Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While digesting my daily dose of Gulf wallpaper the other week , I chanced upon a Radio 4 telephone spat between an editor from ITN and Nicholas Soames MP , a Tory backbencher . |
| 2 | This is heard as an anticipation of the next chord , resolving by scale step . |
| 3 | That is , written and spoken language have to be taught through an awareness of Swedish Sign Language and the perspective this creates for the learning task . |
| 4 | Much of this latter perspective has developed through an analysis of media of various sorts , especially television , magazines and film . |
| 5 | Both ships stopped for an hour while repairs were made to the launch 's engines . |
| 6 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 7 | It is not necessary to go to the lengths of the British Airways new Four Corners shops , where the travel element can hardly be distinguished through an Ali Baba 's cave of irrelevant merchandise , but only to set up efficient systems run by people who know what they 're talking about and who can make time to understand what their travellers want , like Trailfinders with their honest bucket-shop approach , or the STA chain with its expertise in student travel . |
| 8 | The design of a machine or device which is assigned as an aid for one person will not usually encounter the problems associated with elaborate design teams just described , but nevertheless some human factors sensitivity will help to provide a better product . |
| 9 | ‘ The defence does not arise on a plea of autrefois convict , but on the well-established rule at common law , that where a person has been convicted and punished for an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction , transit in rem judicatam , that is , the conviction shall be a bar to all further proceedings for the same offence , and he shall not be punished again for the same matter ; otherwise there might be two different punishments for the same offence . |
| 10 | Look at what happened with Jim Harvey he did a lot for the club and Ian Muir was severely punished for an incident aimed at John King . |
| 11 | However , with 75 minutes gone , Hearts scored a quite superb ‘ goal ’ which was disallowed for an offence not immediately apparent . |
| 12 | A little devil disguised as an elf . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Principles is subtitled as an inquiry into the grounds of ‘ Scepticism , Atheism , and Irreligion ’ ; according to its preface it will be useful ‘ particularly to those who are tainted with scepticism , or want a demonstration of the existence and immateriality of God , or the natural immortality of the soul ’ . |
| 15 | A GLASGOW bus driver said yesterday that he might have been blinded during an attack by a drunken passenger who had broken into his cabin and assaulted him as he drove through the city centre one Saturday evening . |
| 16 | In Orkney , to which Slee ( 22 ) specifically referred as an example of the detrimental effect of farm investment , notably in buildings , HIDB-assisted farms have retained their full-time labour whereas on the island as a whole agricultural employment has declined by 9% . |
| 17 | The subcutaneous nature of the disorder allows its natural history to be followed with ease ; if we can confirm that the disease is caused by cell-mediated immune mechanisms , medical therapy might be developed as an adjunct or alternative to surgery , allowing a more conservative surgical approach with the prospect of reduced postoperative morbidity and recurrence . |
| 18 | The realist approach , although developed as an extension of the functional positivist approach , attempted to probe beyond the relationships derived from observed regularities and to seek the mechanisms and underlying structures which are responsible for the operation of environmental processes . |
| 19 | The tabular key has also been developed as an alternative to the traditional kind . |
| 20 | The machine was developed as an alternative to the many CP/M based machines that dominated the computer industry at the time , and was , unusually for IBM , designed around ‘ off the shelf ’ building blocks . |
| 21 | Woodford was developed as an initiative by the North Western Area . |
| 22 | Kuhn 's theory of science was subsequently developed as an attempt to give a theory of science more in keeping with the historical situation as he saw it . |
| 23 | The historic site of Athelstaneford was developed as an estate village by Sir David Kinloch , leasing out smallholdings on which his tenants could build their own harled ( rough-cast ) and pantiled cottages ; and here , too , many of them wove cloth . |
| 24 | Hydrogeochemical maps are being developed as an aid to interpreting environmental problems such as acidification and agricultural and mining pollution . |
| 25 | The colon weight/body weight ratio was calculated as an increase in this ratio has been shown to be an accurate marker of colonic inflammation . |
| 26 | However , as I am conscious of the strong feeling that the hon. Lady has registered on behalf of her constituents , I assure her that before a plant can be registered for an incinerator it must comply with the emissions standards enforced by Her Majesty 's industrial pollution inspectorate . |
| 27 | On return of this document , the participant named overleaf , will automatically be registered as an entrant in the Ultimate Prize Draw , with six changes to win the first prize jackpot of £50,000 . |
| 28 | John 's other children consisted of two boys , William and Joseph , and four girls — one of whom , Elizabeth , born in 1787 , would eventually broaden the family 's chapel affiliations by being registered as an adult church member at Rook Lane Independent Meeting House in 1837 . |
| 29 | In the event of a second conviction for a like offence , a member is liable , in addition to the penalties already named , to be adjudged to be for ever incapable of holding any public office , and to be incapable for five years of being registered as an elector or voting at an election either of members to serve in Parliament or of members of any public body . |
| 30 | Once the foreign lawyer is registered as an RFL , he or she may enter into partnership with an English solicitor . |