Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Cambodian peace talks in Paris broke down in 1988 , it was Mr Solarz , along with the Australian foreign minister , Gareth Evans , who pushed successfully for an expanded UN role in the transitional peace settlement . |
| 2 | We have pushed successfully for an EC ban on large-scale drift nets that threatened dolphins , and we support the UN resolution calling for a moratorium on their use . |
| 3 | Imagine now that a customer of an individual bank applies successfully for an overdraft . |
| 4 | Local hire is possible for those on shore holidays who can go ‘ there and back ’ , and just wish to potter locally for an hour or two . |
| 5 | This road can be picked up just outside Kenilworth , whence it runs in a south-easterly direction through Offchurch across country to Southam , and thence through an almost uninhabited landscape towards the North-amptonshire uplands . |
| 6 | A significant contemporary manifestation of that belief , and a vivid instance of how ‘ modern ’ sexuality became a surrogate religion , somewhere for an essentially religious notion of integrity to survive in a mutated and displaced form , was at the prosecution for obscenity of D. H. Lawrence 's Lady Chatterley 's Lover ( 1960 ) . |
| 7 | As far as the extent of this limited edition being only 200 is concerned , my only reservations are outlined above : namely that a guitar is designed to be used and not coveted wholly as an objet d'art to be hung on the wall , which I suspect is exactly where the bulk of these models are likely to end up . |
| 8 | The Nazi-imposed rules for managing the Kindertransporte were made more restrictive in early 1939 , presumably as an attempt to disguise from decent citizens what was being perpetrated in their name . |
| 9 | David Booth took 30 seconds to give them the lead , taking advantage of a defender 's clearance which deflected freakishly off an onrushing forward and into his path . |
| 10 | There is an alternative , more optimistic view that some people in education are expressing , which sees the current changes as somewhere between an irrelevance and a minor irritation in terms of their own aims and practices . |
| 11 | Such Arbitrator shall be at liberty to construe this Agreement and deal with differences arising thereunder as an honourable engagement and not be bound by strict rules of law . |
| 12 | You can get treatment for drug dependence , mostly as an outpatient . |
| 13 | You can get treatment for drug dependence , mostly as an outpatient . |
| 14 | I think things have changed quite dramatically in the last few years certainly , we admit very few people and we see them mostly as an outpatient . |
| 15 | In Woolwich 's case the main authorities are set out chronologically as an appendix and I find it convenient to deal with them in that order and to describe the principle above referred to as ‘ the Woolwich principle . ’ |
| 16 | In the 1930s , when the Japanese perceived that the Americans , British , Chinese and Dutch , were threatening their supplies of oil and raw materials they coined the term ‘ ABCD encirclement ’ , and used it eventually as an excuse to start the Pacific War . |
| 17 | This was interpreted locally as an endorsement of the plans of President Alberto Keinya Fujimori to return the country to formal democratic rule following his army-backed presidential coup on April 5 [ see pp. 38846-47 ] . |
| 18 | Lewis drove and hooked stylishly for an hour when opportunity offered , before Cairns showed the close fieldsmen how to do it by taking a superb diving catch at gully . |
| 19 | The Commander rubbed his chin vigorously as an aid to thought . |
| 20 | The LIFESPAN username has been created successfully as an immediate descendant of the requesting user ( this can not be altered ) . |
| 21 | The leaders of the new state — Ignacy Paderewski and Roman Dmowski — were campaigning vigorously for an even bigger allocation of German territory . |
| 22 | These perceived injustices led the trade union and labour movement to campaign vigorously for an end to the insurance system and for a single universal , Exchequer-funded scheme to cover all forms of primary care . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's such a jerk , ’ she remarked , remembering him as he left the breakfast table clad in the dark , light-weight suit which hung uneasily between an older idea of what was appropriate to the businessman and the current notion that , since it was no longer altogether cool to be a businessman , the person in the fast lane to wealth should appear relaxed and unconstrained . |
| 24 | But the timber of woodlands always has a claim to be treated as a commercial crop , and though the making of a tree preservation order does not necessarily involve the owner in any financial loss ( isolated trees or groups of trees are usually planted expressly as an amenity ) , there are occasions when it does . |
| 25 | If an HIV antibody test is not mentioned in reply to that question , the person whose blood sample is being taken need not refuse consent expressly for an HIV antibody test , but should ask for the purpose of the blood test to be entered in their medical records . |
| 26 | ACE exists predominantly as an ectoenzyme of vascular endothelial cells and plays a key part in the renin-angiotensin and kallikrein-kinin systems by activating angiotensin I into angiotensin II and inactivating bradykinin . |
| 27 | It reaches rivers only after passing slowly through an aquifer . |
| 28 | Second , there is something right about an argument which holds , as does the argument from error , that for the very same sort of reason that you do n't know you are not a brain in a vat , you do n't know , e.g. , that The Times will be published tomorrow , nor whether you are sitting reading . |
| 29 | Take off cabinet doors : leave them off altogether for an open shelved look ; replace them with new louvred or wooden doors with beading ; replace them with glazed doors , or hang curtains in front of shelves instead ( PVC fabric curtains wo n't pick up dirt so easily but cotton is cheaper and easier to wash ) . |
| 30 | If the unconscious means anything whatsoever , it is that the relation of self and others , inner and outer , can not be grasped as an interval between Polar and opposites but rather as an irreducible dislocation of the subject in which the other inhabits the self as its condition of possibility . |