Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( 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 |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These included a harvest supper , preparation for a wedding and a visit to the seaside . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He shall stay under the chains for a night and a day , and when he wakes he shall remember nothing else . ’ |
| 16 | However , it was the local authority 's plan that there should be a period of assessment of the relationship between L. and her mother , the mother 's skills as a parent and her willingness to respond to counselling , and that a programme of rehabilitation should be entered into . |
| 17 | His first book , If this is a man , about his months in Auschwitz , and its sequel , The Truce , were hard to fault , and the successive publications of his middle age have been greeted by an admiration responsive both to his skills as a writer and to his character as a man.i In October 1985 , however , the chauvinistic American Jewish magazine Commentary did succeed in performing the outlandish act of disparaging Levi and his books . |
| 18 | The neo-Georgian building pays testament to the company 's undoubted skills as a design and build outfit . |
| 19 | You acquire a wide range of skills as an actuary and continue to learn throughout your professional life . |
| 20 | Langdon 's maps , drawn of estates in about fifteen counties , are distinctive and their embellishments with Elizabethan strapwork ornamentation show his skills as an artist and draughtsman . |
| 21 | The kitchen clock read six thirty , plenty of time to walk home to his mother 's cottage for a wash and a bit of breakfast . |
| 22 | But I suspect the rages are in some degree tactical , part of the well-established struggle between a director and his producers . |
| 23 | Freer : a Legacy of Art by Thomas Lawton and Linda Merrill ( £40 , $49.50 ) tells Freer 's story as a collector and celebrates the reopening of the Smithsonian 's Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC on Sunday , 9 May , its seventieth anniversary , after a four and a half year renovation project . |
| 24 | Wm Low Supermarkets has been granted planning permission for a store and car park on the Ladbrokes Retail Park site in the town 's Grahams Road . |
| 25 | Well I I erm Roy Donson House Builders ' Federation , I I think it will because if you take Hambleton as an example and and and and we 've seen in more detail stage one er more detailed justification for the boundaries of some particular settlements in the Hambleton District Plan er based on a based on a landscape analysis . |
| 26 | But McDonnell Douglas , which beat more than 100 firms to win the contract for a payroll and personnel system , says it will oppose the ‘ ill advised ’ legal action . |
| 27 | They may well claim that such commitments would result in bankruptcy , but if that were the case ( and it seems unlikely ) , the case for a lesbian and gay politics that addresses problems in our social structures remains a strong one . |
| 28 | Both articles sustain the case for an anti-essentialist and pragmatic politics , and therefore question the appeal to the category of experience in the two movements . |
| 29 | Having advised restraint by the Labour Party , I was angered , and indeed horrified , by the announcement that the government had asked Lord Denning to conduct his now infamous one-man inquiry into the matter , with terms of reference so loose that he regarded himself as charged to examine everyone 's activities through a microscope and to denounce anyone where there was a whisper of suspected immorality , let alone convincing proof . |
| 30 | Here , of course , you will also need to make provision for a bed and clothes storage . |