Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] [prep] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | They require a lot of maintenance and some may be out of action for up to a day a week on a regular basis . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | For although the two stood with their heads for once on a level pegging , the size of their shadows differed to no small degree . |
| 10 | The parents then feed the chick for up to a year . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You can keep the hired car for up to a fortnight . |
| 13 | If a tie results , then after a break of up to a minute an extension of two or three minutes is fought . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I sat next to Grant at a private screening of Just Like a Woman . |
| 16 | It , but er the difference this is that we 've got a piece of fabric coming of there with a weight holding it down . |
| 17 | Not so much sailing ; more like flying on the wind with maybe with a prayer . |
| 18 | He had worked at his books in here as a boy , shared port with Sir John as a stripling in his callow youth , sitting across from him before the fire in this male stronghold , deep in the leather chair . |
| 19 | Clockwise from above : See the snow from above in a hot air balloon ; many resorts have entertainments for children ; take a cruise around Stockholm ; cross-country skiing enables you to reach remote areas ; downhill skiing is still a big favourite . |
| 20 | The light fades to black , to be replaced suddenly by a crash and a burst of light from above as a giant ring pull seems to tear from the ceiling . |
| 21 | Send your pictures to along with a note of your name , department and location and any title or story behind the subject of the picture . |
| 22 | We eventually arrived in Dunkirk at 2.00pm with a three hour wait until our ferry sailed . |
| 23 | They also promise a ‘ return to learn ’ entitlement of up to a year 's full time education for people aged more than 50 and who left school at 15 or earlier . |
| 24 | Conference Room 1 is very useful for larger meetings , but there is scope for the use of a smaller room for groups of up to a dozen staff and/or external users . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , there 's a fundamental distinction made by most authors that um y'know kind of up to a certain age involving kids in sexual relations with adults is abusive because of the discrepancy in power , because of the discrepancy in physical size , because of a whole range of social discrepancies . |
| 26 | But already they carry a price tag of up to a thousand pounds each . |
| 27 | The punishments included forfeiture of remission , single cell confinements , restrictions upon access to the canteen and , more controversially , the stopping of letters and visits for up to a month . |
| 28 | They know what it 's like to stand on both sides of the competitive fence and have now been involved with the sport for well over a decade , first as top international competitions and then as manager and coach of the national team . |
| 29 | Tickets are £5 before 11pm , £4 after 11pm , and £3 after 11pm with a Smashed ! flyer . |
| 30 | Full line-up at the club , which takes place at Islington Powerhaus on Wednesday nights , is Admission is £5 before 11pm , £4 after 11pm , and £3 after 11pm with a Smashed ! flyer . |