Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The World Bank 's funding of a highway that cut through central and west Brazil with " devastating " results was also cited . |
| 2 | It was constructed of raw red brick with yellow stone dressings , in a style that was no style , but something resembling public-house Jacobean and lavatory-gothic , with a Kubla Khan dome from the Prince Regent 's Brighton as a cultural stray added for good measure , and this cut one of the wooden gables in the most bizarre fashion . |
| 3 | The Popular Front described Mutalibov 's installation as a " coup " and called for widespread civil disobedience . |
| 4 | It 's the body 's response to a threat . |
| 5 | Where the boss 's response to a complaint might well be ‘ If you do n't like it you can always leave ’ , then sticking with a job you do not like implies that you lack the motivation to go and find something more satisfactory , or that you are incapable of finding anything better . |
| 6 | The notes cover the Stamp Office 's response to a number of questions on which the Faculty sought clarification following the publication of Statement of Practice SP 11/91 in September 1991 . |
| 7 | Seen in this gallery context it invites us to view it as an individual 's response to a constructed drama . |
| 8 | In the experiment illustrated at the top , the toad 's response to a small black object revolving in its visual field is measured . |
| 9 | The survey sponsored by the CLR was a market survey testing the library consumer 's response to a product in a new package . |
| 10 | David Chin Kah Hin 's response to a question about adventurousness , adaptability and tolerance typifies the spirit and imagination of the 35 applicants for a Guinness Earth Science Award . |
| 11 | Often children 's response to a picture is limited by their vocabulary and their ability to describe features . |
| 12 | The allegation comes in the TUC 's response to a Government consultation paper on scrapping the holiday . |
| 13 | We can see similar ‘ invitations to continue ’ in someone 's response to a series of instructions or directions . |
| 14 | Those two responses are difficult to distinguish since one is Leapor 's response as a poet to a life which she observes ; the other pertains to her own experience of that life . |
| 15 | They will wince at the idea of paying for their children 's school books or having their gallstones removed , but think nothing of spending half a year 's income on a car . |
| 16 | Gains are treated as a person 's ‘ top slice ’ of income and are accordingly taxed at : 20 per cent ( the new lower rate ) , 25 per cent ( basic rate ) , 40 per cent ( higher rate ) or a mixture of two rates , i.e. in instances where a gain , or gains , pushes part of an individual 's income into a higher rate bracket . |
| 17 | Up to then , Mr Wisdom 's income as a construction supervisor had been too small to buy a house for his family of five . |
| 18 | Tax is not deducted from National Insurance retirement pensions , but they are taken into account when deciding how much tax is to be paid on the elderly person 's income as a whole . |
| 19 | Payments terminated on 31 May 1753 , but evidently no ill feeling marred the end of Miller 's contract as a few years later he dedicated to the Duke the beautiful Figures of Plants ( 2 vols. ) which had been published in parts from 1755–60 . |
| 20 | the game did n't liven up until midway through the half when the Blues finally put Cliftonville 's defence under a period of sustained pressure . |
| 21 | Paul Rogers missed an even easier chance when Adrian Littlejohn split Liverpool 's defence with a low cross , and Brian Deane sent a point-blank header wide , both in a second-half come back that had Liverpool wilting . |
| 22 | In 1910 the Standard regularly reported the Club 's activities including a gross 73 returned in a friendly by the Hon. |
| 23 | Having advised restraint by the Labour Party , I was angered , and indeed horrified , by the announcement that the government had asked Lord Denning to conduct his now infamous one-man inquiry into the matter , with terms of reference so loose that he regarded himself as charged to examine everyone 's activities through a microscope and to denounce anyone where there was a whisper of suspected immorality , let alone convincing proof . |
| 24 | However little his colleagues liked Lewis 's activities as a lay evangelist , there can be no doubt about his tremendous impact on the church of his day . |
| 25 | Sadler 's activities as a notary in Chancery remain obscure . |
| 26 | . He is also the formal point of contact between the group and the client and as such he is required to coordinate the group 's , group 's activities on a giv given project . |
| 27 | The downfall of Mrs Thatcher , the arrival of John Major at 10 Downing Street and the Gulf War took the spotlight away from the Group 's activities for a few months . |
| 28 | Kathy 's policeman husband and pimp Jeff , 42 , videotaped his wife 's activities from a wardrobe and also wrote reports on the varying skills of the clients . |
| 29 | This kind of parent ( let us take the mother as our example ) attempts to direct her child 's activities in a rational manner determined by the issues involved in particular disciplinary situations . |
| 30 | The Court of Appeal , with regret , rejected their claim on the ground that , although the relevant statutory provision declared a dismissal to be unfair if the reason for it was that the employee proposed to join a trade union or take part in union activities , the provision was ‘ not concerned with an employer 's reactions to a trade union 's activities , but with his reactions to an individual employee 's activities in a trade union context ’ ( Sir John Donaldson MR ) . |