Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun sg] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an hour most people had left . |
| 2 | When , after an evening such as this , you go home , and I go home , I miss you . |
| 3 | Remember that if the glider is drifting towards an obstruction this can only be stopped by banking away from it and not by just applying the rudder . |
| 4 | Reports from Tehran on 22 September told of an attack that day on the city 's Mehrabad airport , which , like a number of others around the world , was used partly for civil and partly for military purposes . |
| 5 | Patients may be admitted to the ward for investigations that need to be carried out under local or general anaesthetic , e.g. the removal of a small piece of tissue for examination under a microscope ( a biopsy ) or the internal inspection of an organ such as the bladder ( a cystoscopy ) . |
| 6 | Clearly , the greatest impact of electronic media on the day-to-day interactions of an organisation such as the NPRO would be the substitution of ephemeral electronic mail for slightly-less-ephemeral paper memoranda , and the use of teleconferencing for some face-to-face meetings . |
| 7 | Even where a third party is able to determine the formal internal regulations of an organisation these may not necessarily be adequate . |
| 8 | A ten-year trial by the Ministry of Agriculture , started in 1980 on the Norfolk peat marshes near Acle , is indicating a fall in ground level of an inch each year . |
| 9 | In psycholinguistics , an item 's meaning , it is said , can be analysed into a number of semantic markers — components or features also found in the meanings of other items , eg the -ly of an adverb such as clearly — and a distinguisher , which is the residue of meaning after the markers have been deducted ( clear ) . |
| 10 | Erm that in fact one of the odd points here is that when a person is convicted , that information is public , but nevertheless as the years go by and indeed er this has been recognized in for instance the rehabilitation of offenders act , it becomes private information and if someone 's looking for a job the fact that he was convicted of an offence many years ago should not be er er relevant . |
| 11 | On April 8 a representative of the Somali Patriotic Movement ( SPM ) said in Nairobi that ceasefire negotiations were to continue regardless of an incident that day when USC members clashed with forces of the SPM and of the Somali Salvation Democratic Front ( SSDF ) at Afgoye , 30 km west of Mogadishu , the capital . |
| 12 | Now , what are we to make of an incident such as this ? |
| 13 | To lighten the proceedings he told us of an incident some years ago when there had still been a whaling station in the town . |
| 14 | Part of the point of an exercise such as this is that it can be supplemented with a variety of additional linguistic models which enable the analysis to be developed in a number of different directions . |
| 15 | ‘ People do n't always realise how much they are giving away , and in the hands of an expert such as yourself … ’ |
| 16 | The gargantuan quantities of tin and silver are part of the stockpile of strategic materials that , since 1950. the American government has stored away , squirrel-like , in case of an emergency such as a world war . |
| 17 | I do not like to think of an intelligence such as yours being wasted , Mr Arkwright . ’ |
| 18 | relies on taking different occurrences of an expression such as the table in |
| 19 | Consider , for instance , the evoked meaning of an expression such as all over the place ( paragraph 1 ) , or the impact of an unusual collocation such as lives in a rage ( paragraph 4 ) ; how well do these expressions translate into your target language ? |
| 20 | Since can ( auxiliary ) is marked as unstressed in our lexicon , the parse of an utterance such as , Yes , he can , sir ( with the emphasis on can ) could contain confusions with lexical items such as cancer , can , etc . |
| 21 | The contracts that the Grants finally drew up took five sessions of three quarters of an hour each , but after the initial , inevitable slanging match the sessions were amicable . |
| 22 | Oh I do n't know the supermarkets the best part of an hour this time of year . |
| 23 | Upon mobilisation , the Duke of Wurtemberg and the Crown Prince of Bavaria promptly received the command of an army each . |
| 24 | I was only thinking really of erm particularly extreme situations erm and I would expect it to be used for example in normal training or anything like that and er certainly all the studies show that the normal thrust , full thrust that was available was sufficient to meet the threat and this extra capability really was a a sort of an extra that was added in early on and really was n't felt on any of the combat modelling to be necessary . |
| 25 | ‘ Quite a few of them were given a chance last season and although they have n't had much of an opportunity this time , I have n't forgotten them because of their importance to the squad . ’ |
| 26 | But they are unlikely to have much of an appetite this morning . |
| 27 | For unattached men , it 's probably more of an issue more of the time . |
| 28 | Sir , — This correspondence ( ‘ Call for fresh air , not tea … answered by the taxman ’ , p 7 ) reminds me of an occasion some years ago when I was playing hockey for Ilford against Old Loughtonians . |
| 29 | But you are speaking of an occasion some days ago , when we recovered him after an attempt at escape . |
| 30 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |