Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When cholera toxin is used as secretagogue a variable response in stool volume should thus be expected . |
| 2 | He took over as chairman a few months later . |
| 3 | Various reports a plea for support a plea for interest particularly for the seventy fifth anniversary year next year and after that we had the most lovely party . |
| 4 | Because we know more today about the sources of infection and pollution , about quarantine an isolation , hygiene and preventive medicine , we can watch Israel 's obedience actually fulfilling God 's promise to take away their sickness ( Exodus 23:15 ) . |
| 5 | Mr Dayton currently co-chairs a committee seeking to raise $50 million for endowment a far cry from the $30,000 annual drives he remembers leading in the 1940s ! |
| 6 | Mobil Badger is to offer for license a novel technology for reducing the benzene content of light reformate , the Mobil benzene reduction process . |
| 7 | Actually , Ron does n't know it , but he 's got a point — you really ought to think about money a bit . |
| 8 | On one occasion during field-work a father who needed to be present while his young son was being questioned at the station instructed his child to ‘ Tell these f'ing black bastards nothin' ’ , and when told that that was a lovely way to bring up his son replied , ‘ Aye , and I 'll keep bringing him up that way ’ ( FN 11/7/87 , p. 9 ) . |
| 9 | Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence a person 's agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk . |
| 10 | Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence a person 's agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk . |
| 11 | Section 2(3) states : " Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence a person 's agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk . " |
| 12 | Meanwhile , a group of Catholic senators was trying to push through parliament a bill banning abortion and granting ‘ full human rights ’ to the foetus in time for the pope 's visit . |
| 13 | The arguments against putting through Parliament a blatant twisting of the general law , which would smell only too strongly of a corrupt bargain , were overwhelming . |
| 14 | In the following year he had succeeded in attracting so much public attention that the government was obliged to hurry through parliament a new Merchant Shipping Act setting a fixed load line for ships — the " Plimsoll Line " . |
| 15 | Indeed , he was selected to carry up the bill of settlement to the Lords , and in 1702 piloted through Parliament a measure to attaint the pretender . |
| 16 | The victim , who 's in her twenties , was grabbed as she walked through woodland a few hundred yards from the crowds in Park . |
| 17 | The only building of note is All Saints ' church , standing on what is for Holderness an eminence . |
| 18 | If one has to identify a stimulus — for instance a word - then one can accomplish this more quickly if presentation of the word is immediately preceded by an associated word or picture . |
| 19 | Some calls have a more general effect , for instance a loud neigh or whinny may alarm the whole herd … in the main however , so far as communications between individuals are concerned , visual signals are more important than sounds . |
| 20 | For instance a gene may be successful through improving the running speed of a predator . |
| 21 | John was full of invention , always making up steps and sequences which he called by odd names : for instance a stamping step he called ‘ Sherman tanks ’ , which he devised for the zephyrs in Primavera and used again for the unicorns in Harlequin in April . |
| 22 | For instance a telephone listening service is offered to people in distress by associations such as the Samaritans and Befrienders . |
| 23 | Take for instance a young couple just married . |
| 24 | In robotics , for instance a number of British companies have begun to develop and make robots , so creating jobs directly . |
| 25 | For instance a colleague of mine returning from a remote part of Kenya commented on the habit among pregnant women of eating a particular sort of yellowish mud . |
| 26 | But significantly all these recording are of sound effects , replete with high frequencies , for instance a ratting matchbox , or earth falling on the top of a coffin in which the dummy head is being buried . |
| 27 | The cost equation complicates further because coaxial cable needs only simple connections at each end , for instance a plug to fit a TV set . |
| 28 | For instance a man who is over fifty and who smokes over twenty cigarettes a day is four times more likely to suffer from heart disease than a non-smoker of the same age . |
| 29 | The new rules for taxing manufactured interest , payments made to compensate for the loss of interest , where for instance a security is ‘ sold cum interest ’ but acquired by the seller ex interest in order to meet the sale , took effect on 29 June 1992 and apply from 30 June 1992 . |
| 30 | For instance a thin stream of liquid , from a tap which is being turned off , will reach a diameter at which it pays it to break up into separate drops simply because these have less aggregate area then the cylindrical stream . |