Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dichotic listening thus appeared to offer a comparatively simple , non-invasive technique for determining the speech dominant hemisphere in neurologically intact subjects as well as in neurosurgical patients , since the side of speech dominance shows up as an advantage for digits presented to the contralateral ear . |
| 2 | Elsewhere in the sale four ‘ vortographs ’ — formal studies of fractured light produced by an assemblage of mirrors placed between the subject and the lens — by Alvin Langdon Coburn made £268,400 in total , nearly four times their estimate . |
| 3 | A review of the current accommodation and food and beverage operations and an assessment of changes required in the light of the proposed conversion to timeshare operation |
| 4 | The employer became an insurer for injuries received out of and in the course of employment . |
| 5 | Like Style in Fiction , this was a coursebook which grew out of an experience of teaching shared with colleagues at the University of Lancaster . |
| 6 | At issue is one small , but key part of the European Commission 's plan for an alignment of Value Added Tax ( VAT ) and Excise rates in the 12 member states , which it considers essential if frontier checks on traders are to be abolished after 1992 . |
| 7 | The people taking part commit themselves to half an hour of scripture based prayer each day and a half hour meeting with a ‘ Prayer Guide ’ each evening when they receive personal guidance . |
| 8 | He said , then half an hour after Albert rung up to say that you were n't coming to work , so I were right in shit ! |
| 9 | At the current time , all sorts of bodies and organizations can apply to have an attachment of earnings made on someone who owes money . |
| 10 | Similarly the court in Bullivant ( Roger ) Ltd v Ellis took note of the duration of a restrictive covenant in a former employee 's contract of employment in determining how long it would restrain the defendant from using an index of customers removed from his former employers . |
| 11 | Resource allocation from central to local government does take into account the a real disadvantage through the use of an index of deprivation derived by combining estimates of the proportion of the children under 17 in the local authority who were in households lacking amenities ; in one-parent households ; in households with four or more dependent children ; with a head of household in a semi-skilled , unskilled or agricultural occupation ; in families receiving supplementary benefit ; themselves born outside the United Kingdom , or in a family whose head was born abroad . |
| 12 | Meanwhile our Photographic Reconnaissance Unit had observed an armada of barges assembled along the Dutch and Belgian coasts . |
| 13 | He went from the light grey day into the gloom of a kitchen and immediately found his feet colliding with what appeared to be an armada of saucepans placed on every foot of the flagged floor . |
| 14 | Under an instrument of government made by an Act of Parliament , Dyfed County Council is the College 's maintaining authority . |
| 15 | It decided that an individual citizen in the UK affected by a breach of Article 86 can bring an action for damages based on breach of statutory duty . |
| 16 | In the case of land , statutory provisions may give priority to a later contract registered as a land charge even if entered into with knowledge of an earlier , unregistered transaction , but it seems that this affects only proprietary rights and does not bar an action in tort based on interference with the earlier contract . |
| 17 | One — extreme — interpretation is that governments suspected communications that they did not control : many an allegation of phone-tapping marked the politics of the Fourth and ( early ) Fifth Republics . |
| 18 | ‘ The case is of importance both because of its possible effect on Mr Anderson and also because an allegation of murder made in a civil action , particularly after an acquittal , is a matter of justifiable public concern and interest . |
| 19 | The sculptor pioneered approaches to his medium that young artists today take for granted : sculpture conceived as an ensemble of elements scattered over a wide area ; site-specific installation ; public ‘ interactive ’ art and sculpture on a colossal scale . |
| 20 | Elizabeth and Helen were living in the community after many years in an institution for people classified as ‘ mentally handicapped ’ . |
| 21 | Society comes to resemble ‘ a constellation of governments , rather than an association of individuals held together by a single government ’ . |
| 22 | Tablet Gg 702 from the Knossos archive refers to an offering of honey dedicated to ‘ da-pu-ri-to-jo po-ti-ni-ja ’ , meaning ‘ Potnia of the Labyrinth ’ . |
| 23 | The great weight of Scottish opinion believes , with justification , that Scottish legislation and domestic affairs are invariably an afterthought in measures designed for England and Wales . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's an injection of cocaine mixed with heroin . |
| 25 | Gemini 's aim was to ‘ decolonise ’ world news and to provide an alternative to reports written by western journalists for western readers . |
| 26 | The revelation comes as Thames Water is trying to isolate the cause of contamination that led to an outbreak of illness caused by a germ called cryptosporidium . |
| 27 | Royal Bank ( Isle of Man ) staff raised £500 at an auction of goods donated by local businessmen . |
| 28 | But if United pursue Wimbledon 's John Fashanu it could become an auction with Pescara thought to be leading the Italian interest . |
| 29 | Between the date of Meehan 's conviction and his appeal a month later , Nicky told me , he had an astonishing piece of luck in that there had come into his possession a tape-recording of an interview with Griffiths taken some time previously for a programme the BBC had made at Gartree prison . |
| 30 | There is a school of thought that claims that faith is an act of will made in defiance of the irrationality of believing that God exists . |