Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although ostensibly the election was called because of the refusal of the ALP-dominated upper house of the state legislature to approve industrial relations legislation ending compulsory trade unionism , many observers suspected that Greiner had sought an election in order to capitalize on a recent string of problems associated with the ALP at federal and state level . |
| 2 | THERE is nothing like an election in mid-recession to wreak havoc with public finances . |
| 3 | It 's incorrectly built and it also appears to have been used as an excuse for fly tipping , and industrial fly tipping at that . |
| 4 | However for many academics , particularly in the areas of industrial sociology and industrial relations , the focus on labour flexibility was seen as an excuse by management to blame the workforce for the problems endemic in British manufacturing , Sweeping generalisations about the degree to which the British workforce had accepted changes and become more flexible were found questionable and often dismissed as being exaggerated or as having always been in existence . |
| 5 | two , as an apprentice to waggon repairing . |
| 6 | Training with a list of stimulus words was regarded as an instance of discrimination learning in which each S comes to evoke an R different from those evoked by other stimuli . |
| 7 | They are characterised by the woman who clucked her disapproval to a minister of my acquaintance about an instance of Sabbath breaking . |
| 8 | The second repeated the evaluation of telephone interviewing against face-to-face interviewing and was extended to include an assessment of computer assisted telephone interviewing ( CATI ) . |
| 9 | Therefore this simple technique of counting vessels as an assessment of angiogenesis does provide us with additional prognostic information and is good for patients . |
| 10 | Like Style in Fiction , this was a coursebook which grew out of an experience of teaching shared with colleagues at the University of Lancaster . |
| 11 | It always feels like an admission of failure to come back from the Continent and have nothing to show for it . |
| 12 | When they started out , Yorkshire women clearly thought it was an admission of defeat to get the caterers in , but no longer . |
| 13 | And in the same year as Agazzari , Giovanni Gabrieli 's German pupil Gregor Aichinger ( 1564–1628 ) published at Dillingen his Cantiones ecclesiasticae , partly composed earlier in Rome in admitted emulation of Viadana , with an appendix in German explaining the ‘ Bassus Generalis Et Continuus ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She brought him back his drink , and then noticed with some relief that the crowd seemed to be thinning , and there was only an hour of work left . |
| 16 | It contains a huge amount of such data including amongst many other surveys and statistics , the 1981 National Census , 500 maps , 22,000 photographs , 1,500 items of text in the form of essays and published articles and , on side two of the disc , about an hour of video recording some of the events of 1986 . |
| 17 | But within an hour of play resuming on Friday , Bucknor called for a TV replay decision after Meyrick Pringle had been sent back and Sachin Tendulkar hit the stumps with a throw from square leg . |
| 18 | By this time Stirling had disappeared and they needed to find him as there was only half an hour of darkness left . |
| 19 | Maybe there was half an hour of daylight left . |
| 20 | There was still perhaps three-quarters of an hour of daylight left , but the sun was just glimpses of coppery gold between vast castles of cloud stacking up on the horizon . |
| 21 | With less than an hour of daylight remaining , he carried a flashlight — not that it would be of much help with the rain cascading down as if the Maya Rain God had corralled every raincloud in Central America and pulled the plugs out . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next . |
| 24 | This is the process by which the manager sets aside perhaps an hour per year to talk privately to each adviser , to look back over the year and forward to the next and discuss any concerns that the manager and adviser may have . |
| 25 | It was the thought of this that had her standing up after about half an hour in preparation to go to her room . |
| 26 | It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle . |
| 27 | The carvings swung , and up there an owl of wood stared at her among the leaves . |
| 28 | As you can imagine , the news that Hadwick had an owl in school spread round like wildfire . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Coming home from the match I recognised our school headmaster , Mr Mick Metcalfe — he had also had an afternoon off school to go to the match , ’ adds Mr Thwaites , who is now a head teacher himself , of St Peter 's C.E. Primary School , Saltburn . |