Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In form it is an application at the suit of C.N.L. as a third party for the court to release the appellant from his implied undertaking pursuant to which discovery of the P.C.A. documents was given under the court 's order of 9 July 1991 — released that is to the extent of permitting him to disclose the documents to C.N.L. , they for their part undertaking to the court to hold them for the strictly limited purpose of defending the libel proceedings brought against them by Woodley and Clifford . |
| 2 | Round was signed from St Helens for a club record of £65,000 in the summer of 1987 but he damaged a knee in his only game this season — at Carlisle in October — and needed a cartilage operation . |
| 3 | After trials the General Electrolytic Alkali Co. was established in 1899 with Hargreaves as a director and production began at Cledford Bridge near Middlewich in 1901 . |
| 4 | ‘ I talked to a couple from Stirling for a while — Mr and Mrs Maclean . |
| 5 | ‘ START 2 is not going anywhere until START 1 is ratified by everyone and everyone joins the NPT as a non-nuclear state , ’ laments an American official . |
| 6 | Product and process technology investments made by Decorative Ceramics over the last two years have confirmed Johnson Matthey as a world leader in onglaze colour technology . |
| 7 | TELEVISION reporter Tim Ewart told last night how he left ITN for a new career at a rival station and then slowly realised it was all a terrible mistake . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been at ITN for a long time and come from a traditional news background . |
| 9 | Damon was a nineteen-year-old student from California who was staying with Bodo and Liese for a month . |
| 10 | This Act was unsuccessful also in its attempt to develop the New Forest as a source of timber by a ‘ rolling programme ’ of inclosure . |
| 11 | The agents of the Crown consequently became disillusioned about the New Forest as a Crown asset : it barely escaped the fate of the other royal forests . |
| 12 | A government report on the future of Britain 's National Parks has resulted in the designation of the New Forest as a National Park . |
| 13 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 14 | BRIAN ANDREW , a controversial figure in the parochial world of Cornish rugby , will at last play in a county championship final tomorrow , having twice lost out to Graham Dawe for a place in the Twickenham spotlight . |
| 15 | Flavia Sherman smiled sympathetically at Chuck for a moment then turned to her husband with an ill-concealed sigh of exasperation . |
| 16 | ME AND MY SHADOW : Drebin collars Hank Marvin for a duet |
| 17 | It is a fine building , an example of fifteenth-century Gothic , with a good sculpted figure of Hercules as a child under the last on the right of the four arches . |
| 18 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 19 | This plant , a relative of ivy and indigenous to the temperate mountains of the Far East , has been used continually for some 5000 years in the Orient as a tonic , restorative and preventive remedy . |
| 20 | What particularly incensed the good bishop was that Passelewe as a Forest judge had ordered the arrest and imprisonment of clerks as well as laymen , and had thus flouted clerical privileges . |
| 21 | Accusations of corruption had been levelled against Ibrahim for a number of years , and in May President Gayoom yielded to demands that the State Trading Organization ( STO ) , which was under Ibrahim 's control , be investigated for evidence of corruption . |
| 22 | Next to me an elderly couple were reading a story in Paris-Normandie about a charcutier , fou d'amour , who had killed a family of seven . |
| 23 | Already I had put in a formal application to Gladstone Murray for a producer 's post with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , and Ernie Bushnell suggested I submit a programme script for consideration . |
| 24 | Across from the Palazzo della Ragione the most impressive building is the Palazzo delle Scoule Palatine , the Pallatine School , built in 1645 by the architect Carlo Buzzi as a copy of the Palazzo dei Giureconsulti — proving perhaps that imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery . |
| 25 | Total chromosomal DNA from S.acidocaldarius ATCC33909 was cleaved with restriction enzymes ( Sac I , Xba I , Eco RI , Xho l , Eco RI- Xho I , XbaI-Xho I , Sac I- Xba I ) and the resulting restriction patterns were analyzed by Southern hybridization using 885 bp of the 16S rDNA fragment amplified by PCR as a probe . |
| 26 | The value of this gadget — known to Kmart as a ‘ remote maintenance unit ’ ( RMU ) — may go beyond its usefulness as a labour-saving device . |
| 27 | In this text , as in others written by Nizan as a result of direct experience in Spain , coexist incisive social and political commentary , disturbing and explosive literary images and a sense of personal involvement , almost self-fulfilment . |
| 28 | Classical literature is systematically castigated by Nizan as a process of deception centred on myth-making , idealism and symbolism , and designed to defend the oppressive practices of a dying class . |
| 29 | Progressive literature is consistently upheld by Nizan as a process of disclosure centred on reality , Marxism and realism , and designed to advocate the justifiable demands of an aspiring class . |
| 30 | The polite , complacent literature of fully integrated bourgeois writers such as Andre Maurois , Jacques de Lacretelle and Julien Green is unceremoniously attacked , as is the work of Jean Giono classified by Nizan as a naive form of utopian escapism in the face of modern industrial society Equally , Nizan is extremely hostile to the sentimental , colonial and populist literature produced by the bourgeoisie for the mystification of the proletariat . |