Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE THREE OCTAVE ARPEGGIO |
| 2 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE SUSPENDED SECOND |
| 3 | Michael also has a record out on Music Maker Records , so catch Mr Fath in London and see what he means by ‘ technique as a result of harmony … ’ |
| 4 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE DORIAN MODE |
| 5 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE PENTATONIC MAJOR SCALE |
| 6 | MICHAEL FATH Technique as a Result of Harmony THE SEVENTH & MINOR SEVENTH |
| 7 | Thus the duty of care prevents directors from acting wholly unreasonably ; the duty of loyalty ensures that their decisions are not biased ; and the duty to act bona fide in the interests of the company and not for any improper purpose is almost identical in its formulation as a standard of review to the administrative law test striking down decisions which are taken for an improper purpose . |
| 8 | If , on the other hand , it was the freedom to use protection as a weapon against unemployment with which he was primarily concerned , the decision was a disastrous failure . |
| 9 | Yet the clutch of Highers and then the Ordinary MA with which I eventually emerged turned out to be a pretty useful preparation for a life in journalism . |
| 10 | " Instead of the children of the working class being subjected to rigorous self-denial in preparation for a life-time in mill or mine , " he writes , " they have been offered instead the promise of the easy and immediate gratification which , in the end , can sabotage human development and achievement just as effectively as the poverty and hunger of the past . " |
| 11 | In England in the early part of the eighteenth century the crown occasionally gave some help , in a haphazard way , to suitable young would-be diplomats to travel in preparation for a career in government service . |
| 12 | But before we move from discussing the lower levels of language — words , phrases , grammatical categories — to talking about the text as a unit of meaning , it would perhaps be useful to explain briefly what a text is and why we identify a given stretch of language as a text rather than assume that it is a set of unrelated words and sentences . |
| 13 | Finally , there are underlying semantic connections which allow us to ‘ make sense ’ of a text as a unit of meaning ; these are dealt with under the heading of coherence and |
| 14 | In this view the ‘ grammar ’ of the text is more evident in readers ' accounts of literature than in the actual literary works — unless , as Culler himself does in his study of Flaubert , one chooses to read a text as a sort of allegory of the reading process itself ( see Culler 1974 ) . |
| 15 | But there was another lady there talking about taking Tamazapam as a drug of abuse and tha , that 's the difficulty . |
| 16 | The mineral phases predicted at equilibrium are being compared to the actual assemblage as a means of verification of the thermodynamic codes . |
| 17 | Road haulage overtook rail as a carrier of freight in 1959 in Spain and in 1957 in Britain ( by which time BTC no longer ran the road haulage industry ) . |
| 18 | There has been much conjecture about a lack of motivation at lower levels in the Iraqi formations , as contrasted with that displayed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards , or Pasdaran , whose commitment and capacity to hold out against Iraqi superiority in equipment were important features of the war 's early years . |
| 19 | The genre of the novel long competed with ‘ the news ’ as a primary means of circulating information about the world , but its advantage as a source of entertainment as well as information failed to maintain its edge over the less demanding oral media of radio and television . |
| 20 | The stress and strain on muscles and joints is considerable , but why has she not sent the doctor 's certificate as a matter of courtesy to the tournament authorities ? |
| 21 | Prevalent among the emotions on view were : self-satisfaction amongst those who had received their C'est la Vie gift box , which included a baroque heart-shaped brooch estimated to be worth about £120 and , amongst those whose boxes had gone astray , resentment ( which gave the first group an opportunity for a bit of schadenfreude , which , emotionally speaking , is always a big hit ) . |
| 22 | Thus the reader of a ‘ good ’ book has the opportunity for a quality of understanding shared with the viewer of a particularly sensitive theatre or television play , or a cinema film . |
| 23 | A growing number of the University 's courses provide an opportunity for a period of study in another country of the European Community . |
| 24 | During the period of ‘ Palace Revolutions ’ following Peter 's death , Siberia gained in notoriety as a place of exile and confinement as a result of the increasingly frequent banishment there of the victims of a sequence of palace conspiracies and coups . |
| 25 | The use of solar energy to produce hydrogen as a fuel from water has aroused much scientific interest over recent years . |
| 26 | This argument he knew of old was hopeless and he listened to his own voice with a kind of horror as a note of pleading crept into it . |
| 27 | Beginners sometimes see the short story as a novel in capsule , but it is n't . |
| 28 | I 'm still here ! ’ spoken by McQueen when he finally escapes on a craft made of coconut shells — an attempt to round off the story as a paean of praise to survival . |
| 29 | ‘ It is no exaggeration to suggest that the consequence of a failure to secure planning permission for a change of use may be the complete shut down of the Sundial with the loss of about 20 staff , ’ he said . |
| 30 | 4 The Chocolate Girl ( DEACON BLUE ) CBS Records have a problem with giving permission for a video for world sale . |