Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When he turned later to real opera , tragédie en musique ( see pp. 373 ff. ) , he was by no means a novice in dealing with French declamation . |
| 32 | For the moment let us focus on Said 's subsequent point that if Orientalism and anthropology derive from historicism , this is by no means a thing of the past : of more recent sciences , Said singles out in particular that of world history as practised by Braudel , Wallerstein , Anderson and Wolf , which he contends is still derived from the enterprise of Orientalism and its colluding companion anthropology , and which has refused to encounter and to interrogate its own relationship as a discipline to European imperialism . |
| 33 | Yet , by the time Sunday racing becomes a reality , the Jockey Club , though by no means a thing of the past , will undoubtedly be different from the unchallenged ruler of British racing it is today . |
| 34 | Canadian labour education is by no means a model of good practice , but if it is possible for unions with far weaker traditions of political affiliation and shopfloor militancy than in Britain to stray beyond the circumscribed perimeters of the workplace in their training , then it is harder still to accept the myopic parochialism of much current British practice . |
| 35 | Shortly after dawn a party of Germans entered a railway carriage at Compiègne and by the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month , the Armistice was signed and the war was over . |
| 36 | July 31 : Beagle D.5/180 Husky G-AVOD crashed after picking-up a banner at Crosland Moor airfield , Huddersfield , Yorks . |
| 37 | There is great concern that in a hospital such as Stobhill a patient with heart warning signs can receive angiography examinations within a week , but in places such as Ayrshire and Argyllshire physicians have to keep patients waiting longer on medication . |
| 38 | Helen , could you call this kind of personal recollection about furnishings a type of alternative history , perhaps like oral history ? |
| 39 | Schools responded variously , some taking up the opportunity , or challenge , of collaborative teaching while others seized the chance to reduce class sizes , for decades a source of frustration and complaint in the primary profession . |
| 40 | Questionnaires sent out as part of the HSC employment department 's 1990 labour force survey showed that only about a third of reportable accidents appear in official statistics , that 2 million people have illnesses they believe are caused or made worse by work , and that work related accidents and ill health are probably resulting in about 30m days off work a year in the UK . |
| 41 | Shop stewards have recommended accepting the offer of just under 9 per cent — worth £10 a week to most bakers — two extra days ' holiday by April 1991 to make five weeks a year , and other benefits , including better sick pay . |
| 42 | This measure will benefit seven million families and is worth £127.40 a year to a family with two children . |
| 43 | During February a number of key industrial companies announced forthcoming contraction and redundancies , reflecting the continued rise in unemployment ( to a seasonally adjusted level of 9.2 per cent in January compared with 6.7 per cent a year earlier and 5.7 per cent at the beginning of 1990 — see also p. 38200 ) . |
| 44 | To add to AW 's existing range of products a number of high quality and complementary brands of beer with the capacity not only for regional development but also rapid national development through AW 's marketing network . |
| 45 | In all but the very smallest of projects a number of people will be involved , some with specialist knowledge not necessarily in the possession of the project manager . |
| 46 | The clause recommends compensation of £250 a year for every mile of hedgerow conserved . |
| 47 | For a town of this rank it seems almost incredible until we recall that Walsingham enjoyed a lucrative tourist trade as far and away the most popular resort of pilgrimage , the shrine alone deriving an income of £250 a year from the pious offerings of the faithful , compared with the meagre £36 to which that of St Thomas at Canterbury had by then shrunk . |
| 48 | The permitted limits of £1,000 a year in total for gifts , and the exemptions of as many small gifts of £100 a year as the donor may choose and of all gifts out of surplus income are not unreasonable for ordinary individuals ; and the raising of the exempt gift on marriage to £5,000 per parent will probably exceed the capacity of most parents , particularly that of the bride 's parents saddled with the cost of the reception as well . |
| 49 | After a period of chaos a sequence of Agaw monarchs , known as the Zagwe dynasty , established themselves . |
| 50 | As the Institute of Fiscal Studies today points out , the new system in effect means there is a charge of 86p a week for belonging to the system ; then there is a 9 per cent tax on income between £43 and £325 . |
| 51 | Where once you would have had as a matter of necessity a plot with at its heart some intricate deception , often unlikely , now your plot will arise from the characters you want to write about . |
| 52 | Although the petitioner was , for the reasons indicated , entitled to appeal as of right , the present petition by the petitioner is of necessity a petition for the grant of special leave to appeal and the grant of such leave remains discretionary : see Lopes v. Valliappa Chettiar [ 1968 ] A.C. 887 . |
| 53 | Entitled Challenge , it ‘ will be progressive in the sense that it understands Christian faith to be of necessity a commitment to the cause of all who are oppressed , discriminated against or unjustly treated . ’ |
| 54 | British Gas said the July-October reductions would mean a saving of £27 a year for a three-bedroom , centrally-heated semi-detached home . |
| 55 | And therefore , if it can really come to this possibility of ministry a sort of , Young Farmers Club idea of getting themselves about that could be a a a a , a , a marvellous boost . |
| 56 | Every year during the month of March a family of ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village , and with a great uproar of pipes and kettledrums they would display new inventions . |
| 57 | The bank says it expects its new purchase to break even in the first year and to be operating at a profit of $150m-200m a year over the following three years . |
| 58 | Milk yields of up to 35kg a day in June were common , with an average of 25kg a day over the summer months , but the milk was not very creamy . |
| 59 | A couple of minutes a day with a good handcream is the key to smooth , soft hands . |
| 60 | Such snobbery perhaps helps to explain some of the support which the Wesleyan tradition must have engendered , among people who found the ‘ spiritual sense ’ of faith a way of rebutting the patronising condescension of the ‘ men of reason ’ . |