Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] [pron] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Nenna was not in the witness box , she sometimes saw herself getting ready for an inspection at which Edward , or Edward 's mother , or some power superior to either , gave warning that they might appear — she could only hope that it would be on a falling tide — to see where she could be found wanting . |
| 2 | This was an assessment with which Haverford , in all humility , felt bound to agree . |
| 3 | In the poem , Alice Fell ( see Critical Survey , p. 118 ) , this is transformed into an experience in which Wordsworth takes the place of Mr Graham . |
| 4 | His sense of acute danger here was further sharpened by developments within Germany , as the Nazis sought with the help of Reichsbischof Müller and the ‘ German Christians ’ to make the church subserve their quasi-religious ideology of ‘ blood and soil ’ , an ideology in which Hitler was unashamedly presented by the indefatigable Goebbels as a new messiah , commissioned by divine providence to save the German nation and establish the supremacy of the chosen , Aryan race in the ‘ thousand year Reich ’ . |
| 5 | The very idea of Poland was an insult to everything Frederick thought Prussia stood for , and the only hope he held out for the Poles was that partition and Germanisation would turn them into useful members of society . |
| 6 | Twenty eight year old Andrew Hayton approached at around sixty miles an hour on his Yamaha motorbike but did not slow down . |
| 7 | Their first innings was marked by an over rate of 12.3 an hour against which Gooch scored 83 , Rose and Boycott made fifties , Gatting almost did , and with the help of 57 extras the total reached 370 . |
| 8 | High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire-based Insignia Solutions Ltd was recognised for developing its widely-used SoftPC program that emulates the MS-DOS environment used on the IBM personal computer on incompatible Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes , and workstations from the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and Digital Equipment Corp ; and S&S International Ltd , Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire , gained an award for its Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit , which employs fuzzy logic to combat the most complex computer viruses . |
| 9 | He had won an award for his Glaxo house magazine . |
| 10 | In the event , they entrusted Alexander Mackendrick with a colourful story , Sammy Going South ( 1963 , A Boy Ten Feet Tall in US ) , about the journey of a small boy , orphaned by an air-raid on his Port Said home , who crosses Africa on his own to find relatives in the south . |
| 11 | He took the unprecedented step of going public on the issue , an action of which Whyte does not sufficiently stress the importance . |
| 12 | SunPro says it intends to distribute the product at some stage as an add-on to its Sparc works Professional C++ development environment . |
| 13 | It is , therefore , dangerous to take the poor quality of the Latin in that manuscript as an indication of what Gregory wrote . |
| 14 | If you injured or offended them , ’ Thomas turned and pointed to the carvings on the rocky outcrop , a woman with large generous thighs and huge round breasts , ‘ they would put you in a wicker basket and burn you alive , an offering to their Mother Goddess . ’ |
| 15 | This scene came towards the end of an episode in which Frank had already caused havoc in the local library , succeeded in unintentionally dismantling his neighbour 's chicken house and attended an interview for a job selling farming products . |
| 16 | and yet she 's saying I 'm gon na make this a feature , I 'm having erm an archway over my Aga and erm , I mean she 's got a new carpet you know |
| 17 | As Koons shows the photos to me during an interview in his Greenwich Village apartment , I feel embarrassed for him . |
| 18 | Flying a Maurice Farman Biplane , an aeroplane with which Jack had an immediate affinity , he went solo after only two hour 's instruction . |
| 19 | Poor Alice , thought Auguste , she tried so hard , but he feared his lordship did not notice her save as a friend , an attitude of which James Pegg would fully approve . |
| 20 | The monarch 's potential as a political rival is an issue of which Iliescu is only too aware . |
| 21 | Friends of the Earth , also opposed to nuclear power , wants to see coal mines saved because of concern about the fate of mining communities , an issue on which Greenpeace does not express a view , preferring to stick to environmental issues . |
| 22 | The policy , which aimed to reserve 27 per cent of public-sector jobs for members of the lower castes , provoked caste-based violence across northern India ( although it received a large measure of support in the predominantly low-caste south ) and provided an issue around which Singh 's opponents within the Janata Dal could coalesce . |
| 23 | The opinion gained ground — an opinion with which Eric Ashby would evidently have had some sympathy — that the employment of a full-time tutor for the county , whether by the WEA or by the University Extra-Mural Board , placed constraints on branches ' freedom to choose subjects of study because of pressure to find a viable programme for the full-timer to teach . |
| 24 | And he explained that as a result of the Bank backing the tour , a much wider audience — many in remote areas — would be able to gain an insight into what Glasgow Museums have to offer . |
| 25 | Spill says SCO will make an announcement regarding its Intel plans around mid-year , its new-found enthusiasm is a turnaround from last year when it was bullish about its MIPS Open Desktop effort , but seemed ready to leave the Intel ACE version to tread water , saying it would n't be around until 1993 ( UX No 364 ) . |
| 26 | I also wrote to Waldo Frank , who , in an article to which Harold Mason drew my attention , had attacked Eliot . |
| 27 | ‘ You may do , but there 's an aura about you Dana has lost . ’ |
| 28 | Having resigned the post of president and been created vice-chairman , Jack Kuehler does n't see much future at the company and is retiring effective August 31 : Kuehler joined IBM 35 years ago as an engineer in its San Francisco research laboratory and was president of its systems products division when it introduced the 4300 family in 1979 . |
| 29 | ‘ When seven miners were killed in an accident at their McClure No.1 mine in 1983 , Pittston was fined $47,500 , ’ Gene tells us , ‘ and they fine us $30 million for demonstrating peacefully in defence of our communities . ’ |
| 30 | It would , it must , be easy to check in Robinson 's diary an occasion on which Ash had breakfasted at 30 Russell Square with a professor of mathematics , a political thinker ( Bagehot ? ) and a reclusive lady who knew about , who wrote , or proposed to write , poetry . |