Example sentences of "[noun] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five of these nine patients had undergone cholecystectomy from three months to 30 years previously , making passage of a stone from the gall bladder an unlikely cause of the biliary tract calculi . |
| 2 | Louis XIV had good try and Napoleon an even better one . |
| 3 | It has been criticised there on the grounds that any decision on lending which is based on how many characteristics an applicant shares with good or bad payers can not directly reflect the reality of whether or not that individual will be a good payer . |
| 4 | At Meadville an immense barn-like structure contained long , almost monastic , rooms with exposed rafters . |
| 5 | Craig Gwladys — Next to Penscynor Wildlife Park , this area of woodland has waymarked footpaths and picnic areas with spectacular views of the Dulais an Neath Valleys . |
| 6 | When you have an operation these days that 's lasting anything more than just er a couple of minutes or so , they will insert down your windpipe an endotracheal airway , which is a tube that goes down into your windpipe to seal into the windpipe , so if you vomit , for example , no vomit can down round that tube . |
| 7 | To do justice to Byrd 's songs an ensemble needs technique , stamina , teamwork , an intelligent understanding of the words and of the goal of the piece . |
| 8 | All three members of the court took the view that the corporation was bound by its undertaking and could not resile from it without at least giving the association an opportunity to make representations . |
| 9 | However it turned out a dismal championship for them with only Noel Weir of Rathfriland giving the association an interest in the open singles final . |
| 10 | The British never thought their Allies were as tidy about burying their dead as they might be , but under the non-stop shelling at Verdun an attempt at burial not infrequently resulted in two more corpses to dispose of . |
| 11 | He subsequently found ( Gordon , 1978a ) that these two features show different laterality patterns , pitch yielding no ear difference and rhythm an advantage for the right ear . |
| 12 | Pure objectivism is a myth and complete scepticism an impossibility . |
| 13 | The award caps an amazing 10 year streak of success for Clayton , aged 31 . |
| 14 | The results probably show that all subjects an relatively unfamiliar with a serial recall task involving signs and that deaf people tend to be sensitive to the language base of speech coding though they do not have a significant facilitation in overt rehearsal . |
| 15 | For those doing other subjects an excellent place to visit would be the Scottish record office who have all sorts of sources from town minutes to agricultural statistics and they are eager to help . |
| 16 | Southampton 0 Nottingham Forest 1 CARL TILER 'S first goal for Nottingham Forest since his £1.4 million move from Barnsley last summer gave Brian Clough 's side an undeserved win over Southampton last night . |
| 17 | My respected landladies , who are the double-distilled quintessence of considerateness and island hospitality , would think all good would leave their abodes if a dweller beneath their roof left fasting , so , in spite of all my entreaties to the contrary , a cup of tea was prepared to forestall my start ; and as I walked by the river-side and reached a road that skirts a number of very massive peat-stacks , and displays on the landward side an interminable host of peat-pits , the geniality of the sunshine was felt , and I would gladly have slackened my pace were it not that by so doing my good friends at Gress ( some eight miles from Stornoway , where I was due at eight o'clock , if I remember rightly ) , might have waited breakfast for me . |
| 18 | On the locomotive side an ‘ in depth ’ examination is currently taking place on No. 6 ‘ Douglas ’ to determine the full extent of the work required for a major overhaul in connection with the provision of a new boiler . |
| 19 | At one end there 's a DB-25 serial port , on one side an RJ-11 American phone socket and on the other a power inlet . |
| 20 | On the north or river side an artificial terrace about 40 ft wide is still visible , as are parts of the revetment wall on the east side , but the west side has been badly damaged by the excavation for the entrance to the quarry . |
| 21 | Richard , therefore , on his father 's side an Angevin , was a southerner on his mother 's . |
| 22 | where there has been surprise , as where the trial judge allows the case to proceed on a basis other than that pleaded without giving the other side an opportunity to consider the new material ; |
| 23 | But on one side there is a greenhouse and vegetables , and on the other side an army of chickens peck over the brown dirt . |
| 24 | RAY McCarron , Monaghan 's rotund scoring machine was up to his old tricks at Castleblayney when he fired in two goals to give his side an Ulster championship lifeline . |
| 25 | Also , on the technology side an offshoot of the ITAC Committee is the Civil Litigation Working Party under . |
| 26 | As one participant has suggested , the first intellectual task is to set on one side an archaeology of knowledge which has served us well for at least three centuries . |
| 27 | Graham Stamper and Mick Jones scored their goals in the first half , after Dean Ashton had given the home side an early lead . |
| 28 | In 1326 Scotland and France had concluded a new alliance , the Treaty of Corbeil , under which the French , while not being required to take military action on behalf of the Scots in any future conflict with England , agreed to give them diplomatic support , while the French obtained from the Scots an agreement to attack England in the event of war between the French and the English . |
| 29 | Edward 's absence from England at the siege of Calais gave the Scots an opportunity to assist their French ally by invading the northern counties . |
| 30 | Sir Drefaldwyn an 0-8-0 superheated tank tender engine storms up Golfa Bank just out of Welshpool with the final service of the day the 17.10 to Llanfair . |