Example sentences of "there [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | The place had belonged to a Polish woman , who 'd lived there as a child and then rented it to students for the past fifteen years . |
| 32 | Nigel Maynard , son of the Malta A.O.C. The unit now moved to Alexandria , although a small servicing detachment was to be left at Kalafrana for several more weeks in order that Sunderlands might land there as a forward base . |
| 33 | On the 1986 West Indies tour , when he was just there as a batsman , we had one particular discussion with Bob Willis at a beach bar in Antigua . |
| 34 | Yet Elizabeth had been a widow for over ten years , and her children were very nearly off her hands ; it is quite possible that her brief sojourn in the workhouse was part of an attempt to give her life a new direction and meaning — perhaps she was there as a helper , a visitor , a counsellor to those in need , or even as a missionary spreading the gospel of Christianity in general or that of the Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion in particular . |
| 35 | An American flees to Amsterdam , depicting his life there as a chain of sadism and serial killing . |
| 36 | It has been estimated that as many as 10% of old people admitted to hospital are there as a direct result of drugs prescribed by their GP ( Age Concern , 1977 ) , and Phillipson ( 1982 ) suggests that much over-prescription of drugs is a conscious attempt to control the medical demands on the health service by older people . |
| 37 | I 'm fairly sure that there will be someone on duty there as a matter of course but I 'll check . ’ |
| 38 | In 1681 King Charles II visited Winchester to inspect progress on a palace which Wren was building for him there as a base for hawking and hunting in the Hampshire hills and forests . |
| 39 | The diagram shape is there as a visual aid for the knitter to see the ultimate shape of the garment section being knitted . |
| 40 | Elsewhere in this issue , Isabel Wolff reports on the inspiring life of Rigoberta Menchu , a indefatigable defender of human rights of indigenous people in Central America ; Ian Williams describes his experience in Somalia while working there as a nurse during the worst of the 1992 famine ; and we publish an extract from The Princess , an anonymous account of the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia . |
| 41 | It is more likely that the white ear spots are there as a signal to cubs following their dam in thick jungle . |
| 42 | Society was there as a backdrop to drama , melodrama if you like , and that drama could only be presented in terms of individual destinies which had to be resolved satisfactorily in the film itself . |
| 43 | It is assumed that homologous structures are there as a consequence of evolution from a common ancestor , so homologous structures common to all mammals would be presumed to have been present in our common ancestor . |
| 44 | In its vast project to kick the mainframe habit and move to Unix-based client-server systems , Mead Corp 's database operator Mead Data Central Inc is spreading its favours around , and while some Unix business has gone to Hewlett-Packard Co , NCR Corp is also in there as a so-called strategic technology partner ( presumably its non-strategic technology partners are the people that supply the brooms they sweep the floor with ) as Mead moves existing applications off mainframes to a client-server environment : the two have been working together for the past year on projects to re-engineer access to the widely-used Lexis and Nexis on-line information services and create a new internal information system infrastructure and campus-wide network , and Mead is using NCR System 3000 symmetric multiprocessors and AT&T Co and NCR network products . |
| 45 | The Russian ambassador in Kiev has described Ukrainian independence to other diplomats there as a temporary phenomenon , unlikely to last more than another year and a half . |
| 46 | Had a few thousand peacekeeping troops been sent there as a sign of outside concern , that war just might have been avoided . |
| 47 | His expert knowledge of classical history was sharpened by a deep interest in Indian law based upon his years of service there as a senior legal official . |
| 48 | He was appreciated there as a university teacher , latterly on the West Coast , but sometimes regarded as an exemplar of the type of European influence which discouraged American composers from coming to terms with their own background on their own terms . |
| 49 | There is a token female on the adventure but she 's just there as a conversation point and to be rescued from the unwanted advances of unshaven cowboys ( ‘ This is not a very 90 's man thing , ’ Crystal warns them ) . |
| 50 | He was too young to remember when it had been a school , though his mother could , she had been there as a pupil . |
| 51 | He was celebrated there as a martyr , and his grave became a shrine , a sacred site , a pilgrimage centre . |
| 52 | Your tutor is there as a resource and will keep things moving . |
| 53 | ‘ I take it that you see that architectural dog 's dinner down there as a skilfully-planned structure — some sort of enormous palace . ’ |
| 54 | I would not care to go there as a tourist in the season of pilgrims , however , because then the sense of one 's impertinence would surely be too strong . |
| 55 | At the same time it should be remembered that over the centuries , exiles and deportees have only accounted for a tiny fraction of the total population of Siberia , the vast majority of which was there as a result of voluntary emigration , fortune seeking or the process of natural procreation . |
| 56 | If it had been me there as a kid , I 'd have wrapped my arms around him and smothered him , that 's how strong the emotion was . |
| 57 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 58 | If one regards the benefit in this light I can not see that the cost incurred in , or in connection with , the provision of the benefit , can properly be held to include the cost incurred , in any event , in providing education to fee paying pupils at the school who were there as a right in return for the fees paid in respect of them . |
| 59 | On several occasions , according to Werner 's informants , groups of Toraja resistance fighters had been taken into the forest by the Japanese , machine-gunned , and left there as a warning to others . |
| 60 | It was a long while since she had visited her old home , and longer still since she had lived there as a girl . |