Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of the preparation for a bid the offeror will conduct an information-gathering exercise on the target company . |
| 2 | If you have your hair done once a week could you set it yourself and just visit the hairdressers for a cut every two months ? |
| 3 | Estate agents are cautious about taking the profit rise as a sign the slump in house sales is over . |
| 4 | Sexist concept , lousy gameplay and some of the worst digitisation I 've ever seen make this puerile excuse for a game every bit as bad as that offensive little rag The Daily Sport . |
| 5 | Construction of the contract as a whole The weight of academic opinion is that there should be a different approach to clauses which define the liabilities of the parties , whether in positive or negative terms , and those which exclude liability for a breach which has arisen . |
| 6 | But if , instead of jumping you walked , one step at a time , and were given one small coin as a reward every time you happened to take a step in the right direction , you would reach the scorpion in a very short time . |
| 7 | The question then arises whether it is right to attribute to Parliament as a whole the same intention as that repeatedly voiced by the Financial Secretary . |
| 8 | For as the Industrial Revolution progressed and changed much of Northern England , the Lake District became more and more of an economic backwater , a comparatively poor district where , for example , people scraped the yellow lichen Ochrolechia tartarea from the rocks and sold it to dyers for a penny a pound . |
| 9 | Yet both in the formation of the National Government and in the decision that it would fight the election as a government the King played an important , perhaps a crucial role . |
| 10 | If you can manage to get one photo of a gunmen in all that crowd , how many more were there they did n't get a photo of you know , erm , so that 's bull shit for a start the said that they only fired upon identified targets , going on motorbikes , and erm , I mean the thing is , the para 's are a highly disciplined , highly trained apparently at a you were n't even allowed to go out there without at least five years experience yeah , they were soldiers , they need and I ca n't believe that they negligibly you know , cos there was women and children there , and nearly all of them had wives and kids , you know , and there was reports from like the Irish saying oh yeah , they were mixing body er , care and body people and fucking laughing and joking over dead bodies and my old man said yeah if you just , if you just seen something drop most people will laugh and joke about it , you know I do n't know if you 've ever meet this sort of , old man , but the service sort of a , a unique sense of they can laugh at anything , you know they can see somebody with its guts put out in front of them and they 'll fucking crack out about it , its the only way they can stop themselves cracking up , or fucking crying sort of thing . |
| 11 | Where in an action for a debt the particulars of claim can conveniently be incorporated in the form of request for a summons ( N 202 ) this may be done if the proper officer allows ( Ord 6 , r 1(2) ) ; otherwise , a copy of the particulars of claim is to be filed for each defendant ( Ord 6 , r 1(4) ) . |
| 12 | As he held her eyes for a moment a look passed between them , deeply compassionate , oddly intimate . |
| 13 | The bedroom for a breakfast à deux or cosy supper ? |
| 14 | Taking Primary Schools as a whole the curriculum is probably wide enough to serve curriculum needs … |
| 15 | A final point worth making in defence of the data is that the observational material can not be impugned to the same degree , because in the flow of action during an incident the exigencies of the situation usually take over , making it difficult for policemen and women to act in ways contrary to what the situation requires or their colleagues demand . |
| 16 | Let's now look at the relationship between total product and average product O K the slope of a ray from the origin , alright , along the curve rises all the way to L 2 units , right , so the slope of the cord , ray rather , the slope of ray from the origin rises , right , to O 2 sorry to O L 2 units of labour as a result the margin , sorry the average product of labour is also rising over that range . |
| 17 | As is so often the case in Paisley 's career , the crucial step was taken by someone other than Paisley and then offered to Paisley as an opportunity the possibilities of which he could appreciate . |
| 18 | Last year in their search for an artist the Kirk alighted on Amersham-born James D. McGairy , who graduated from Sunderland Polytechnic with an honours degree in communication studies just three years ago . |
| 19 | The Wolf-Man — so called because of a dream involving wolves which Freud interpreted as a memory of his parents having sex — saw Freud for an hour a day , every day except Sundays , for four years . |
| 20 | The proportion of Roman Catholics in the most senior posts rose to 25% , but in the force as a whole the proportion dropped from 11% to 4% . |
| 21 | Across the North-East as a whole the seasonally adjusted figure rose by 1,500 on last month . |
| 22 | Experience in the laboratory or in the field gives those who do not intend to undertake research as a career the opportunity to learn how their subject has progressed through experiment . |
| 23 | In non-metropolitan districts as a whole the rate of population growth in the first years of the 1980s was less than half what it had been a decade earlier , though again most of the fall preceded 1978 . |
| 24 | First , in the event of the insolvency of a company a secured creditor will at least have priority to unsecured creditors and will , according to the seniority of his claim , have priority over any less senior security holders . |
| 25 | ‘ Indeed , ’ said Henry , noting with the appreciation of an expert the inspector 's choice of words . |
| 26 | Digital has run down sections of its operation in Ireland over the last few years , including the closure of a plant a Clonmel with the loss of 350 jobs . |
| 27 | Following a casualty which results in the total loss of a vessel the remains of which are causing an obstruction or a danger to other shipping , the Policyholder may be requested by a Harbour Master or Receiver of Wrecks to remove the vessel . |
| 28 | In his paper on ‘ Mourning and Melancholia ’ Freud established that in depression following the loss of a love-object the ego absorbs that object into itself so that the exaggerated self-reproaches , self-deprecation and self-hatred which typify the condition can be understood as sadistic drives which have been unconsciously directed on to the object whose ‘ shadow has fallen on the ego . ’ |
| 29 | They were the result of a meeting the previous day between Gorbachev and leaders of the 10 republics prepared to participate . |
| 30 | You know as the result of a fire the , the amount of money and goods that er are destroyed in the fire erm chemicals erm have come on the scene which bring with it their own particular dangers and risks from fire and from erm from the toxic effects of chemicals and the endanger to the environment . |