Example sentences of "[prep] a [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Also leaving Bishopsgarth in the summer will be Mrs Isobel Fraser after a 27year career .
2 The economy moved back into the black in February after a Dm412m deficit during January but the latest Dm1.6 billion surplus is still well below the comparable Dm2.1 billion a year earlier .
3 The search for Dennis Garvey has been stepped up after a post mortem revealed his wife had died from hammer blows to the head .
4 Today the police said that after a post mortem examination , they 're still awaiting the results of more tests .
5 Merseyside Coroner Roy Barter said he would be holding an inquest after a post mortem revealed head injuries played a part in Mr Lewis 's death .
6 ( en ii ) the possibility of removing the 16+ as a series of examinations to be taken after a one/two year course for 14–16 year olds at the age of sixteen would remove a constraint which has a distorting effect on the pattern of the curriculum of schools .
7 As Ho and other communists noted , amongst the European proletariat the issue of colonial emancipation was very much an also-ran in the 1920s ; and even after a bona fide Vietnamese communist party had been formed , it was just as irksome to them to have to accept the tutelage of the French Communist Party .
8 Er they actually took us to the petrol station to get more fuel and after a er five course lunch with the local farmer and his family er which was all very nice and er not too much wine of course as you can well appreciate erm we telephoned the gendarmerie and they came along and er closed the main road for er approximately twenty minutes and we took off on a road .
9 The move came after a 2,000,000-tonne shortfall in Soviet oil deliveries , which was normally 13 million tonnes annually .
10 Wilkinson himself became involved in the controversy when Batty made his way to the touchline to be substituted after a 38minute flare-up .
11 Do Souza Silva reached Marrakesh only the day before after a 7000K flight from Rio , but he did n't seem jet-lagged .
12 As you know it is a 24 hours job looking after a child/young adult with special needs .
13 The increasing prominence of a cappella repertory in the choral institutions and the punctilious singing it requires , the marked prominence of younger singers with clearer , straighter voices ( principally men of pre-marital age , able to accept the low salaries offered to lay-clerks , albeit for brief periods only ) , the choirmasters ’ determination to raise standards by producing clearer textures in resonant buildings , the pervasive influence of boy trebles singing in high registers upon the whole choral sound these are factors that may all have their place in Taruskin 's stimulating argument but might also be regarded as vigorously independent of it .
14 Summary : The conference was funded by ESRC to discuss the results of the primary analysis of WIRS2 , some initial results of secondary analysis ( some of which was ESRC funded , but under separate grants ) , generally appraise WIRS2 as a resource for the academic community and , finally , discuss the possibility of a WIRS3 which subsequently took place in early 1990 , with a substantial contribution of funding from ESRC .
15 If you think there 's any chance of a re of a reply I would very certainly .
16 Liverpool dockers recently turned back parts of a 1,500-tonne consignment of Canadian PCBs ( polychlorinated biphenyls ) bound for this plant in Gwent .
17 It starts with private capital of around DM150,000 ( £53,500 ; $93,200 ) and further funds will have to be raised to reach the goal of a DM0.5 million ( £178,500 ; $310,700 ) annual budget .
18 It starts with private capital of around DM150,000 ( £53,500 ; $93,200 ) and further funds will have to be raised to reach the goal of a DM0.5 million ( £178,500 ; $310,700 ) annual budget for projects .
19 … a small wingy , leggy item runs across the screen of the VDU , interrupting my thoughts , which are dwelling on the possibilities of a 1,000-word essay on a woodlice-breeding camp .
20 The sudden purchase of a 2.8% stake by Lord Hanson , the archpredator , in May 1991 was the clearest possible signal that the company was in trouble , and vulnerable .
21 Kevin also runs a pop quiz with a prize of a Q96 tee-shirt for those who win .
22 Already there is talk of a Richards-for-vice-president movement in 1992 .
23 That is due mainly to the unique construction of the six-cylinder engine which , thanks to modern metallurgy , is cast as a sort of staggered , in-line six which allows the compact dimensions of a V6 with the unbeatable smoothness of a straight six .
24 Remaining models under the template are hit on the D6 score of a 4+ .
25 Remaining models under the template are hit at strength 3 on the D6 score of a 4+ .
26 Models whose bases lie under the rest of the template are hit on the D6 roll of a 4+ .
27 Remaining models under the template are hit on the D6 score of a 4+ .
28 If a spell is cast against the bearer or against the unit he is with , then the spell is dispelled on the D6 roll of a 4+ .
29 Jeu de Cartes , in particular , is nothing short of a tour de force or orchestral wizardry , superb engineering , and interpretative control .
30 By means of this simple model , Keynes was able to accommodate the marginal productivity theory of the demand for labour within his income-expenditure theory of employment , something of a tour de force .
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