Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Alan sets to work on a simple , single-layered bob by brushing hair through well with a Denman Traditional . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They require a lot of maintenance and some may be out of action for up to a day a week on a regular basis . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The parents then feed the chick for up to a year . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You can keep the hired car for up to a fortnight . |
| 20 | ‘ Luck was on your side for once in the form of this remarkable pugilist , this amazing pair of fists ! ’ |
| 21 | If a tie results , then after a break of up to a minute an extension of two or three minutes is fought . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Data from HIPE give some indication of where in the hospital service older people are treated . |
| 24 | I sat next to Grant at a private screening of Just Like a Woman . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | On the livestock side Stuart Ashworth warned that beef producers should brace themselves for a cut in the Beef Special Premium ‘ the base for Scotland is 244,000 male animals but there will be at least 300,000 head this year so we can anticipate a cut of somewhere in the region of 20-25 per cent in BSP payments . |
| 28 | It is dealt with in detail here because visitors in search of out of the way spots are almost certain to pass through it on their way to Appenzell , or even to break their journey here . |
| 29 | It , but er the difference this is that we 've got a piece of fabric coming of there with a weight holding it down . |
| 30 | Not so much sailing ; more like flying on the wind with maybe with a prayer . |