Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Euphorbia " Robbiae " , with dark green foliage rosettes for winter use and lime green flower spikes in Spring which on an orangey tint late , is another essential . |
| 2 | Good interpreters can aid communication but professionals must be trained to use interpreters properly or , ideally , should have fluency themselves in an individual 's native language . |
| 3 | Menninger regarded work itself as an expression of aggression . |
| 4 | But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop . |
| 5 | Particularly notable are those who use the Course itself as an access device . |
| 6 | This dissolves the central paradox which is of the very essence of faith , and turns faith itself into an inheritance rather than a permanent passion of risk , commitment and obedience . |
| 7 | Her hands slid up around his neck and she was kissing him back , her tongue meeting his with an intensity that was shocking . |
| 8 | Brasel ( 1976 ) , in a study of fatigue , replicates Gerver 's ( 1972 ) findings with spoken interpretation , that interpreter fatigue after very short periods of interpreting ( 30 minutes ) begins to introduce an error rate which after an hour is statistically significant and unacceptable . |
| 9 | It is the one subject which for an Englishman has the claim of universality . |
| 10 | The reason is that it is based , not on discernible facts , but on stories and writings that have been created by man himself in an era of his history obtaining long before he had learned that , if he were so minded , he could use his intellectual power to establish facts on which to build the structure , not only of his religion , but of the whole of his society . |
| 11 | It is in a sense a perversion , by which instead of attending to situations in order to respond to them intelligently , one treats awareness itself as an end . |
| 12 | But after the initial choice , which is exceptional in treating awareness itself as an end to which hardship is the means , he will not be taking suffering as an end ; to force himself to accept it passively would insensitize and brutalize him instead of enhancing awareness . |
| 13 | Even if one acknowledges the significance of the state itself as an agency , there is a danger that it may be given a role which is too sharply independent . |
| 14 | Many political scientists have tried to shift the focus of political science away from government itself towards an understanding of the social context of politics ( see Coates , 1984 , p. 15 ) . |
| 15 | The problem was exacerbated by the decision in 1950 to leave prisons as primarily the province of the states , which gives the central government something of an excuse for its half-hearted approach to reform . |
| 16 | WORLD champion boxer Chris Eubank fought off Big Breakfast show presenter Paula Yates , above , when she tried to bed him for an interview on screen yesterday . |
| 17 | This is a project which is currently being pursued by contemporary women artists who , unlike Bridget Riley perhaps , do not believe that art is necessarily free of gender : ‘ in order to discover what is retrievable from the abstract project , we must subject it to an interrogation that is neither submissive nor cynical ’ . |
| 18 | With state-sponsored terrorism anyone from an ambassador to an embassy chauffeur could be one of them . ’ |
| 19 | 205. ( 1 ) ( ix ) Land includes … land of any tenure , and mines and minerals , whether or not held apart from the surface , buildings or parts of buildings ( whether the division is horizontal , vertical or made in any other way ) and other corporeal hereditaments ; also a manor , an advowson , and a rent and other incorporeal hereditament , and an easement , right , privilege , or benefit in , over , or derived from land ; but not an undivided share in land ; and " mines and minerals " include any strata or seam of minerals or substances in or under any land , and powers of working and getting the same but not an undivided share thereof ; and " manor " includes a lordship , and reputed manor or lordship ; and " hereditament " means any real property which on an intestacy occurring before the commencement of this Act might have devolved upon an heir … |
| 20 | Cressy , the waiflike wife , is a refugee from a strange Catholic family community dominated by a patriarchal grandfather who as an artist has something of Holman Hunt ( I fancy ) as well as of Eric Gill , who more immediately inspired him . |
| 21 | Third , the structural emphasis on form , which was originally designed to dispose of the objects of content , leads to the possibility of treating form itself as an object , so ignoring any differential value . |
| 22 | The main thrust for use of videos as an aid came from the three Welsh areas — just under three-quarters seeing it as an aid that could improve training . |
| 23 | There is no justification whatever for an increase in the budget on anything like the scale that the Commissioner proposed . |
| 24 | He should insist that they provide no justification whatever for an unwillingness to consider his arguments seriously for what they are . |
| 25 | Shares may be acquired either ( a ) from the company itself on an issue by it or ( b ) by taking a transfer from an existing shareholder . |
| 26 | Similarly , the autonomy which for an agency is a problem of organizational control is for the enforcement agent a source of personal control , providing satisfaction and professional pride . |
| 27 | — Personification of your essay itself as an agent Rewrite " in this essay I explain how … " as " this essay explains how … " |