Example sentences of "[prep] an [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gray and his assistant Tony McAndrew were dismissed after an 8am board meeting yesterday . |
| 2 | Another fashion figure of an altogether kind is the exquisitely entertaining and stylish C.Z. Guest . |
| 3 | Her complexion was pink and white and her eyes were very wide and of an astonishingly china blue hue . |
| 4 | Some shipowners proved particularly receptive to a suggestion that their craft employ a technique used during the Second World War by British aircraft to confuse enemy radar and later influenced by the Royal Navy 's experience in the Falklands campaign : tankers were supplied with equipment to discharge clouds of aluminium chaff at the approach of an AS missile like Exocet , in order to divert it . |
| 5 | This , dear reader , is just the tiniest tip of an absolutely enormo iceberg : there 's heaps more stuff about the macabre , the theatrical and the perverted ; the awkward , the romantic and Suede 's ‘ extraordinary intensity ’ ; not to mention fairground mirrors and all the other fevered topics of conversation and how Suede are so quintessentially English the term could have been invented for them . |
| 6 | Enforcing rules when caught between opposing public constituencies causes difficulties for agencies which must work within the framework of an ostensibly activist legal mandate . |
| 7 | The skins gave out the image of an almost robot uniformed army , in which attack on one individual would bring a violent response from the rest . |
| 8 | More specifically , Lukacs shows himself to be extremely hostile to a number of key concepts on the socialist realist agenda precisely because they are symptomatic of an excessively subjectivist and false , because partial , view of reality . |
| 9 | ‘ Women are under-represented in traditional craft industries due to lack of real training and support for girls at school leaving age , compounded by the hostility of an all-too-often chauvinist workplace . |
| 10 | Given that many bus operators would be interested in franchisees , what conclusions can be drawn from Badgerline 's reported withdrawal following a threat of an OFT monopoly inquiry ? |
| 11 | He was a picture of grace , but wasted no time in rehabilitating now with a chanceless 126 in the next match in Kandy against an Up-Country XI . |
| 12 | Better than this modern rubbish , ’ only to be confronted with a leather clad Sandie , writhing about the Top Of The Pops floor with an equally leather clad Smiths behind her engaged in a bitter battle over individual volume . |
| 13 | This screening came at about midnight , after a traditional Elizabethan dinner and free drinks , with an 8.30am departure due the following day . |
| 14 | 28 ) ; and the mosaics from North Hill , Colchester ( Neal 1981 , nos. 39 and 40 ) which combine circular elements with an essentially grid format . |
| 15 | But even treated as an inherently comic ‘ found object ’ , even taking the piss out of himself , it 's clear that Brando could still blow most contemporary actors off the screen . |
| 16 | So if there 's one draw , for example , or one match which looks as though it stands out as an absolutely surefire score draw , and everybody puts it down , and it comes up as a score draw , then nobody gains anything . |
| 17 | The second common mistake ( not made in this case ) is to impose a sentence for an either way offence for which the offender has been committed under Criminal Justice Act 1967 , s.S6 a sentence in excess of six months ' imprisonment , which is possible if the offender is committed for the same offence under Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.38 . |
| 18 | The special is timed for an 8.00pm departure from Waterloo to comply with the ban on daylight running over the third rail and to ensure that there is no diesel pilot . |
| 19 | For instance , Barnet have to go to Scarborough , with fans due to begin the trek at 6am for an 11am kick-off . |
| 20 | Great , great , can you be there for an 8am departure , and make sure you wear your epaulettes ? |
| 21 | These findings suggest that the formation of a specific complex between an IE protein and its own gene promoter may be a common mechanism used by alphaherpesvirinae to autoregulate transcription of an essential IE gene . |
| 22 | Its aim was to provide social and , in the non-medical sense , ‘ rehabilitative ’ activities within an explicitly voluntarist framework , consonant with the ‘ enlightened guardian ’ model of care . |
| 23 | This paper has highlighted some of the main difficulties associated with user participation and control in a day-centre system providing social and rehabilitative facilities within an explicitly voluntarist framework . |
| 24 | In an incredibly education conscious Japan , his father , an academic , expected his sons to become academics ; and they all did . |
| 25 | The study highlights some of the problems associated with user participation in centres which purport to provide social and ‘ rehabilitative ’ facilities in an explicitly voluntarist framework . |
| 26 | additions have been made as they occur , in an entirely chance sequence . |
| 27 | ‘ We were thinking of having the party on New Year 's Eve , ’ said Miranda , spraying fake snow from an ozonefriendly aerosol on to a twig of holly . |
| 28 | Despite their independent nature , they quickly become a pleasant distraction from an otherwise plastic world . |
| 29 | Doubts as to even the possible reality of such a law , arising from an excessively empiricist conception of the possibilities of being , prove unreasonable in the light of the establishable fact that both the every day world in which we live , and we ourselves , are only appearances of a realm of things in themselves whose true nature is hidden from us. for this opens the possibility that what we are in ourselves is essentially rational beings , belonging to a society of rational beings , while what we are as appearances is sensory beings . |
| 30 | However they said they would continue insisting on an 8pm bedtime and they would keep up the bedtime stories . |