Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He said that the new ‘ learning for work scheme ’ — intended to provide opportunities for the unemployed to pursue vocationally relevant full-time courses of education , with fees paid and an allowance equivalent to their benefit entitlement for up to a year — gave another opportunity for the longer-term unemployed to take up training opportunities and thus to increase their chances of finding employment .
2 ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward .
3 Although he engaged in some pastoral work in the years after his ordination , preaching and hearing confessions , his time was spent almost entirely in the papal civil service and , until the appointment to Germany for just over a decade , almost entirely in Rome .
4 They can obtain Orders from the Secretary of State ( DoE or Welsh Office ) to prevent any agricultural , or forestry , land use change for up to a year .
5 Alan sets to work on a simple , single-layered bob by brushing hair through well with a Denman Traditional .
6 It is claimed that after decay of the soft tissues , small mammal bone does not survive exposure for long on the ground , becoming soft and disintegrating within one year ( Voorhies , 1969 ) .
7 ‘ We are not playing kick and rush , ’ he insisted when driving out to a friend 's hotel in the Derwent Valley below Consett , pausing now and then to savour the uncluttered Durham landscape , his heart for ever in the North-east of England .
8 Crawford was seen in Play for Today after the first two episodes in the final series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had already been shown .
9 Detectives also found bales of dried herbal cannabis from a previous crop and believe the isolated spot had been used to produce the drug for up to a decade .
10 They require a lot of maintenance and some may be out of action for up to a day a week on a regular basis .
11 Lineages also contributed to the expenses of funerals : members made a collection toward the cost of feeding the guests ; if the dead person was a well known and respected man , the household might have to provide two meals a day and continual tea for up to a week for a hundred or so visitors ( who sometimes brought a contribution of a sheep or tea or sugar ) .
12 On the M forty between junctions four and five for High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , there are two narrow lanes in both directions , with a contraflow system for a short stretch about mid-way between the two junctions , also that can be down to single line traffic at times , so it is likely to slow you down a little .
13 On the M forty between junctions four and five , that 's between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , the road 's down to two narrow lanes in both directions , with a contraflow system operating for a short stretch about midway between the two junctions , and that is also down to single line traffic at times ; so that could delay you a little .
14 On the M forty between junctions four and five , that 's between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , there are two narrow lanes in both directions , with a contraflow for a short stretch about midway between the two junctions , and it also is down to single line traffic at times , as required .
15 And on the M forty , between junctions four and five , that 's between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , it 's down to two narrow lanes in both directions , and a contraflow system for a short stretch about midway between the two junctions , also that 's down to single line traffic at times , so that could slow you down quite a lot .
16 On the M forty itself between junctions four and five , that 's the stretch between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , it 's down to two narrow lanes in both directions , with a contraflow system for a short stretch about midway between the two junctions , and at times , it 's down to single line traffic .
17 The M forty itself between junctions four and five , that 's between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , there are two narrow lanes in both directions and a contraflow running for a short stretch about midway between the two junctions , there 's also down to single line traffic at times .
18 For although the two stood with their heads for once on a level pegging , the size of their shadows differed to no small degree .
19 The parents then feed the chick for up to a year .
20 If you are moving for job reasons , the local authority or new town development corporation , even if they can not offer permanent rented accommodation , might be able to arrange short-term letting for up to a year under Schedule 3 of the Housing Act 1980 .
21 You can keep the hired car for up to a fortnight .
22 ‘ Luck was on your side for once in the form of this remarkable pugilist , this amazing pair of fists ! ’
23 there are 12 designs for all around the home , and they offer an inexpensive way to make any room 's decorations unique .
24 If a tie results , then after a break of up to a minute an extension of two or three minutes is fought .
25 Autoworld at the Patrick Collection — A dazzling collection featuring the cars of yesterday plus the supercars of today .
26 The frequency of fluent restorations is thus an indication of whether mispronunciations occurred before or after the recognition point of a word , and thus an indication of where in a word the recognition point actually occurred .
27 Data from HIPE give some indication of where in the hospital service older people are treated .
28 I sat next to Grant at a private screening of Just Like a Woman .
29 This experience appeared to transform him and he threw himself into a great surge of composition , writing a Mass of Thanksgiving for unaccompanied choir filling 100 pages of manuscript , which he completed in 15 days , as well as other works , including a setting of Out of the Deep which is given its first performance by his choir at St Philip and St James , Cheltenham , at his funeral on today .
30 Two further examples may show the effect of Ultra on the conduct of the war : the sinking of the Bismarck on 27 May 1941 ; and that critical moment in the Western Desert in August 1942 when Montgomery , through Ultra , was able to predict the direction and strength of Rommel 's attack at Alam Halfa , where the Axis failure prepared the ground for the British success at El Alamein in the autumn .
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