Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The neck joint is similar to Ibanez and Heartfield 's ‘ all access ’ variety which does away with the usual bulky metal plate and offers as an alternative four recessed bolts and a sloping , shaped heel , which really does feel good under the hand . |
| 2 | ‘ Business seemed like an attractive idea and I wanted to learn about finance first , ’ he offers as an explanation . |
| 3 | It is inverted on a pivoted bracket whereupon soap drains through an orifice . |
| 4 | Mr Tapie is by no means a doctrinaire socialist and sits as an independent in the National Assembly . |
| 5 | Judge David , 71 , who also sits as an assistant High Court Judge , was describing why the dock of the court was surrounded by bullet proof glass . |
| 6 | In securing huge government land grants as an inducement to build , the railways became the prime engine of migration , transporting the migrants , acting as land agents , supplying their machinery , building materials , and seed , and later shipping ( a word which developed land-bound connotations ) their produce . |
| 7 | It 's no use going on a six day trail ride , with six hours daily in the saddle , if all you want is some gentle hacking in a scenic setting , with perhaps a few longer pub rides as an added bonus . |
| 8 | Leaving aside our personal addiction , we have acknowledged ( as parents ) the convenience it represents as an electronic nanny ; also the entertainment it provides ( leaving precious time for parents to do chores and entertain themselves ) . |
| 9 | Mr Voss goes through an elaborate unlocking process . |
| 10 | ‘ He goes through an act of not wanting publicity . |
| 11 | Each new recruit goes through an AP — or Announcement Party — when she invites a group of family and friends to get rid of her kit — or goods . |
| 12 | Where the plaintiff sues as an assignee the action shall be commenced only in a court in which the assignor might , under the above rule , have commenced the action but for the assignment ( Ord 4 , r 2(2) ) . |
| 13 | It is also an image which tells us that , it Gide 's contribution to the liberation of the subjugated was as a writer , it is also true that he exemplified the writer 's inevitably exploitative relation to the same , and that this exploitation persists as an aesthetic mode long after the blindness or impossibility of desire was acknowledged . |
| 14 | [ For loan guarantees as an issue in the ongoing peace process see pp. 38787 ; 38452 and previous months . ] |
| 15 | Gallons of intoxicating percussion guided rhythms fuel ‘ Pot Of Gold ’ like a train rampaging along an empty track as it goes for an energetic jog in the shadows , pacing along a tireless circuit . |
| 16 | Team captain Linford Christie will lead from the front as he goes for an unprecedented fourth successive 100m crown , while Colin Jackson ( 110m hurdles ) and Eamonn Martin ( 10,000m ) are also selected as defending champions . |
| 17 | Building societies face the threat of a further slowdown in their mortgage sales as pressure intensifies for an increase in base rates , and therefore mortgage rates . |
| 18 | A Monte Carlo simulation-based approach is used as a general means of estimating the effects of input data uncertainty on the map outputs after an arbitrary sequence of GIS operations . |
| 19 | Sometimes his willingness to raise the alarm is literally the only thing that stands between an old person and the possibility of a lonely and lingering death following a fall or sudden illness . |
| 20 | Thus in the valuable Brockman Iron Formation of the Hamersley Basin , bands about an inch thick are said to be correlatable over an area of some 20000 square miles and even microscopic varves within those bands can be traced over 185 miles . |
| 21 | Wittgenstein avoids both mentalism and behaviourism by saying that what matters for an understanding of psychological verbs is not anything phenomenal — either inner or outer — but their use . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't deny him the right to use whatever symbols he wants as an artist , but as a friend I was disappointed that he knew how inflammatory that would be to a Madness audience . |
| 23 | if if the stories of are to be believed , and who would doubt him , is that the kind of person that wants as an ambassador in Europe ? |
| 24 | He eventually finds the contentment he needs through an admirable way , through Joe , when he is treating Pip on his sick bed , as we see here |
| 25 | The main part of the eye , the retina , is an outgrowth from the brain , whereas the lens develops as an invagination from an overlying sheet of cells . |
| 26 | The image of Tess , vulnerable and innocent despite the shoulderpads , develops as an antidote to scheming female sophistication . |
| 27 | In fact , it could be argued that too little has been made of the naturalness of depression — that to a large extent it develops as an understandable reaction to life circumstances . |
| 28 | That play has as an epigraph a Christian equivalent of the escape through ‘ Shantih ’ from the cycles of creation : ‘ Hence the soul can not be possessed of the divine union , until it has divested itself of the love of created beings . ’ |
| 29 | It is important that as Christians we conceive of the corporation as a community which has as an objective more than just profit maximisation . |
| 30 | A word which has as an element either a past participle or a present participle , eg airborne , weatherbeaten , self-taught . |