Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , on the anniversary of the July 1936 rising , he appealed to the Captains-General for unity in view of an international masonic plot which would destroy Spain . |
| 2 | The notice of objection was expressly stated to be ‘ without prejudice to any challenge that may be made in any subsequent proceedings , for instance by way of an action in negligence . ’ |
| 3 | For the United States , the assimilation of wave after wave of immigrants into an egalitarian society was more than a pious hope . |
| 4 | The political embarrassment that such admissions created for the Bolsheviks were smoothed over by presenting the necessity for NEP in terms of an analogy with the Brest Litovsk peace treaty with Germany in 1918 , that is , as being a breathing space . |
| 5 | Few long term studies , however , specifically consider the epidemiology and natural history of impairment of growth in an at risj population . |
| 6 | And for teachers already using ( or wanting to adopt ) the approach described here , it acknowledges and reflects their wider concerns , offering a framework which allows for the possibility of building in collaboration as an integral feature of teaching and learning across the whole range of classroom activity . |
| 7 | Farmers who watched ‘ The Last Straw ’ will echo the Duke 's call for more stability , some leadership and a sense of direction for farming as an industry . |
| 8 | Farmers who watched ‘ The Last Straw ’ will echo the Duke 's call for more stability , some leadership and a sense of direction for farming as an industry . |
| 9 | As Beatson has stated , ‘ a system that uses the pragmatic approach is not using the concept of error of law as an organizing principle ’ as such , but rather as a facade behind which to weigh the relative competence of court and agency . |
| 10 | Keeling quoted donor agency sources as saying that at least $3,000 million was not accounted for in the recently published annual report of the Central Bank of Nigeria and speculating that the money had been spent on costly commitments such as Nigeria 's participation in the ECOWAS peace-keeping force in Liberia , the holding of the Organization of African Unity summit in Abuja in June , and the start of work on construction of an aluminium smelter . |
| 11 | Ingenuity can sometimes suggest ambiguity or obscurity where none exists in fact , and if the instant case were to be thought to justify the exercise of combing through reports of Parliamentary proceedings in the hope of unearthing some perhaps incautious expression of opinion in support of an improbable secondary meaning , the relaxation of the rule might indeed lead to the fruitless expense and labour which has been prayed in aid in the past as one of the reasons justifying its maintenance . |
| 12 | Lord Oliver of Aylmerton commented that ‘ ingenuity can sometimes suggest ambiguity or obscurity where none exists in fact , and if the instant case were to be thought to justify the exercise of combing through reports of parliamentary proceedings in the hope of unearthing some perhaps incautious expression of opinion in support of an improbable secondary meaning , the relaxation of the rule might indeed lead to the fruitless expense and labour which has been prayed in aid in the past as one of the reasons justifying its maintenance ’ . |
| 13 | This clearly sums up the Conservative attitude to taxation and , most importantly , it views the alleviation of poverty as part of an overall policy to improve prosperity for everyone . |
| 14 | But such a form can also be anticipated from the pattern of deposition of tephra as an ash cloud spreads out from the summit crater during an eruption over a wedge-shaped sector of the cone , the rate of ash fall-out being the reciprocal of the distance from the vent . |
| 15 | Injuries and deaths at work are a significant and reducible source of danger to the citizen , and the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 provides the framework for the regulation of safety in work-places with an offence of failing to ensure that , ‘ so far as is reasonably practicable ’ , employees are not exposed to risks to their health or safety . |
| 16 | A. transverse cracking of incisor from tawny owl assemblage ( ×30 ) ; B. breakage and digestion of end of incisor from peregrine assemblage ( ×38 ) ; C. transverse breakage across the dentine and displaced breakage of the enamel of incisor from margay assemblage ( ×9 ) ; D. longitudinal splitting and partial separation of enamel from dentine of an incisor from common buzzard assemblage ( ×19 ) ; E. enlargement of same ( ×56 ) ; F. slight separation of enamel from dentine in incisor from tawny owl assemblage ( ×7 ) ; G. cracking of dentine in heavily digested incisor from hen harrier assemblage ( ×19 ) . |
| 17 | Coward and Ellis ( 1977 ) , for instance , criticize the notion of signification as part of an ideological cloud formation above the real economic and political world , and assert its materiality ; but its relationship to other aspects of the material world remains unclear . |
| 18 | As regards the feminist critique of realism , Lovell pointed to the failure to relate realism as a mode of signification to realism as an epistemology . |
| 19 | The excess risk levels off in the following years and is undoubtedly the result of selection of patients with an unrecognised malignancy at the time of commencement of peptic ulcer treatment . |
| 20 | While , on the one hand , my stammering only in the presence of persons in particular roles , or talking excessively after giving a lecture , pose genuine psychological problems that find expression in certain types of theorizing , so too , on the other hand , do questions about the effects of adrenalin on sitters in an examination room , or family genetics on the choice of career . |
| 21 | On 11 May 1992 the wife , Frances Butler , gave notice to the husband , Robert Butler , to show cause why he should not be committed to prison for contempt of court for breaches of an order dated 12 September 1991 prohibiting him from entering or visiting premises where she lived and from assaulting , molesting or harassing her . |
| 22 | Some writers , such as Blunt ( 1989 : 22 ) , refer to these institutional aspects of leadership in terms of an extended medical metaphor . |
| 23 | The director had a lot of respect for Douglas as an actor but since this was to be Silverstein 's first theatrical film he did n't want to have to find himself dealing with ‘ A consummate ego ’ , as he put it , and then added , ‘ no , huge ego ’ . |
| 24 | An important , supplementary topics of study are : 1 ) the effects of Spain 's entry into the EEC , especially the effect of entry on one village , how villagers perceive the advantages and disadvantages of entry , and how they take advantage of its benefits ; 2 ) the development of Carlism within Navarre as an example of the relations between power , language , and ritual in a modern European setting , from 1939 to today . |
| 25 | Some have been known to shed tears of repentance as part of an experience of religious conversion , and refuge may be found in the brief visits of the chaplain . |
| 26 | Working through committees may provide opportunities for a form of participation in decision-making in an institution ( a cynical view would be that at least it may give the illusion of this ) , but by their nature committees can be introspective and restricted in their outlook . |
| 27 | Ex-schoolboy army cadets will feel a twinge of nostalgia on sight of an old 38 walkie-talkie set , which worked , in a loose manner of speaking , on batteries in the 7.3–8.9 MHz band . |
| 28 | Criminal Damage captures with particular poignancy the dubious pleasures of life in retirement in an English village . |
| 29 | I have just received notice via our agent , Mr John Popham , whom I believe you know , that Newport Borough Council and Gwent County Council are preparing to apply to the Secretary of State for Wales for an Order under the above Act to enable them to proceed with the construction of a barrage across the river Usk . |
| 30 | Tittle ( 1986 ) sees adolescent girls ' increasingly negative attitudes and lowered expectations of success in maths as an outcome of experiences in and outside education , and a filter for many performance differences in adolescence . |