Example sentences of "an account [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her present to Harry was to be a pair of racing binoculars in a fine leather case with his initials stamped on it ; Wendell 's , a handsome cheque , since he was aware that Harry had opened an account at the bank and was trying to build up a reserve of cash . |
| 2 | Russ had also written a number of uncovered personal cheques himself , despite not having an account at the bank , and had ignored auditors ' advice to stop abusing his position at the bank . |
| 3 | A list had already been published ( on April 1 ) of the 22 worst " abusers " of the House bank , those who had run account deficits which exceeded their next month 's pay for 20 per cent of the months in which they had held an account at the bank . |
| 4 | Parvis Yousefi opened an account at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington under the name of Momen Garawand . |
| 5 | Company A paying its corporation tax from its bank deposit will cause Bank A to lose the deposit to an account at the Bank of England . |
| 6 | On 1 March 19 — A. Debtor , who has an account with the Atlas Hotel , owed the hotel £23.50 . |
| 7 | if you do not have an account , you can still ask about borrowing money , but you will probably be expected to open an account with the bank . |
| 8 | Where the court held that a fixed charge had been created in favour of a bank over book debts ( in this case bills of exchange ) where the charge provided that the company could not charge or assign these debts and , most importantly , had to pay the proceeds into an account with the chargee bank which the company could not operate without the consent of the bank . |
| 9 | ( a ) Banker to banks and other financial institutions — every commercial bank has an account with the Bank of England in which ‘ operational deposits ’ are kept in order to settle interbank debts from the cheque clearing system , and for payment of funds due to the government ( and , conversely , funds paid by the government to the banks ) . |
| 10 | Direct members have an account with the CMO and are able to input instructions and receive details of deliveries of instruments on a terminal on their own premises . |
| 11 | These vouchers are collected together and despatched with an account to the respective credit card companies , who will then pay the amount owing less commission , direct to the hotel . |
| 12 | The reader can hope , all the same , that the writer will give an account of the special merits of key pictures , and it is these art critical passages which can be of most help in enjoying or appreciating the chosen artist 's achievement . |
| 13 | By myth is meant here what has generally come to be accepted within sociology and social anthropology since the work of Levi-Strauss : an account of the origins of a society or of particular crucial events in its life , which unite the cosmos to the social structure by actively shaping everyday life perceptions . |
| 14 | There is an account of the mind-body problem which could , with some oversimplification , be described as the currently fashionable one . |
| 15 | Pupils are required to write a biography of Herbert Whitley , the zoo 's founder , to give an account of the explorations of Christopher Columbus , Captain Cook and David Livingstone , to study a species of animal in depth and to produce an organised diary of their week . |
| 16 | Nowhere in the previous 300-odd pages has he shown any doubts in his mission to give an account of the war fought by the Allies which balances all those previous versions ‘ sanitized and romanticized almost beyond recognition by the sentimental , the loony patriotic , the ignorant and the bloodthirsty ’ . |
| 17 | He also took the trouble to buy and read a new book of theology which Ramsey at that moment published ; an account of the development of English religious thought from the late Victorian age to the age of William Temple — From Gore to Temple . |
| 18 | Crucially , the psychoanalytic rationalization of sexual difference as a tragic split which in turn effects the failure of identity often goes along with an account of the alleged narcissistic limitations and failures of homosexuality . |
| 19 | He restricts himself to an account of the ground forces , so there is no coverage of the role played by the South African air force , for instance , and perhaps the distinction drawn by Britain at the outset of the war between the old Dominions and the members of the new Commonwealth which it regarded as a security risk could have been more strongly emphasized . |
| 20 | However as an account of the actual historical evolution of kinship , their use of anthropology was disastrous , thanks largely to Morgan . |
| 21 | The book is therefore very much an account of the movement 's influence in Britain . |
| 22 | Hepworth gives an account of the process of developing a script that reveals how undynamic was his approach to screenwriting , as well as how low a regard he had for writers : |
| 23 | In the slow introduction Tennstedt made it clear that this was to be a reading of high , dramatic contrasts , and that led to an account of the Vivace which with its sprung rhythms kept relaxing into pastoral moments without loss of pace or power . |
| 24 | CHRIS KILLIP is one of the best of contemporary descriptive photographers , and this morning he opens a rather special exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , an account of the way that Pirelli tyres are made , from Malayan rubber , at the factory in Burton-on-Trent . |
| 25 | An account of the last hours and words is written for the edification of those unable to be present . |
| 26 | To many his shrewdest move was to die , of brain cancer and pneumonia , in May 1987 , before he had been called on to give an account of the role he had played in the affair . |
| 27 | And there were some further unexpected and perhaps even now neglected delights : the early Tchaikovsky symphonies , a winningly alfresco Schubert cycle with an account of the ‘ Unfinished ’ as deep , dark , and grim as a late canvas by Tintoretto , and Haydn 's Paris and London symphonies played with a proper Haydnish robustness and wit . |
| 28 | Another who seems to have greatly appreciated his visit to Scotland was the Spanish ambassador Don Pedro d'Ayala , who wrote an account of the country at the desire of Ferdinand and Isabella in 1498 . |
| 29 | Mr White , incredibly , begins the book with an account of the movie actress Shirley MacLaine visiting Dr Hawking ( she was late , her car having been clamped ) to ask if he believes in God and he tells her he does not : end of story . |
| 30 | Volume IV : The Last Laugh by Michael Holroyd Chatto & Windus , £10.99 HAVING served up George Bernard Shaw in three stout volumes , Michael Holroyd now offers us a slim postscript — an account of the first 40 years of Shaw 's afterlife . |