Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] a [noun] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Under a microscope or with a side light we can see where the paint 's been lost .
2 This could be demonstrated explicitly or via an audit report which was exception-based , i.e. it reported on any instances where the law was contravened .
3 angle of lead When intercepting a track to or from a radio beacon you must allow for the turn onto track from the intercepting heading .
4 The provisions of s739 ( and s740 ) apply to situations where there is a transfer to a UK company which thereafter becomes resident outside the United Kingdom or to a UK trust which thereafter becomes resident outside the United Kingdom .
5 Listening can be done in a classroom-type situation where you listen to a live language helper or to a tape recording which can be played over and over again .
6 The definition of non-equity shares is widely drawn , so that any right to a dividend or to a redemption payment which is for a limited amount will have the effect that the shares will be considered non-equity shares , irrespective of the other rights they may enjoy .
7 The medium-to long-term outlook is optimistic ; the success of the Modular Course educationally , academically , and as a management system which has maintained high morale among staff during difficult times , makes it a hard example to ignore .
8 After six years as Chairman , he knew all the important party figures and he became a dangerous foe ; in the National Union he combined with Selborne to mount a campaign against coalition and as a Birmingham MP he threatened even- Austen Chamberlain 's home base .
9 And as a television sport it 's also hard because all you see is a ball flying through the air and you have no sense of scale or depth .
10 ‘ As you know , my husband commanded 2 Para and as an Army wife I knew the Parachute Regiment for many years .
11 James Scott in his Railway Romance and Other Essays observed : ‘ It is mainly the human interest to be found in and about a railway station which is the secret of its fascination . ’
12 So , for a card magic party you could have ‘ pick a card ’ , for a football party you could have ‘ score a goal ’ or ‘ touchdown ’ , and for a cowboy party you could have ‘ home on the range ’ .
13 He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea .
14 He said that he hoped that legislation would be approved by June for the establishment of a transitional executive council and of an election committee whose aims would be to create the conditions for free and fair elections .
15 The warders and the trusties from Internal Order are at the doors of the huts , and the zeks are pitched out into the night darkness and spill to the perimeter path , and like an ant trail they wind around the compound for what is classified as Exercise .
16 But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there .
17 And after failing to find it once again it came into the porch and complained loudly and so I went outside and with a paint brush I marked the entrance to the hive with three blobs of paint of a different colour and then with a piece of cardboard I guided the tiny winged creature towards the marks on the wall and it went inside .
18 There is only the lower half of the hero on the sherd but he is identified by the club , an unusually thin example , and with a cross hilt one expects on a sword , on his right hangs the lower part of the lion skin , behind him on the left are two long-necked birds , identifying this Labour , although there is no evidence of the bow ( fig. 14.35 ) .
19 The RTC had been set up in August 1989 [ see p. 36843 ] as a new arm of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) , to be supervised by William Seidman , the FDIC chairman , and with an oversight board which decided policy and funding .
20 Pinnacle , a $40m outfit with 30 engineers , will sell direct in the US and via a sales agency it is employing .
21 Goodwood House and race course are only 10 miles away , and within a 15-mile radius there are numerous historic houses to see .
22 Her National Gallery choices of pictures were examples of problems posed to artists by colour , and in a video talk she demonstrated how these artistic problems had been solved .
23 Our staff go off duty at 17.30 , and in a god wind they 'll got out to play .
24 They are different from the crows that caw in the trees above our Cages here in the south for their feathers are partly grey and in a moorland mist they seem bigger .
25 His conference speech was marked by the absence of any reference to membership of the European exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) , and in a BBC interview he added that he would have ‘ no announcement to make about that ’ in his key speech at the Mansion House next week .
26 And in a fairy story I 'd tell him to get lost , ’ Eve said , laughing .
27 There was a split second of violent clattering as cannon shells hit the machine and then I was clear , and in a 270° turn which took me back across my flight path and into the safety of that wonderful cloud .
28 There was a bar on the premises , and on a YCs night it would be filled with the laughter and gossip of young drinkers , some below the legal age of drinking .
29 But there 's the bloody place and on a Friday night I thought ooh bloody .
30 ‘ We have also been given assurances that there will be a cordon of police both inside and outside a perimeter fence which surrounds the playing area . ’
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