Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I call upon Councillor to move the recommendations of the Community and Environment Services Committee , together with amendment A standing in his name . |
| 2 | It is perhaps in part a matter of date which makes Dornford Yates 's novels seem high-flown and absurd to us where we can accommodate ourselves to the formalities of Anthony Hope 's Ruritania . |
| 3 | Ramey 's focus is much sharper than Willard White 's , and it is only in part a question of vocal quality . |
| 4 | Behind his back they called him a " Jaune " — a " yellow " with its unmistakable implication of cowardice ; if feeling more tactful they called him an " Annamite " — but was n't that only in truth a man of China 's ancient colony , the " Pacified South " ? |
| 5 | Edwin Montagu by contrast , although indisputably by birth a member of la grande juiverie , was by inclination almost a professional non-Jew . |
| 6 | Shortly after midnight a number of shots were fired at Oldpark and Woodburn RUC stations . |
| 7 | Shortly after dawn a party of Germans entered a railway carriage at Compiègne and by the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month , the Armistice was signed and the war was over . |
| 8 | The meaning of the to infinitive is thus in fact a combination of two potentials : the potential meaning of the bare infinitive , which gives the speaker the possibility of representing the realization of any action as unfolding from its beginning through to its end and any state as having a fully actualized lexical content ; and the potential significate of to , which affords the speaker the possibility of representing any movement in time from a before-position to an after-position ( corresponding here to the beginning of the infinitive event ) . |
| 9 | Early in marriage a re-ordering of priorities is necessary , and some couples can run into trouble if their commitment to , or dependence upon , healthy robust parents can not be allowed to take second place to their commitment to their new partner . |
| 10 | Egypt was still in principle a province of the Ottoman Empire ; and while the Khedive 's allegiance to the Sultan of the Sublime Porte was in practice nominal , the Turks took a keen interest in Egyptian affairs . |
| 11 | It was also of course a source of female power by virtue of the fact that anything that threatens also wields power — a theme which has often been picked by other contributors to this volume . |
| 12 | And also of course a lot of crimes that had their that were basically crimes of domestic violence . |
| 13 | It is also in part a result of the demands of modern life which have made access to ordered information more and more necessary . |
| 14 | Thus the high-modernist building was able simultaneously to enshrine a notion of pure rationality in systems-building , pure formalism in its opposition to ornament , pure functionality which was seen as the basis of its aesthetic value , and pure style . |
| 15 | Well for instance a lot of people did n't even bother to erm make the kitchen floor into anything reasonable , but we did , we , we got some very good , very heavy |
| 16 | Therefore in flat keys write for the B ♭ clarinet , and in sharp keys for the A. Sometimes of course a section of a work may be in a key remote from that of the main body of the piece . |
| 17 | In March 1265 , when he renewed his oath of fealty to the king ( then in effect a captive in Montfort 's power ) he made clear ‘ before the people ’ that his loyalty was highly conditional : ‘ For as long as you will be a good lord and king to us , ’ he told Henry III , ‘ we will be faithful and devoted to you . ’ |
| 18 | We have then in homoeopathy a system of therapeutics which aims at helping the body 's innate self-healing abilities by the use of remedies derived in the main from the mineral , vegetable and animal realms . |
| 19 | As our study has also shown that most subjects who were seropositive in 1969 remained so over the next 21 years , it is probable that the high prevalence of H pylori antibodies seen in elderly subjects is at least in part a reflection of greater exposure to the infection in earlier years . |
| 20 | ‘ Mantle of the expert ’ for example , is almost by definition a way of working from an angle of detachment . |
| 21 | Then by lunchtime a line of waxy , yellow-white clouds was spotted abaft by the starboard lookout , and before long a breath of hot and humid air was wafting over a ship which , in a matter of moments — since its metal was still so cold — was dripping with condensation . |
| 22 | It is to point out that there is nowhere in existence a set of ‘ records ’ which could prove that Christ was either a lunatic or ‘ precisely what He said ’ He was . |