Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [coord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask any élite marathoner what he/she most wants after a race and the answer is very likely to be a massage . |
| 2 | He wisely asked for the downward transition after a circuit and the mare came down to trot , threw her head up briefly and then rounded again . |
| 3 | Birmingham-based ACT Group Plc 's ACT Computer Support Ltd and Professional Support Centre , an organisation providing personal computer-based software support , have been signed up by personal computer manufacturer Tandy Grid Systems Corp to offer computer support services to its customers : ACT will deal with on-site technical support , consulting , training and additional installations , while Professional will look after a hot-line and the initial diagnostic process . |
| 4 | Delivery of a certificated transfer is treated by a buyer and by the company as equivalent to delivery of a transfer and the relevant certificate . |
| 5 | First , though heads are indeed crucial to the character of a school and the quality of the education it provides , they can never be held entirely to blame if these prove unsatisfactory . |
| 6 | The capacity of a watercourse and the tolerable limits of polluting effluent are calculated according to a mathematical model , which ideally should be applied routinely and objectively to all dischargers regardless of their means , the costs of treatment , their prior efforts , or the demands made of their competitors . |
| 7 | Work done in 1881 included the addition of a gallery and the church was restored in 1879 and an addition to the churchyard was consecrated in 1901 . |
| 8 | Will cut over the edge of a lawn and the low-profile enables them to cut under low shrub branches . |
| 9 | The three points on this line lie within of a degree and the line extends to the church at Bishops Cannings with a better than ⅛ degree accuracy . |
| 10 | The death of a hero and the birth of an enemy . |
| 11 | It is impossible from purely behavioural experiments conducted with neurologically intact subjects to specify with any accuracy the locus in the brain of those neural events which intervene between presentation of a stimulus and the occurrence of some response . |
| 12 | Thus , in principle , adhesion is very like cohesion and there is no great difference between the stick of a glue and the strength of a solid . |
| 13 | The hollow note of the bullfinch that is almost ventriloquial in its effect , came as easily from his lips as the chuckle of a jackdaw or the chiding of a sparrow hawk at its prey . |
| 14 | Detergent systems operate by means of an electronic sensor fitted in the wash tank of a machine or the re-circulation tank of a CIP system . |
| 15 | It springs to life at the turn of a knob and the touch of a button . |
| 16 | Minor criticisms include the absence of a glossary and the occasional introduction of unexplained technical terms , such as brachyodont and hypsodont . |
| 17 | Since each dot is followed by a spacing period equal to the dot duration , the dot signal length — shortest element in the code — is 1/80th of a second and the telegraphic speed is 80 Baud . |
| 18 | Such preservation will be most likely where particular programs were run to determine the structural stability or the environmental efficiency of a building or the individual or institution commissioning the structure had been asked to accept a particular design after a ‘ virtual visit to or walk around of ’ the planned building . |
| 19 | Kelly mounted experimental structures on bearings on the table to discover the best ratio between the height of a building and the size and elasticity of the bearings . |
| 20 | It involves a detailed survey of a building and the specification/drawings , and so on . |
| 21 | Similarly , the court has implied the grant of a right of way , solely for the purpose of a rent review , in order that the rent review clause should have a practical effect ( Jefferies v O " Neill ( 1983 ) 269 EG 131 ) and has enlarged a definition of " lessor " in a lease in order to give effect to a general scheme for the maintenance of a building and the recovery of a service charge ( Adelphi ( Estates ) Ltd v Christie ( 1983 ) 269 EG 221 ) . |
| 22 | The above data suggests that there is a positive correlation between the prestige of a university and the productivity of its researchers . |
| 23 | The above data suggests that there is a positive correlation between the prestige of a university and the productivity of its researchers . |
| 24 | The legal issues are best understood by distinguishing between the benefit of a contract and the burden of a contract , or between the rights and entitlements of a contract and the obligations to be performed under a contract . |
| 25 | The legal issues are best understood by distinguishing between the benefit of a contract and the burden of a contract , or between the rights and entitlements of a contract and the obligations to be performed under a contract . |
| 26 | Nothing much hangs on my own , so easily distracted by the swoop of a crow or the amazing bright green of raspberry leaves as the sun floods our hillside acre . |
| 27 | This is a very important stage in the development of a Rottweiler and the breeder can make or break a puppy at this stage . |
| 28 | He had the heart of a daemon and the eyes of a hawk . |
| 29 | The gearbox will fail due to the ceasing of a bearing or the damage of a geartooth . |
| 30 | She needs a style that she can transform at the flick of a brush or the twist of a curler to complement her every mood . |