Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 As adjunct to its education policy the BDA has recently embarked on a youth policy for reasons spelt out in a resolution passed by the Rothesay Congress in 1986 : This Congress recognises that the future development of the deaf community requires the full participation of deaf children and young people .
2 His extraordinary conceit and capacity for intrigue spilled over into a genuine mental instability and in 1869 he was removed from Rome to a lunatic asylum in a convent at Passy , a suburb of Paris .
3 It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees .
4 Then they went into the lead , only for Peterborough to come back with a late equaliser .
5 But this easiness on the eye , and Michael Hordem 's predictably effective narration , will not deter criticism From those who demur at the implicit assumption that man 's continuing affection for gardens arises out of a folk memory of being cast out of the Garden of Eden and a consequent urge to recreate this paradise .
6 Straight holding and in vitro injection pipettes are appropriate for manipulations carried out in a manipulation chamber .
7 And if that was the case , then the idea for Artemis to move up to a horse must surely have sprung from him .
8 Talking in a loud voice whilst approaching a hide is the guaranteed way to become an expert in identifying the back ends of birds flying off in a panic .
9 At this year 's Chelsea Flower show , a group of prisoners walked off with a silver medal for a garden display.And at the prison itself , they 've been busy creating borders and features that have turned a jail into an oasis of colour .
10 But if you ask him to spare a couple of hours to help out at a St John Ambulance fund-raising activity or a garden fête for the church roof repair fund , he might find that a worthwhile thing to do .
11 People who go through any kind of shit come out with a certain sense of humour : it comes from the pain you go through and how you handle it .
12 To test this particular application of Procedure Audit , a monitoring process was established in a section of thirty persons , and the administrative assistant briefed to record the number of queries referred back over a period of two months .
13 ‘ Only that Frank has seen him a number of times coming out of a special house down there .
14 The distribution of frequencies in this ‘ microwave background ’ is just like the distribution of frequencies given off by a hot gas .
15 My night of glory ended up with a hobble to the shower and a flop into bed — very athletic , eh ?
16 As informational flows become less structured , so the water-tight internal divisions of institutions break down into a plethora of working parties and task groups with constantly shifting personnel .
17 On the other , it is a disadvantage to have the risk of a large volume of money tied up with a single customer who could be a slow payer .
18 On all sides : the abolitionists , the retentionists , and the abstainers , the vote was recognized as a momentous one in which the consciences of Members of Parliament came up against a profound issue transcending party politics .
19 There is a need for such evaluators , but they are surely a very minor part in a much larger process , for evaluation is foremost an attitude of mind backed up by a series of techniques which may , indeed , be very simple and which affect all the workers from the start and throughout the project .
20 Enzymes are a form of protein made out of a very precise order of amino acids .
21 Closer than seemed possible , striking against an almost purple sky , we saw Kanchenjunga with a bright plume of snow standing out like a triumphal flag .
22 Outside them , by an open area and a covered section , a small flight of steps led down to a low outbuilding which faced the open area .
23 They went round the corner , and the child stopped in front of a flight of steps leading up to a dilapidated house , one of a number in the street .
24 Rather the critic frequently seems to adopt an inflated posture , where his or her negotiation of a text becomes a journey of discovery marked out with a rhetoric of almost heroic endeavour .
25 If you watch the start or the first few miles , you 'll see a mass of humanity moving along at a snail 's pace .
26 In the end the Chancellor and the Bank of England came up with a 70p a share safety net .
27 That benighted member of the Established Church of England ended up in a barrel on an English pier .
28 A trail of ash led down to a ragged , greasy jacket , buttoned with extreme strain over two pullovers which reached to just above the knee of oiled and dusty denims .
29 Anna stopped to examine the great plates of fungus growing out from a tree-stump .
30 Alternatively , dispense 10 double drops of fixative on a wax plate ( dental wax , or a sheet of parafilm stuck down on a glass surface ) , and float each grid on the surface of a drop ( 1 grid per drop — use each drop once only ) .
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