Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pearson 's technique as a biographer derived from his career on the stage . |
| 2 | An attendance rate of 90% for a week means that out of the 1000 possible attendances over the week , 900 were recorded . |
| 3 | Instead , the orbit as a whole twists a little further round each time , so that a true drawing of the planet 's course should really look more like one of the patterns produced by a children 's Spirograph toy . |
| 4 | The image of the housewife as a cabbage makes a number of appearances in answers to the question about writing housewife on a form ( it is mentioned by twelve of the forty women ) . |
| 5 | But it must be admitted that the interpretation of the earlier building as a temple lacks conviction . |
| 6 | Thames Television has donated £1,000 to York 's St Leonard 's Hospice after mistakenly describing a burning portable building as a trademark registered Portakabin during an episode of The Bill . |
| 7 | In other cases which have attracted recent headlines , trainee firemen in London were hosed with cold water and left in the street in baby doll nightdresses , a young policewoman in Manchester was handcuffed to railings through a freezing night , and army recruits in Colchester were forced to call out musical notes as a sergeant hit them on their naked buttocks with a baseball bat . |
| 8 | Robert Schuman , the French foreign minister after July 1948 who had been raised on the Franco-German border , was attracted to European unity as a way to bring a rapprochement between the two countries . |
| 9 | Individual points about style are always made in the context of a discussion of the feelings , attitudes or ideas that the text as a whole expresses , a discussion which is inevitably to a large extent intuitive and impressionistic . |
| 10 | It is Milton 's portrayal of the devil which is magnificent , not the devil himself , but the author is careful enough to place Satan 's admirable qualities within the text as a whole showing them to be put to evil use . |
| 11 | The term ‘ foregrounding ’ was developed ( chiefly by Tynyanov ) as a necessary consequence of the view of the literary text as a system composed of interrelated and interacting elements , in order to distinguish between dominant and automatized factors . |
| 12 | If you have you could perhaps use them along with the video text as a package grouped around a theme . |
| 13 | A Scottish lord told King James that Andrewes ‘ did play with his text as a jackanapes does , who takes up a thing and tosses and plays with it and then takes up another and plays with it . |
| 14 | US President Bill Clinton has dismissed the referendum as a ploy to buy time , and is expected to press reluctant Europeans for military action against Bosnia 's Serbs . |
| 15 | However , the side 's leading bowler flatly refutes the story attributed to him that he physically coerced an umpire into granting an lbw decision during a match involving the Maharajah of Patiala . |
| 16 | He saw the Loblaws ' link as a chance to use ‘ consumer power ’ to make quick progress on environmental issues . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) An appeal under this section shall be lodged with the sheriff clerk within 14 days from the date of the decision appealed against or in a case where reasons for a decision have been given under section 18(2) of this Act , within 14 days from the date of receipt of those reasons , which shall be presumed to have been received on the day after the date on which they were posted , except that in the case of reasons posted on a Friday or Saturday , they shall be presumed to have been received on the Monday next following . |
| 18 | There are a number of compelling reasons for a creditor to obtain a charge and not rely solely on his personal action against a debtor company . |
| 19 | Immigration R v Immigration Appeal Tribunal , Ex parte Khalid Hussain ; CA ( Lloyd , Glidewell , Stuart-Smith LJJ ) ; 5 Oct 1989 Under r 18 of the Immigration Appeals Procedure Rules 1972 , the decision of an immigration appeal tribunal considering whether or not to hear oral evidence to determine whether there were compassionate reasons for a person convicted of murder to be given entry clearance was a matter of discretion and could only be attacked on Wednesbury principles or other recognised rules . |
| 20 | He had failed to gain a scholarship to St. Paul 's and one assumes that his father decided that his son 's lack of ambition and apparent aimlessness about a career did not justify the money spent on a schooling that should naturally lead to Oxford or Cambridge , and thereafter to the Civil Service . |
| 21 | The National Curriculum offers an opportunity for a school to engage in critical thinking about practice . |
| 22 | Staff groups may be short-term or long-term , or a mixture of both , with a core of long-term members working with short-term participants who join for an agreed number of sessions in turn — this particular structure affords a good opportunity for a school to build up a core of its own consultant teachers . |
| 23 | Biometrics is a key contributor to their success , and recognition of this has led to an opportunity for a Statistician to complete a team of three . |
| 24 | Family members too will have considerable feelings , and this might be an opportunity for a family meeting in the old person 's home , acknowledging the sadness for everybody of having to give up that home , accepting the necessity for more care , and with it the reassurance that the family will be vitally needed for continued regular visiting and involvement . |
| 25 | They lived together and even multiplied , though the opportunity for a doctor to hurry over the gangplank with a black bag , and , in his turn , fall into the river , had been missed . |
| 26 | Penaud dived on the ball to score and two minutes later he squeezed through a struggling defence for a second try with third-phase ball . |
| 27 | It is a defence for a person charged with ‘ Being in Charge ’ to prove that at the time he is alleged to have committed the offence the circumstances were such that there was no likelihood of his driving the vehicle whilst the proportion of alcohol in his breath , blood or urine remained likely to exceed the prescribed limit ; but in determining whether there was such a likelihood the court may disregard any injury to him and any damage to the vehicle . |
| 28 | It would be a defence for a person charged to prove that he/she had good reason or lawful authority for having the article with him or her in a public place . |
| 29 | It would also be a defence for a person charged to prove that he/she had the article with him or her for use at work ; for religious reasons or as part of any national costume . |
| 30 | And , as his administration staggered through its winter of discontent in the first two months of 1979 , Callaghan 's famed skills as a crisis-manager seemed to desert him . |