Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 always spread a and I I was listening to or or during a programme and it said er , we 're always told how firms are going down the shoot !
2 They are not taxed on dividends or except as a recapture of related deductible expenses , such as interest — capital gains derived from foreign affiliates under a participation exemption .
3 And there was a new outpouring of rumours about Hitler 's health : that he was ill , mad , blind , had suffered a nervous breakdown , or that as a result of mental illness he had been forced to hand over the leadership of the State to the military , and had been shot .
4 So I chose general farming , and then you chose whether you wanted to go to a farm or and in a hostel , communal .
5 A service done out of friendship such as helping out at a barbecue or because of a threat is not within s.1 .
6 And where for a moment a gap had shown between her boot-top and her heat-suit , a midnight vein swooped across the wall to form a bulge that thickened out towards the naked skin of her leg .
7 Prevailing weather conditions dictate if and where in a lake carp will feed .
8 Not Terry Place , who , as far as could be judged , had never met any of the Pitts except the girl , and that on a day that nearly killed him .
9 Next , a comparison can be made between the viscosity of a polymer melt at a temperature , and that at a reference temperature such as and so
10 And that at a time when , as was realised , the stakes were particularly high , when the country 's prospective self-sufficiency in oil would provide an incoming Government with a stronger economic base .
11 They feel that , on alcohol advertising in particular , the EC has ducked the issues posed by a single market and satellite broadcasting ; and that as a result regulations may be cut back to the loosest common denominator .
12 But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated .
13 X went on to tell D that the information she was imparting was sensitive and highly confidential and that as a result of the conversation he would be an ‘ insider . ’
14 Edward Miall argued in the 1840s that giving the vote to the working class would give them that sense of citizen responsibility which they were said to lack , and that as a result the middle class would be able to " lead them almost whithersoever they please . "
15 In this research , the investigator plans to study the possibility that adults on occasion expect young children to behave as if they already have an accurate conception of the process of communication , and that as a result of being expected to behave in this more mature way they come to realise why that behaviour is appropriate .
16 On the eve of the talks the US government announced that all US fighter aircraft permanently based in the Philippines would be removed " at some point in 1991 " and that as a result 1,800 military personnel would also leave the country .
17 Here , R. H. Tawney took a traditional line , asserting that Tutorial Classes and , at the very least , One-Year courses constituted the WEA 's real work , that those who had left school at or about fifteen were its most important target and that as a movement it should be largely under the control of its voluntary student members .
18 The women 's organizations are now confident that a unified representative body will be formed and that as a consequence , both their work to incorporate more women into the movement for social justice and a popular democratic government and their work in favour of women 's rights will be greatly strengthened .
19 Hartmann ( 1979 ) argues that male workers are able to keep women out of the better jobs because of their organization , and that as a consequence women are obliged to marry on unfavourable terms , such that they have to do most of the housework .
20 A major criticism of the town-planning sections of the 1909 Act had been that the provisions were cumbersome and that as a consequence the operation of town planning schemes was slow and protracted .
21 The research evaluates the claim that the latter view emerges at around 4 years and that as a consequence , children 's views about motivation will change in three ways .
22 Some won their battles , but many others discovered that in law they were merely tenants-at-will and that as a consequence they had to pay much higher rents than before .
23 It is suggested that where a woman demonstrates her lack of consent , it is no hardship for a man to enquire whether her consent is present and that as a matter of policy the law should demand that he do so .
24 It was disappointing , given the stress in these new regulations on quality of courses , the needs of the area and the amount of students ' contributions , that an even higher proportion of grant-aid could not be given : but the Ashby Report itself had talked of only 75% and that as a maximum , so any advance on this was an achievement , and a tribute to the District 's work .
25 But there is little doubt that charter-train profit can be read in seven-figure sums rather than six and that as a business venture , InterCity has not done badly at all .
26 In a sentence the kernel of the criticism is that foreign aid tends to serve narrow donor interests and those of the classes in recipient countries that will most benefit ; that it incorporates the lesser developed country into dependent relations with industrialised nations ; and that through a series of bureaucratic filters , special interests and general bungling , frequently does harm not good .
27 It would be a long time before he stopped despising himself for having succumbed to a purely physical attraction , and that towards a woman he despised .
28 Len was unquestionably one of the best defenders in the 3rd Division South in the mid-1950s , but in addition he was a talented fellow who could turn out in a surprising number of positions ( he actually played in seven different ones for us , and that in a day when ‘ utility ’ players were unusual ) and his Palace career spanned ten seasons .
29 Nobody could reasonably dissent from this conclusion , Paley insists , yet that is just what the atheist , in effect , does when he contemplates the works of nature , for : every indication of contrivance , every manifestation of design , which existed in the watch , exists in the works of nature ; with the difference , on the side of nature , of being greater or more , and that in a degree which exceeds all computation .
30 There is published evidence that P cepacia is transmissible , directly or indirectly , between individuals , and that in a proportion who acquire it the infection is associated with rapid deterioration or death , even when they were previously in good health and clinically stable .
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