Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terrorists often used an athletic stopwatch as a timing device . |
| 2 | And shipping lines are exploring the technique as a way of stripping paint and barnacles from hulls . |
| 3 | The other thing we 're looking at of course is your technique as a driver . |
| 4 | That voice is ever changing as we learn and develop our technique as a group . |
| 5 | Pearson 's technique as a biographer derived from his career on the stage . |
| 6 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE THREE OCTAVE ARPEGGIO |
| 7 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE SUSPENDED SECOND |
| 8 | Michael also has a record out on Music Maker Records , so catch Mr Fath in London and see what he means by ‘ technique as a result of harmony … ’ |
| 9 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE DORIAN MODE |
| 10 | MICHAEL FATH Technique As A Result Of Harmony THE PENTATONIC MAJOR SCALE |
| 11 | MICHAEL FATH Technique as a Result of Harmony THE SEVENTH & MINOR SEVENTH |
| 12 | Though a foul is not intended , the referee will nevertheless regard the technique as an attack on the opponent 's joint and the competitor may face a penalty . |
| 13 | There was no quantitative work and later ecologists dismissed this whole technique as an example of exactly what they were trying to avoid . |
| 14 | During the months preceding the accident , a set of underground workings , easiest thought of by the layman as a tunnel 18 feet wide and 7 feet high , had been following a seam of coal which was rising very steeply towards the surface . |
| 15 | It might appear strange to classify a retailer as a manufacturer but this will only happen where he is under a duty to inspect the goods and fails to do so . |
| 16 | By taking the prints to Japan , Sotheby 's was selling to rich Japanese collectors without a retailer as an intermediary and the retailer 's mark-up was subsumed into the auction price . |
| 17 | Thus the duty of care prevents directors from acting wholly unreasonably ; the duty of loyalty ensures that their decisions are not biased ; and the duty to act bona fide in the interests of the company and not for any improper purpose is almost identical in its formulation as a standard of review to the administrative law test striking down decisions which are taken for an improper purpose . |
| 18 | In the vestibule was a niche with a small bench-altar to support a piece of stalactite as an idol . |
| 19 | All I need was a blooming all I need was five point nought point five baking powder about a teaspoon |
| 20 | Instead , the orbit as a whole twists a little further round each time , so that a true drawing of the planet 's course should really look more like one of the patterns produced by a children 's Spirograph toy . |
| 21 | The image of the housewife as a cabbage makes a number of appearances in answers to the question about writing housewife on a form ( it is mentioned by twelve of the forty women ) . |
| 22 | We can now turn right to the other end of the book , where there should be another paste-down and free endpaper , though in earlier books the latter will often be missing , having been appropriated by some seventeenth or eighteenth century housewife as a shopping list or for copying a cooking recipe . |
| 23 | Remembering that I am not defining housewife as a woman dancing attendance on a healthy but indolent male but as a person looking after babies and others who need looking after , what do feminists think the housewife should live on ? |
| 24 | The use of strong colour contrast as an aid to orientation is shown graphically in the Welsh Office Package ( 1984 ) . |
| 25 | In general this was the pattern for Polish industrialisation as a whole — a phenomenon that took place when there was the least chance of Poland ever regaining an independent existence . |
| 26 | The specimen pictured is displaying , either to an adjacent female in courtship , or to a competing male as a warning . |
| 27 | Making yourself aware of bias and adopting alternative usages should prevent the tacit presumption by your reader of the white male as a norm . |
| 28 | Two people are awaiting trial in connection with the attack , but 5 others , including Howard Banton , chief clerk for a firm of solicitors in the town , have appeared in court at Cheltenham , accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by plotting to persuade a witness to withdraw a statement . |
| 29 | His father started as an accounts clerk for a road haulier ; his mother was a shop manager . |
| 30 | They live in Langford Village , two miles from Bicester in Oxfordshire Barbara works as a clerk for a removal company , Joelle is a care assisstant at a home for the disabled , while Bobby is still at school . |