Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun sg] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ships with Wings ( 1941 ) , for example , tells the improbable story of a flyer who loses his commission after an attempt to impress the admiral 's daughter leads to the death of her brother . |
| 2 | Only Said Aouita has beaten Elliott since the Yorkshireman returned to the track after an injury postponed the start of his season until mid-August . |
| 3 | The club were served with the winding-up order on Saturday despite an offer to pay the debts off in several payments . |
| 4 | One could only say of an electron encircling the hydrogen nucleus that it had a certain probability of being found here and a certain probability of being found there . |
| 5 | Reducing the thickness of the inversion layer to about the wavelength of an electron quantises the motion as the diagram shows : the permitted states lie on infinitely-thin discs in k — space , each corresponding to a surface sub-band . |
| 6 | The National Health Service provides an excellent example of an organisation facing the problem of making a best fit with its environment . |
| 7 | Dorothy , in her time , had been an active member of an organisation called the Noise Reduction Society , which had campaigned valiantly and indiscriminately against lawnmowers and jet aircraft . |
| 8 | This reasoning encourages broad drafting of the purposes of an organisation to widen the scope of its implied powers . |
| 9 | geographical dispersion of an organisation increases the pressure for decentralisation of authority to regional or area managers ; or |
| 10 | This was particularly the case when Marcia Williams , having been powerfully lobbied by Arnold Wesker , was determined to persuade Harold Wilson to bestow some extra support on ‘ Centre 42 ’ , which was Wesker 's notion of an organisation to supervise the growth of the arts in this country . |
| 11 | The merits of an approach allowing the company to seek civil redress are essentially twofold : first , no victim need be identified ; and secondly , an action may be brought in the context of anonymous stock market trades . |
| 12 | As was noted above , however much one may value identification with one 's community , since it can be expressed by other means than respect for law it can not be a foundation of an obligation to respect the law , nor a basis for the general authority of governments over all their subjects . |
| 13 | One of the earliest instances of an artifact concerns the tendency of the subject to respond in a way that the experimenter expects and is pleased by . |
| 14 | The race organiser was in Gloucester today for the christening of an entrant bearing the city 's name . |
| 15 | The main premise in FSP theory is that the communicative goals of an interaction cause the structure of a clause or sentence to function in different kinds of perspective . |
| 16 | The interpretation of an utterance involves the integration of information across different levels of linguistic description and across time . |
| 17 | A student would read the passage for the day , I would explain any background needed and then we would all keep silence for a quarter of an hour to let the Scripture passage make its own impression . |
| 18 | A narrow boat and butty took over three-quarters of an hour to negotiate the locks , however , and an inclined plane was eventually built to speed up traffic by lifting boats in movable docks . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’ |
| 20 | If the costs of an activity exceed the benefits , he will maximize his total satisfactions by choosing not to engage in it . |
| 21 | Emily was glad of an excuse to change the subject . |
| 22 | The Dauphin 's interest in delaying the transfer of territory and renunciation of sovereignty is obvious , but it has been suggested that Edward too might have been glad of an excuse to resume the war if he wanted to . |
| 23 | For those who see in this the loss of an opportunity to remould the world more nearly to their hearts ' desire , that must be the overwhelming pity . |
| 24 | In that rule the freedom of an individual to instruct the solicitor of his choice and the responsibility of a solicitor once instructed to act in the best interests of his client is underlined . |
| 25 | The characteristic hunting pose of an owl quartering the ground or flying fast and low towards something it 's spotted below it . |
| 26 | They use role , they develop stories , they give symbolic significance to the spaces in which they play — a bed becoming a pirate ship , the arm of an armchair becoming the back of a horse . |
| 27 | There is no obligation imposed on the organisers of an assembly to notify the police in advance that they intend to hold such a gathering . |
| 28 | As a reformer confronted with an ignorant and conservative society it is understandable that Olavide saw universities only as ‘ workshops for the production of an élite to serve the state and enlighten the multitude ’ . |
| 29 | When there was prima facie evidence of an airline cutting the price on one route simply to take a competitor out of the market , then there should be machinery compelling that airline to cut prices on all its other routes . |
| 30 | Reshuffling its North America operations is , ZDS officials say , ‘ part of an effort to make the firm more responsive to the personal computer Unix-based market worldwide … the company had to start at the heart of the problem the bureaucracy in the company . ’ |