Example sentences of "an area of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been established nearly thirty years in the Chiweshe reserve , an area of land for African development , fifty miles north of the capital city , Salisbury.The quality of the land varied but was mainly second class . |
| 2 | An attempt has been made by Nightingale to show that Rochester was the centre from which an area of land to the north had been centuriated on the regular basis of 20 by 20 actus squares . |
| 3 | By the generosity of the Duke of Devonshire , an area of land on the southern side of Burlington Lane , not far from the Southern Railway Station , was made available to the Chiswick Parochial Charities , and a number of Memorial Homes were erected for housing ex-service men and their families . |
| 4 | The government in July 1992 proclaimed an area of land as the permanent possession of the Awa , but the land has still not been physically demarcated . |
| 5 | The Chiswick Baptist Church was opened in 1897 , situated just off Chiswick High Road , opposite to Turnham Green Terrace , in Annandale Road ; also , in that same year , St. Thomas 's Hospital created their own Sports grounds on an area of land in Chiswick , bounded by Sutton Court Road , Fauconberg Road , Grove Park Terrace and the Southern Railway . |
| 6 | He postulated that at one time there had been an area of land in what is now the Atlantic Ocean allowing plants to move from Spain to Ireland . |
| 7 | India claimed an area north of Kashmir , seized by the Chinese in 1962 , while the Chinese claimed an area of land in the state of Arunachal Pradesh [ see p. 34947 ] . |
| 8 | The Wallace Clan Trust for Scotland hopes to raise £1 million to purchase an area of land in the West of Scotland , to be used as a new clan seat . |
| 9 | The plaintiff slipped and injured himself on an area of floor to which sawdust had not been applied . |
| 10 | The timing and mode of formation of stylolites remains an area of contention in sedimentary petrography , although many stylolites show evidence of at least some component of their formation relatively late , if not necessarily deep , in the diagenetic history of their containing sediment ( Fig. 5.22d ) . |
| 11 | The presence or absence of political business cycles is an area of contention in the realm of macroeconomic policy . |
| 12 | In the event it was too windy to fly on the Sunday so he came back early and they spent the day in his garden preparing an area of lawn for seeding . |
| 13 | Children can search an area of sea for the wreck of the Mary Rose , for instance , decide on a site for a medieval castle , or play the part of archaeologists excavating an archaeological site , deciding where to excavate and evaluating the evidence of the finds . |
| 14 | A history of failure in an area of life to which the person is highly committed not only makes him particularly vulnerable to depression following a further experience of failure , but can also raise the probability of further failures . |
| 15 | Pick an area of life in which you wish to move forward — perhaps health , work , relationships , money or spirituality — and scribble down whatever comes to mind about your self-image in that area ( e.g. ‘ Me and health ’ ; ‘ Me and work ’ ) . |
| 16 | One of these involves using the hind leg to scratch an area of skin to which an irritant has been applied . |
| 17 | MacCormac has designed only one private house , a low glass and wood structure in Blackheath , an area of London with some startlingly good modern buildings . |
| 18 | It is therefore not possible to set a theoretical limit to society 's power to use law to enforce moral rules , i.e. it is not possible to define an area of morality into which the criminal law may not under any circumstances intervene . |
| 19 | Cathy was surprised how ill she looked , there was an area of paleness about her eyes , and her nose was pinched and reddened about the nostrils ; perhaps a summer cold , though Alan had said she was depressed . |
| 20 | Lower cost production and prices will follow and this will help to expand an area of manufacture within EC markets and also serves to enhance the market for such goods in the rest of the world . |
| 21 | Save an area of memory to a file . |
| 22 | There are 2 quite different uses for the DIM statement : the first dimensions an array and the second reserves an area of memory for special applications . |
| 23 | The process may involve a critical reconsideration of an area of law in the light of changing social conditions or an authoritative interpretation of a statutory provision . |
| 24 | ‘ It is not an area of expertise for me . ’ |
| 25 | Intermediate level in-rack , sprinklers are required to operate at not less than 2 bar when the required assumed numbers are operating ; in addition , ceiling level protection will be required at the reduced rate of 7.5 mm/m over an area of operation of 260 m2 . |
| 26 | What must be accepted at the very basis of any enquiry is that it is not , as Taylor puts it , " a command , as in conventional search strategy , but rather as a description of an area of doubt in which the question is open-ended , negotiable and dynamic . " |
| 27 | Penn wanted to set up an area of toleration for Quakers something like Lord Baltimore 's Catholic colony of Maryland and , as the Stuarts owed his family money , they gave him the land grant as part of a financial settlement . |
| 28 | Up by where we had been tipping the spoil was an area of hard-standing for a car , and some benevolent genius ( probably our builder friend ) had laid down sheets of open-weave chipboard over the soil , so the wheels would n't sink in . |
| 29 | On an area of heath to the south , we found the scented bog myrtle and , on a newly constructed bank , grew the very rare ten violet . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , these linkages are not so tight that one can read off class self-identification from the hierarchical classification of occupations , in any of its variants : there is an area of overlap between manual and non-manual earnings ; many manual workers are now owner-occupiers ; many individuals in the higher occupations have come from manual backgrounds . |