Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It arose out of an action for professional negligence against a firm of accountants , but the person bringing the action went bankrupt . |
| 2 | Executive secretary Abbas Bundu stressed the need for political stability as a prerequisite for achieving the organization 's aim of economic integration . |
| 3 | Mr Yeltsin , who in normal circumstances might have been expected to restrain the Russian nationalists , is fighting for political survival against a Congress of People 's Deputies highly critical of his economic reforms . |
| 4 | When you have researched a ley , by map , field and archive , you are then in a position to write up the material for possible publication in a magazine such as The Ley Hunter . |
| 5 | Before making the offer it will be necessary to identify all the consents , clearances and notifications which will be required in relation to both the target company and the bidder : ( 1 ) If the takeover falls within the criteria for possible reference to a merger control authority ( eg under the FTA or the Merger Regulation ) then confidential guidance might be sought from , or pre-notification required to be made to , the relevant competent authority ( see Chapter 19 ) . |
| 6 | For specific information about a command or a prompt or an option anywhere within that command : |
| 7 | In 1915 , in recognition of her early biochemical work , she received the Ellen Richards prize , an award presented by the American Association of University Women for outstanding research by a woman scientist . |
| 8 | The council hopes the publicity will help its application for European funding for a project on the river . |
| 9 | There would be no appeal against the Court 's decisions ; by rooting the whole ECSC structure in the last resort in the rule of law , the drafters of the treaty introduced a concept which was to be of tremendous importance for European integration as a whole . |
| 10 | Despite opposition from the Bar Association and another government-appointed committee , the Wimalaratne Committee adhered to its views in a supplementary report , because movables in the custody of a borrower , secured by a mortgage , provides in the main the basic security for working capital of a trade or business . |
| 11 | Such cases will often have been treated as acute cystitis for a day or two , and may present to the casualty department or emergency room with a bladder so swollen that it mimics a twenty week pregnancy . |
| 12 | He was sprinting for dear life across a carrot patch and doing quite well until one of the pieces caught up with him . |
| 13 | But there will still be important debates about the form of European decision-making , and the relationship between political accountability at a European and a national level . |
| 14 | He had been caught lying about inside knowledge of a dirty-tricks campaign against his own party . |
| 15 | It may be recommended that independent psychiatric or psychological assessment is made or that the sufferer is admitted for prolonged assessment over a period of time ( ten days or so ) in daily contact with the group of patients already in treatment . |
| 16 | Yesterday just two local reporters were at his Press conference about low pay at a community centre in Coulby Newham , Middlesbrough . |
| 17 | They have a wide range of units — the smallest suitable for indoor use on a tank and for ponds as small as 500 gallons . |
| 18 | However , the point you have to erm , recall , is that if it 's a conflict between parental investment in a sibling and parental investment in myself , I am twice as closely related to myself as I am to my sibling . |
| 19 | The closest thing to an acknowledgement of what this might be comes at the end of the splendid description of a whale-hunt , which has all the care for technical precision of a Del Giudice ( 71–7 ) , when the old whaler asks the narrator why he wanted to join the expedition that day , whether it was just out of curiosity ( 76–7 ) . |
| 20 | These features take on particular interest when combined with the findings of Squire ( 1964 ) whose study of readers not only found evidence of a considerable need on the part of adolescent readers for association and empathy with the characters in a work of fiction , but also a clear correlation between emotional involvement with a story and the formulation of literary judgment . |
| 21 | CCP general secretary Jiang Zemin also endorsed Deng 's praise for economic reform in a speech on June 9 , which was reported on Chinese television and radio on June 14 . |
| 22 | And almost nothing about Peruvian society as a whole . |
| 23 | A new constitution , embracing the details of the agreement , was expected to be submitted for popular approval in a referendum before the end of the year . |
| 24 | The Church Commissioners have been granted outline planning permission for residential development on a plot of land at the corner of the main road and Colliery Road at Auton Stile , Bearpark . |
| 25 | But you 've argued previously in this hall that North Yorkshire should provide for residential development at a level which would cater for a continuation of the past levels of migration . |
| 26 | But is has been identified as a cause for social concern by a number of recent researchers on rural conditions ( Larkin 1978a , 1978b , 1979 ; Dunn et al . |
| 27 | In such circumstances an incomplete service is being offered for social work as a service . |
| 28 | Together with the wreck of the economy , it produced a chasm between the aristocratic/military caste and a peasantry bereft of any opportunity for social mobility through a bourgeoisie . |
| 29 | ‘ Dixie ’ — a nickname said to derive from his swarthy complexion and curly black hair — preferred to augment his income by making bets with bookmakers on the basis of the number of goals he could score in a game ( one goal was evens , two goals 5–2 , and three 10- 1 ) , Sportsmen , especially footballers , had since the 1880s been used on cigarette cards as free advertising for a brand . |
| 30 | In addition to the full audit , the operation of a centre 's internal quality systems will be informally monitored , for example , through the outcome of Verifier activity and through periodic contact with a quality auditor . |