Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was interpreted locally as an endorsement of the plans of President Alberto Keinya Fujimori to return the country to formal democratic rule following his army-backed presidential coup on April 5 [ see pp. 38846-47 ] . |
| 2 | The Commander rubbed his chin vigorously as an aid to thought . |
| 3 | These perceived injustices led the trade union and labour movement to campaign vigorously for an end to the insurance system and for a single universal , Exchequer-funded scheme to cover all forms of primary care . |
| 4 | ACE exists predominantly as an ectoenzyme of vascular endothelial cells and plays a key part in the renin-angiotensin and kallikrein-kinin systems by activating angiotensin I into angiotensin II and inactivating bradykinin . |
| 5 | Not only was the value of education and health to economic growth seriously questioned but fears were being expressed that high public expenditure in these areas was acting rather as an obstacle to economic growth . |
| 6 | Gramsci saw the dichotomy between the two not as a centre-periphery relationship but rather as an aspect of the way in which the interests of monopoly capital used the state to keep the undeveloped areas repressed and passive ; Gramsci describes the south variously as ‘ a semi-colonial market ’ , a ‘ source of savings and taxes ’ and a ‘ pool of cheap docile reserve labour ’ . |
| 7 | The 44-year-old star watched little Christina battle for life thankfully successfully after an operation for a hole in her heart . |
| 8 | So Moore 's method can hardly allow us to attach any intrinsic value to education at all ; its value must be that of a means to other things or perhaps as an element in some larger whole of value . |
| 9 | But Marion Molteno leaves things in the air , where they belong — perhaps as an indication of how much there still is to do that whispers ‘ whatever you do , do n't do nothing … ’ |
| 10 | In the second chapel of the left aisle is another miraculous painting , a fourteenth-century fresco of the Madonna with Child called the Madonna of the Tears because it was seen to cry on 13 July in 1620 , perhaps as an omen of the plague . |
| 11 | It is difficult enough for an individual to be consistent , let alone a society . |
| 12 | Of course there are places that have become tourist hotspots , varied enough for an artist of traditional tendencies to find subject matter of a familiar picturesqueness . |
| 13 | There was space enough for an office for the two solicitors , a room for the visiting advocates from Edinburgh to work in , and a meeting room for talking to parents , specialist advisers , and witnesses . |
| 14 | You should have worn a coat over that dress — the night 's not warm enough for an outfit like that . ’ |
| 15 | Since law should be viewed basically as an instrument for realizing certain practical objectives many felt that a genuine scientific study of law must examine its functioning through the experimental methods of the social sciences . |
| 16 | It can not have been easy for a man in his fifties to start afresh as an instrument-maker in London . |
| 17 | An answer to this , I shall argue , so far as an answer is possible at all , can be given only through an analysis of experiences from the point of view of the one who has the experiences ; i.e. through a phenomenological analysis of the modes of experiencing . |
| 18 | The basic requirements for the grant of a patent are stated in section 1(1) of the Patents Act 1977 as follows : A patent may be granted only for an invention in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied , that is to say — a ) the invention is new ; b ) it involves an inventive step ; c ) it is capable of industrial application ; d ) the grant of a patent for it is not excluded by subsections ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) below … |
| 19 | Awards can usually be set aside only for an error of law on the face of the award or for misconduct on the arbitrator 's part ( Meyer v Leanse [ 1958 ] 2 QB 371 ; [ 1958 ] 3 All ER 213 ; and Leung v Garbett [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 436 ) . |
| 20 | It covered all land and air forces , but not paramilitary forces , on which the treaty framework provided only for an exchange of views to take place . |
| 21 | It is now much more important because even in dismissals the ERA provides only for an appeal to another panel of governors : there is no provision for appeals to the LEA . |
| 22 | A more extreme version would be to compare and explain budget and actuals only for an organization as a whole . |
| 23 | It called not only for an investigation of the sentencing powers and practice of the criminal courts , but of the sentencing process itself . |
| 24 | We do not think that reduced fetal growth is associated with death from cardiovascular disease merely through an association with adverse influences acting in the adult lives of people of low social class . |
| 25 | Lord Morris said that a consideration of the facts and documents led him to the view that the solus agreement , the loan agreement and the mortgage could be linked together as an instance of one transaction and that the intention was that in providing that the mortgage should be irredeemable for the period of the tie it should become a support for the solus agreement . |
| 26 | Both of these sequences epitomise an experiment with geometries , during which the use of figures was refined , apparently as an adjunct to a general development of arrangements . |
| 27 | ‘ Although only heaven or more probably hell knows why I must , ’ he murmured unevenly , apparently as an addendum to the words that had been dragged from him just before he kissed her . |
| 28 | He is a very beautiful person to look at when he is shaven , about 25 I should think [ he was just 30 , as she probably knew ] , always laughing or quarrelling à la Rotonde … he horrifies some English friends by tubbing at two-hour intervals in the garden and occasionally lighting up all after midnight , apparently as an aid to sculpturing Babel . ’ |
| 29 | The relation between the world and God is not one of reciprocal dependence : the world exists only as an act of divine favour . |
| 30 | In any case the State Department was uncertain about the nature of the Vietminh 's communist connections — ‘ possibly in indirect touch with Moscow and direct touch with Yenan ’ — and French influence was reckoned to be important not only as an antidote to Soviet influence but also to protect Vietnam and Southeast Asia from ‘ future Chinese imperialism ’ . |