Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They descended a flight of steps , entered a classroom block by a side-door and began to thread a route through corridors and passages busy with bustling knots of purple-blazered schoolboys . |
| 2 | We worked out a route of cafés , all the way down the Boulevard St. Michel to the river , velvet in the dark , and then up the Rue Saint Jacques to our home ground near the Pantheon . |
| 3 | But at the same time , they 're absolutely clear-eyed about what men can ‘ deliver ’ : namely , a route to children , a bit of sex and some social security . |
| 4 | We crossed several large meadows before working along steep , loose flanks , rich with flowers but not a route for mules , wherever they were — they had taken a different line . |
| 5 | Groups can monopolise a route for hours like this , or , worse still , drop someone on your head while you 're trying to lead it ! |
| 6 | The same passage , despite the narrow constriction of the valley at Djerdap , as the Danube forces its way between the Transylvanian Alps to the north and the Stara Planina to the south , may also have been a route for invaders into the Roman province of Pannonia , although the Iron Gate Pass , some 130 km ( 80 miles ) further north , afforded a better route for the Goths who descended on Pannonia from Transylvania in the middle of the fourth century AD . |
| 7 | This had a solid crust generally capable only of bearing the weight of a man , but the LRDG had successfully worked out a route for vehicles . |
| 8 | You could say , in a letter , that you strongly support the creation of a route for walkers and cyclists from Bloomiehall Park to Muirwood Road , especially for use by children to get to school , and that to overcome the present impasse , it might be a good idea to use a Compulsory Purchase Order to acquire the land needed . |
| 9 | If trustees make a payment of monies to a beneficiary this may comprise income in the hands of the beneficiary thus giving rise to a tax charge . |
| 10 | As for the notion of a local tax as a payment for services rendered , it is n't . |
| 11 | Were actually are making a profit we said at the beginning we do get a payment from petticoats so I do n't see that arrangement actually changing but it suits the trust were not very good at running restaurant 's . . |
| 12 | He died on December 17 , 1907 , and was buried in Westminster Abbey with the honours due to a prince of men … |
| 13 | And although I have to admit that this tale of a French prince who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt and grows up to be a prince among frogs and a secret agent to boot , did n't grab me , it will surely keep the little ones enthralled . |
| 14 | Somewhere along the way , call into a cheese shop and buy some sliced Gouda to sustain you ; ask for something old and it will come hard , dry , salty and orange — a prince among cheeses and a revelation to anyone who thought Dutch cheese was that yellow soap they sell in wax balls . |
| 15 | Jean Rhys , in Good Morning , Midnight ( 1939 ) , transcribes a mind strangely unstrung by loneliness , through a mixture of thoughts and memories recorded in a variety of tenses and stream-of-consciousness and interior-monologue styles . |
| 16 | The natural chemistry , complicated by run-off of sediments from a variety of lands , is correspondingly complex . |
| 17 | The widespread acceptance of the invariance proposition with which the rational expectations hypothesis was so closely associated was met with a variety of reactions : glacial disdain ; head scratching incredulity ; stony , deafening silence ; deep shock . |
| 18 | Though theoretically any discharger is subject to the scrutiny of field men , enforcement activity is focused further and patterned to reflect a variety of assumptions held by agency staff about the likely location of pollution . |
| 19 | However , it has been shown that , under a variety of assumptions about information conditions , collusive outcomes are supportable as Nash perfect equilibria in repeated games ( see Tirole , 1989 , ch. 6 for a convenient summary ) . |
| 20 | Expectations will be identified explicitly , making it easier to simulate alternative policies under a variety of assumptions about the way expectations are formed , and the way investigations are formed , and the investigation of the robustness of different policies . |
| 21 | Thus , a variety of initiatives could exist , co-operate and interact to everyone 's gain , on a fair and equal footing . |
| 22 | The remaining nine chapters cover a variety of topics . |
| 23 | • interesting discussions on a variety of topics with a visiting ‘ expert ’ ( eg Reflexology , Speech Therapy , Colour Analysis , Chiropractic , Music for Children , Assertiveness , Wills ) |
| 24 | More particularly , pupils should compile a folder of coursework containing writing of a range of types on a variety of topics for different and clearly specified audiences . |
| 25 | A couple of recent collections which bring together a range of articles on a variety of topics are 'Femininity' , ‘ Masculinity ’ and ‘ Androgyny ’ : A Modern Philosophical Analysis , edited by Mary Vetterling-Braggin ( 1982b ) and the special issue of Radical Philosophy ( 1983 ) on ‘ Women , Gender and Philosophy ’ . |
| 26 | It can also carry out research through the Central Statistical Office and the Government Social Survey into a variety of topics . |
| 27 | Later , he turned to a variety of topics within logic and philosophy : modal and many-valued logic ; the logic of entailment and of questions ; the paradoxes ; the Polish school of reism ; action theory ; ontology ; and intentionality . |
| 28 | The comprehensive course covered a variety of topics including a cut-down EPOS system — as used by the Company 's retail division . |
| 29 | This nationwide annual survey collects attitudinal information on a variety of topics including health and welfare , education , housing , morality , economic expectations and political beliefs . |
| 30 | To pass the time , the conversation had ranged over a variety of topics , from sport to current affairs , then had finally settled after some time on shop-talk — inevitable when any group of cops got together anywhere in the world . |