Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1799 he settled as a barrister in Newcastle upon Tyne , rapidly acquiring an enviable reputation as a man of strict integrity and sound judgement , whether in the courts or as an arbitrator in industrial disputes . |
| 2 | This can be doing running down actions for existing private clients or as an adjunct to one of their other areas of litigation . |
| 3 | In an age of ‘ background music ’ , listening is often distracted , and popular music is often used as a drug or as a ‘ switch ’ to trigger preplanned narcissistic ally comfortable sensations or as an instrument of group conformity . |
| 4 | Finally , on April 10 it was given out that the government had agreed to the opposition 's main demands for the rapid legalization of political parties and for an amnesty for political activists . |
| 5 | Separation of training In contrast to the government 's approach to school planning and management in 1990 , a report six years earlier aimed its message at heads and at an LEA . |
| 6 | This year it is therefore EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that we all sell our 2 books and as an incentive HQ say that each branch returning their block of completed lottery ticket stubs with a single branch cheque can keep 20% . |
| 7 | Strong and creative relationships between schools and within an LEA result in a richness of educational provision which could not be achieved by each school going its own way . |
| 8 | In eleven of Cnut 's grants the Latin introduction to the boundaries is followed not by the first set of bounds but by an introduction in Anglo-Saxon . |
| 9 | The proponents of unitary authorities in the Royal Commission on Local Government in England accepted a need for a wider authority for some services in the metropolitan areas and for an authority that could prepare a strategic plan for conurbations . |
| 10 | In fact , they have been accompanied by a massive redistribution of population away from the largest cities to smaller settlements and more rural areas and by an acceleration of the drift from North to South . |
| 11 | Money is demanded both to finance day-to-day transactions and as an asset , perhaps being part of an individual 's or firm 's speculative activity . |
| 12 | Before the sale , Murphy and Cree deliberately gave some of their stake to their fellow directors and to an employee trust as a means of motivation . |
| 13 | He has won numerous scholarships and prizes and has performed in recitals and as an accompanist throughout England and in several Continental countries . |
| 14 | development continued Egyptian Pharaohs and as an adult true parents . |
| 15 | Although he left no explicit statement of belief , recent scholarship has shown him as a consistent sponsor of reform , both in his local activities and as an intermediary between suitors and the Crown . |
| 16 | The youngster 's inclusion in the side earned him the name ‘ Boy Bastin' , as seventeen-year-olds in League football were much scarcer than now , and Bastin was in a class of his own with the fierceness of his shot , as a teaser of defences and as an expert penalty-taker . |
| 17 | It is a compact area of buildings , many with stone foundations and in an area of about 60 acres ( fig. 7.5 ) , but it has suffered from plough damage . |
| 18 | Its parliament , most of its ministers and nearly all of its higher civil servants , continued to be chosen from a narrow social class , which had drawn its income from industrial areas now derelict , from agriculture now unable to support its labourers and from an empire which was even more depressed than the " Mother Country " . |
| 19 | On the credit side there must be recorded the conscious emphasis on the school as a transmitter of moral values and as an instrument in building up the attitudes necessary for an active citizen : co-operation , integrity , industry and many more . |
| 20 | Party politics are a feature of life in local authorities and as an officer it is essential that you are able to provide objective and impartial advice . |
| 21 | What they needed to do was to look in Milton 's Collected Poems or in an anthology such as The Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse , rather than expecting individual titles all to be listed separately in the catalogue . ) |
| 22 | Behind the rhetoric , is the power of users , either as individuals or as an interest group , actually increasing ? |
| 23 | He had lived the life of a roué in the fleshpots of London and Paris , squandering the Carew fortune in gaming saloons and on an army of mistresses . |
| 24 | It is reasonable , to start ideas in train in children , to compare an electron with a ping-pong ball , or the whole atom with a tiny solar system ; but the longer you stay with homely parallels , the harder it ultimately becomes for the child to move out of the imagery of pong-pong balls and into an appreciation that atoms are n't really like that at all . |
| 25 | The purpose of making notes is primarily to set out , in a shortened but logical form , information that you have gathered from a variety of sources on a particular topic so that it can be used for revision purposes and as an aid to memory . |
| 26 | I believe that the maintained grammar school offers the best hope at present of making accessible to a larger population than ever before the best of the qualities and habits of which it somewhat accidentally finds itself the custodian : respect for learning , the encouragement of deep and strenuous thought , a regard for style , and the tacit assumption of contracts of mutual responsibility between individuals and between an individual and his society . |
| 27 | The failure of the DUP to endorse the illegality of working-class loyalists , which stems from a general reluctance to break the law and an evaluation of the present situation which argues that such extreme acts are not yet justified , should have made it unpopular with working-class loyalists and to an extent it has . |
| 28 | He viewed society not as an aggregate of isolated atoms but as an organism for the realization of common purposes . |
| 29 | Normally the forces from one molecule are counterbalanced by equal attraction by other molecules but at an interface the forces become unbalanced . |
| 30 | We had supposed that the second bacterial pattern , with separation between cytoplasmic and chromatinic content and parietal structures and often of typical ring shape intrabacterial electron opaque vacuolisation , represented the morphological consequence of a H pylori linked to nutritional conditions or to an acid or cytotoxic attack in the absence of a mucus layer , or all three . |