Example sentences of "an [noun] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Law 8 , Advantage states ‘ The referee shall not whistle for an infringement during play which is followed by an advantage gained by the offending team … a mere opportunity to gain advantage is not sufficient ’ . |
| 2 | With the money she received after his death she had an outbuilding converted into a studio and into one wall inserted a memorial plaque , giving Minton 's name and dates . |
| 3 | She is demanding a government of national consensus , leading to an election run by an independent election commission . |
| 4 | It was Honorius III who conferred the see upon him , acting as mediator in an election disputed between the secular canons of Lichfield and the monks of Coventry . |
| 5 | An election made after the two-year statutory time limit , but as soon as possible given the circumstances , will be accepted if it is made because a relevant and uncorrected Revenue error has resulted in the partners or their agent being misled about whether the requirements of the legislation have been met . |
| 6 | In an election dominated by the constitutional question , only the Conservatives have been committed to maintaining the status quo . |
| 7 | In an election dominated by the unification issue , it was notable that combined share of the vote won by the CDU and its Bavarian sister-party , the Christian Social Union ( CSU ) , was only 43.8 per cent , a smaller percentage than in any of the West German general elections except that of 1949 . |
| 8 | He handed me an eyepiece attached to a long lead and there , through a series of prisms , were my lower intestines in glorious technicolour . |
| 9 | Swainson felt that an illustrator ranked below a real man of science , and he therefore also sought a reputation as a theorist . |
| 10 | His blistering turn of speed , cavalier attitude and rank bad discipline made him an instant hit with the fans and yet another scourge for the beleaguered authorities to cope with . |
| 11 | The Plaza Girls , a troupe of tall dancers that were an instant hit with the public . |
| 12 | Below us , the pale grey shape of a quartering male hen harrier flew back and forth over reed beds until it spied prey — and on an instant dropped to the ground . |
| 13 | Popillia Japonica is an insect found in the soil which is brought from Japan with the tree . |
| 14 | The model is his picture of what is going on outside him and it is essentially an hypothesis based on the available evidence . |
| 15 | The type of injury/illness should be considered in conjunction with the Policyholder 's occupation and an assessment made of the likely disability period e.g. a builder 's labourer with a broken leg will in most cases be off work longer than an office worker with the same injury . |
| 16 | With this in mind the Ulster Unionist perception of British values and traditions , the empire , Ulster and southern Irish nationalists is examined and an assessment made of the compatibility of these views with British thinking on these issues . |
| 17 | According to an assessment commissioned by the Department of Energy the cost of the support structure alone for one offshore wind turbine ( excluding the turbine ) would be £3 million while one machine would cost £34,000 per year to maintain . |
| 18 | One recent charge alleges that the Violette de Mazia Trust , an endowment derived from the estate of the late Barnes protégée Violette de Mazia , was created from the sale of paintings de Mazia purloined while an intimate of Dr Barnes . |
| 19 | Over the 1960s wearers of the old school tie probably became less evident in the boardroom and the higher reaches of management , but they were not generally replaced by an elite drawn from the new cadres of higher education . |
| 20 | It is an experience characterized by a peculiar ‘ … searching disquietude , a changeability full of dynamism ’ composed of aesthetic excitement , the active constitution of the aesthetic object , and a passive perception of the qualities revealed . |
| 21 | ‘ Spurging ’ entailed the general washing of the body with spiced and aromatic water to remove the sweat of the death-bed and generally to clean the corpse ; ‘ cleansing ’ was the euphemism given to the assisted emptying of the bowels and the plugging of the rectum ; the removal of the soft organs , following an incision made from the bottom of the rib cage to the pelvic region , was known as ‘ bowelling ’ ; ‘ searing ’ was the cauterizing of the cavity blood vessels after the removal of the soft organs as a precaution against post-mortem haemorrhaging ; whilst the purification of the inner cavity was the technical ‘ embalming ’ ; the outer surface of the body was ‘ dressed ’ by the application of balms , a mixture of resins in volatile oils ; whilst ‘ furnishing ’ implied nothing more than the positioning of the sudarium ( a linen square covering the face ) and the close wrapping of the corpse in layers of cerecloth and waxed twine . |
| 22 | With an Auriga fitted to the back of his Swift he was right on the pace at Brands Hatch , qualifying up the grid , only to have his hopes dashed when he was adjudged to have left the pits against a red light during practice . |
| 23 | This is envisaged by SGA 1979 , s 12(3) , although even here SGA 1979 , s 12 ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) imply a warranty that the seller has disclosed known encumbrances , and warranties promising no disturbance of quiet possession by the seller or the person on whose behalf he is selling , or by third parties claiming through them ( except by reason of an encumbrance disclosed to the buyer ) . |
| 24 | We spent two months in Cairo , living in the western suburb of Shafeyeen in an apartment rented from a French teacher who was away on home leave in Normandy . |
| 25 | If an admiral commanded on a distant station , he had considerable patronage at his disposal . |
| 26 | The legal regulation of police practice ill fits the theory that the fruits of police investigation are in principle no different from any other source of information ; that , as it were , a confession in the police station is no different from an admission made to a casual bystander . |
| 27 | So is an appendix devoted to the umpires , from which it emerges that of the list of 31 only six have not been first-class cricketers : a healthy ratio surely . |
| 28 | Generally , the accounts are required to be audited by an auditor appointed by the same Secretary of State . |
| 29 | In a decision certain to arouse controversy but brilliant in its audacity , Dan Flavin will build a column of neon light reaching from the Rotunda 's floor to its skylight , and will occupy all the bays of the spiral ramp with an installation based upon a proposal which the artist realised , in fragment , in 1971 . |
| 30 | The pest , a tiny fawn-coloured mite called varroa which can cause havoc in commercial hives , has been discovered at an apiary run by the Torbay Beekeepers ' Association . |