Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various reports a plea for support a plea for interest particularly for the seventy fifth anniversary year next year and after that we had the most lovely party . |
| 2 | During March a number of mass graves were found near former concentration camps or prisoner-of-war camps . |
| 3 | If there are more or modified synapses , the chemicals and structures of which the synapses are composed must show signs of change , which might be measurable either by biochemical methods ( for instance , an increase in the amount of synaptic membrane protein ) or under a microscope ( for instance a change in the dimensions of particular synapses , or an increase in synaptic numbers ) . |
| 4 | For instance a rite of lifelong commitment for adults or of young people on the verge of adult life who have been confirmed at an earlier age . |
| 5 | ‘ It is possible they operate individually but are connected by having the same contacts , for instance a dealer in Essex or Ireland , ’ said Det Sgt Elston . |
| 6 | Take , for instance a designer like Montana , whose particular skill is in sculptural tailoring . |
| 7 | The trouble is that any proposed reduction — granting for instance a value of 0.8 to a second preference and 0.6 to a third — is bound to be arbitrary . |
| 8 | They are able to do a lot of things that former generations could not do ; for instance a lot of them are able to study now in the legal field , become nurses and so on . |
| 9 | Well for instance a lot of people did n't even bother to erm make the kitchen floor into anything reasonable , but we did , we , we got some very good , very heavy |
| 10 | For instance a colleague of mine returning from a remote part of Kenya commented on the habit among pregnant women of eating a particular sort of yellowish mud . |
| 11 | In robotics , for instance a number of British companies have begun to develop and make robots , so creating jobs directly . |
| 12 | Thus it is common ground in the present case that if a manufacturer negligently makes and markets defective goods , for instance a car with defective brakes , or a soothing syrup for babies which is negligently contaminated with corrosive acid , and the defective goods are put on the market and sold to a member of the public , and the predictable accident follows and a young baby is injured , for instance if the baby is a passenger in the car when the brakes fail and the car crashes , or is given the syrup , it is no defence to an action for damages , by or on behalf of the baby , for the manufacturer to prove that the baby was only born after the defective goods had left the manufacturer 's premises or even had passed to the member of the public by purchase from the retailer . |
| 13 | If fixed costs are shared between products a method of allocating and apportioning these costs to individual products must be introduced . |
| 14 | In December 1980 the government announced that a further 192 non-departmental bodies were to be wound up by 1983 , bringing the total savings up to about 23m a year by 1983 . |
| 15 | Nobody who read the Bible could legitimately doubt that miracles had once occurred ; the question whether they still did so became for doubters a test of their faith . |
| 16 | As with many intellectuals in Hungary and Romania , Czechoslovakia had become for Miklós a token of what East European civilisation might be . |
| 17 | More straightforwardly , awareness of another nation 's literature helps to create for authors a sense of the particular character and limitations of their own , encouraging the pursuit of alternatives and possibilities for innovation and change . |
| 18 | By a remarkable coincidence this book arrived on my desk for review a matter of weeks after I had first seen it and browsed through it in a bookshop in Kathmandu . |
| 19 | If we were to take a formal view of the entailments of such a declarative sentence ( like that , for example , expressed in Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 150f. ) , we would be obliged to accept as entailments a set of sentences which would include the following : |
| 20 | CONVICTED Wall Street speculator Ivan Boesky , who once commanded a $1 billion war chest , is suing his wife for $1m a year in alimony to bolster his sagging finances . |
| 21 | ‘ Insurance was another option , with one company offering cover for £1 a head for British guests , £2 for overseas visitors ; but that required completing a detailed insurance form for each individual — an administrative nightmare if high volume is involved . ’ |
| 22 | His most touching moment came after Dreamflight a couple of years ago when he was asked to rush to the bedside of a leukaemia victim who wanted to see the photos of the trip that she had just enjoyed so much . |
| 23 | Shortly after midnight a number of shots were fired at Oldpark and Woodburn RUC stations . |
| 24 | His second to Party Politics in the Grand National marked him down as a stayer , but he is by no means a slouch over shorter trips . |
| 25 | Superior qualifications were , indeed , by no means a guarantee of preferment , on the testimony of David Scott himself , who admitted on another occasion that ‘ there was some altercation about the superior qualifications of the other candidates , but on my shewing the chairman the anxiety I had to provide for your friend , with his assistance I carried it ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ By common consent his figures are by no means a reflection on the way he is bowling , ’ said chairman of selectors Ted Dexter . |
| 27 | But this is by no means a tale of automotive Flat-Earthers . |
| 28 | It took 80 per cent of the seats in the National Assembly , with just 40 per cent of the vote — which is by no means a form of Proportional Representation ( PR ) , as favoured by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 29 | It was by no means a period of stagnation . |
| 30 | Museum visits then , appear to have been by no means a matter of Sunday entertainment and relaxation . |