Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since in the epi-classical period the differences between legacies and trusts persisted there is no reason to suppose that the publisher of Scaevola 's works would have used the terms interchangeably as a matter of deliberate policy . |
| 2 | The birds went off at noisy full-throttle , right through a herd of deer which had been grazing quietly till then . |
| 3 | One of the things that some chaps found amusing when they went to the " heads " ( the head is what the Navy calls the loo ) , you sat in a long row and a great flush of water ran right through a row of 20 or 30 . |
| 4 | For example , an energy flow from left to right through a flow from foreground to background should produce an upwards driving force that becomes diagonally anticlockwise . |
| 5 | The teacher stands back and observes Christopher ( 4.7 ) as he tries to cut right through a block of wood with a tenon saw only half its width . |
| 6 | Only Mr Kenneth Baker , secretary of state for education , said promptly , ’ more money and put in successfully for a rise in the science-research budget . |
| 7 | He congratulates himself , however , on auditioning successfully for a part in this Parisian cinema . |
| 8 | Cos the we er did get people contacting the office to say I 've got a lump sum , I 'd like to put it somewhere for a couple of years , and er we always wondered why they 're thinking of a couple of years . |
| 9 | If not , she could try to find somewhere for a cup of tea . |
| 10 | For example , where pragmatics is construed as the study of grammatically encoded aspects of context , we might want to say : ( 18 ) f(s)=c where c is the set of contexts potentially encoded by elements of S i.e. f is a theory that " computes out " of sentences the contexts which they encode Or , alternatively , where pragmatics is defined as the study of constraints on the appropriateness of utterances , we could say : ( 19 ) f(u)=a where A has just two elements , denoting the appropriate vs. the inappropriate utterances i.e. f is a theory that selects just those felicitous or appropriate pairings of sentences and contexts — or identifies the set of appropriate utterances Or , where pragmatics is defined ostensively as a list of topics , we could say : ( 20 ) f(u)=b where each element of B is a combination of a speech act , a set of presuppositions , a set of conversational implicatures , etc. i.e. f is a theory that assigns to each utterance the speech act it performs , the propositions it presupposes , the propositions it conversationally implicates , etc . |
| 11 | There he met Mohandas K. Gandhi , and spent much of the next 20 years acting as a conciliatory intermediary between Gandhi 's Congress Party and the British Government , latterly as a member of Gandhi 's entourage . |
| 12 | Part-time work seems to be a prerogative of women presumably as a consequence of their central role in the home . |
| 13 | Even though a proposed fourth game against Canada has been dropped — presumably as a gesture of appeasement — The tour runs from June 5-19 , deep into the summer break — and George Graham , Alex Ferguson , Graeme Souness and others believe their clubs should not be put at a disadvantage at the start of the following season . |
| 14 | The relevance of his role as priest ( referred to by the expressions Priest , a dissident … priest , the priest 's ) is presumably as a priest of the Roman Catholic Church of which the Pope is Head . |
| 15 | All the indications are that the Hebridean flora and vegetation were more diverse than today , presumably as a result of the widespread more fertile , unleached mineral soils present immediately after deglaciation and the cessation of periglaciation . |
| 16 | However , by 7700 B.P. Calluna heaths expanded , presumably as a result of soil acidification and podsolisation . |
| 17 | That seems possible because in one of Jacob 's books , Cornet à Dés , there was a dedication to Modigliani in the edition published in 1917 which was deleted subsequently , presumably as a result of the mysterious quarrel over Beatrice . |
| 18 | It was presumably as a result of this that Palmerston wrote to the Treasury in May 1836 , explaining his views on the new accommodation . |
| 19 | A weaker protection is produced at GpA in ( ATT ) 4 CG(AAT) 4 suggesting that the weaker cleavage observed in this fragment is due to a lower affinity of the antibiotic for this site , presumably as a result of the structure imposed by the surrounding DNA sequence . |
| 20 | Perhaps it is seeking to increase the audience , or perhaps it was lead astray for a while by the fact that , during the Conservative leadership contest , the exciting politics at Westminster were not in the Chamber . |
| 21 | The ES aims to meet its targets and deliver its programmes and services cost-effectively through a network of local offices . |
| 22 | I am thinking of domestics , porters and maintenance staff , who are grossly underpaid and who are suffering badly as a result of administration of hospital trusts and the attempts to break away from the national negotiating machinery . |
| 23 | Considering the number of PFK readers who would like to see their Puffers inflate just once ( though arguably as a sign of stress this is n't such a great idea ) many marine fishkeepers would have been thrilled . |
| 24 | What sent me into a fear-filled frenzy was the news — hidden somewhere between a report on the seasonal suicide rate and an article on bogus Santas — that I had bought a ride-on fire engine for my baby son that had a dangerous fault and should be returned to the manufacturers immediately . |
| 25 | In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ . |
| 26 | The only real kiss is the platonic one between Dustin and McQueen on the cliff top , before McQueen dives into the sea and escapes , swimming surprisingly powerfully for a man of his age and condition . |
| 27 | I remember Morris willing me on through a mist of deep deep unconsciousness . |
| 28 | Carry on through a strip of woodland and over a second stile . |
| 29 | Not that he was succeeding ; Sergeant Crane was sitting , legs crossed , only just not fidgeting , as Bruce Davidson wore on through a lot of unnecessary detail . |
| 30 | His deification as the patron of craftsmen , but more importantly as a god of wisdom , medicine and healing , had occurred by the Late Period and he was thus identified by the Greeks with their god of medicine , Asclepios . |