Example sentences of "[prep] a [unc] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 The search for Dennis Garvey has been stepped up after a post mortem revealed his wife had died from hammer blows to the head .
2 Today the police said that after a post mortem examination , they 're still awaiting the results of more tests .
3 Merseyside Coroner Roy Barter said he would be holding an inquest after a post mortem revealed head injuries played a part in Mr Lewis 's death .
4 As Ho and other communists noted , amongst the European proletariat the issue of colonial emancipation was very much an also-ran in the 1920s ; and even after a bona fide Vietnamese communist party had been formed , it was just as irksome to them to have to accept the tutelage of the French Communist Party .
5 Jeu de Cartes , in particular , is nothing short of a tour de force or orchestral wizardry , superb engineering , and interpretative control .
6 By means of this simple model , Keynes was able to accommodate the marginal productivity theory of the demand for labour within his income-expenditure theory of employment , something of a tour de force .
7 The foundation simply expressed its preference for a publisher , she says , with no talk of a quid pro quo .
8 Initially a pitch of a = 408 was chosen as being close to the Bate Collection 's recorders of the period : at this pitch it sounds fine but one could easily allow that the original use of the instrument might have been at a higher pitch than this .
9 You 'd ha you 'd have it fixed two of them fixed like this on a a bit of a erm er straw rope .
10 Typically , this could occur in the context of a bona fide business reorganisation , which involves a change in your terms of employment .
11 The committee eschewed comment on the administration of the union , but concluded that the nucleus of a bona fide organisation existed and recommended recognition , subject to the union being registered .
12 The Directors may require to be satisfied that any Share being transferred under this paragraph are being transferred in pursuance of a bona fide sale for the consideration stated in the instrument of transfer without any deduction rebate or allowance whatsoever to the Purchaser .
13 The Directors may require to be satisfied that any Share being transferred under this paragraph are being transferred in pursuance of a bona fide sale for the consideration stated in the instrument of transfer without any deduction rebate or allowance whatsoever to the Purchaser .
14 ( 15 ) If the bidder itself is the subject of a bona fide offer ( or the bidder 's board has reason to believe that a bona fide offer may be imminent ) then under General Principle 7 and Rule 21 ( no frustrating action without shareholders ' approval ) any takeover by the bidder will require the prior approval of its shareholders ( see para 18.2.2 below ) .
15 The Court held that she was a purchaser for valuable consideration , the consideration being the withdrawal of a bona fide claim to a property adjustment order .
16 The system was originated by a Shaolin nun named Ng Mui , who was an instructor of a kung fu style called ‘ mui fa chuan ’ , or ‘ plum flower fist ’ .
17 Providing a coroner has considered the result of a post mortem examination and he is satisfied that there is no reasonable cause to suspect an unnatural death , then he is entitled to proceed under section 19(1) and to decline to hold an inquest .
18 As the Army collapsed in turmoil on 11 February , the White House Situation Room put through several calls to the US ambassador in Teheran , William Sullivan saying that Zbigniew Brezinski wanted to know what were the chances of a coup d'etat .
19 You will not have to depend on now or never clinical demonstrations in the clinical room ; nor will you be reduced to knock-kneed terror at the prospect of a viva voce examination .
20 Byrne argues that the greater disparities in income result from a combination of a laissez faire approach to the wages of the more highly paid and a deliberate policy of ‘ driving down the wages of the lower paid ’ .
21 These properties are characteristic of a Na + /H + exchange mechanism .
22 These properties are characteristic of a Na + -HCO 3 - co-transport system .
23 It is also often useful to include in the side letter , by way of illustration only , a worked example of a pro forma completion statement to which both sets of accountants agree and to which they can refer back when the actual accounts are to be prepared .
24 In this respect , the emergence of a nouveau nouveau roman was said to have evolved which was deemed to be characterized by this emphasis on textual productivity , instead of on reference and representation .
25 In The last Country Houses , a book which documents the death of the old tradition of hospitality , Clive Aslett records the response of a nouveau riche lady when told that some pleasant people lived near the rural seat her husband had just acquired .
26 A. J. Charig however , in the course of his detailed comparison of the main schools of systematics , sees natural order systematics as rather more of a bete noire than it deserves .
27 She was also something of a femme fatale , with the looks of a young Marlene Dietrich , and a blasé manner to match .
28 Bardot 's sensuality , too , was not that of a femme fatale but an enfant fatale .
29 Er I 've never had any dwindling intellectual powers er simply because I 've never had any intellectual powers in the first place , so I would agree with him that in all cases I find dealing with er matters of a er er er er of , of legislation er en enormously complex .
30 Three children dancing a twee version of a pas de trois from Nutcracker introduced another treacly , sentimental note , but not for long .
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