Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Executive responsibility — as part of a team the solicitor has the opportunity to participate to a greater degree than an outside solicitor in the commercial decisions resulting from advice .
2 As part of an assessment a careful written record should be made identifying needs , wants and feelings , resources and unmet needs .
3 At the time the thought never entered our heads that there could be any doubt about this , and it is certain that the effect on morale throughout the country was tremendous , especially as for months at a time the war news from other parts of the world was usually bad .
4 For the making of contracts by a corporation the Common Law required a document under the corporation 's common seal , except in matters of trifling importance or daily necessary occurrence .
5 A final point worth making in defence of the data is that the observational material can not be impugned to the same degree , because in the flow of action during an incident the exigencies of the situation usually take over , making it difficult for policemen and women to act in ways contrary to what the situation requires or their colleagues demand .
6 Let's now look at the relationship between total product and average product O K the slope of a ray from the origin , alright , along the curve rises all the way to L 2 units , right , so the slope of the cord , ray rather , the slope of ray from the origin rises , right , to O 2 sorry to O L 2 units of labour as a result the margin , sorry the average product of labour is also rising over that range .
7 They predict that within a decade such polymer films will be able to store Gigabits of data in a film the size and thickness of a dime .
8 Mr Justice Jowitt commenting at the trial of Ernest Coveley , accused of carrying out a series of robberies with a cucumber The escargot laying season is between June and September .
9 It was always considered necessary for a man to shoulder the main burden of work at a farm the size of ours , and I suppose the main reason why the place is a bit run down these days is because there was no man left to take over when Uncle died .
10 Macaulay has vividly described how huge crowds knelt to receive the Bishops ' blessings on their way to the Tower , and how when they were acquitted of sedition by a jury a week later even the King 's troops cheered .
11 The latest 280sq miles of fields stretch from the Red Wharf Bay area of Anglesey to a point a few miles from Crosby .
12 In completely dry air this reaction proceeds very slowly , but with the addition of water as a catalyst the rate of oxidation increases dramatically .
13 In the normal mucosa of patients with a carcinoma a similar increase in urokinase type plasminogen activator and tissue type plasminogen activator from oesophagus to stomach was observed as in controls .
14 This attractive picture relates the strange BL Lac objects to quasars in a straightforward way , and offers the exciting possibility of looking , in a BL Lac object , deep into the heart of a quasar — possibly down to the central powerhouse where a quasar produces as much power as hundreds of galaxies in a space no larger than the Solar system ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p 364 ) .
15 Stephen called all the heads of departments to a meeting the following morning , informing them of Michael 's departure and the appointment of James Morris as acting general manager .
16 I have a slow heartbeat , about 67 or 68 , but we found that in a quiet passage of music before a climax the heartbeat could rise to 170 .
17 In the form of application for a mortgage the applicant is invited to state which type of inspection he requires .
18 Section 5(9) states that Customs may make regulations with respect to the time of supply of services for a consideration the whole or part of which is determined or payable periodically ( known as ‘ continuous supplies of services ’ ) .
19 In studying an elaborate sequence of events within a task the designer will systematically consider the need for appropriate triggers for the memory at specific points in the task .
20 Everyone forms some sort of impression of a person the first time that they meet .
21 This book grew out of an exploration of the roofed classical sites of classical antiquity from the point of view of an engineer the wooden roofing of course having long since disintegrated .
22 Where such a significant holding amounts to 20% or more of shares in an undertaking the following must also be stated if material :
23 Like sleep-walkers in a dream the coolies began advancing out of the shade towards the ship .
24 So Gough , who had a brilliant European Championship , has to sit on the bench with Roxburgh and sweat it out against Portugal in a match the Scots have to win .
25 Does the Minister agree that whether in Sheffield or throughout Yorkshire as a whole the history of a great industry and of a great industrial heritage was based on innovation and entrepreneurism ?
26 It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’
27 The culmination of the invasion was a mighty battle against an alliance of Caledonian tribes under Calgacus at a place the historian called Mons Graupius .
28 Miss Hardbroom 's eyes bored into Mildred like a laser-beam the moment they came into view .
29 When under attack from a predator the three basic responses of animals are to freeze , flee or fight .
30 The young teacher who goes from success at school to success at college and university ( like his/her Swedish or Russian counterpart ) is likely to take back into school as a teacher the assumptions which underpinned this personal success .
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