Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He advances steadily and unhurriedly , with his battle-squadrons laid out in paragraphs i , ii , and iii , in sub-paragraphs ( a ) , ( b ) and ( c ) , in Introductions and Conclusions , his red hair gleaming like an oriflamme . |
| 2 | And what began as apparently inter-tribal friction developed into an on going township war between the A N C , the Zulu-based Inkahta movement and the State Security Forces . |
| 3 | Privet and yew combine in an effective two-tone design |
| 4 | Buddie was sitting on a hard chair with one foot resting on an upturned petrol-tin . |
| 5 | The scapula of the male differs on an average from that of the female , in size , proportions and shape . |
| 6 | The leaving present given to an ambassador could still take a variety of different forms . |
| 7 | They also found that an error of eight weeks in the date of payment led to an average error in the proportionate mispricing of only 0.01% . |
| 8 | He was an American who put flat Cockney vowel-sounds into his American accent to sound like an Englishman assuming an American accent . |
| 9 | Of course , what Oxford " meant " and the source of its " powers " , a classical curriculum taught within an intimate collegiate system , could hardly be extended . |
| 10 | It will rarely be the case that either an animal or a human will be provided with the opportunity to mate with an absolutely ideal member of the opposite sex . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , that 's a squirrel recovering from an air-rifle shot . |
| 12 | The 1962 Planning Act upheld the right of any applicant to have their case heard at an oral hearing , but the 1976 Planning Act made this a discretionary matter for An Bord Pleanala to decide . |
| 13 | This change led to an enormous effort to begin active treatment in the neonatal period for virtually all infants with this condition . |
| 14 | Lacuna stood straight and trembling , like a statue shaken by an earth tremor . |
| 15 | However , where a decision has been made to make redundancies and employees have been informed , the contingency crystallises into an actual liability . |
| 16 | One night the judge on the show 's talent competition ‘ Novelty Island ’ , turned out to be the pop star Mick Hucknall 's orange hair resting on an oar . |
| 17 | Symbolically the owl sits on an Evil Eye that has been pierced by a spear , suggesting that the owl 's own ‘ Evil Eye ’ has been incapacitated by the mobbing display . |
| 18 | A mushroom disguised as an onion bhaji with flaking batter was a mouthwatering morsel , but not really a dish in its own right , more an interlude before the chicken à la British Airways , both accompanied by more Hellmans relatives . |
| 19 | Then Harriet fell … toppling slowly sideways , losing reins and stirrup , flinging out her hands , her hat falling off , the snood loosening so that a lock of flaming auburn hair fluttered like an oriflamme above her collapsing body . |
| 20 | ONE case of erotomania led to an Ulster woman appearing in court . |
| 21 | I was negotiating to buy a Jimi Hendrix record — Axis : Bold as Love — from a kid who needed money to go to an Emerson , Lake and Palmer concert at the Fairfield Hall , for fuck 's sake . |
| 22 | Their presence in totally inadequate police accommodation is authorised by the Prisons ( Temporary Provisions ) Act 1980 , a statute passed as an emergency measure to cope with an industrial dispute with prison officers and used almost continuously ever since . |
| 23 | He even asked the taxi driver to go via an off licence . |
| 24 | Below the well , a waterfall tumbled across an artificial rockery . |
| 25 | The combination of ranitidine with cisapride further diminished the acid reflux found with ranitidine — that is , cisapride led to an additional reduction of total reflux ( from 6.4 ( 1.2- 22.8 ) % to 3.7 ( 1.0–12.7 ) % , p<0.01 ) , supine reflux ( p<0.05 ) , and postprandial reflux ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 26 | Compared with ranitidine , the addition of cisapride led to an increase of contraction amplitude during the upright period ( from 28.0 ( 14–54 ) mm Hg to 32.5 ( 13–56 ) mm Hg , p<0.05 ) , and the postprandial periods after breakfast ( from 27.0 ( 14–56 ) mm Hg to 33.5 ( 12–72 ) mm Hg , p<0.05 ) and lunch ( from 27.9 ( 15–44 ) mm Hg to 35.5 ( 19–46 ) mm Hg , p<0.05 ) . |
| 27 | In our study , the combination of ranitidine and cisapride led to an increase of propagation velocity as calculated from the propagation of the pressure wave over the four sensors located 20 , 15 , 10 , and 5 cm above the lower oesophageal sphincter ( Table III ) . |
| 28 | Fears of violence both before and after the election led to an appeal by Chiluba on Oct. 18 to the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) to send peacekeeping forces to Zambia . |
| 29 | The conference decision arose from an implicit assumption by the Carnegie Trustees that following a three-year funding of successful pilot schemes , subsequent responsibility would be assumed by LEAs . |
| 30 | Progress depended upon an ascetic , unflinching commitment to ‘ realism ’ . |