Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun sg] of [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of an overdose of tourism the essential spirit of Bali is still alive . |
| 2 | 10.1 Where an employee has been absent from work as a result of an act of violence the Director of Social Work will give due consideration to referring the employee to the medical adviser either prior to or immediately following their return to work . |
| 3 | ‘ In the event of an assessment of stress the purchase would be aborted . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Doig said yesterday : ‘ No grower in his right mind can be happy with an income of £10 a tonne . |
| 5 | Milk yields of up to 35kg a day in June were common , with an average of 25kg a day over the summer months , but the milk was not very creamy . |
| 6 | Section 6 , like many other sections of the Act is no more than an attempt to put into an Act of Parliament a rule of common law . |
| 7 | Fortunately , technical developments have ensured that the increase in computing power per unit cost has been growing at about an order of magnitude every 6 years over the last three decades . |
| 8 | Although explicable as an instance of context-specificity the results of this experiment have apparently put paid to the only explanation for the phenomenon that we have so far considered . |
| 9 | So , similarly , in the First World War , we assumed proudly as an accolade of honour the Kaiser 's ridicule of the first British Expeditionary Force as that ‘ contemptible little army ’ . |
| 10 | For an aeon of time the words meant nothing . |
| 11 | The electromagnet shown in section in Fig. 3.21 is designed to give radial magnetic flux density B in an annulus of radius a and width unc when energized with constant voltage V. Its coil is wound from copper of conductivity unc and is located in the annular space inside the electromagnet which has the dimensions a , b , c shown in the figure . |
| 12 | In an exchange of letters the Polish government declared among other things that the " prospect " of Poland joining the EC " will increasingly create opportunities to make it easier also for German citizens to settle in the Republic of Poland " . |
| 13 | On Dec. 10 , 1991 , in an exchange of letters the Republic of Byelarus resumed active participation as a fully-fledged WHO member . |
| 14 | Locals liken the potential impact of the BTU tax to the impact of the oil bust in the mid-1980s , when the oil price fell from an average of $18 a barrel in 1985 to $15.05 in 1986 . |
| 15 | It 's based on an allowance of 1200cals a day , which should produce a good , steady rate of weight loss for most moderately overweight women ( men should allow an extra 300cals a day ) . |
| 16 | In April 1050 he and Bishop Hermann [ q.v. ] of Ramsbury visited Rome on an errand of Edward the Confessor [ q.v. ] ; according to later and possibly unreliable sources it was to secure the king 's release from a vow of pilgrimage made before his accession . |
| 17 | Younger , more mobile employees , on an average of £13,700 a year , are enjoying bigger increases because companies are ‘ desperate ’ to keep them . |
| 18 | His conversion led to an upsurge of praise the pressure of which could not be denied . |
| 19 | Barratt sold 2,017 houses at an average price of £75,800 in the half year , down from 2,128 completions at an average of £81,200 the previous year . |
| 20 | Here we use results from the Rosat all-sky survey , which increases by an order of magnitude the number of X-ray stars , to show that the dividing line is not an artefact of poor sampling . |
| 21 | The single unemployed living on their own are the only group who have lost significantly from the changes — by an average of £2.16 a week . |
| 22 | Over the past two decades the owners have been generous on pay because their revenues have increased by an average of 12% a year . |
| 23 | Yet their fuel bills will rise by an average of £2 a week and more in the colder areas . |
| 24 | Mr Dorrell , visiting Darlington Memorial Hospital , claimed during the 1980s the number of patients treated in the town rose by an average of 5pc a year . |