Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun sg] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On June 8 after an explosion on board the Norwegian supertanker , Mega Borg , 3,000,000 gallons of light crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico 90 km south-east of Galveston , Texas , but was largely burnt off in a fire which was not extinguished until June 15 . |
| 2 | A SPANISH fisherman died yesterday after an accident on board the 40-metre Ormaza , 70 miles south-east of Rockall . |
| 3 | In spite of an overdose of tourism the essential spirit of Bali is still alive . |
| 4 | 10.1 Where an employee has been absent from work as a result of an act of violence the Director of Social Work will give due consideration to referring the employee to the medical adviser either prior to or immediately following their return to work . |
| 5 | To complete development of an algorithm for simulation the ‘ ragged edge ’ ( partial macro information ) within rational expectations models . |
| 6 | If an asset sale is a qualifying merger under FTA 1973 , because of the risk of an order for divestment the purchaser should make completion conditional on prior approval by the OFT using a clause similar to that in Clause 4.1(b) of the Standard Sale Agreement ( see Appendix III ) . |
| 7 | ‘ In the event of an assessment of stress the purchase would be aborted . ’ |
| 8 | It is perhaps because of an effort to buck the trend towards an insufferable and market-conscious cleverness that we are witnessing an attempt amongst more committed narrators to seek out a way of dealing directly with the emotions , without all the paraphernalia of intrigue and description that has accumulated over the past few years . |
| 9 | Non-stop mix-transfers are a three-handed job , and you will need the help of an assistant to cue-in the music material and to take care of the changing of source-discs and or cassettes on the replay machine if required . |
| 10 | Although explicable as an instance of context-specificity the results of this experiment have apparently put paid to the only explanation for the phenomenon that we have so far considered . |
| 11 | So , similarly , in the First World War , we assumed proudly as an accolade of honour the Kaiser 's ridicule of the first British Expeditionary Force as that ‘ contemptible little army ’ . |
| 12 | Parsley was used for the liver problem and to help clear the system of toxins ( causing the yellow colour and a fading of the normal colour ) , mint to encourage appetite , fennel to clear any toxins in the digestive tract , elderflower to calm the fish down and garlic as an antibiotic in case the fish suffered a secondary infection due to its weakened state . |
| 13 | Biya had announced the holding of the elections , originally scheduled to take place in March 1993 , in early September , in a move regarded by many observers as an attempt to wrong-foot the opposition . |
| 14 | Furthermore the probability that any animal in A is selected must be 180÷300 × 20÷180 = 1÷15 ; for an animal in B the probability is 90÷300 × 20÷90 = 1÷15 ; and likewise , for C , the probability is 30÷300 × 20÷30 = 1÷15 . |
| 15 | For an aeon of time the words meant nothing . |
| 16 | Poor bugger had caught a bad one in an ambush outside Blarney the previous day . |
| 17 | In an exchange of letters the Polish government declared among other things that the " prospect " of Poland joining the EC " will increasingly create opportunities to make it easier also for German citizens to settle in the Republic of Poland " . |
| 18 | On Dec. 10 , 1991 , in an exchange of letters the Republic of Byelarus resumed active participation as a fully-fledged WHO member . |
| 19 | In April 1050 he and Bishop Hermann [ q.v. ] of Ramsbury visited Rome on an errand of Edward the Confessor [ q.v. ] ; according to later and possibly unreliable sources it was to secure the king 's release from a vow of pilgrimage made before his accession . |
| 20 | His conversion led to an upsurge of praise the pressure of which could not be denied . |
| 21 | Due to an upsurge in vocations the Holy Ghost Fathers have now established a new province for Kenya , Tanzania and Uganda . |
| 22 | The early chapters are an indictment of the New Poor Law in their account of Oliver 's upbringing as a workhouse orphan , apprenticed to an undertaker by Bumble the beadle . |
| 23 | Barratt sold 2,017 houses at an average price of £75,800 in the half year , down from 2,128 completions at an average of £81,200 the previous year . |
| 24 | Here we use results from the Rosat all-sky survey , which increases by an order of magnitude the number of X-ray stars , to show that the dividing line is not an artefact of poor sampling . |