening . |
| 17 | It seems likely that for a parent or spouse , the experience may well be comparable to the sorts of events and difficulties implicated in depression . |
| 18 | It is clear that for a girl to have any chance of succeeding , she must play the Tour in some style . |
| 19 | It seems that for a computer to find a strong play , it first has to arrange the options in order of strength . |
| 20 | The image experienced in a flash of gold , a flush of warmth to her face , was so vivid that for a second she hesitated at the kitchen door as if disorientated . |
| 21 | She pronounces ‘ liver ’ with a long vowel , so that for a second he thinks she is asking if he likes geese saliva . |
| 22 | The memory was so vivid that for a second she thought she heard the echo of the slam . |
| 23 | It lifted him for a moment before it threw him down , so that for a second he saw what he wanted : that the sea had already overrun the beach and the rocks and the shingle and was advancing like a black wall rimmed with white over the slipways and grasslands of Orphir . |
| 24 | We watched that for a bit , then took the first tube of the day round to a friend 's place for a while . |
| 25 | However , common sense dictates that for a boy of 14 to be away from home and unsupported with no income , home or friends , is a very serious , vulnerable and lonely situation for him to be in , especially when this is for a period of three months . |
| 26 | The reason for this is that for a vocabulary of size L , there exist Li-1 different histories . |
| 27 | Twelfth-century romances make it plain that for a noblewoman to suckle her own child implied a quite exceptional degree of love . |
| 28 | It should be noted that for a person obliged to retire from business because of failing health , the maximum relief can be obtained before the age of 60 ( given a ten year period as director ) . |
| 29 | George Foulkes ( Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley ) told the Deputy Speaker , Michael Morris that for a minister to speak twice in a debate he needed the permission of the Commons . |
| 30 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |