Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The neck joint is similar to Ibanez and Heartfield 's ‘ all access ’ variety which does away with the usual bulky metal plate and offers as an alternative four recessed bolts and a sloping , shaped heel , which really does feel good under the hand . |
| 2 | ‘ Business seemed like an attractive idea and I wanted to learn about finance first , ’ he offers as an explanation . |
| 3 | It is inverted on a pivoted bracket whereupon soap drains through an orifice . |
| 4 | Mr Tapie is by no means a doctrinaire socialist and sits as an independent in the National Assembly . |
| 5 | In securing huge government land grants as an inducement to build , the railways became the prime engine of migration , transporting the migrants , acting as land agents , supplying their machinery , building materials , and seed , and later shipping ( a word which developed land-bound connotations ) their produce . |
| 6 | ‘ He goes through an act of not wanting publicity . |
| 7 | Each new recruit goes through an AP — or Announcement Party — when she invites a group of family and friends to get rid of her kit — or goods . |
| 8 | Where the plaintiff sues as an assignee the action shall be commenced only in a court in which the assignor might , under the above rule , have commenced the action but for the assignment ( Ord 4 , r 2(2) ) . |
| 9 | [ For loan guarantees as an issue in the ongoing peace process see pp. 38787 ; 38452 and previous months . ] |
| 10 | Building societies face the threat of a further slowdown in their mortgage sales as pressure intensifies for an increase in base rates , and therefore mortgage rates . |
| 11 | Thus in the valuable Brockman Iron Formation of the Hamersley Basin , bands about an inch thick are said to be correlatable over an area of some 20000 square miles and even microscopic varves within those bands can be traced over 185 miles . |
| 12 | Wittgenstein avoids both mentalism and behaviourism by saying that what matters for an understanding of psychological verbs is not anything phenomenal — either inner or outer — but their use . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't deny him the right to use whatever symbols he wants as an artist , but as a friend I was disappointed that he knew how inflammatory that would be to a Madness audience . |
| 14 | if if the stories of are to be believed , and who would doubt him , is that the kind of person that wants as an ambassador in Europe ? |
| 15 | The main part of the eye , the retina , is an outgrowth from the brain , whereas the lens develops as an invagination from an overlying sheet of cells . |
| 16 | The image of Tess , vulnerable and innocent despite the shoulderpads , develops as an antidote to scheming female sophistication . |
| 17 | It is important that as Christians we conceive of the corporation as a community which has as an objective more than just profit maximisation . |
| 18 | A word which has as an element either a past participle or a present participle , eg airborne , weatherbeaten , self-taught . |
| 19 | That play has as an epigraph a Christian equivalent of the escape through ‘ Shantih ’ from the cycles of creation : ‘ Hence the soul can not be possessed of the divine union , until it has divested itself of the love of created beings . ’ |
| 20 | Straddling the azure magnificence of San Francisco Bay , the Golden Gate Bridge stands as an icon to the sun-loving , glossy sophistication of West Coast civilisation . |
| 21 | If the foundation of the UGC stands as an attempt to relate narrowly-based civil institutions to the concerns of public policy and national agency , the proposals contained in the Newbolt Report represent an attempt to provide for English a similar link with national policy . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , his Memoir stands as an indictment of the apprentice era . |
| 23 | But the slogan , however carelessly drafted , means something more than banality ; it stands for an attitude that is important and open to challenge . |
| 24 | Often a change of publisher does wonders for an author , but it seems to make little difference to this man 's sales . |
| 25 | Attitudes are a statement of a position an individual has about an object , an event , a person or a belief . |
| 26 | ‘ An out-party sometimes forgets that the power it exercises as an opposition is to some extent in the hands of journalists ’ ; the more supportive the press is of the opposition party , the more pressure it can bring on the party in power . |
| 27 | writes for an audience far wider than the historian of science , and although these essays may present some challenge for the uninitiated , today 's working scientist ( looking beyond the arguments about supercolliders or the effects of retroviruses on the human population ) could well profit from a dip into this book . |
| 28 | ‘ If he has any , ’ he adds as an afterthought . |
| 29 | This not only involves a mutual understanding of the common-sense notions in everyday life about what counts as an excuse , it requires that constables put themselves in the position of the offender to test whether they would have done the same . |
| 30 | If you can get them to absorb your material at all , that counts as an achievement . |