Example sentences of "of [noun pl] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would be the result of any arrangement to award a ‘ franchised ’ firm of solicitors an exclusive contract to handle a block of legal aid cases . |
| 2 | I used to take a couple of tablets an hour or so before the programme , to make sure there was no spasm during transmission . |
| 3 | After a couple of minutes an idea occurred to her . |
| 4 | Give the pages of notes an open and individual pattern . |
| 5 | But his principal concern is to affirm that the relationship of A to B is only in a minority of cases an exact repetition , or a saying of the same thing in different words . |
| 6 | In 12 per cent of cases an unrepresented applicant faced an employer represented by a lawyer , while an unrepresented employer faced an employee represented by a lawyer in only five per cent of the cases ; when non-lawyer experts are included , this figure increases to nine per cent ( Genn and Genn , 1989 ) . |
| 7 | In a minority of cases an abdominal , rectal , or vaginal examination was performed . |
| 8 | Whatever it is , they say it hundreds of times an hour with endless patience and cheerfulness . |
| 9 | The ability to determine this level , referred to as the ‘ odour threshold detection value ’ is provided by dilution techniques , the value itself representing the number of times an odour-bearing gas has to be diluted with clear air before 50 per cent of a panel of sniffers will just not detect it . |
| 10 | In the singulative mode there is a balance between the number of times an event occurs and the number of times it is narrated ( an event occurring once is narrated once and an event occurring x times is narrated x times ) . |
| 11 | The strength of any particular syllable can be measured by counting up the number of times an s symbol occurs above it ; the levels in the sentence shown above can be diagrammed like this ( leaving out syllables that have never received stress at any level ) : |
| 12 | The ministerial portfolio of Mines an Energy , held by Aimé Emmanyel Yoka , was upgraded to a Ministry in the Presidency , and Yoka ( hitherto also Minister of State Control ) additionally took over from Auxence Ickonga as Minister in the Presidency for State Control . |
| 13 | In assessing the appropriate award of damages for loss of amenities an important consideration is how long the plaintiff will be deprived of those amenities . |
| 14 | In Scotland these include a special campaign to make the carrying of knives an offence ; the use of bullet-proof video cameras as a method of town centre surveillance ; and , most widely applied of all , a curb on late-night licences . |
| 15 | " By differential reinforcement of responses an individual can be led to make finer and finer distinctions among what originally may have appeared to be very similar stimuli . " |
| 16 | A REGRETFUL telephone call from the bank on a September morning last year announced the end of Sparks an hour after I was told that a crane had fallen on to Wren 's St James , Garlickhythe ; it was a day of numbing disaster . |
| 17 | To help facilitate the distribution of mail and delivery of messages an alphabetical guest list is maintained , usually on a revolving stand located in an area easily accessible to all staff of the reception area . |
| 18 | In doing this , we need to make the first block of colours an odd number of rows in length , 1 , 3 , 5 , 7 , 9 and so on . |
| 19 | As we saw in Chapter 10 , intermediate forms of imperfect competition require some economies of scale to limit the number of firms an industry can support . |
| 20 | This hidden wonderland , sculptured in darkness absolute , remained unseen and unsuspected through the ages until the present century when men first ventured into rifts in the ground and beheld in the light of torches an amazing display of sculptured limestone in patterns both incredibly delicate and massive , a living museum of art in many forms . |
| 21 | In one , Ackroyd interviews himself about his own book , dispensing the sort of reflections an author normally puts in the preface : only Ackroyd , the teasing narrative juggler , would insert them on page 892 . |
| 22 | In this state of affairs an important meeting took place between Mr. Tucker and Mr. O'Brien on 22 June 1987 . |
| 23 | The fact that the defendant might not himself have called the state of affairs an obstruction is , to my mind , immaterial . |
| 24 | Farmers are being paid hundreds of pounds an acre for NOT cultivating their land . |
| 25 | ( c ) Variation and discharge of orders An application to extend , vary or discharge an existing order must be made to the court which made the original order . |
| 26 | In the absence of particles an electrical current across the aperture remains constant , but when particles of low electrical conductivity , such as quartz , pass the aperture they cause current fluctuations , depending upon their volume . |
| 27 | The BMA called a press conference on the emigration of doctors an hour beforehand , half the journalists went off to that , and the fierce women sent along by the pressure groups whom I had invited to liven up the occasion terrorised the few press men who remained into almost complete silence . |
| 28 | The other is to imply , by crediting before the deduction of dividends an amount equal to the goodwill component , that profit for the period is calculated after the goodwill release . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'll remember my sayin' I had a few aces up m'sleeve , when we discussed our lack of numbers an ’ the possibility of these people operatin' outside patrols ? ’ |
| 30 | After that period has elapsed , however , shortage of funds may make the charging of fees an attractive proposition , and there will be a double incentive if fee paying permits a reduction of government expenditure . |