Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might compare this ethical relation to Cixous ' remarks about the need to love the other or Kristeva 's recent preoccupation with love which , from this perspective , hardly involves the sudden apostasy of which she has been accused , but rather as for Levinas consists of a way of formulating a ‘ responsibility for the Other , being-for-the-other ’ . |
| 2 | The demand for action comes in a week when John Bond has been advised to stay away from his former club , Burnley , for Shrewsbury 's FA Cup tie this afternoon because of fears of reprisals from angry Turf Moor fans . |
| 3 | Steve continued with us in One until the following March , when he crossed the Atlantic to play for Vancouver Whitecaps for a couple of seasons , but he joined the Palace for a third time in the summer 1981 as our Youth Coach and was then appointed Manager in mid-November , charged with keeping the side in Division Two , following relegation from Division One . |
| 4 | Most of what is known about Leapor derives from a letter by her friend and mentor , Bridget Freemantle , to a gentleman in London , probably John Duncombe though possibly John Blencowe . |
| 5 | The question is whether the prohibition on alienating the land followed by the exhortation to keep it for descendants amounts to a trust . |
| 6 | Windows for Pens comes with a collection of pen tools . |
| 7 | Many people who call for benefit increases in a discussion on whether or not to operate a minimum wage , mysteriously lose their voice in debates to enhance welfare payments ( Sam Brittan and Joe Rogaly , both from the Financial Times stable , are honourable exceptions to this rule ) . |
| 8 | This type of assessment consists of a series of questions which the student answers by selecting the correct response(s) from those presented in the accompanying grid . |
| 9 | The 1850 statement of progress speaks of a curriculum designed to ‘ prepare pupils for any position in life which they may be called upon to occupy [ and which ] can be afforded at the moderate fee of two guineas a quarter ’ . |
| 10 | But , as she herself points out , the particular activities for which the Shropshire group were prosecuted exist on a continuum with a large number of more common acts , many of which must have been criminalised by the Rant decision ; if the breaking of skin suffices for a conviction of assault , even moderately rough sex becomes problematic . |
| 11 | The other type of attachment relies upon a spring , which needs to be pressed in order to allow the loop of the collar to be secured . |
| 12 | Or are we to insist that assurance of faith exists in a believer even when he is sure that such assurance does not exist ? |
| 13 | Like the ‘ language ’ of narrative , the ‘ language ’ of literature serves as a source of stereotypes and models which provide ready-made explanations and prevent people from analysing the specificity of the world around them . |
| 14 | Two children die , as number of cases triples in a week Hospitals on brink of ‘ red alert ’ for flu . |
| 15 | Ironically , the sale of Manton comes at a time when Sangster 's fortunes on the track are looking up . |
| 16 | The active centre of HPr consists of a histidine residue , at position 15 ( His15 ) , the target of phosphorylation , and Arg17 . |
| 17 | Sultan Pakubuono XI of Surakarta comes from a lineage reaching back to the ninth century and , despite Indonesia 's official birth into the modern age with her independence in 1949 , the Sultan , like his ancestors before him , remains the uncrowned " Pope " of pre-Islamic Javanese mysticism . |
| 18 | The schedule of meetings begins with a presentation of the proposals by the Developers , on Friday 1 November 1991 at 2.00 pm in Room 1.5 in the Regional Chambers , to which all members of the Council and appropriate officials are invited . |
| 19 | Any but the simplest of questionnaires consists of a series of question sequences , each dealing with a different area of interest . |
| 20 | The dependence/independence continuum in the model of living serves as a reminder that all people experience change of dependence/independence status for the Activities of Living in the normal course of the lifespan . |
| 21 | Frustration with the ineffectiveness of words lies behind a lot of physical violence . |
| 22 | In the face of opposition calls for a boycott , and reports of widespread apathy among the electorate , the Interior Ministry announced on Sept. 5 that a 99.96 per cent " yes " vote had been achieved in the previous day 's referendum on proposed constitutional changes . |
| 23 | In general , the full analysis of a set of data consists of a sequence of tasks from data validation , through the exploratory production of graphs and summary statistics to more complex techniques of estimation and inference . |
| 24 | The object of ridicule cowers beneath a dust-cover , revealing only a tantalising glimpse of dusky-pink fabric . |
| 25 | As we saw back in section 12.5 , the building-up of reserves counts as a deficit ( an outflow from the balance of payments account to the reserves account ) . |
| 26 | On April 1 , 1990 , pressure from US and Canadian companies led to the implementation a year sooner than originally scheduled of tariff cuts worth a total of about Can . |
| 27 | At 13000°C the viscosity of silica drops by a factor of ten thousand million ( 10 10 ) for the addition of 25 per cent of soda . |
| 28 | Another , and different , outline of Scotland appears on a vellum portolan , or sea-chart , which also depicts the fjorded coastline of Norway , including the famous whirlpool , Maelstrom , together with the south-east coast of Spitsbergen . |
| 29 | The city has more Chartered Designers working within the city boundary than the rest of Scotland has as a whole . |
| 30 | The Chelsea Flower Show is probably not the most obvious place to pick up a bargain — lead lions rampant and Medici urns atop Corinthian columns must cost more than the Governor of the Bank of England earns in a week to transport there , let alone purchase . |