Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When cholera toxin is used as secretagogue a variable response in stool volume should thus be expected . |
| 2 | Mr Dayton currently co-chairs a committee seeking to raise $50 million for endowment a far cry from the $30,000 annual drives he remembers leading in the 1940s ! |
| 3 | Mobil Badger is to offer for license a novel technology for reducing the benzene content of light reformate , the Mobil benzene reduction process . |
| 4 | This process directly undermined the rule of law : ‘ such transference of authority saps the foundation of that rule of law which has been for generations a leading feature of the English constitution . ’ |
| 5 | For instance a large chunk of those voters who did declare firmly their intention to vote Labour were still prepared to recognise that Michael Fallon has done a good job as a constituency MP for the town since his election victory in 1983 . |
| 6 | I I I it is very easy to find examples which , which show how absurd they were , the results f f , for instance a large area like Devon and Cornwall with four thousand square miles having now thirty elected members reduced under the Bill to eight would be absurd . |
| 7 | For instance a thin stream of liquid , from a tap which is being turned off , will reach a diameter at which it pays it to break up into separate drops simply because these have less aggregate area then the cylindrical stream . |
| 8 | After completion a random block of 12 months brought in £172 : 1s. : 3d . |
| 9 | A high-quality academic background , experience in consultancy and line management and qualities such as weight and drive are by no means a total guarantee of success . |
| 10 | It was by no means a simple set of feelings : many longed for the straightforward solutions that apparently lay in the golden-age reign of the Emperor Charlemagne when unity , conquest and expansion to the east had surely indicated racial superiority . |
| 11 | It was in fact , ‘ by no means a bare collection of what was scattered in the former … but a performance so well designed and so well executed , … very acceptable to all who make gardening either their profession or diversion. , |
| 12 | The same study reports pickets laying traps for tappers by directing them to wrong venues ( Coulter , Miller , and Walker , 1984 : 46 ) Although telephone-tapping during the miners ' strike was relatively well publicized , it is allegedly by no means a new phenomenon in the policing of industrial disputes . |
| 13 | Although the UK is by no means a major centre for illicit wildlife trade , a significant market does exist . |
| 14 | He was by no means a major figure in British politics at the time , though this had not prevented his being offered in 1920 , when he was a mere back-bench MP , the governor-generalship of South Africa — an offer which was withdrawn when the South Africans pressed their desire for someone more important . |
| 15 | But he came a long way round from a long way back , and O'Brien , by no means a habitual blamer of jockeys , is still convinced they should have won . |
| 16 | The evaluators must conclude that something like the input of resources which characterised the Essex project is a necessary condition for improving library provision and associated resources ( Objective 3 ) and to facilitate reforms in pedagogy , but that it is by no means a sufficient condition for significant change . |
| 17 | Pepin directed campaigns against the Slavs in Bohemia ; Louis conducted campaigns in southern Italy , though he was by no means a military leader by nature ; and Charles the Younger led forces against the Saxons in his father 's name . |
| 18 | From a purely cultural perspective , it is clear that developments in France were by no means a faithful reflection of cultural developments in the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | The abolition of need-based ARPs , and the consequent treatment of disabled people as ‘ normal ’ welfare recipients , is by no means a desirable kind of ‘ normality ’ . |
| 20 | The question whether a capacity for error reflects our divine intelligence or is , as the theologians would have us believe , an invention of the flesh and the Devil is by no means a trivial issue of medieval scholasticism . |
| 21 | Pius XI had sanctioned for recital after Mass a special prayer to St Michael ‘ for the conversion of Russia ’ , imploring him to thrust down to hell ‘ Satan and all wicked spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls ’ . |
| 22 | We know that shortly after creation a violent spate of seething geotectonic activity must have taken place as the interior of the Earth grew hotter , new out-gassing occurred and new islands appeared . |
| 23 | The team included the Celtic goalkeeper Johnny Thomson playing one of his last games for Scotland a few months before his tragic death . |
| 24 | Although it is generally aimed at specific styles of mineralisation a wide range of elements are determined and a variety of techniques used . |
| 25 | Is a trace of insanity a necessary prerequisite for originality ? |
| 26 | His eyes were on Meredith , who was framed against the peeling ochre wall , her flame-burst of hair a startling contrast to her pale cream skin and the delicate snowflakes which lay scattered on her head like confetti . |
| 27 | These combinations , as they are called , involve simple one-step punching and blocking techniques , but even of beginners a greater variety of kicks is expected , nor surprisingly in view of the emphasis that taekwondo places upon them . |
| 28 | ( It should be noted here that the groom himself is of necessity a classifactory cross-cousin of the bride , for the rule is that all marriages must be between kinsmen of the same caste . |
| 29 | It is estimated that they have fallen from a peak of £62 a square foot to £38 . |
| 30 | In the context of the mental models theory of comprehension a specific account of anaphor interpretation must be developed . |