Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] an [noun] [conj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ! ’ |
| 5 | Each morning after the bathroom run , the three of us were let off the chains for an hour or so to exercise . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | You acquire a wide range of skills as an actuary and continue to learn throughout your professional life . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When this has been the case for an hour or so I pick up my tackle and move . |
| 11 | What better case for an exception than this ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In old age Arthur would still come to the brewery for an hour or two every day and later ride on horseback to his flour mills at Kilmainham . |
| 14 | Until recent years the general rule has been to require the consent of a parent or guardian for an operation or an anaesthetic on a person of under 21 , but increasingly at the present time it is becoming customary to accept the consent of minors aged 16 and over . |
| 15 | She also carefully lectured me on the possibility of me treating a baby as a fashion accessory , or something to use as material for an article or two , or even worse — as the excuse for an article or two being late . |
| 16 | I would be grateful of you would sign the attached copy of this letter and return it to me with the payment and contract as an indication that you agree to these restrictions . |
| 17 | His father intended him for an army career , but that and a project for farming in the colonies came to nothing ; and by 1885 he was living hand to mouth in Chelsea as an illustrator and journalist . |
| 18 | Often there is no further change for an hour or so . |
| 19 | Kylie has never disguised her contempt at being sniped at by critics who dismiss her talents as an actress and as a singer . |
| 20 | However , because of the deeply held pessimism in Whitehall it was considered pointless to make detailed plans for an evacuation that would take place in an atmosphere of panic and confusion ; railway timetables would matter little if bombs were raining down . |
| 21 | The cost was exclusively for the benefit of the business and could not be carried forward in the accounts as an asset after the lease expired . |
| 22 | For instance if the policyholder is a married man with two young children and the value of the claim is $100 for the family , then to deduct four excesses would mean that the corporation would not make any payment for an incident where the Policyholder thought he had taken out cover . |
| 23 | ( c ) a contract between an employer and the employer 's client where the individual engineer supervises the client 's contractor . |
| 24 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 25 | Yes , well I think that 's why you that 's why I keep on trying to come back to the regulatory system , because what you really in fundamental form a pension is a contract between an employer and an individual , you know you pay me so much money and when you get to a certain age I will pay you . |
| 26 | ‘ Hateley is also the type you want to have on your side when you play away from home in Europe because of the way he works opposing defenders as an attacker and prevents them from properly clearing their lines as well . ’ |
| 27 | In tandem with the major exhibition on Rietveld 's activities as an architect and furniture designer which has opened at the Centraal Museum of Utrecht ( until 21 February ) , the City Council of Utrecht has pledged DFl.270,000 ( £84,400 ; $146,800 ) for the restoration of ten early villas by the Dutch artist , furniture designer and architect . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the electromagnetic interaction between an electron and a proton , which arises from the exchange of a photon between the particles ( figure 2 ) , is given by the product of electric charges of the particles , that is magnitude e 2 , where e is the unit of charge . |
| 29 | Although the suggestion of convergence of the dose response curves for salbutamol is in keeping with an interaction between an agonist and a partial agonist , our data suggest that this interaction is unlikely to be large enough to cause a clinically important reduction in beneficial or adverse effects of salbutamol in patients taking salmeterol . |
| 30 | James S. Ackerman , the architectural scholar , makes use of this phrase in writing about art and communication : ‘ What a work of art communicates can be described only in terms of an interaction between an object and a subject ; it communicates nothing at all unless someone is there to look at it . |