Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] a [noun sg] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The walls were bare except for a photograph of a number of village men standing in front of a house the house . |
| 2 | Rear seat belts remained intact and attached , with no signs of distress or marking indicative of the belts having been highly loaded , except for a failure of the left seat belt buckle . |
| 3 | The latest figures replace 1990 estimates that have proved to be reasonably accurate except for an overestimate of the number of heterosexual exposures ( 355 vs 255 ) and an underestimate of cases among homosexual males ( 910 vs 1165 ) . |
| 4 | Although as a prediction of the electoral result this was incorrect , the estimates were only a few per cent out . |
| 5 | Although as a legacy of the Gullane incident , she felt that her father never fully trusted her again until his dying day , the shock , allied to the S.L.G.A 's threat of a ban , was such that she mended her ways at once . |
| 6 | Stop time minus Start time but then this needs to be expressed in hours — rather than as a fraction of a day . |
| 7 | The House debates a Bill on Second Reading and it is passed by chance rather than as a benefit of the arguments . |
| 8 | The Squirrel was one of the first light turbine helicopters designed primarily for civil operation rather than as a modification of a design intended for military use . |
| 9 | Deductive markers provide a linguistic means of signalling the deductive/empirical distinction : they signal that what follows should be interpreted as a conclusion rather than as a description of an event/state . |
| 10 | But putting up more candidates increases the danger that each of them will contend as an individual rather than as a member of a team : it makes the campaign harder to co-ordinate . |
| 11 | By contrast , however , a broadly conceived information skills course was presented as essential for topic work rather than as a facilitator of the separate work of subject departments . |
| 12 | In The Act of Reading , Wolfgang Iser argues that the literary work should be understood as a means of communication rather than as a representation of the world : ‘ It is a vital feature of literary texts that they do not lose their ability to communicate ; indeed , many of them can still speak even when their message has long since passed into history and their meaning no longer seems to be of importance ’ ( 1978:13 ) . |
| 13 | Altogether , the ironies of the passage read far more plausibly as a challenge to the categories in which the Reeve , the Host and the Miller superficially belong than as a re-assertion of the impropriety of such characters acting out of their places . |
| 14 | It is therefore rather more as a tool for the analysis of the nature and functioning of states than as a theory of the emergence of the State that Marx 's and Engels 's views are still acceptable to present-day anthropologists . |
| 15 | However , floating has occurred previously , as in 1973 , because of a breakdown in fixed exchange rates rather than as a result of a collective decision based on an assessment of its relative advantages . |
| 16 | It said that he was more suited in his role as surveyor of Crown property than as a designer of the Downing Street offices . |
| 17 | The training they describe affirms and enhances the role of the paraprofessional as an agent of the client group or community that is being served rather than as an arm of the worker or the social service agency . |
| 18 | At this point , the auditing process is essentially completed , the role of the analyst in this context being an investigatory one , rather than as an agent of the change . |
| 19 | For that matter the whole process of reaching an annual bookfund figure is usually somewhat arbitrary , and the foregoing comments may be taken more as background than as an analysis of the way chief librarians go about reaching a total . |
| 20 | A failure to solve a puzzle is seen as a failure of the scientist rather than as an inadequacy of the paradigm . |
| 21 | The teacher 's relation with a child is much more intense and long-lasting than for a teacher of a normal child , since they will be together in close contact during a longer period of growth . |
| 22 | Robert Owen is not to be understood at all except as a man of his time , of the French Political and the British Industrial Revolutions ; nor fully to be understood except as a man of the first stage of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 23 | The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , 1884 Formen is the most detailed discussion of pre-capitalist society in Marx 's mature work and it really can not be understood except as a part of the background for the more fully completed works Marx was either planning or did wrote , especially Capital . |
| 24 | Yet one suspects that his real significance is less that of a prophet of European disintegration than of a poet of the American Puritan temperament . |
| 25 | Except under an order of the court , a creditor could not enter any premises to take possession of goods subject to a regulated hire-purchase agreement or other such agreements . |
| 26 | ‘ No party to any proceedings shall be entitled to recover any of the costs of those proceedings from any other party to those proceedings except under an order of the court . |
| 27 | Such a transfer will be appropriate whether the property was held by the husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants or as tenants in common : in the latter case , as the transfer to the husband and wife will not have contained a declaration to the effect that the survivor of them could give a good receipt for capital monies , a restriction will have automatically been entered on the register to the effect that no disposition by a sole proprietor of the land ( not being a trust corporation ) under which capital money arises is to be registered except under an order of the registrar or of the court ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s58(3) and Land Registration Rules 1925 , r213 as amended by Land Registration Rules 1989 ( SI No 801 ) ) . |
| 28 | Unless the registrar is instructed to the contrary , a transfer to the wife and new husband will result in the registration of a restriction to the effect that no disposition by a sole proprietor of the land ( not being a trust corporation ) under which capital money arises is to be registered except under an order of the Registrar or of the Court ( ie the survivor of the wife and new husband can not give a good receipt for capital monies ) ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s58(3) and Land Registration Rules 1925 ( SR & O 1925 No 1093 , r213 as amended by Land Registration Rules 1989 , SI No 801 ) ) . |
| 29 | Where land is transferred to two or more proprietors , then ( in the absence of a request for its exclusion ) the registrar will automatically register a restriction to the effect that a disposition by a sole proprietor of land ( not being a trust corporation ) under which capital money arises will not be registered except under an order of the registrar or of the court ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s58(3) , Land Registration Rules 1925 ( SR & O 1925 No 1093 , r213 ) and Land Registration Rules 1989 , r6 ) . |
| 30 | ( b ) Registered land If the husband and wife hold as tenants in common , a restriction will already be on the register to the effect that a disposition by a sole proprietor of land ( not being a trust corporation ) under which capital money arises will not be registered except under an order of the Registrar or the Court ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s58(3) , Land Registration Rules 1925 , r213 and Land Registration Rules 1989 , r6 ) . |