Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resistance of Ulster had not been created by British Unionists and could hardly be said to depend on them , but the knowledge of support was certainly useful to Carson and Craig in giving their plans for rebellion an official look . |
| 2 | We 've told 'em they 've t'keep the place open to inspection fer health an ’ sanitation , so there 'll be no recurrence of any take-overs from outside , like happened before . ’ |
| 3 | Then came the William IV public house , an old two-storied building noted for its sideline of hiring handcarts for tuppence an hour . |
| 4 | They suggest the sorts of function an area might be involved in , and some degree of localization is possible by varying stimulation sites and finding the one that produces the largest response for the lowest level of stimulation . |
| 5 | In time Enkidu was seduced by a harlot from the city , and with loss of innocence an irrevocable step was taken towards taming the wild man . |
| 6 | In assessing the appropriate award of damages for loss of amenities an important consideration is how long the plaintiff will be deprived of those amenities . |
| 7 | The model showing the significance of loss of mother to adult depression by Brown and his colleagues given above suggests that not only is loss of mother an independent vulnerability factor in the aetiology of depression , but that both premarital pregnancy and institutional care could also be considered as vulnerability factors ( see Harris et al. , 1987a ) . |
| 8 | As a result of Seymour an accused is guilty if he did not realise that there was an obvious risk of some personal injury to another . |
| 9 | A CONDITIONED REFLEX occurs when as a result of experience an associated stimulus brings about the response , thus where the taste or smell of food brings about salivation ; and the ringing of a bell does not ; after a series of experiences where both stimuli are given simultaneously , the ringing of the bell by itself results in an animal salivating . |
| 10 | One of the most common particularly in low socio-economic groups was squares of cle an rag which could be soaked , boiled and re-used . |
| 11 | Russian Formalism represents one of the earliest systematic attempts to put literary studies on an independent footing , and to make the study of literature an autonomous and specific discipline . |
| 12 | In the confusion of battle an accident might decide the issue one way or another and the fortunes of a single day might undo the patient work of months or years . |
| 13 | You can pass a mix of string an numeric parameters to the same procedure or function and a function can return either a string or numeric value , irrespective of the type of parameters passed to it . |
| 14 | The demands made by the rebels provide the clearest guide to their grievances , and according to the Anonimalle Chronicle those put forward by the Essex men at Mile End on 14 June were that they should be allowed to seize and punish traitors , and that no man should be made a serf nor do homage or any type of service to a lord in return for land ; instead they should hold it at a rent of 4d. an acre . |
| 15 | The most familiar of these are in the areas of physical access and transportation , but in almost any aspects of life an impaired person is likely to confront a disabling dimension . |
| 16 | To get back to base retrace your steps out of Coire Lagan , but head around the north side of Loch an Fhir-bhallaich . |
| 17 | From Achintree Farm , the path winds its way up the side of Meall an t-Suidhe towards Loch Meall an t-Suidhe . |
| 18 | This hidden wonderland , sculptured in darkness absolute , remained unseen and unsuspected through the ages until the present century when men first ventured into rifts in the ground and beheld in the light of torches an amazing display of sculptured limestone in patterns both incredibly delicate and massive , a living museum of art in many forms . |
| 19 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 20 | One French critic , with a felicitous turn of phrase , has called the result in performance an ‘ overwhelming grisaille ’ . |
| 21 | Brenda has started a practice in homeopathy an alternative medical system growing in popularity . |
| 22 | Reviewing the Salon d'Automne , Allard grouped together the work of Metzinger , Le Fauconnier and Gleizes , and , using one of the paintings shown by Metzinger an example , stated : ‘ there is thus being born in opposition to Impressionism an art which instead of copying natural phenomena , offers to the mind of the spectator , in their pictorial entirety , elements that as a result of synthesis are fundamental and timeless ’ . |
| 23 | While travelling from Kano to Lagos an officer of the French army recounts to a British member of the Nigerian Civil Service the mysterious circumstances in which , going to the relief of a desert fort manned by legionnaires , surrounded by rebel Tuaregs , he reaches his objective only to find no sign of a battle or siege , but a fort defended by corpses . |
| 24 | It is far easier to convince readers of the courage and invention of a youth of fifteen or so when he is foiling the enemy with a clever disguise or a neatly gymnastic escape than when he is in grim and bloody action on board an enemy ship — not only easier , but more in keeping with the romantic excitement proper to adventure-story . |
| 25 | As it is , ready-to-use third-party network management programmes are few and far between , forcing users to roll their own , a pricey exercise that costs anywhere from $100,000 to $250,000 an application . |
| 26 | A meeting then took place at the border on Nov. 8 between German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the then Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki , first on the German side at Frankfurt an der Oder and then across the river at Slubice ( part of pre-1945 Frankfurt ) . |
| 27 | For the same outlay he could have hired 120 childminders at £2 an hour or ten secretaries at £25 an hour . |
| 28 | For the same outlay he could have hired 120 childminders at £2 an hour or ten secretaries at £25 an hour . |
| 29 | However , the largest of these in 1892 set to work only 253 out of 716 applicants in West Ham , converting wasteland to allotments at 6d. an hour for 45 hours work per week . |
| 30 | The grower can also claim an EC grant of £250 an acre . |