Example sentences of "[noun] an [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British never thought their Allies were as tidy about burying their dead as they might be , but under the non-stop shelling at Verdun an attempt at burial not infrequently resulted in two more corpses to dispose of . |
| 2 | As one participant has suggested , the first intellectual task is to set on one side an archaeology of knowledge which has served us well for at least three centuries . |
| 3 | But on one side there is a greenhouse and vegetables , and on the other side an army of chickens peck over the brown dirt . |
| 4 | There are 3 indirection operators : The examples that follow assume that a DIM statement has been used to reserves an area of memory and store the address of the first byte of the memory in a variable called " mem " . |
| 5 | This has given both IBM and Brooks Brothers an excuse for inaction and a means to avoid the critical self-examination that is vital to every business . |
| 6 | We note that the Government are asking that organisation to bear in mind an increase in line with inflation , and feel that that may well not be sufficient , but we await the outcome with interest . |
| 7 | Alice turned her face to him and tired to erase from a corner of her mind an image of Louise standing like a ghost in the doorway of the house , watching her leave . |
| 8 | Coke had , after all , in Dr Bonham 's Case in 1610 ( 8 Co Rep 114 ) ventured the view that the common law would control and adjudge void an Act of Parliament which offended against common right or reason . |
| 9 | Writing and Publishing research Secondary analysis of survey data An introduction to data analysis using GLIM Analysing natural language and accounts |
| 10 | One example will suffice ; Walpole-Bond records , with reference to Wheatears , that during the period from the final years of the 18th to the early ones of the 19th centuries an inhabitant of East Dean ‘ once during that short time was thought to have taken nearly a hundred dozen ’ , and another ‘ near Eastbourne procured eighty-four dozen in the same short space of time ’ . |
| 11 | I take the view myself that when one has a person in advancing years , in some respects an impairment of movement may perhaps be more serious than it is with a younger person . |
| 12 | These are excellent ingredients for a cerebral cocktail , and Lévi-Strauss combines them brilliantly , producing what is in many respects an elaboration of Radcliffe-Brown 's early version of structuralism . |
| 13 | Linley Park , South Aberdeen , attacked compulsory competitive tendering which she said had produced wage rates as low as £1 an hour for cleaners in Kincardine & Deeside . |
| 14 | On chalk subsoil an accumulation of water in holes and pits may have been a severe problem making timber ‘ halls ’ the more popular structure . |
| 15 | Though Murat considered this niggling opposition an encouragement to disaffection — ‘ the yeast of all this ferment ’ ( 25 July ) — in the euphoria after the patriot victory of Bailén ( 19 July 1808 ) the dignified trimmings of magistrates appeared the feebleness of treason . |
| 16 | She is best known for her probable authorship of the anonymous pamphlet An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex ( 1696 ) , frequently ascribed to Mary Astell [ q.v . ] . |
| 17 | As a rule an orang from Borneo is darker , though orangs differ in appearance almost as much as people . |
| 18 | In other words , it was costing us about a pound an hour in water . |
| 19 | It dropped to just under $170 an ounce in New York . |
| 20 | His use of this notion was in effect an extension of America s own aggressive domestic policy into foreign policy . |
| 21 | Was this a Chinese adaptation of er the doctrine of Karl Marx , a signification of it , if you like , a Chinese version with the essential ideas , principles , programme and so on of Marxism retained or was it in effect an abandonment of Marxism ? |
| 22 | Economic sanctions were agreed at an emergency EC meeting in Rome on Aug. 4 , which approved a statement condemning of Iraq , pledged to work for UN sanctions , and adopted with immediate effect an embargo on oil imports from Iraq and Kuwait , appropriate measures aimed at freezing Iraqi assets , an embargo on military sales to Iraq and the suspension of military , scientific and technical co-operation . |
| 23 | To understand how the congruity between the two is achieved demands an investigation of marketing , designers ( as by Forty 1986 ) and other distributive agencies . |
| 24 | The Chancellor was Mr Major , who recognised in this diminutive capable figure an appetite for detail which rivalled his own . |
| 25 | An action duly brought against a firm is an effective action against all those who were partners at the date the cause of action accrued ( and so , for example , an order for discovery will be in essence an order for discovery against all those persons ) , and this is irrespective of subsequent changes in the composition of the firm . |
| 26 | All of this it seemed might make the Prince less unacceptable to France and so would give the candidacy an air of reasonableness to the rest of Europe . |
| 27 | Knowing when particular comparisons--with individuals and between groups--exert an impact on children 's self-evaluations will help parents and teachers to guide children towards appropriate comparisons for maximizing their well-being . |
| 28 | Some weeks later the plaintiffs sent the defendants an invoice for £3,783.50 , relying on a clause in their standard terms which provided that if the transparencies were not returned within 14 days , a holding charge and a fee of £5 per transparency per day would be charged . |
| 29 | Lord James told the committee an extension of hours had been under consideration since the 1970s . |
| 30 | All the Faculty 's students will , by the time they graduate , have been trained to bring to their work an awareness of informatics as a key force in social change and economic advance . |