Example sentences of "of a [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pollsters say they have detected signs of a swing back to the Conservatives — and that Labour support may have peaked last week — but it may not come in time to save the Tories . |
| 2 | Assessors scrutinised all aspects of the laboratory 's activities from receipt of a sample through to the final report . |
| 3 | Although the flats are very compact , generally following the standards laid down for this type of housing in DoE Design Bulletin 29 , they share the facilities of a jetty on to the river , and a roof-top conservatory and roof garden , all of which were made possible by a £200,000 grant from the Historic Buildings Council . |
| 4 | Then , keeping the thumb in place , he pushed the rim of a bowl in between the rows of teeth and poured its contents , a trickle of oil , right down into the throat . |
| 5 | He invites Howard to lunch one day ( sandwiches , in the garden of a pub down by the river , at a battered green table with a hole in the middle for an umbrella ) . |
| 6 | The majority of men who survive can expect to have the support of a wife up to the age of 85 , but any woman over 72 is more likely to be a widow left on her own . |
| 7 | Patient years of observation were measured from the first date of a prescription up to the patient 's death or 31 October 1990 . |
| 8 | Like pulling the sleeves of a jacket up to the elbow or having their hands in their jacket pockets . |
| 9 | The usually respectable FRAME News , the newsletter of the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments , published it in full ( 1988 : 1–2 ) , and Langley in the Dr Hawden Trust 's Alternative News analysed with some alarm ( he signs of a fight back on the part of the American medical establishment after many years of tactical passivity known as the ‘ bunker strategy ’ ( 1988 : 6–7 ) . |
| 10 | Carry over : Try not to carry part of a sentence over to the next page and if at all possible leave paragraphs intact as well . |
| 11 | One such company took a finance director of a subsidiary out of the business for a whole year , sent him to Harvard for an abbreviated MBA and to work for a merchant bank in the City . |
| 12 | The recent announcement of a link up between the EC and EFTA to create a European Economic Area [ EEA ] by 1993 is likely to have little immediate impact on the proportion of exports destined for these areas , partly because privileged access to each others markets has already been in existence for a number of years between the two trading blocks . |
| 13 | Next there 's the paintball gun equivelant of a shoot out at the OK coral . |
| 14 | Every member of a household down to the youngest child will be eligible for perks , whereas for British Telecom and British Gas they were limited to one set per metered outlet . |
| 15 | Of course , there was a bit of a shake out in the mid-seventies and a fair number disappeared , which might explain … ’ |
| 16 | The Botallack mine , with its nineteenth-century engine houses spectacularly sited on the cliffs , mined tin from beneath the sea-bed , with galleries going a third of a mile out from the shore , and the Levant mine had men working 2,000 feet below sea level . |
| 17 | But then I do n't believe it was much of a race out at the front either . |
| 18 | At Stourbridge Town Hall in the West Midlands last night , where Botham began his tour , those who came instead of a night out at the pictures were somewhat surprised to find themselves treated to a night out at the pictures . |
| 19 | I said well we had I said I had a bit of a run in with the lady who ran it , I did n't agree that he should be compelled to do singing which she thought he should I said and we had a decided it cos he . |
| 20 | Another , the scaffold-web spider , rigs a whole series of sticky threads from the branches of a bush down to the ground and hauls each one so tight that if an insect , either walking on the ground or flying a little way above it blunders into one of them , the thread breaks and the victim , stuck to it with glue , is hoisted into the air . |
| 21 | She caught sight of a movement out of the corner of her eye , whirled , but was too late to see anything . |
| 22 | pGEX-ATF1 was obtained by cloning a full length ATF1 cDNA ( 30 ) into pGEX-KG. pGEX-KG was derived from pGEX-2T ( 38 ) by insertion of a polylinker in to the EcoR1 site of pGEX-2T. pGEX-CRIα was obtained by cloning a full length CREB cDNA including the α-peptide region ( 6 ) into pGEX-KG . |
| 23 | They 've just dragged the body of a coachman out of the canal too . |
| 24 | I HAVE been hearing of a move on at the moment which , if it spreads , could see us all getting our pay in pints . |
| 25 | Powering the skateboard of a car back along the coast road , home to Cliff Top , I felt its wheels skittering on the damp surface and my arms yearned to yank the steering wheel hard round , ending this nightmare . |
| 26 | This will reduce soreness and ease the risk of a restiffening up of the joints . |
| 27 | But they say as yet they 've found no signs of a break in at the cottage . |
| 28 | Although service of a writ out of the jurisdiction with leave placed the defendant within the power of the court , the assumption of jurisdiction was in a sense only provisional , as the defendant could apply to set it aside . |
| 29 | Birth of a Baby Back to the days of nurses and nurseries |
| 30 | Outside , another fierce white explosion of water burst over the side , carried by the screaming banshee of a wind on to the armoured glass plate of the bridge . |