Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terrorists often used an athletic stopwatch as a timing device . |
| 2 | Soviet specialists also maintain that neutrality or neutralisation would anyway be a regression for a ‘ socialist ’ state such as Vietnam . |
| 3 | That voice is ever changing as we learn and develop our technique as a group . |
| 4 | You can use the Alexander Technique as a preventative measure : after all , prevention is better than cure . |
| 5 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE THREE OCTAVE ARPEGGIO |
| 6 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE SUSPENDED SECOND |
| 7 | Michael also has a record out on Music Maker Records , so catch Mr Fath in London and see what he means by ‘ technique as a result of harmony … ’ |
| 8 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE DORIAN MODE |
| 9 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE PENTATONIC MAJOR SCALE |
| 10 | MICHAEL FATH Technique as a Result of Harmony THE SEVENTH & MINOR SEVENTH |
| 11 | And shipping lines are exploring the technique as a way of stripping paint and barnacles from hulls . |
| 12 | The book is written specifically for engineers and engineering undergraduates to present this computational technique as a practical tool in engineering , keeping the mathematical content to a minimum . |
| 13 | The other thing we 're looking at of course is your technique as a driver . |
| 14 | Pearson 's technique as a biographer derived from his career on the stage . |
| 15 | During the months preceding the accident , a set of underground workings , easiest thought of by the layman as a tunnel 18 feet wide and 7 feet high , had been following a seam of coal which was rising very steeply towards the surface . |
| 16 | Such opposition is backed by appeals to protect the small retailer as a unique feature of Japanese culture against an alien Western transplant . |
| 17 | It might appear strange to classify a retailer as a manufacturer but this will only happen where he is under a duty to inspect the goods and fails to do so . |
| 18 | " He used to travel in prahus as a young man , then a guru told him that one day he would die by water . |
| 19 | The mother who speaks with obvious dread about a forthcoming visit to the dentist may be responsible for unintentionally passing on that fear to her child . |
| 20 | Thus the duty of care prevents directors from acting wholly unreasonably ; the duty of loyalty ensures that their decisions are not biased ; and the duty to act bona fide in the interests of the company and not for any improper purpose is almost identical in its formulation as a standard of review to the administrative law test striking down decisions which are taken for an improper purpose . |
| 21 | All I need was a blooming all I need was five point nought point five baking powder about a teaspoon |
| 22 | She remembered with sadness all the neighbourly contacts they had had in the past — Lowell 's anxiety when Edward had gone missing on his new bike during a November fog and his tireless search until he was found — his ham-fisted efforts to assist her in Ben 's absence when the washing-machine had flooded the kitchen — his quiet piano-playing , when his hands were still capable , at the end of a noisy party when all the guests had gone home . |
| 23 | Theirs was one of the few ale-only breweries in London at this time , most of the others producing huge amounts of porter for a voraciously thirsty market . |
| 24 | Instead , the orbit as a whole twists a little further round each time , so that a true drawing of the planet 's course should really look more like one of the patterns produced by a children 's Spirograph toy . |
| 25 | A man of action all his life , David went into the Army in the RAMC as a young man and later trained as a State Registered Nurse in a civilian hospital . |
| 26 | We can now turn right to the other end of the book , where there should be another paste-down and free endpaper , though in earlier books the latter will often be missing , having been appropriated by some seventeenth or eighteenth century housewife as a shopping list or for copying a cooking recipe . |
| 27 | This defence of housework is all the more necessary because housework passes unmentioned in the predominant stereotype of the housewife as a leisured homemaker . |
| 28 | Mixed with low social ranking are the related notions of housework as ‘ dull ’ work and the housewife as a ‘ dull , boring ’ person . |
| 29 | The image of the housewife as a cabbage makes a number of appearances in answers to the question about writing housewife on a form ( it is mentioned by twelve of the forty women ) . |
| 30 | Remembering that I am not defining housewife as a woman dancing attendance on a healthy but indolent male but as a person looking after babies and others who need looking after , what do feminists think the housewife should live on ? |