Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main clause , for its part , expresses a judgement about or a reaction to the fact of the infinitive event 's having acceded to existence . |
| 2 | In principle , a planning authority can only grant what is actually applied for or a part of it . |
| 3 | I was just going to make a quick comment if I may on Oxfam , because I noticed that they 're down for the street collections and for the flag day , now next year 's their fiftieth anniversary , so I think it 's quite appropriate next year , but I do , my own view is , that we will get , we ought to get one comprehensive list of all these organisations , for both the street collections and the flag days , with an indication in the column of whether it 's flag day they 've gone for or a street collection , so that we can identify that sort of situation . |
| 4 | I must admit that selected areas of the park are well looked after and a delight to wander through , but unfortunately by far the greater area of ‘ Old Deer Park ’ is spoiled by litter . |
| 5 | ‘ If a dolphin can out-manoeuvre or outswim a shark it will do so … . if the dolphins can not take evasive action for some good reason , such as that a birth is about to take place , they will attack a shark . |
| 6 | In terms of the simple free volume concept each chain end requires more free volume in which to move about than a segment in the chain interior . |
| 7 | and , it 's but then it 's a question of where a woman a woman could , but you know is it that easy to jump out cultural you know cultural investment provided by that and er you know y y y you |
| 8 | As the book unfolds , the condition of trees becomes an index of or a metaphor for the health of the surrounding culture . |
| 9 | on , on a team of or a contract of four men . |
| 10 | An application is not necessarily unreasonable because it is inconvenient for the addressee of the application or causes him a lot of work or may make him vulnerable to future claims , or is addressed to a person who is not an officer or employee of or a contractor with the company in administration , but all these will be relevant factors , together no doubt with many others . |
| 11 | In the event of there being stocks to be disposed of or a period during which essential support for the Licensed Software is required , temporary use of these devices may be agreed by separate negotiation in writing . |
| 12 | Do n't forget that you 've got an allowance each , and it 's not likely to affect many people , except where you 've perhaps been left something that you want to dispose of or a property that you want to dispose of , in which case there could be a capital gains liability . |
| 13 | the bankruptcy of some person who is or may become beneficially entitled to any such property or income ; or 2. an assignment of or a charge on any such property or income being made or given by some such person ; or 3. in the case of a marriage settlement , the death of both parties to the marriage and of all or any of the children of the marriage ; or 4. the death under the age of 25 or some lower age of some person who would be beneficially entitled to that property or income on attaining that age . |
| 14 | The term includes : ( i ) any income chargeable to income tax by deduction at source or otherwise ( first limb ) and any income which would have been chargeable to income tax if it had been received in the United Kingdom by a person domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( second limb ) ( s681(1) ( a ) ) ; [ ( ii ) where the amount of the income of any body corporate has been apportioned ( ie shortfalled ) under Schedule 16 to FA 1972 or could have been so apportioned if the body corporate were incorporated and resident in any part of the United Kingdom , so much of the income of the body corporate for that year or period as is equal to the amount which has been or could have been so apportioned to the trustees of or a beneficiary under the settlement ( s681(1) ( b ) ) [ abolished in relation to income of bodies corporate for accounting periods beginning after 31 March 1989 by FA 1989 , Sched 17 , Part V ] ] . |
| 15 | Erm told me that they had a lot of or a lot a number of people ringing purporting to be someone asking for information , and they like to keep a log of these bogus phone calls , I then rang the patients mother and and told her what had happened as quickly as I could . |
| 16 | I was on 1,000 grams of that a day , now I 'm on 187 , so although I 'm still on medication it 's a very minute amount of medication to what I was on before , and I 'm existing on that , so for me it 's worked . |
| 17 | We have one of th we have a la we have a large jar of coffee of that a week , and we have er a jar and a half of jam a week . |
| 18 | Erm , the the other things is a little while ago she was erm , er , er you know , giving me bills like for about five or six pounds once for cleaning materials , and I queried this , because it 's quite a lot of money and erm , so she tells me that she buys expensive erm bleach and she uses a bottle of that a week , well she only comes in three times , and I said well , that 's very extravagant I said and told her what , but since I told her that . |
| 19 | Death being a fairly serious matter , a body can not be disposed of until a doctor 's certificate as to cause of death has been received by the registrar . |
| 20 | It is an interpretation of and a parallel to the singing of seven Chinese poems about the ever transient phases in the life of Man . |
| 21 | The I think the erm the main point that I 'd like to make is that erm the structure as it 's posed erm is for the same number of staff erm , however , the three , what were supervisory stroke managerial posts erm have changed , we feel , as a result of the merger and therefore , and there are three er little posts mainly , a head of , people called a head of and a head of the support , support a support services manager and a support services officer and erm the appendix details the main er , functions in each post , er those posts . |
| 22 | ‘ It is obviously something Rosanne is aware of and a subject we talk about from time to time . |
| 23 | They are at once a replication of and a threat to the unitary governing structures of the society in which he lives . |
| 24 | See the old man was saying when he was doing Salisbury Plain they blew up couple of and a couple of |
| 25 | Note that the philosophy here is that all the hardware is ultimately an extension of and a support for human functions . |
| 26 | This , it was said , would be the " basis of and a step towards friendly relations between the Baltic states and CIS countries " . |
| 27 | The reverse pattern would obtain to the right of and a move from a point such as 4 to point 3 can be anticipated . |
| 28 | This truism was elevated to the status of a theory of and a strategy for development , particularly in Latin America , and became known as ‘ import substitution industrialization ’ ( ISI ) . |
| 29 | In conclusion it may be said that the structure of the spirit world constitutes both a model of and a model for the larger social system in which the Buid are embedded . |
| 30 | We completed this task in 1983 with the collaboration of and a team based in Norway . |