Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We remember the Spiros as a warm and loving family . ’ |
| 2 | Overseeing the whole process would be a Scottish Deer Commission , replacing the RDC as a credible and contemporary wildlife management agency , with wide responsibilities , adequate resources and meaningful powers . |
| 3 | He also moderated political conduct , mediating peace between Ecgfrith and Aethelred in 679 following the battle of the Trent at a time when Ecgfrith was otherwise honour-bound to pursue hostilities to avenge Aelfwine ( HE IV , 21 ) . |
| 4 | The race is challenging enough in normal conditions , but this year the storms had turned the Wye into a torrent . |
| 5 | A brief excursion in July 1798 provided Wordsworth with an opportunity to summarize these new ideas in Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey , on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour , July 13th 1798 . |
| 6 | There is first of all the question as to whether the EEC through a Single Currency will become an economic union , as directly proposed by Maastricht , or whether , to the contrary , its members will direct their energies into becoming a closely knit association of free-trading independent nation states . |
| 7 | On the surface , de Gaulle even seemed to favour the idea of the EEC as a political unit . |
| 8 | The second was a reaction to the concept of the EEC as a ‘ rich man 's club ’ , discriminating against its own poor through the CAP and through its VAT rates , just as it discriminated against poorer countries elsewhere in the world . |
| 9 | There was , in fact , a social element present in the Treaty of Rome itself , but Mr Hattersley had a point when he suggested that the last ten years saw capitalism and the pursuit of free trade relegated within the EEC to a secondary position . |
| 10 | Lewis and the Western Isles in general have suffered greatly through the folly of successive governments in negotiating for a fisheries policy within the EEC on a national instead or a regional basis . |
| 11 | The project involves the assessment of the impact of Regulation 84/83 ( Block Exemption from Article 85/3 of The Treaty of Rome for Brewing and Petrol Exclusive Purchasing Agreements ) by the EEC on a British institution , the Working Men 's Clubs . |
| 12 | Between 1958 and 1970 trade among the Six increased five times over , exports to the rest of the world expanded two and a half times , and Gross Domestic Product grew within the EEC at an average of five per cent per annum . |
| 13 | This plant , a relative of ivy and indigenous to the temperate mountains of the Far East , has been used continually for some 5000 years in the Orient as a tonic , restorative and preventive remedy . |
| 14 | Here is the Orient as an apolitical picturesque environment . |
| 15 | The book traced back the history of the Teutons to an infinitely remote period : and it proved once more that the original German-Teuton race was the true creator of European civilisation . |
| 16 | When Philip in 346 settled the Third Sacred War , he was ( personally ; not the Macedonians as a race ) admitted to the Delphic Amphictyony , the body which managed the prestige sanctuary at Delphi ; and so he gained admission to the Greek fraternity . |
| 17 | I believe tobacco-smoke is the most effectual , but to one not a smoker it would require to be a case of hiring another to the office of smoking away the midges — a work many would gladly undertake , for tobacco is looked on in the Highlands as a very great good , almost as essential as the whiskey . |
| 18 | The Inverness-based Tulloch Group is one of the major private sector employers in the Highlands with a staff of around 600 and substantial interests in construction , housebuilding , the motor trade , transport and the oil-related sector . |
| 19 | She is now expected to leave the Highlands after a miserable break . |
| 20 | And later he was cruel , a wife-beating drunkard , after he had destroyed the Highlands in a storm of hailstones and fire . ’ |
| 21 | It did mean that keeping the Seayak on a bearing in a big sea was a somewhat tiring and frustrating battle . |
| 22 | Freddie Crewe , of Maidstone , who left the RAF as a squadron leader in 1962 , flew Hurricanes and Spitfires in the war and was shot down near Brest on 3 August 1943 . |
| 23 | S/L Martin joined the RAF as a Halton apprentice in 1963 . |
| 24 | Airmen Anonymous ( Merlin Books , 45pp , sbk , £3.95 ) by Trevor Holman is one man 's story of life in the RAF as a member of the groundcrew . |
| 25 | Tony Farrow has been building one-off yachts for 20 years and is well known for the trimaran Colt Cars GB , Geoff Panell 's Admiral 's Cup triallist Itzanotherpurla re-named Red Stripe and more recently used by the RAF as a test bench under the name of Oracle Arrow in preparation for this year 's Admiral 's Cup . |
| 26 | During World War I he was political agent with the Waziristan Frontier Force , and also held a temporary commission in the RAF as a pilot ( 1918 ) , an experience which evidently instilled an enthusiasm for flying which he retained for the rest of his life . |
| 27 | A sketch wad found on my locker door and I believe the author was Nobby Hall ; he had opposed my views on ditching , as well he might , since he was an ex-officer , Merchant Navy , who had joined the RAF as a direct entry sergeant pilot in the Baldwin expansion period , and it was indeed ironic that he should perish and his crew saved . |
| 28 | My interest in this particular aircraft is brought about mainly by my father who , now in his 70s , spent his war years as a young man serving in the RAF as an airframe fitter . |
| 29 | Victor Vince , the Company 's General Manager has been with the firm for the past twenty years , Victor served five years in the RAF as an Aircraft Electrician tending to the needs of Bomber Command 's Halifaxes and Lancasters . |
| 30 | shortly after his arrival back in England he founded the famous Pathfinders , eventually retiring from the RAF as an Air Vice Marshal . |