Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun sg] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murray 's Just Jeremy , on which she led the dressage section from Thomson by less than half a point , has only recently returned to competition following a lengthy lay-off after an operation to cure a breathing problem . |
| 2 | Last month the Queen Mother spent several days in an Aberdeen hospital after an operation to remove a piece of fish lodged in her throat . |
| 3 | Having applied his newspaper-research skills to hunting out pre–1800 references to the fame , he hankers after an opportunity to produce a researched , scholarly history of the game as a whole : ‘ There has n't been a proper history since Rowland Bowen 's , and a great deal has been discovered since then . |
| 4 | But , to judge from the unsureness of their gait , they must have lost their sea legs somewhere between Sheffield and Colchester , perhaps after an incident involving a couple of bottles of Drambuie . |
| 5 | Dr Barney Williams , 52 , left Dr William Henry , 48 , needing hospital treatment after an incident involving a dance poster in the surgery in Marshfield Road , Chippenham , Wilts . |
| 6 | And true enough , after an afternoon weaving a poem back on to the frayed ends of a loom of broken rhymes , I had leapt up and punched the air with determination . |
| 7 | A 47-year-old man died after an accident involving a 17-ton loading shovel at the Redland Aggregates site at Barham . |
| 8 | AN eight-year-old boy died last night after an accident involving a bus on the outskirts of Cupar in Fife . |
| 9 | The world fell in for the hard-working TV star and his family as he drove home alone after an engagement opening a carpet store in the Midlands . |
| 10 | Gonzalez , who had been ejected from the premises after an argument involving a former girlfriend , was alleged to have deliberately caused the fire by igniting gasoline within the club . |
| 11 | Second , the definition of an ESS contains a criterion for the stability of the equilibrium which is missing from the definition of Nash equilibrium . |
| 12 | The stories were of an dullness to bring a water buffalo to its knees . |
| 13 | The cuticle of an insect forms a more or less hardened exoskeleton and , although perfectly continuous over the whole body , it remains flexible along certain definite , usually transverse , lines . |
| 14 | ( FCA ) of who had been found to be in breach of Bye-law 76(a) and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that he at Ivybridge between 1 April 1988 and 30 April 1990 whilst Treasurer of an organisation failed to deal properly and promptly with the financial affairs of the organisation for which he was responsible by virtue of the said office and in that he on or about 9 February 1990 improperly drew a cheque on the account of an organisation to settle a liability not incurred by them was reprimanded , fined £500 and ordered to pay £350 by way of costs . |
| 15 | it may be difficult for the management of an organisation to accept a matrix structure . |
| 16 | Members of an organisation have a residual power to supervise the implementation of the constitutive treaty through the organisation . |
| 17 | The modern-day equivalent of this is the idea of an organisation having a corporate image such that all those within the organisation can respond to and identify with . |
| 18 | If we use the criterion invoked for the characteristic activity sense of the progressive , namely that the admissibility of an adverb signals a different sense , then we would have to increase the subcategories of meaning associated with this particular aspectual form of the verb . |
| 19 | In her closing submissions on behalf of Miss Calder , Miss Wicks placed reliance on the fact that the power of an Inn to call a person to the Bar is the power of the Inn alone . |
| 20 | The poor acceleration of an aerotow makes a swing or a wing-drop more likely . |
| 21 | properly will depend on either the specific instructions given to him or arguments about the implied duties of an expert conducting a reference : for three possible examples , see 14.8 , 14.9 and 14.10. a breach of the implied duty under s14 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 , unless there is a specific time provision or the duty has been expressly excluded by agreement with the parties . |
| 22 | Perhaps the greatest value is in studying pictures of an expert doing a manoeuvre , since from these the positioning can be clearly examined . |
| 23 | Hence the words of an Act carry a sort of disembodied or dehumanised meaning : not necessarily the meaning intended by any actual person in particular , but the meaning that is conventionally attached to such words . |
| 24 | This is a fiction composed by university graduates — the first such school of fiction in English — and its primary emphasis , only remotely Cervantic , is on the dangers of false intellectualism and simplistic theories , and above all the arrogant notion that membership of an intelligentsia constitutes a credible claim to superior wisdom or superior virtue . |
| 25 | Mr Roller 's optimistic assessment of an upturn follows a winter of discontent in Germany when wage demands rocketed and employers warned of a flight of investment and manufacturing overseas . |
| 26 | Now , clearly , in many circumstances where the property of an adjective matches a speaker 's perception , it may not need to be assigned — i.e. stated explicitly to be valid for the entity concerned — on the grounds that it is felt to be a characteristic sufficiently basic to the entity not to need assignment , as opposed to being called upon as an initial qualifying and identifying element . |
| 27 | It is much too risky at the start of an interaction to make a joke about the other person . |
| 28 | It may well take only a quarter of an hour to train a worker in the future but industry is also going to have to change how it treats that worker . |
| 29 | On the whole , yes , though it is difficult to think of an artist tailoring a picture to the requirements of an exhibition . |
| 30 | The traditional style of Roman portrait was revived at the court of the emperor Vespasian ( AD 69–79 ) , a man of modest Italian origin who rose to power through command of an army following a year of civil war . |