Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this conflict between preparation for an invasion and the immediate raiding of the enemy coasts was never clearly resolved ; and a force of Royal Marines and Commandos was held on the Clyde forever preparing for landings against the possible need to capture an Atlantic island base should Gibraltar fall . |
| 2 | But she was still enjoying her new position as mistress of a farm and house , and although she respected and liked him , she did not want to marry him . |
| 3 | The actor may while he is on stage feel deeply , say , some of the emotional references listed by Marowitz , but Stanislavsky demands that they be simultaneously translated through technique into a form that touches an audience at its deepest level of feeling . |
| 4 | Coventry levelled before Stabler regained the lead for West with a penalty and converted Andy Mitchell 's try , slotting another penalty to make it 15–3 at the break . |
| 5 | He spread them out in the manner of a dealer displaying merchandise for inspection by a client and then sat down facing her , his huge mouth stretched in a smile of pure delight . |
| 6 | Ryan 's proposal for a program for automatic story generation which fulfils her three criteria of creativity , aesthetic awareness and understanding will probably remain beyond the boundaries of feasibility for a long time , but it does demonstrate both the need for a greater contribution of ideas from poetics and narratology to developments in artificial intelligence , and the insights that can be gained from the attempt to shape one 's ideas about narrative into a form that can be learnt and applied by computers . |
| 7 | ( Programme trading is the simultaneous trading of a basket of shares as part of a plan or strategy . |
| 8 | To qualify , you must be a practitioner ( or a group of practitioners ) working in education ( in Scotland ) whose normal job does not include doing research and who does not have the support available to those doing research as part of a degree or diploma . |
| 9 | To harden a royal icing , for instance where it is used as part of a structure or decoration , a tiny amount only of acetic acid or cream of tartar could be added . |
| 10 | as part of a manufacturing or processing complex , where units of materials are stored to service the industrial or manufacturing process . |
| 11 | Work handled in London and Ipswich is also being switched to Lytham as part of a reorganisation that will see all the administrative and servicing work for life and pensions handled in Lancashire . |
| 12 | In future EC airline pilots will be permitted to continue flying commercially between the ages of 60 and 65 years providing that they fly as part of a two- or three-pilot crew . Ed |
| 13 | I agree wholeheartedly , with what we were saying , what we do n't want to see is a whole one house block in the countryside , he wants to see it as part of a farmstead and order to prove that it 's going to be part of a farmstead , the buildings should be prerequisite to go up first before the house does . |
| 14 | It would have involved his consortium ploughing between £10m and £15m into the troubled Eagle as part of a recapitalisation that would have left them controlling 29.9 per cent of Eagle 's equity . |
| 15 | But these histories are more intelligible when seen as part of a whole and when it is understood that the forces that encouraged or hindered their growth were deeply rooted in the local society of which they form so characteristic a part . |
| 16 | Your herb wheel can be any size , and as part of a lawn or a paved area . |
| 17 | As part of a belief that primary nurses should be at the bedside , nurses do not attend doctors ' rounds , instead they collect medical objectives afterwards . |
| 18 | The University has no obligation to assist students with fees , except where these are paid as part of a scholarship or award made by the University . |
| 19 | Is he aware that the parent company , which was nationalised as part of a French and Italian consortium , has threatened to remove the transputer from this country because of the British Government 's failure to support British industry in the way that the French and Italian Governments have ? |
| 20 | ACET volunteers work as part of a team and provide help in many different ways to ensure that people do n't spend time in hospital unnecessarily . |
| 21 | Note that where assets are acquired not as part of a TOGC and VAT is payable , the VAT liability may be treated as capital expenditure for the purpose of writing down allowances for plant and machinery . |
| 22 | Programme trading is the simultaneous trading of a basket of shares as part of a strategy or plan , and it pre-dates trading using computers . |
| 23 | Industrial battles of this sort were almost an everyday event in Griffith 's America but here the bloody scenes are staged not as part of a labour or management film but as part of a vast , elaborate , confused , perhaps ultimately nonsensical and certainly eccentric plea for tolerance . |
| 24 | I like to have a few action songs in a party , either as part of a show or as an alternative to games . |
| 25 | Such a clobbering would be sold to the public as part of a health and environmental package . |
| 26 | He did not know why he asked the question , except as part of a ritual that reassured him Blanche had not changed . |
| 27 | I was so disappointed to find out that , because I work for the company , I could not send off for three free tea towels and a £1 gift voucher being offered as part of a Hovis and JS combined promotion . |
| 28 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 29 | a sentence is not autonomous , it does not exist for its own sake but as part of a situation and part of a text . |
| 30 | Another sherd of this beaker depicts a stag ( not drawn ) either as part of a venatio or , possibly , the Third Labour — the Keryneian Hind . |