Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bought the building two years ago with the intention of turning it into an exhibition space for cultural exchanges between Europe ( mainly France ) and Japan . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , Mr. Pybus , the Minister of Transport , announced in February 1932 , that the London Transport Bill was dead and he had no intention of forcing it on an unwilling House of Commons . |
| 3 | enhance pupils ' motivation and self-esteem by providing them with an achievable goal ; |
| 4 | Yes there are far too many overlapping institutions that self regulation has n't worked , it ha has no adequate on the annualt we welcomed 21 effective against fraud by replacing it by an independent statutory statutory based regulator which has the power to strike and strike hard rather than everything er by the the the plethora of regulations we now deal with in the financial er in the financial sector and in the respect of what 's proposed today , you ca n't rely er on auditors to be the effective police force that they 've been required to be by these er regulations . |
| 5 | Just turned 21 , Jeanne had sacrificed any hope of fulfilling herself as an artist to Modigliani . |
| 6 | Michael Burns , 31 , of Whorlton Road , Hardwick , Stockton , is accused of raping the girl after dragging her into an alleyway by the Newtown Social Club in Durham Road , Stockton . |
| 7 | A perceived event then is not in the same relation to the act of perceiving it as an inferred event is to the act of inferring it . |
| 8 | ‘ But somehow that mistake sort of propelled me into an approach which is still very significant to what I do . |
| 9 | You know both sides were very happy you know it was up with the company or down with the company you know , and I think certainly the younger lads sort of saw it as an infringement upon their future , you know we 've all got mortgages and the o older men who 'd been working since the quarry started you know were gon na see a drop in their standard of living , so I think you know people were getting a bit upset you know that a n a new fella h a new face had come in , and all of a sudden you know changes were being made that were gon na hurt everybody financially . |
| 10 | If she can find the slightest little thing that sort of effects her in an adverse manner |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing , but you 're in danger of turning it into an art form . |
| 12 | He spent as long as he could going round the Smoking Room at a snail 's pace , cleaning clean ashtrays and polishing polished tables , and when summoned once or twice to wait on other members he dragged out the process of serving them for an inordinate length of time . |
| 13 | As Guthrie foresaw and wrote to me after attending an early performance : I feel confident that Gloriana will survive and be considered a great work … that disastrous miscalculation of opening it to an audience and on an occasion that required an all-star Iolanthe will set it back twenty years . |
| 14 | If shaft flexibility is not important dynamically there seems little point in introducing it as an unwanted variable in the swing . |
| 15 | As I have pointed out , AIB require a very high standard of professional knowledge either as a pilot or as an engineer before accepting someone as an investigator . |
| 16 | This is not part of the project plan but an aid to the project leader in creating one with an adequate safety margin . |
| 17 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 18 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 19 | After the revolution , Andrei 's starlet wife loyally tried to defend her husband by portraying him as an opponent of the Comrade and the victim of persecution , but this unoriginal line of defence is not borne out by the facts , except insofar as all the members of the ruling group lived precariously . |
| 20 | In an effort to keep it in Fort Worth the museum agreed to allow time for a public subscription rather than following the normal procedure of consigning it to an auction house . |
| 21 | It serves as a dual purpose : it performs a musicological service by presenting us with an intelligently planned selection of the kind of harpsichord music current in the Germany in which the young Bach grew up , and it also lets us hear several composers of outstanding merit in their own right . |
| 22 | Inevitably , since there are only twelve tissue salt preparations , an attempt was made with varying degrees of success to enlarge their scope by mixing them in an effort to cover other symptomatologies . |
| 23 | Deism frees this bound-in monadic god by releasing him as an immanent but impersonal spirit . |
| 24 | A few reporters , shunning the handout , gave an impression that the American press was opposed to the war , and indeed played a large part in bringing it to an end , an impression that journalists have since been content to foster . |
| 25 | This may be one of the reasons why Gandhi has no difficulty in describing himself as an Advaitin or non-Dualist , though to what extent it is accurate to regard Gandhi as an Advaitin is another matter . |
| 26 | He himself had drunk one quick light beer before excusing himself for an early night . |
| 27 | ( b ) Determinacy I turn now to another basic logical condition of meaningfulness of describing something as an ontological existent . |
| 28 | Personally I would be pleased to find a driver that works with any variety of the printer I had — after a life of driving everything as an Epson FX-80 that would be progress ! |
| 29 | Obviously , I could make better use of the space by replacing them with an 8 x 12ft monster , but that was too expensive £500 , or more … and I certainly did n't have that much going spare . |
| 30 | But as he was brought in six months later when Curzon died , age was hardly a reason for excluding him from an office without portfolio in 1924 . |