Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure that you do not get a link-wire in the wrong place so that it short circuits a secondary winding . |
| 2 | This can provide a route into the body for HIV from infected semen — and out of the body from the rectum into the penis via infected blood ( blood can enter the penis through the hole in the end ) . |
| 3 | After that bypass opened , congestion was greatly reduced — but it is beginning to increase again because of the greater use of the A12 as a route into the hinterland of East Anglia , to the ports of Ipswich , Harwich and Felixstowe . |
| 4 | But Hebbert was there , guide in hand , picking out the classics on the Left Wall ( he reasoned it had to be a route on the left wall to provide a contrast to the big slab route just completed ) . |
| 5 | From an old book of local walks I read of a route up the Remarkables , the jagged range of peaks which overshadow Queenstown across the lake , and which rise to nearly 8,000 feet . |
| 6 | It could signal the need for food when the rivers overflowed their banks , or for volunteers when snow-drifts were piling up and people were needed to come out and reinforce the banks and dig a route through the snow . |
| 7 | A well-known example is the micro gallery at the National Gallery 's new Sainsbury Wing , where visitors can see high quality reproductions of the pictures , learn more about them and plan a route through the rooms . |
| 8 | I knew I was courting disaster without a rope and partner on , so rushed around below the ice cliffs of the snout to see if I could force a route over the smooth slabs and close to the col . |
| 9 | It is level , it 's available , the developer may provide a , an amenity area , it says so in the letter anyway , for the town , and a route across the river to . |
| 10 | Charles has actually planned a route across the Martian south pole using photographs taken by the Viking and Mariner probes . |
| 11 | However , the most telling condemnation came from General Sir Garnet Wolseley , the Adjutant-General and the Commandant of Dover Castle , who argued that a tunnel would ‘ open up a route to the invader into England ’ . |
| 12 | The latter does not offer a route to the former , and should be strenuously opposed as a mere manipulatory gambit on the part of ‘ capital ’ . |
| 13 | With Ole Larsen , a Finn , Colbeck reached the furthest south ( 78° 51 'S 50'W ) thus far achieved and reconnoitred a route to the Pole later followed by Roald Amundsen , who in 1912 after his triumph sent Colbeck a letter of thanks . |
| 14 | Thirdly , these regionally based programmes of initial training also provide a route to the obtaining of a professional qualification for an increasing number of people outside the formal further education sector , such as nurse tutors , education staff in the armed forces and in prisons , and industrial trainers . |
| 15 | For them stations would act principally as a means of access to the labour market in mines , farms , and towns , not as a route to the world market for their produce . |
| 16 | Thus if Exceptional children is the preferred term , when the user looks under Children he must also be able to trace a route to the document . |
| 17 | a route to the heart of the dream . |
| 18 | A programme that may provide a route to the Revised Higher Grade course could be developed by adding further Stage 1 Biological Sciences modules ( see page 10 ) to this core . |
| 19 | The following groups of modules may provide a route to the Revised Higher Grade course in Chemistry ; |
| 20 | The following groups of modules may provide a route to the Revised Higher Grade course in Physics : |
| 21 | He 's also planned a route to the south pole of Mars . |
| 22 | He 's also planned a route to the south pole of Mars . |
| 23 | The Department of Transport has put forward proposals for a new route around the south of the town although protestors and the local CBI prefer a route to the north along the present A forty one . |
| 24 | At stake are not only the interests of potential motorway users and of persons whose land might be compulsorily acquired to provide a route for the motorway ; also involved are the inhabitants of villages and towns which will be relieved of through-traffic by the motorway ; British Rail may have an interest in inhibiting the development of alternative means for the transport of goods ; improved transport and communications facilities provided by the motorway may benefit some businesses at the expense of others ; and motorways have , of course , serious environmental effects which lovers of the countryside and people who live near the proposed route will be anxious to avoid . |
| 25 | Bridging precariously above the protruding spike concentrates your mind wonderfully on the old cliche — ‘ not a route for the married man ’ ! |
| 26 | Surgical drains are placed by the surgeon into the wound and provide a route for the exit of blood or body fluids which would otherwise prevent healing . |
| 27 | For example , we might suggest a route for the mains , and specify carriageway , verge or footpath , based on the results of our own surveys . |
| 28 | In the event , the more fateful decision was not the proposal of a route within the walled city but making the starting point for the march the railway station on the Protestant Waterside . |
| 29 | However , this crossing is on a route from the town centre to housing areas and schools which is heavily used by pedestrians and cyclists , so the opportunity was taken to reconstruct the junction to meet the needs of soft traffic ( Figure 6.12 ) . |
| 30 | Picking a route from the walking riches of Scotland is always somewhat arbitrary — but needs must and a traverse of the Five Sisters of Kintail will certainly pass muster as a first-rate choice . |