Example sentences of "[prep] a [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gray and his assistant Tony McAndrew were dismissed after an 8am board meeting yesterday . |
| 2 | As an illustration of what appears to be the inevitable result of a strongly objectivist analysis which presupposes its equal relevance for all commodity forms , there follows a brief summary of the trajectory taken by one of the more sustained attempts to focus on the commodity as the central object of research , by the French social theorist Baudrillard . |
| 3 | The 1930s saw the beginning of the development of a primarily student/intellectual sub-culture in which Marxism gradually became the prevalent ideology . |
| 4 | Philippe Barbe is in the happy position of being able to spend much of the year aboard his yacht and Speedy-Go therefore bears the hallmarks of a largely liveaboard yacht : accommodation with the accent on comfort , a state-of-the-art navigatorium and a galley of industrial aspect from which excellent meals regularly emerge . |
| 5 | A large and angry group of people hurled beer bottles and cans at East German border guards at the Checkpoint Charlie crossing point on Saturday and tore down parts of a newly metal fence in protest . |
| 6 | There are 30 such double bonds in the fullerene football but binding of a bis diethylphosphineplatinum group ( because of their steric bulk ) to one of these protects its four nearest neighbours from further attack . |
| 7 | I am aware , as we all are , that activities of a potentially terrorist nature occur in the Republic of Ireland . |
| 8 | John Paul 's pontificate may then appear as , in part , aberration , while a pluralist Catholic Christianity will be revealed as not only heir to the central religious tradition of the West , but as able to respond without losing its core identity to the needs both of a truly world Church and of the ongoing transformation of human consciousness and intellectual understanding . |
| 9 | However , and dimers are twisted out of a purely cis arrangement due to steric hindrance ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 10 | To rid themselves of a purely intelligentsia base the party united with the Moscow Federation of Labour in 1991 and became the Party of Labour . |
| 11 | But the NATO council would deal with any use of a purely NATO Reaction Force . |
| 12 | Evidence of a successful Iraqi military offensive against Kurdish rebels emerged in late March shortly after the suppression of a mainly Shia uprising in the south [ see pp. 38081-82 ] . |
| 13 | Using profit maximising analyses and based on a model of a mainly cereal farm in the eastern counties he has calculated the likely impact of various assumed changes in the economics of farming . |
| 14 | This , dear reader , is just the tiniest tip of an absolutely enormo iceberg : there 's heaps more stuff about the macabre , the theatrical and the perverted ; the awkward , the romantic and Suede 's ‘ extraordinary intensity ’ ; not to mention fairground mirrors and all the other fevered topics of conversation and how Suede are so quintessentially English the term could have been invented for them . |
| 15 | ‘ Women are under-represented in traditional craft industries due to lack of real training and support for girls at school leaving age , compounded by the hostility of an all-too-often chauvinist workplace . |
| 16 | Given that many bus operators would be interested in franchisees , what conclusions can be drawn from Badgerline 's reported withdrawal following a threat of an OFT monopoly inquiry ? |
| 17 | On the face of it , it looks like a purely police problem . ’ |
| 18 | We can quote one as saying ‘ We see it as giving a distinctive edge to our marketing image amongst a predominantly business clientele . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He had a shower , changed , leaped on to a train and came straight to London for a 3pm charity gathering . |
| 20 | Earlier plans for a purely commando raid had been abandoned , as mentioned earlier , because St Nazaire stands on the Loire estuary with only one deep-water channel which was covered by coastal batteries in 1942 . |
| 21 | The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the power of this cumulative selection as a fundamentally nonrandom process . |
| 22 | As a predominantly passenger line , the L & NWR had more locos and more passenger carriages than its contemporaries . |
| 23 | Both of these assertions , though questionable , attest to the kind of currency James enjoyed in what is usually regarded as a purely Pauline sphere of influence . |
| 24 | Doherty is described by Cole as an ardent Owenite ; but though he records him as advocating ‘ co-operative self-employment far and wide wherever the workers became organised ’ , he nevertheless identifies the National Association as a purely trade union body . |
| 25 | Benji is an ex-champion Prix St Georges dressage horse with a wonderfully laidback temperament and is used as a schoolmaster to many of Catherston 's pupils . |
| 26 | Weathered clay barley-sugar edgings finish off a path or flowerbed with a crisply period touch , but aside from shoving a few in your handbag next time you visit Mount Stewart , they tend to be hard to find . |
| 27 | The longer spines are mace-like ; with a slightly rugose body and a head with multiple points . |
| 28 | The gammacamera ( GEC Maxicamera II ) was fitted with a nigh energy parallel hole collimator ( 400 keV maximum energy ) . |
| 29 | In the latest incidents , an antiques dealer was attacked at Keele services on the M Six shortly after midnight and yesterday a woman driving along a quite country road in Chepstow had her car rammed by a gang wielding baseball bats . |
| 30 | 28 ) ; and the mosaics from North Hill , Colchester ( Neal 1981 , nos. 39 and 40 ) which combine circular elements with an essentially grid format . |