Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] an [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the young Conservative member , whom Beatrice Webb thought the most brilliant man in the House of Commons , crossed the floor to sit as an independent in protest against the use of torture to interrogate Sinn Fein prisoners in 1920 . |
| 2 | The embattled Arts Council sketches its own position in its newly published Draft National Arts and Media Strategy : ‘ We shall campaign for the arts funding system to remain as an intermediary between government and the arts ’ . |
| 3 | Thus the goodness which is associated with the good breast may be preserved and protected by being introjected , to appear as an attribute of self ; but if the infant 's anxiety is aroused by its own feelings of frustration and hatred , the same good object may be projected outwards in order to protect it from the overwhelming badness which the infant feels to be within itself . |
| 4 | Whichever alternative is right , the trade unions ' bid for a share in the control of industry and , implicitly , to stand as an equal with Parliament as a body to which the nationalised industries should be accountable , could no longer be entertained . |
| 5 | The point is not simply that we can identify status from speech if we wish to , such as with the clever elaborations developed on radio ; rather , that it is difficult to conceive of an utterance in English in which this is not the case . |
| 6 | Chinese hamster lung fibroblasts transfected with M1 muscarinic receptors responded to carbachol with an increase in inositol phosphate release and fos and myc induction , but there was no DNA synthesis . |
| 7 | On page 37 of his volume of reminiscences [ Burton was to write in an article on rugby ] , Mr Williams is kind enough to suggest that I had distinct possibilities as a player were it not for the lure of tinsel and paint and money and fame and so on . |
| 8 | Twenty years after I was there — in the added bleakness of wartime and the blackout — the economist and educationalist John Vaizey ( the late Lord Vaizey ) was to write in an article in Encounter : |
| 9 | In it , you mentioned that you would be willing to write to an official in support of the building of a proper path between Bloomiehall Park and Muirwood Road , to give children a shorter and potentially safer route to school avoiding the Lanark Road . |
| 10 | TWELVE YEARS OF WEARING GREEN DUNGAREES ARE ABOUT TO COME TO AN END FOR HOMEBASE STAFF WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF A NEW UNIFORM . |
| 11 | The Grand Old Duke of York did lead his men ; Dick Whittington was a 15th century Lord Mayor of London ; Ring-A-Ring-O'-Roses is said to relate to an outbreak of plague in London in the 17th century ; and Bluebeard is based on a psychopathic French murderer of the 15th century . |
| 12 | Over last winter all the stud holes were drilled out and re-tapped and recently volunteers were busily repositioning support timbers to work on an area of rust on the front ring . |
| 13 | More recently she headed over to Dublin to work on an album with producer Kevin Moloney who , in the past , has masterminded releases by the likes of Sinead O'Connor , U2 and Clannad . |
| 14 | As a trade depot and naval base , Calais was to serve as an entrepôt for trade in and out of England , and as a back door , which armies might and did use , into France . |
| 15 | For all of us , to be able to talk in an atmosphere of trust and support is often all that is needed . |
| 16 | It is sufficient for the prosecutor to prove that the defendant intended to participate in an act of fighting . |
| 17 | The combination of a new regulatory system and increased competition ought to lead to an increase in efficiency in the provision of financial services , although this still ignores the cost of the overall regulatory framework . |
| 18 | Thus the merger of Fiat/Lancia and Alfa would increase Fiat 's existing dominance of the Italian car market and be liable to lead to an increase in monopoly power . |
| 19 | Inevitably , over such a long period , I became less institutionalized , more able to function as an individual in relation to belief and action and not merely accept the organization 's definition of things ; and this is a profoundly un-police like state of affairs ! |
| 20 | His concern was to ensure that Indirect Rule was sufficiently modernized to function as an instrument of government in an era of rapid social and economic change . |
| 21 | But I submit that it might be wise to look for an interpretation of quantum mechanics which comes as near as possible to being in accord with the attitude so widespread among its users . |
| 22 | According to its prospectus , it intended to apply for an Act of Parliament empowering it to acquire all the land south of Downing Street , as far as Parliament Square , between St James 's Park and the river . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a refreshing change to hear of an act of goodwill rather than yet another tale of violence and vandalism , ’ says marketing manager Ken James . |
| 24 | When a judge , particularly one with Lord Scarman 's breadth of mind , is appointed to inquire into an outbreak of violence and serious disorders on the streets of Brixton and the policing of the area , it is unrealistic to expect him to avoid any recommendations of a political nature as to the causes . |
| 25 | Such a long passage without any breathing spaces would be trying for a single player , who would have to fit in an intake of breath where the phrasing breaks . |
| 26 | When a biographer dubs his subject ‘ the greatest novelist ever to have written in the English language ’ in his opening chapter , he is clearly about to embark upon an act of homage . |
| 27 | Meanwhile the Unit Trust Association has published its Customer Code which explains what to expect from an investment in unit trusts . |
| 28 | During last year 's carnival , an electrical sub-station was sabotaged , plunging the area into darkness , allowing troublemakers to embark on an orgy of looting and vandalism . |
| 29 | The team realized that little effort had ever been made to look at an area of activity which tended to be regarded as a ‘ necessary evil ’ and one which was very time consuming and most invasive of their private lives . |
| 30 | An excited buzz went through the audience , they giggled conspiratorially and settled back to wait with an air of expectancy . |