Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A help to fifth-gear flexibility , but one that does little for motorway fuel consumption — cruising at 80–85mph for most of one tankful ( unleaded only ) produced 26.5mpg .
2 Labour 's o Labour 's open hostility to employers will do little for business confidence and job creation .
3 ‘ I never really notice things like that during term time , ’ said Tom Tedder .
4 Although we now know a great deal about person identification by face , we know very little about voice identification and almost nothing about how face and voice information are combined .
5 If Rank seriously thought that his directors could work to order and effectively fill the gap in the release schedules , notwithstanding the audience 's proven affection for US pictures , then he really did know very little about film production .
6 European jurors know little about Sri Lankans , while Sinhalese and Tamil jurors did not always know English well enough to understand the judge .
7 But he is doing very little about policy problems themselves .
8 This is why we know so little about Robert Simms , though most contemporaries thought him too moral a man to have acted dishonourably .
9 Cos they live down round near Tina 's but not like Tina 's house , before that off Allard Avenue round the back of Allard Avenue .
10 They visited Flower Vogue where Janice Bayer , who chose the winning cards with the help of her assistant Bo Pullen , is ready to prepare their prizes , a bouquet each for Mothering Sunday .
11 In brief , they want slot machines of their own : 500 each for Turf Paradise and the Phoenix Greyhound Park , 250 each for the smaller tracks .
12 The prosecution has requested 950-year jail sentences each for Josefa Mercedes Ernaga and Domingo Troitino .
13 There were two wickets each for De Freitas and Ian Austin , Peter Martin took 3–52 and Wasim ripped through the Essex tail as they collapsed from 172–3 .
14 Both countries have already received over £65,000 each for aircraft maintenance , the purchase of spare parts , radio equipment and other vital supplies .
15 Hilda Lodge thanked Ann for raising nearly £500 each for Dr. Barnardo 's and the Medau Society following her parachute jump .
16 Alongside this reality people in these areas experienced similar media hype to that about West Belfast , with promises of a bright future where economic problems diminish daily .
17 Anyway she seemed to have swallowed all that about Uncle Walter .
18 That about sums things up alright .
19 That , the increa there is an increase over the Wellent er Flood Defence , Wellent and Flood Defence Committee , two and a half per cent , but that as Severn Trent , is set at a zero increase .
20 The most crucial relationship is that between committee chairman and chief officer .
21 The Chairman of Aerospatiale , the French aerospace group , commented that the proposed merger ( together with that between Daimler Benz and Messerschmitt under consideration at the same time ) risked setting a trend towards diversified national groupings , which would make the task of creating a European aerospace industry , capable of competing with the US , more difficult .
22 In May 1853 another narrow waterway was conquered by cable ; that between mainland Britain and Ireland .
23 This remained fraught , but the tension was comparable at times to that between government politicians and public service broadcasters in , say , the Britain of Wilson and Callaghan or Margaret Thatcher .
24 That between mediation processes and particular classes of instrumental skills — the language skills .
25 Another key set of wired bonds is that between adult males .
26 THERE are few firmer friendships in cricket anywhere in the world than that between John Emburey and Graham Gooch .
27 It is curious nevertheless how poor the primary sources sometimes are for debates at BAAS meetings : the famous clash between Wilberforce and Huxley in 1860 at Oxford , in the new museum there , has scarcely more contemporary accounts than that between St George and the dragon , so that it is impossible to know exactly what happened .
28 Little is known about how Macedonian Greek was spoken , except that for instance Philip was pronounced Bilip .
29 The tender procedure is similar to that for Treasury bills and as with Treasury bills , most LA bills are taken up by discount houses and clearing banks .
30 The legal framework within which services for elderly people must be provided is less extensive than that for child care .
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