Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 32 | Unfortunately this constitutes only the assessment of a candidate 's suitability for entry to an interpreters ' qualifying course . |
| 33 | He imagined a policeman with nothing more to go on than a tiny , once brightly embroidered , label , a square inch of bloodstained , earth-stained , half-rotted cloth , hawking it round boutiques in Kilburn and West Hendon , narrowing the field , finally coming to an importers ' warehouse … |
| 34 | The effect of this is that equity shares , or rights to them , can be allotted as subscribers ' shares , bonus shares or pursuant to an employees ' share scheme without first offering pre-emptive rights . |
| 35 | But , if equity shares or rights to them are to be issued in other circumstances , they first have to be offered to all equity shareholders in proportion to their holdings whether or not these were acquired as subscribers ' shares , bonus shares or pursuant to an employees ' share scheme . |
| 36 | On the other hand he referred to the claim of the appellants that the volume of documentation was very large and that if in all such cases a similar order was made there would be ‘ intolerable disruption ’ to an auditors ' business , the risk to the appellants that in producing the documents they might provide material to ground claims against themselves , and the suggestion that the order was not sufficiently specific in that it did not indicate to the appellants the areas in which the respondents considered that the appellants or others might be liable . |
| 37 | However , the charm of the city raised her spirits and her first impressions after a night out at an artists ' ball were fresh and delightful : ‘ You ca n't walk home at dawn in Paris , even two hundred yards . |
| 38 | At an ecologists ' conference chez Goldsmith , one guest persuaded Branson to push Sir Jimmy into his own swimming pool to help him let down what remains of his hair . |
| 39 | STARS & STRIPES became Stars & Gripes yesterday , as her crew made no attempt to conceal their disgust at an umpires ' decision which cost them their race against Bill Koch 's Kanza . |
| 40 | Speaking at an analysts ' breakfast in Chicago last week where Comdex Spring took place , Pieper alluded to such a breakthrough as ‘ removing the firewalls ’ between the various microprocessors . |
| 41 | I had missed , early morning , the VIC 32 , one of the few working puffers kept afloat by an enthusiasts ' club . |