Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mood of that enquiry was romantically scientific , so to speak , impelled by a search for technicality based on a confident assumption that science had provided the arts with a lasting model of analytical objectivity . |
| 2 | In 1954 work began on the deserted Das Island to build a base for personnel working on a mobile drilling platform in the Arabian Gulf . |
| 3 | Actually I am still in two minds about mibbe squeezing in a quick Hughes or a Heaney somehow . |
| 4 | In the end , the account in Chapter 3 of the pressures for change amounts to an effective review of the recognition of the right of trade unions to be fully informed and consulted , in good time , by management about its intentions where they will or might affect the interests of employees organised by unions ; and so may be said to provide a firm footing for the argument that the practice of providing full information and of engaging in full consultation should be extended and adopted generally , in order that unions may better consider , and act in pursuance of , those interests . |
| 5 | All of the opportunities which exist for course monitoring in a monolithic , longitudinal course structure also exist at field level in the Modular Course . |
| 6 | Matthews entered the game at 3–4 as Colchester went to a one-setter system . |
| 7 | There 's a set up that checks a certain amount of areas and then blanks it otherwise you could be sitting there for hours waiting for a new Con activity so you just chew them off bit by bit . |
| 8 | Prime Minister Bufi spoke at a rally for Baker attended by a jubilant crowd packing Skanderbeg Square . |
| 9 | Capital projects such as roads fall into an intermediate category ; while they may usually have few , if any , direct implications , roads are frequently used in the UK 's LFAs to gain access to more remote uplands with a view to future moorland/ rough grassland conversions . |
| 10 | The point , however , that the inquirer should bear in mind is that these exemptions and exceptions have been granted because the organisations concerned have demonstrated that either they are already regulated by other statutes or are subject to a reporting procedure through branch returns to a central body which itself reports to the Charity Commission . |
| 11 | In public law , on the other hand , rules of standing are seen as rules about entitlement to complain of a wrong rather than as part of the definition of the wrong . |
| 12 | Through contacts formed in a previous period of field work with poor urban women of this category , the investigator is proposing to hold long open-ended discussions with a sample of older women and their daughters on the subject of AIDS : e.g. their knowledge of the epidemiology of the disease , the method of its transmission and finally their assessment of their own risk of contracting the disease . |
| 13 | The company is also hoping for permission to develop on a nearby abbatoir site . |
| 14 | ( a ) for solicitors to enter into a multi-national partnerships with members of that profession ; and |
| 15 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |
| 16 | Lift and drag have been calculated for tails spread to an apical angle of 120° . |
| 17 | You do n't believe all that rubbish about eyes meeting across a crowded room , and destiny and stuff , do you ? " |
| 18 | If one is to present a credible case for investment planning as a progressive development one has to consider the problems raised by the choice of criteria of operation for a national investment bank . |
| 19 | My arguments concerning the broad possibilities and constraints given by the present structure of capitalist property are not supposed to have the status of a ready-made political programme , and in discussing the possibilities for investment planning as a fruitful avenue for socialist argument I make no pretence to have identified the means of conversion of ‘ social reason into social force ’ ( to use Marx 's formula ) . |
| 20 | Recall that transfer was good for subjects trained in a simultaneous discrimination to raise a flap bearing the positive stimulus through seven inches but was less good for subjects trained to raise the flap only half an inch . |
| 21 | Is there any place for practice exercises in a communicative approach to language teaching ? |
| 22 | From this perspective , electoral politics were only one aspect of the struggle , and the parliamentary leaders were considered subordinate to the leadership of the mass party , which was at the same time the leadership of the class itself Conservative and liberal parties , however much they in fact represented class interests , saw themselves as parties functioning within an established social order and a system of political institutions in which parliament was supreme . |
| 23 | By now the tendency for manufacturers to concentrate on a single site was apparent , and many of the smaller mills , such as Inchbrook , fell into disuse . |
| 24 | The definition of ‘ keeper ’ for this head of liability is the same as that for animals belonging to a dangerous species . |
| 25 | As for animals belonging to a dangerous species , a camel has been held to be such because it may cause severe injury by kicking and biting , but strict liability was imposed for injuries suffered by falling off the camel because of its irregular gait . |
| 26 | After ultrasound scanning including a functional assessment , 220 ( 78% ) patients were found to be suitable for percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 27 | It is true in general , in spite of the fact that philosophers by no means speak with a single voice , and do not even agree among themselves about what they understand philosophy to be , since the nature of the subject , its preoccupations and methods , is itself a matter of philosophical disagreement . |
| 28 | A car on the Melsonby to Aldbrough St John road , near Richmond , was badly damaged by fire after petrol leaked from a loose pipe and ignited the engine , setting fire to the car . |
| 29 | A car on the Melsonby to Aldbrough St John road , near Richmond , was badly damaged by fire after petrol leaked from a loose pipe and ignited the hot engine , setting fire to the car . |
| 30 | Often the need for help arose from a specific pressure such as damaged or lost equipment or from a life event like moving house or the birth of a child . |