Example sentences of "[adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | But already her mind was full of him , her triumph shrinking , slipping between her fingers like that future of silk and satin and feathered bonnets she had been dreaming about so eagerly an hour ago . |
| 2 | Use transactional language effectively in a straightforward situation , eg an eyewitness account of an event or incident ; reclaiming an article which has been lost . |
| 3 | If you are typing in text with short lines , eg an address , use New line ( Shift+Enter ) at the end of each line except the last , when you should tap Enter . |
| 4 | a customer has a minor accident on the premises ( eg an elderly person falls down ) |
| 5 | However , it may also be unable to reap the benefits by charging the community for the advantages gained by improved amenities installed close to its factory ( eg an approach road ) , which benefit local people . |
| 6 | Such subject elements include : small things passing for large ( models , miniature sets ) ; large passing for small or normal sized ( eg an oversized set if normal people are supposed to be miniaturized ) ; animate for animate ( stuntman ; stand-in ; actor or child or dwarf inside animal or creature ) ; inanimate for animate ( from the cel of the animator to the monster or creature constructed in miniature or full scale and made to move by electrical/mechanical/hydraulic means or by stop-motion animation ) ; animate for inanimate ( pseudomechanical effects operated by muscle power ; the androids , played by normal actors , in Blade Runner ) ; composite for single images ( rear or front projection of the setting or alternatively the action , or one person playing two roles on screen simultaneously ) ; 2-D for 3-D ( glass paintings , painted backdrops ) . |
| 7 | Some writers have described formal groups as official groups , to avoid the confusion that can arise when describing groups operating in an informally structured organization ( eg an organic type of organization ) . |
| 8 | This is not an unreasonable request , unless of course there have been ‘ true ’ representations — eg an information memorandum about the Business — which may well have induced the Purchaser to start negotiations . |
| 9 | Students should be encouraged to find out about the Braille Alphabet from eg an encyclopaedia . |
| 10 | ( g ) Demergers The break-up of a firm after a failed merger is not unknown ; sometimes it is not so much the result of any defect in the merger arrangements themselves as a change of circumstances ( eg an unexpected collapse in the volume of a particular type of work ) . |
| 11 | In addition the tenant may have to pay compensation to occupying subtenants for non-renewal of tenancies under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 and may himself have to pay damages for breach of obligation ( eg an unreasonable refusal of consent to assign ) . |
| 12 | In practice they are those cases in which the plaintiff seeks to enforce or protect some right vested in him ( eg , an injunction to restrain a breach of contract ) rather than those where he merely invites the court to exercise its powers to grant him some statutory relief ( eg an application by a debtor for a " time order " under Consumer Credit Act 1974 , s 129(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 13 | Proceedings begun in this way include summary proceedings for the recovery of land ( subject to the special rules in Ord 24 , rr 1 – 7 ) and those which , in the High Court , would ordinarily be commenced by originating summons , eg an application by a business tenant for a new tenancy under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( Ord 43 , r 2 ) . |
| 14 | Commencement may be also by appeal from the order , decision or award of some other person , body or tribunal eg an appeal against a housing authority 's overcrowding notice under the Housing Act 1985 , s 362 . |
| 15 | So the invariable requirement now is that a market member trading on the market floor or its equivalent ( eg an automated trading system ) is required by market rules either to be a clearing member or to have a clearing agreement with a clearing member . |
| 16 | A number of further points should be noted : ( 1 ) If the financial adviser is acting for a newly-formed bidder ( eg an " off-the-shelf " company ) , the standard of care required of it has a special dimension . |
| 17 | America , hitherto an exporter of metals , began to import half of those it needed . |
| 18 | Mr Mubarak 's hand-picked Shura Council , hitherto an obedient advisory board , has publicly blamed Islamic radicalism on Egypt 's yawning social and economic inequalities , on corruption , and on perpetual rule by a single party . |
| 19 | Swiftly a ‘ marriage bar ’ was introduced , though its application does not appear to have been universal in the civil service until 1894 when government typists ( hitherto an ‘ unestablished ’ all-female grade ) obtained permanent , pensionable ‘ established ’ status by agreeing to a rule requiring automatic resignation on marriage . |
| 20 | The Financial Times of March 1 reported that Gorbachev had appointed as his economic adviser Oleg Ozherelev , hitherto an official of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) and formerly dean of the economics faculty at Leningrad University . |
| 21 | He was now approaching thirty years old and , as the year turned , he wanted desperately to get an audition for the new movie they were all talking about , in which the star was to be a young man playing opposite an older woman . |
| 22 | Opposite An early Royal Mail shipping line poster . |
| 23 | If you sit directly opposite an opponent , the sense of conflict may be heightened . |
| 24 | OPPOSITE An illustrated title page of Don Giovanni . |
| 25 | OPPOSITE An Artist 's impression of Mozart 's death . |
| 26 | Opposite An archer fish achieves a direct hit . |
| 27 | I was not unhappy to be sitting opposite an attractive lady from Coll and there was only one person I knew of who lived on Coll . |
| 28 | ‘ The CAA estimates that a fifty per cent increase in AOC charges would cost the operator of a single Learjet completing 1,000 hours annually an additional £660 . |
| 29 | There is furthermore an atmosphere of harshness and unrest about them that makes one realize how much closer to the spirit of Cézanne Braque 's contemporary work is . |
| 30 | Furthermore an exhaustive lexicon of words may include words outside a normal user 's vocabulary . |