Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one girl called Clara whom she used to meet in the lower corridor an hour before classes began : they had long discussions about Tolstoy , Maeterlinck and Ibsen , and were suspected of immorality . |
| 2 | Though this rate drops during the rest of the year , the small estuary of the Rhode River received for the entire year an average 5.1 tonnes of total nitrogen from bulk precipitation ( snow and rain ) , and 7.3 tonnes from watershed run-off . |
| 3 | We have shown for the first time an inhibition of in vitro CCPR in normal and premalignant human rectal epithelium by vitamin D and its metabolites . |
| 4 | The theatre is one of the most influential in the history of medicine , and was built in 1594 , a century after Alessandro Benedetti 's De Anatomia was published in Venice , describing for the first time an anatomical theatre which could be dismantled . |
| 5 | Like the French Foreign Ministry the Posolskii Prikaz and College of Foreign Affairs showed during the eighteenth century an increasing tendency to divide into specialized departments . |
| 6 | As we turned into the open fields an icy wind rose , blustering flurries of snowflakes into our faces and eyes . |
| 7 | Movies were life and reality , and what happened in the murderous streets an absurd nightmare . |
| 8 | The entrance to the School from Buxton Road had to be closed until the 19th while an unexploded bomb in Corbar Road was dealt with . |
| 9 | I extend to the hon. Gentleman an open invitation to join me on any subsequent occasion . |
| 10 | Lying immediately below the Caste , the LAWNMARKET — the ‘ land market ’ where country produce was sold — had become by the eighteenth century an aristocratic quarter . |
| 11 | Having no book or magazine with her , she read from the opposite wall an advertisement for duty-free goods obtainable at Heathrow , one for travelling very cheaply by boat to Holland , another was deciphering an invitation to office temps couched in a kind of code , when the train drew into Finchley Road . |
| 12 | More importantly still , it had provided for the first time an ‘ effective ’ means of redress for those wishing to complain that interception has been improperly authorized . |
| 13 | Max Black 's influential ‘ interaction ’ theory builds on Richards 's ideas and depicts metaphor as a complex operation in which one semantic field ‘ organizes ’ another , acting as a ‘ screen ’ or a ‘ network of lines ’ ( 1962:41 ) which ‘ filters and transforms ’ ( 42 ) in order to project onto the proper term an entire ‘ system of ‘ associated commonplaces ’ ' ( 41 ) . |
| 14 | This control was vitally necessary if there could develop within the human race an area of activity which would provide far wider and ultimately greater satisfactions and happiness than could be obtained from purely physical gratifications . |
| 15 | It involves on the one hand an examination of the changing local demand for labour , and on the other an examination of the effects of unemployment on , and the response of , local voluntary associations . |
| 16 | My respected landladies , who are the double-distilled quintessence of considerateness and island hospitality , would think all good would leave their abodes if a dweller beneath their roof left fasting , so , in spite of all my entreaties to the contrary , a cup of tea was prepared to forestall my start ; and as I walked by the river-side and reached a road that skirts a number of very massive peat-stacks , and displays on the landward side an interminable host of peat-pits , the geniality of the sunshine was felt , and I would gladly have slackened my pace were it not that by so doing my good friends at Gress ( some eight miles from Stornoway , where I was due at eight o'clock , if I remember rightly ) , might have waited breakfast for me . |
| 17 | On 27 May of that year , John Martyn read to the Royal Society an account of a book entitled The Gardeners Dictionary , introducing it as follows : |
| 18 | The Slavs were mainly adherents of the Orthodox Church , and many of the Slav clergy saw in the Russian Church an ally in the struggle against the Phanariot Greek clergy , backed by the sultan , who wished to remove Slav influences both from the liturgy and from the administration of the Church . |
| 19 | Where some saw in the Hermetic texts an anticipation of Christianity , Bruno saw an alternative . |
| 20 | Matthew Paris says that he performed his duties with cunning , shamelessness and violence , and extorted from the northern landowners an ‘ incredible ’ and ‘ stupefying ’ amount of money . |
| 21 | As agriculture had so near a connection with horticulture therefore he kept at the same time an observant eye on everything which occurred in rural economy , particularly the cultivation of ploughed lands . |
| 22 | The Aeschylean Prometheus , however , expresses at the same time an Apolline demand for justice characteristic of his author . |
| 23 | As long ago as the twelfth century there appeared in the early bestiaries an illustration of a cunning fox feigning death , surrounded by birds . |
| 24 | No , they it 's the council collects it and in Uttlesford , that 's why I said we should get at the same time an Uttlesford councillor because I would |
| 25 | As there are many centres , so there are many different ways of operating , but in a survey conducted for the Royal Commission an extract from a document prepared by the Legal Action Group was found helpful , not only for the description of law centres , but also for the distinction it drew between their function and that of legal advice centres . |
| 26 | Editor , — With regard to academic medicine , surely it is not the time spent in research that is important but that the desired aim of awakening in the young doctor an appreciation of what science has to offer is achieved . |
| 27 | However , elation at the beauty of the surroundings meant tandooried legs were far from my thoughts , and as we continued to the shapely Sgurr an Lochain , towering as it does over a tiny dark blue lochan , we agreed it could n't get much better . |
| 28 | The recent publication of all known speeches and writings of Hitler between 1919 and 1924 provides for the first time an opportunity to observe the self-image profiled in his public statements . |
| 29 | A typical exhibit , Thomas Kapielsky 's witty ‘ Käseplatte ’ is an object the size and shape of a record ( platte ) which also looks like a section of a round cheese ( Käse ) ; but the thing visualises at the same time an untranslatable German pun ( while ‘ Käseplatte ’ is normally a selection of cheeses in a restaurant , ‘ Käse ’ is also colloquial for crap which can of course refer to music as well as to art … ) . |