Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun sg] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The body of the 56-year-old , whose name has not been released , was found in a house at Seedhill Road after an incident late on Thursday night . |
| 2 | The police had been asked by the organizers of the vigil to provide protection after an incident earlier in the evening when about 200 suspicious-looking men appeared outside the house where the vigil was being held . |
| 3 | Arette is a particularly neat , new-looking village , for the sufficient reason that it needed to be much rebuilt after an earthquake there in the summer of 1967 . |
| 4 | The editor will know that , and the editor will be sensitive to the readership , and the editor will look at it , not through the eyes of an editor just as an individual , but will say , ‘ Putting myself in the , in the position of my readers , would they want to read this ? ’ |
| 5 | One of the improvements in this version is that you can get an instant description of an icon just by clicking the right mouse button . |
| 6 | They found the Three Cranes tavern at the corner of an alleyway just opposite St Mary Le Bow . |
| 7 | She was a quarter of an hour away from us here , but still , from Viola 's you can practically see this place . |
| 8 | I think er that Mr is er Mr er suggestion is that in order to erm expedite matters he would be willing to , to submit his sort of comments , brief comment in writing and hopefully if Mr could fit in a quarter of an hour sometime on Friday |
| 9 | He and co-driver Anthony Showell completed the nine-thousand seven hundred mile journey just a quarter of an hour ahead of the field . |
| 10 | Rory had waited with the older man — silent for quarter of an hour apart from a whispered hello and a quick explanation of what was going on — until the herd of deer appeared , brown shapes on the brown hill . |
| 11 | After arriving three-quarters of an hour late for their appointment , this is what he had the nerve to suggest . |
| 12 | Yet he could hear nothing ; not even the usual early-morning stirrings of an army just before dawn . |
| 13 | This is the reason for the invention of the electron microscope which uses electrons with a wave-length of something like a twenty-fifth of an Ångström instead of light with a wave-length of about four thousand Ångströms . |
| 14 | The verdict of assault occasioning actual bodily harm upon proof of an assault together with proof of the fact that actual bodily harm was occasioned by the assault . |
| 15 | Some independent evidence is needed to establish the existence of an instinct apart from the behaviour itself if such circularity is to be avoided . |
| 16 | And here , in this chapter , I have placed an illustration ( Figure 1 ) — how Paley would have loved the electron microscope ! — of an eye together with two successive " zoomings in " on detailed portions . |
| 17 | Secondly , the contractual rights of an employee even against a government employer can not be enforced under Ord. 53 unless those rights are ‘ underpinned by statute ’ in a way which injects a ‘ public element ’ into the employment relationship . |
| 18 | It was also made up of a hospital in Jerusalem which cares for both Arabs and Jews , an Ambulance Air Wing with 60 volunteer pilots and 50 planes throughout Europe , and an aeromedical section to return people to the nearest hospital to home from the scene of an accident again on a Europe-wide basis . |
| 19 | The Barclays Managed Rate Facility gives you the best of both worlds : it offers much of the flexibility of an overdraft both with an interest rate comparable to Money Market rates . |
| 20 | Much of the expertise of a museum curator or an archaeologist lies in being able to offer a reasonably accurate identification of an object just on the basis of looking at it and handling it . |
| 21 | It means little more than that you can compute the direction and velocity of movement of an object independently of its colour or its depth . |
| 22 | Together they support multiple authors working on different aspects of an application simultaneously over a network . |
| 23 | Naturalists had to fall back on their judgement in family grouping ; and some then and since have followed Adanson , a great French contemporary of Linnaeus , in trying to weigh up all characteristics of an organism instead of taking one or a few as crucial . |
| 24 | This is the special pleading of an author thoroughly at home with his subject and satisfied with — indeed , enjoying to the full — his approach to it . |
| 25 | Great , a change from mobiles : it was a boat patrol and rummage search of an island close to the border , where there is a constant high threat of attack from a cross-border shoot . |
| 26 | Well , we have an island which is three-quarters of an acre approximately in size , with a lot of a mature trees , and in the centre of the island , as you can see behind me , there 's a timber chalet . |
| 27 | We must recognise that it will have to be the consumer who pays , and it is up to animal welfare organisations such as the RSPCA to ensure that the increased price for food will be seen to be acceptable because of an improvement both in animal welfare and environmental protection . |
| 28 | For what seemed like an eternity both of them were suspended in mid-air , filthy fumes pouring into the carriage from inside the tunnel . |
| 29 | Well I 'm an animal psychologist too , and believe me you do n't control a four ton animal like an elephant just by giving it titbits . |
| 30 | It is as if this had been the artificial carapace which had now dissolved and there emerged the smiling , bright-eyed figure of Eliot , with an expression close to that of the photographs taken of him in childhood . |