Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heron ( 1957 ) found that unilaterally presented words were better recognised from the right visual field but that with bilateral presentation there was an advantage of words to the left of fixation . |
| 2 | In March 1925 he beat a Conservative mediocrity in an election for secretary of the Union , in Michaelmas 1925 he was vice-president , in Lent 1926 president . |
| 3 | The story of the salvation of Trajan , the virtuous pagan Emperor , was first told by an Anglo-Saxon from Whitby about the year 710 . |
| 4 | If this form of construction can not be identified from an inspection of voids in the roof surface made from the exterior , it may be possible to deduce whether or not it applies by noting the pattern of nails which have penetrated into the roof-space through the boarding . |
| 5 | In the meantime discontent with the Central Office — which was mostly an excuse for discontent with the leadership — continued to mount . |
| 6 | Making an excuse of illness in the family , he quit DPR , and returned to his hometown in Nigeria . |
| 7 | This ‘ profane illumination ’ , this ‘ poeticization of the banal ’ was a matter , for Breton , not just of painting , literature , and photography , but also of life and love , the latter arising in no small portion from an intoxication in connection with the things of the beloved . |
| 8 | This represents an income of £10 for the farmer . |
| 9 | The East Coast of America is dominated by the big cities : Boston , New York , Philadelphia , Baltimore , Washington all exert such a gravitational pull that the smaller towns are sucked into an orbit of dependency on the nearest city sun . |
| 10 | The winners will be at home to Portsmouth , in the third round , and Chapple revealed : ‘ I was an apprentice at Aldershot in the early 1960s when Pompey manager Jim Smith was on the playing staff . |
| 11 | A task force within BCCI was set up to investigate : on the basis of its report , PW told the BCCI directors that it could not sign the 1989 accounts because of a number of uncertainties , including increasing CCAH loans , an exposure of $700m to the Gulf Group , and ‘ certain accounting transactions principally booked in Cayman and other offshore centres ’ that ‘ have been either false or deceitful ’ . |
| 12 | Twenty mls of whole blood was also collected into empty vacutainers before and at the end of the one month trial period for analysis of serum vitamins , as an assessment of compliance to the supplementation . |
| 13 | It also involves an assessment of progress in the related field of expert systems , in particular , possible applications to strategic and other company planning problems . |
| 14 | ( While , on the other hand , an assessment of identification with the housewife role by the interviewer is relatively free of these complications . ) |
| 15 | It 's not clear that new institutions are needed rather than simply an intensification of activities in the republics . ’ |
| 16 | Staff in the West Midlands agreed yesterday to restrict radio use — the central issue in London — from Wednesday as part of an intensification of action around the country . |
| 17 | An aspirant to membership of the developed club is likely to be accommodating about rainforests , the welfare of Amazonian Indians , the ozone layer and a climate convention . |
| 18 | More than any other wartime figure he addressed himself to the conscience of middle-class radicalism , arguing that the only worthwhile victory possible was one based on the common ownership of the means of production and a moral revolution in which selfishness and the profit motive would give way to an ethic of service to the community . |
| 19 | Or is Bailey merely articulating an ideology of Bohemianism for the arts and of undirected radicalism for social and political thought in general ? |
| 20 | Frith also comments on the importance of an ideology of bohemianism within the appeal of rock in general ( 1983a : 75–84 ) . |
| 21 | For the last twenty years or so the State has pursued a ‘ large is beautiful ’ policy but this has now been replaced by an ideology in favour of the small . |
| 22 | I detest Alvaro Delgado-Gal , who advocates the return of the painting to France , believing that ‘ the glorious dead should be left in the graveyard where they chose to rest ’ ; Juan Pedro Aparicio , who suggests carrying ‘ Guernica ’ in procession all around Spain in a high speed train ; the old anarchist Carlos Semprón Maura , who protests at the Reina Sofía 's injection of morphine into ‘ Guernica ’ to prolong its deep coma ; Joan Barril , for whom the dilemma posed by moving ‘ Guernica ’ from the shrine of the Buen Retiro to an apartment with freezer in the ‘ Sofidou ’ could be resolved simply by sending it to Sarajevo , Bangkok or Lima , places where its political message would be more relevant . |
| 23 | This primarily Marxist ideology argues that there is an inequality of power between the controllers of economic resources ( ie. shareholders , managers etc ) and those who depend on access to those resources ( ie. wage earners ) . |
| 24 | It is this conflict which leads increasingly to the urge to treat people as groups rather than as individuals — but it is an abnegation of responsibility on the part of the leaders and for the future it will not do . |
| 25 | Order 9 , r 6 applies if the defendant in a default action : ( 1 ) does not within 14 days after service of the summons on him , pay to the plaintiff the total amount of the claim and costs on the summons ; or ( 2 ) delivers an admission of the whole of the plaintiff 's claim unaccompanied by a counterclaim or a request for time for payment , or ( 3 ) does not deliver an admission of part of the plaintiff 's claim , a defence or counterclaim , the plaintiff may on filing a request for judgment , and certifying that defendant has not sent any reply to the summons , and stating what payments , if any , have been made , have judgment entered , either for payment forthwith or at such times as plaintiff may specify . |
| 26 | Where the action is for unliquidated damages and the defendant delivers an admission of liability for the claim but disputes or does not admit the amount of the plaintiff 's dam ages , then : ( 1 ) if the defendant offers to pay in satisfaction of the claim a specific sum which the plaintiff accepts , the provisions of this rule shall apply as if the defendant had admitted part of the plaintiff 's claim ; and ( 2 ) in any other case , the plaintiff may apply to the court for such judgment as he may be entitled to upon the admission , and the court may give such judgment , including interlocutory judgment for damages to be assessed and costs , or make such other order on the application as it thinks just . |
| 27 | Free copies of the book are to be issued to parish priests throughout the region and it includes an appendix with details of the relevant articles of Italian law which will assist them in recovering their lost items . |
| 28 | These were then revised into a final report by the subcommission plus an appendix by Bouveault on the nomenclature of the compounds of the fatty acid series . |
| 29 | Overall , the money markets saw an ebbing of confidence in the United States dollar and a slight improvement in prospects for the German mark , while sterling ended the year close to where it had started . |
| 30 | In an Amazonomachy by Mikon in the Stoa Poikile at Athens was a notorious figure named Butes of whom only the helmet and one eye were to be seen , and there are less dramatic examples in some Amazons on the vase ( fig. 116 ) . |