Example sentences of "an [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if Sun Microsystems does an about turn and endorses the X-terminal with a product of its own ( UX No 399 ) the figures will no doubt change round once again . |
| 2 | At a further word of command the file did an about turn and repeated the gesture , this time for the benefit of 7,000 Tories . |
| 3 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 4 | Moreover , suspicion may grow in agents ' minds during t - 1 that the government may be on the verge of an about turn on employment policy . |
| 5 | In something of an about turn from previous policy , President Bush has commanded the reduction of energy use within federal agencies to 20 per cent below 1985 levels by the end of the decade . |
| 6 | There has been , as it were , an about face . |
| 7 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 8 | an about turn . |
| 9 | The only other thing that may be an answer to the question is erm I I know it seems an about face but are we gon na say that er the other two sergeants that are now managers become A L O's and use them in that capacity and train 'em up . |
| 10 | It 's unlikely they 're going to do an about turn . |
| 11 | Gradually , during the 1960s and 1970s industrial businesses did an about turn , transforming Japan into one of the world 's most successful industrial countries manufacturing high quality goods at acceptable costs . |
| 12 | Can I buy an off the shelf loom ; which side of the engine do I mount an alternator as I would like to raise it above the dynamo position which is too near any deep water ; is it possible to fit halogen headlamps . |
| 13 | we asked for space , and they said oh mid April , and that actually is the next schedule step down action and that 's going to be on Europe and that 'll run from April till June , erm but from now till April if anybody would like to write the country which is Chile and this is because they 're , they suppose that they have extend the death penalty in Chile to include the murder of an off duty police witnesses , at the moment it 's only erm , the death penalty only exists for on duty police officers |
| 14 | If no signal is being received , an OFF flag will appear on the Indicator and the left/right pointer will be centred . |
| 15 | If I just bought an off the shelf package like Turbo Pascal or Microsoft Pascal could I without having to buy add on libraries produce this type of effect . |
| 16 | The self-inflicted loss of Dominic Clarke following an off the ball incident in the second minute had left Armagh dicing with death and the killer blows subsequently rained in mainly from the accurate boot of Raymond Gallagher — remember what I said about him at Minor level last week ? — and the deadly finishing of Mark Gallagher and Malachy O'Rourke . |
| 17 | Now he is a bit of an off the wall manager is n't he Jimmy . |
| 18 | Chairman it 's er an excellent question an an and I , I , I 'm hesitating in giving er an an off the cuff answer , but the first of all we were n't actually asked to issue a statement of conformity at this stage |
| 19 | The charges arise from an incident last January during which an off duty police officer was allegedly hit with a hammer while he waited for a taxi in Cheltenham . |
| 20 | The charges arise from an incident last January during which an off duty police officer was allegedly hit with a hammer while he waited for a taxi in Cheltenham . |
| 21 | It is not at all unlikely that at the conquest , Mehmed II appointed someone mufti in the newly conquered city ; and since the sources seem not to mention the appointment of anyone else to the post , it may possibly be that it was made an for Hizir Bey . |
| 22 | It is perhaps possible that they might fail to mention that a purely functional muftilik had been made an for Hizir Bey ; but it seems unlikely in the extreme that they should fail to mention his having held a post which , as has been suggested in the previous chapter , was already one of great prestige and which , by Taskopruzade 's time less than a century later , was certainly one of considerable power . |
| 23 | an for a bid was speegeless . |
| 24 | I thought you might like an for the lunch hour . |
| 25 | Let's have social workers replaced by machines immediately and solve the problem once an for all . |
| 26 | I do n't see it as a waste of time , but I see it as erm , as may be an as a a n a necessary delay . |
| 27 | In some respects , it serves an as abbreviated index without the page and volume references and might have been more helpful as a kind of contents list . |
| 28 | if you start talking any other business about wha except what you 're doing there then they 'll think that you 're doing that as an as a side . |
| 29 | Heaven help it if we or any other minority among a majority party , of any colour of any persuasion , was allowed to govern as an as an executive . |
| 30 | Is X conscious he is giving an after dinner speech ? |