Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might appear strange to classify a retailer as a manufacturer but this will only happen where he is under a duty to inspect the goods and fails to do so . |
| 2 | By taking the prints to Japan , Sotheby 's was selling to rich Japanese collectors without a retailer as an intermediary and the retailer 's mark-up was subsumed into the auction price . |
| 3 | After trials the General Electrolytic Alkali Co. was established in 1899 with Hargreaves as a director and production began at Cledford Bridge near Middlewich in 1901 . |
| 4 | And physically it was n't any worse than when I fell off my bike as a kid and was concussed for an hour or two . |
| 5 | ( He had always used a lady 's bike as a teenager because he thought the middle bar on a man 's one might do him a mischief if he cocked his leg over it carelessly . ) |
| 6 | My wife had determined that I must swop my old bike for a car after I told her of an encounter with an old pupil of mine as I was toiling up the hill by the power station in Haughton Road , Darlington . |
| 7 | ( a ) he enters any building or part of a building as a trespasser and with intent to commit any such offence as is mentioned in sub-section ( 2 ) below ; or |
| 8 | Will he undertake that when he and my right hon. Friend the Minister go to Brussels next week for that crucial meeting , they will continue to fight for British agriculture as a whole and not bend over backwards to please MacSharry , as the Opposition would do ? |
| 9 | Tape-slide productions can be used for both group teaching , as for example , an illustration of a lecture or seminar , or for individual tuition , as in preparation for a course or for repetition . |
| 10 | Komarovsky 's ( 1946 ) classic study found that many female students experience conflict between the experience of higher education as preparation for a career and the social expectations that women should be passive , ‘ feminine ’ and marriageable . |
| 11 | These words sum up her intention and feelings , expressing the result of two years of preparation for a show that came to mean so much for the many artists participating in the event . |
| 12 | These included a harvest supper , preparation for a wedding and a visit to the seaside . |
| 13 | Punctuality is not just a drama school fetish , it 's preparation for a profession where time really does cost money . |
| 14 | However , this conflict between preparation for an invasion and the immediate raiding of the enemy coasts was never clearly resolved ; and a force of Royal Marines and Commandos was held on the Clyde forever preparing for landings against the possible need to capture an Atlantic island base should Gibraltar fall . |
| 15 | To this extent , Soviet foreign traders , who came late to the Latin American markets , may be disadvantaged in their competition with capitalist suppliers either because their own authorities prevent them from participating in the bidding for a project or because they can not mobilise the Soviet bureaucracy in time to meet deadlines . |
| 16 | Try to capture the architectural shape of the lecture Think of your notes as a skeleton or outline of the lecture you 'll give to your fellow students who are absent . |
| 17 | There were location notes for a film and sheets about the physical appearance of the characters and the sort of actors who might play them , these surrounded by doodles , mazes and uninspired drawings of faces . |
| 18 | It also announced that Richard Shaw , a non-executive director , will become chairman and chief executive following Michael Murray 's resignation as a director and chief executive in December . |
| 19 | The opening of Leçon de choses , significantly entitled ‘ Générique ’ , can almost be said to provide a poetics of the autonomous , self-referential text , such is the emphasis upon the creative power of words : a description is composed which will generate the text as a whole and which also acts as a self-reflexive commentary on this process . |
| 20 | He not only read widely about German government and trade but worked as an apprentice for a week or two each with painters , weavers , dyers and smiths . |
| 21 | Perhaps the train in Aunt Louise 's mind had jumped back on to the rail for a while because it was then , in quite a conversational voice , that she began to speak of her daughter . |
| 22 | It recommended that the preliminary hearing be abolished , that the district judge be required to conduct the hearing on an interventionist basis , that he or she be required to give reasons for a decision and explain the rules of law and that specific guidance should be provided on the expenses recoverable for small claims . |
| 23 | The reasons for a separation and its temporary nature can be explained to a ten-year-old child , so that anxiety can again be minimised . |
| 24 | There are a variety of reasons for a belief that structural adjustments to the EC budget are not over . |
| 25 | In our first example you are guided by the ideas of " political pressure " or " economic " reasons as a cause and emphasis is given to the latter . |
| 26 | This was identified by Wheeler from Greek parallels as an abaton where the devotees retired for the ‘ holy sleep ’ after the long and elaborate healing rituals in the temple . |
| 27 | He shall stay under the chains for a night and a day , and when he wakes he shall remember nothing else . ’ |
| 28 | Now if you two charming ladies , and Herbert here , can persuade your betters to free you from the chains for an hour or two , we 're as good as on our way ! ’ |
| 29 | Each morning after the bathroom run , the three of us were let off the chains for an hour or so to exercise . |
| 30 | ‘ Closure of the USM may prompt a rush of restructuring by USM companies that decide that this is the opportunity for an MBO or a delisting , or even to maximise shareholder value by break-up or sale , but the current recession may not be the ideal timing for any of these options , ’ says PW 's Nigel Crockford . |