Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] an " in BNC.

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1 In a classic experiment reported in 1964 , John Wing and his colleagues showed that long-stay schizophrenic patients given advance preparation for placements in an industrial rehabilitation unit were less likely to suffer a relapse than those who were unprepared .
2 A method of measuring mutual inductance , devised originally by Carey Foster for use with a direct source and transient techniques , was adapted by Heydweiller for operation with an alternating source .
3 ERS-1 is currently under test in Toulouse , scheduled for launch next October , at least two years before any other satellites as part of an international monitoring programme for the 1990s .
4 The judges ' case for Vichy as an ‘ authoritarian ’ régime rests on the old argument of German pressure and French passivity .
5 Farmers who watched ‘ The Last Straw ’ will echo the Duke 's call for more stability , some leadership and a sense of direction for farming as an industry .
6 Farmers who watched ‘ The Last Straw ’ will echo the Duke 's call for more stability , some leadership and a sense of direction for farming as an industry .
7 It seeks to balance the greater play of market forces and a new-found freedom for business with an element of social protection and participation for labour .
8 Cheney announced on April 24 , 1989 , that the USA would withdraw 4,000 troops from West Germany as part of an effort to cut US defence expenditure .
9 ‘ Johan has struck a blow for equality against an obvious and intolerable anomaly in the law . ’
10 DORCISS will seek to achieve the above objectives by promoting the exchange of information and experience between members through an annual conference and by means of at least two management development workshops per year .
11 Knutsford-based Bushwing wanted to build a business park as part of an industrial estate in Lach Dennis , near Northwich .
12 Four years ago I bought an old Harmony Sovereign acoustic guitar for £20 from an absolute prat .
13 Thieves stole a Black and Decker hammer drill and drill parts , 20 spanners in a black leather case and a 36-piece socket set in a metal case worth £130 from an outhouse in Coleridge Gardens , Darlington .
14 Swiss manufacturer Pilatus has abandoned its search for a risk-sharing partner for development of the PC-12 single turboprop utility aircraft and approved funding for production of an initial batch of 35 aircraft .
15 County rang the changes desperately , sending on Slawson for Lund in an attempt to pep up an attack in which Farina , the striker on loan from Bari , made a rather featureless full debut .
16 Both denied struggle for power as an agent of social change , but accepted the necessity of evolution , the logical consequence of which was belief in the centrality of parliamentarianism .
17 One example of the importance of the complex interaction between groups for an understanding of policy-making is shown in Heclo 's study of issue networks ' in Washington .
18 Moreover , the human body is not simply a bag of cells ; no one knows how years of microgravity would affect the complex interaction between cells in an organ and between organs themselves .
19 His elder son was created a baronet at the Restoration in 1660 , and the younger entered Parliament for Bletchingley as an exclusionist .
20 EIGHT Darlington nuns face a gruelling sea journey and a 1,000 kilometre trek through desert on an epic journey to Africa .
21 During the evaluation of the undergraduate course in information retrieval at Chalmers Library , a series of interviews were carried out with students participating in the course as part of an attempt at illuminative evaluation .
22 In November 1992 , with funding from the Enterprise Development Fund , the Physical Education Department piloted a team development course for students in an outdoor setting .
23 Most galleries need credit , and unfortunately banks ( which have no cultural people ) turn to auction houses for valuations of an artist 's work .
24 The no-arbitrage condition requires that the overall profit from trading shares , debt and futures as part of an arbitrage transaction is zero .
25 Called the ‘ father of English canals ’ , Brindley was originally a millwright by trade , born in Derbyshire in 1716 and barely educated , but showing a natural genius for engineering in an age when that word was scarcely part of the vocabulary .
26 When you study a play as part of an English Literature course , you 're not looking at the staging of it ; you 're not looking at how it works when it stands up .
27 His weakness for girls from an escort agency run by an old friend of Jack 's had cost him dear over the years .
28 A percutaneous transjugular technique for placement of an intrahepatic portasystemic shunt was first described in animals in 1969 .
29 The cDNA clone for C/EBPδ in an eukaryotic expression vector , under the control of the murine sarcoma virus long terminal repeat , was a generous gift from Dr. McKnight .
30 Keown , an important part of Everton 's defence , was off the field for treatment to an eye injury when Gayle 's long ball enabled the veteran Cork to score his first goal for United since his move from Wimbledon .
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