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

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1 The range consists of 17 items with prices starting from £1 for a guest soap up to £9.95 for a pair of luxury coathangers .
2 Prices range from £9.95 for a three-metre black , blue or red cable up to £13.95 for a 5 metre orange or green version , £15.95 for a 5m translucent pink jobbie and £17.95 for a 5m toaster-type .
3 Terrorists often used an athletic stopwatch as a timing device .
4 ‘ You 've had enough X-rays for a while , so I 'm going to do nothing for the moment .
5 Pool midfielder David McCreery is fit after precautionary X-rays for a chest infection and could return to the side .
6 And shipping lines are exploring the technique as a way of stripping paint and barnacles from hulls .
7 The other thing we 're looking at of course is your technique as a driver .
8 That voice is ever changing as we learn and develop our technique as a group .
9 Pearson 's technique as a biographer derived from his career on the stage .
10 MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE THREE OCTAVE ARPEGGIO
11 MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE SUSPENDED SECOND
12 Michael also has a record out on Music Maker Records , so catch Mr Fath in London and see what he means by ‘ technique as a result of harmony … ’
13 MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE DORIAN MODE
14 MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE PENTATONIC MAJOR SCALE
15 MICHAEL FATH Technique as a Result of Harmony THE SEVENTH & MINOR SEVENTH
16 Though a foul is not intended , the referee will nevertheless regard the technique as an attack on the opponent 's joint and the competitor may face a penalty .
17 There was no quantitative work and later ecologists dismissed this whole technique as an example of exactly what they were trying to avoid .
18 During the months preceding the accident , a set of underground workings , easiest thought of by the layman as a tunnel 18 feet wide and 7 feet high , had been following a seam of coal which was rising very steeply towards the surface .
19 It might appear strange to classify a retailer as a manufacturer but this will only happen where he is under a duty to inspect the goods and fails to do so .
20 By taking the prints to Japan , Sotheby 's was selling to rich Japanese collectors without a retailer as an intermediary and the retailer 's mark-up was subsumed into the auction price .
21 Britain 's IT firms , in company with any others that use electronic equipment , rely on universities and other institutions for a supply of skilled people .
22 Thus the duty of care prevents directors from acting wholly unreasonably ; the duty of loyalty ensures that their decisions are not biased ; and the duty to act bona fide in the interests of the company and not for any improper purpose is almost identical in its formulation as a standard of review to the administrative law test striking down decisions which are taken for an improper purpose .
23 An attendance rate of 90% for a week means that out of the 1000 possible attendances over the week , 900 were recorded .
24 In the vestibule was a niche with a small bench-altar to support a piece of stalactite as an idol .
25 All I need was a blooming all I need was five point nought point five baking powder about a teaspoon
26 YAKOVLEV Design Bureau ( OKB ) are creating a number of Yak-3 replicas for an order from the USA , confirms Chief Designer , Sergey Yakovlev .
27 She remembered with sadness all the neighbourly contacts they had had in the past — Lowell 's anxiety when Edward had gone missing on his new bike during a November fog and his tireless search until he was found — his ham-fisted efforts to assist her in Ben 's absence when the washing-machine had flooded the kitchen — his quiet piano-playing , when his hands were still capable , at the end of a noisy party when all the guests had gone home .
28 Instead , the orbit as a whole twists a little further round each time , so that a true drawing of the planet 's course should really look more like one of the patterns produced by a children 's Spirograph toy .
29 Round was signed from St Helens for a club record of £65,000 in the summer of 1987 but he damaged a knee in his only game this season — at Carlisle in October — and needed a cartilage operation .
30 The image of the housewife as a cabbage makes a number of appearances in answers to the question about writing housewife on a form ( it is mentioned by twelve of the forty women ) .
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