Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an investment of £23½m over five years in its American business , it made a profit last year . |
| 2 | After an evening of work here , she felt she must look like a cod or haddock herself with dull eyes and open mouth . |
| 3 | It would be difficult , and undesirable , to isolate experiences which lead towards an understanding of number when so many arise naturally out of everyday activities . |
| 4 | The acknowledged purpose of RE is to help pupils towards an understanding of religion so that they can reflect on it in an informed way . |
| 5 | First race there twelve fifty the going at the moment is good but they have had a quarter of an inch of rain overnight so of course I suppose there 's every chance it could go to good to soft by this afternoon . |
| 6 | That 's about a third of an inch of rain overnight and again it 's gon na be wet for the rest of the day . |
| 7 | An eighth of an inch of rain overnight but that should n't make any difference at all but a wet windy day . |
| 8 | Our courts have refused to consider the validity of an Act of Parliament either on the ground that Parliament had no power to pass it or on the ground that the statute had been improperly passed . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a refreshing change to hear of an act of goodwill rather than yet another tale of violence and vandalism , ’ says marketing manager Ken James . |
| 10 | The income of Henry Tudor was perhaps three times that of Henry VI in 1433 , but it was not of an order of magnitude greatly different from that of the richer medieval kings . |
| 11 | Morland J. held that there is no valid distinction between a private trading company and a local authority for the purposes of an action of libel not alleged to have caused actual financial damage . |
| 12 | You must develop the ability to find the centre of an area of lift quickly instead of losing it , and you can not have too much practice and experience . |
| 13 | References in the text of the rules to ‘ custody ’ and ‘ observation ’ support a decision that the court could properly order the sending of an item of property out of the jurisdiction , in the instant case to South Africa , so that it could be identified by a witness whose evidence was being taken on commission there . |
| 14 | He found the city 's total welfare bill amounted to $162 per citizen — as against an average of $174 elsewhere in New York state , and similar sums even in troubled cities like Cleveland and Los Angeles . |
| 15 | This , sadly was my last foray for the month as I went down with an attack of bronchitis soon after this expedition , and form which I have not fully recovered . |
| 16 | Our second patient first this pattern , with an onset of jaundice approximately six weeks after piroxicam was begun . |
| 17 | Her father 's stern presence had prevented such scenes of gay ebullience , but the weary harvesters had always been welcomed with heartfelt gratitude and hospitality into her mother 's kitchen , where the tables groaned with an array of fare equally good as that now placed before the workers of Thorsbury . |
| 18 | The result is a presidency with an image of blandness much different from the glitzy campaign Mr Bush waged to win the White House from Michael Dukakis who , it is worth remarking , is governor of the speedy state of Massachusetts . |
| 19 | The feeling that something special was about to happen spilled over into an exhibition of appreciation then unparalleled on an English racecourse : the crowd applauded the rivals as they made their way on to the track and burst into cheering as they reached it . |
| 20 | Mary Denton has found a way of bringing her love of heraldry into an area of aviation whereby individuals can achieve a lasting , lovely — and above all else unique — mark of service . , . . |
| 21 | Challenging the child via an element of competition often works : ‘ I wonder who can get dressed first ? ’ or ‘ I bet you ca n't put on your own shoes ’ will often motivate children to comply without their realizing . |
| 22 | Folding is its essential property along an axis of symmetry so that the two halves make a perfect overlay . |
| 23 | One of them was John Stuart Mill who feared , however , that the reform of them which was taking place in the 1840s was being taken as an affair of humanity only , not of justice . |
| 24 | In many cases , the state of destination will either accept the classification of the state of origin , or waive any right it may have to reject the document under Article 4 , or simply serve the document as an act of goodwill even if the Convention is regarded as not strictly applicable . |
| 25 | A factor which could be regarded as an act of God now intervened . |
| 26 | Alfred Molina 's Shannon comes over as an assemblage of mannerisms rather than a man whose behaviour arises from dissipation and anguish ; Frances Barber is too young , too wiry and too busy for the over-ripe Maxine ; Robin Bailey , though he believably slips in and out of awareness , is too sturdy for the ancient poet , and he sounds and gestures just like colonel Hall on Sergeant Bilko . |
| 27 | His Lordship then considered whether the decision of the Court of Appeal could be justified as an exercise of review rather than appeal . |
| 28 | It is obviously important that we should have some clear idea about the nature of the phenomenon as an aspect of language not just as a preliminary but as a prerequisite for determining how it should figure in pedagogy . |
| 29 | Cuckoos came into the discussion as an example of parasites not living inside the bodies of their hosts . |
| 30 | Just as History involved the legitimation as knowledge of certain forms of political power , so the production of the subject by the human sciences as an object of knowledge also enabled a new form of political control : ‘ The individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power . |