Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( 1 ) Where on a complaint being made to a licensing board by any person or body mentioned in section 16(1) of this Act the board is satisfied that it is in the public interest to do so , it may , in accordance with the provisions of this section , suspend a licence . |
| 32 | He told the bailiff who came for him that he must shave , and suggested he stepped into his studio where on an easel he was confronted with the half finished Lazarus . |
| 33 | Where on an arbitration an award has been made against a party in his absence , the award can be set aside , but , in this instance , by the arbitrator only ( Ord 19 , r 5(2) ( Term 6 ) ) . |
| 34 | The Makaa River was two miles now on a dead run . |
| 35 | represents the ‘ weak ’ poverty trap , where over a wide range of earned income the effect of explicit taxation plus implicit taxation via the loss of means-tested benefits means that disposable income remains largely unaffected . |
| 36 | is the strong poverty trap , where over a range of earned income disposable income actually falls as earned income rises . |
| 37 | After a while , though , I started receiving letters from her , and on Sunday evenings my Pop would take me to the phone booth , where at a prearranged time I would ring a phone booth in Scotland and talk to her for 3 minutes . |
| 38 | A late election will also be acceptable where at a crucial time one of the signatories or a signatory 's agent was unavailable for unforeseeable reasons ( such as a serious illness ) and there was no one else who could reasonably be expected to stand in the agent 's shoes . |
| 39 | He then went to Jig Jigga , where at a mass meeting of Somalis he swore on the Koran that he was a Muslim . |
| 40 | Go left to reach the small square of Piazza Sant' Eufemia , where across a small lawn that is longer than it is wide and bordered by tall conifers , you will see the church that gives the piazza its name . |
| 41 | At apastron ( A ) , when the stars are furthest apart , where v a is the pulsar velocity and a ( 1 + e ) its distance from O. Similarly at periastron ( P ) Taking the ratio of the last two equations , we obtain . |
| 42 | Once the sailor has ‘ climbed the rigging ’ , which is usually an energetic process , he ‘ looks out ’ , remaining stationary except for a slight sway as the boat sails out of harbour . |
| 43 | In the heat of the midday sun we reached Ingleborough 's companion top of Simon Fell , deserted except for a few inquisitive Swaledale sheep . |
| 44 | So in his late anthology , Confucius to Cummings ( New York , 1964 , with Marcella Spann ) , he explicitly preferred George Chapman 's Homer to pope 's , even though he had admitted that Chapman is unreadable , except for a few pages at a time . |
| 45 | There was a cry , followed shortly by a pounding of feet past the trench and down through the orchard , then silence , except for a rumble of artillery somewhere in the distance . |
| 46 | She was quite attractive except for a very nasty skin condition , her face and arms were covered with a large number of pustules and it was obvious that she had been scratching them ; the scratch-marks were bleeding slightly . |
| 47 | The war was now a long distance away ; everything was quiet , except for a very faint rumble of artillery in the distance , in the direction of the River Seine . |
| 48 | Twenty minutes later the Sergeant was showing me my accommodation for the night : a bare cell except for a wooden bunk in one corner and two blankets . |
| 49 | After a theatrical demonstration by the instructor , everyone managed to perform this procedure satisfactorily , except for a young Second lieutenant medical student , who landed badly and broke his ankle . |
| 50 | The room was full of darkness now , except for a bright triangle near the door where the light from the corridor fell . |
| 51 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 52 | Except for a few extremely rich Americans ( Gordon Bennett was one ) and a sprig of French nobility they were British and Irish aristos , and landed gentry and army officers . |
| 53 | She was deathly pale , the mid-brown hair flattened to her head , the lined skin without make-up except for a brave but mistaken line of smudged lipstick . |
| 54 | Except for a few letters from Helen to Jane Aldis , there is nothing until January 1897 . |
| 55 | He closed all Catholic schools and colleges for three days and cancelled all services for the following Sunday , except for a single Mass in the Cathedral Church , to which 100,000 people came . |
| 56 | And , except for a few Teflon exceptions , it does ! ’ |
| 57 | She was naked except for a tampax and a lot of acrylic paint . |
| 58 | Most of it was just bumph , bills and Christmas cards , except for a bulky , strange-looking package which had been delivered by hand . |
| 59 | He was naked except for a bow tie — a nice touch , that . |
| 60 | Everything was dark except for a single patch where the moon shone through the skylight on to the wall . |