Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 And its feminist interests in social relations link it with disciplines like sociology and history , making it more interdisciplinary than most psychology , maintaining its hopes for change and even a complete paradigm shift in the discipline ( e.g. Parlee 1979 , 1981 ) .
2 Hence , they are better value for money and potentially a stronger unit which will last longer .
3 Disappointment for Oxford , joy for Swindon and perhaps a few more converts to Rugby League .
4 With no onward chain involved the property is ideal for investment or equally a family home .
5 The second involves the settling of cells onto a slide surface through a sucrose , saline or other solution , and has been used principally for oocytes , but may be useful for spermatocytes if only a thin suspension is available .
6 She rested after lunch and then a taxi took her up to Hampstead and a shop that sold a certain kind of ethnic clothes not available elsewhere .
7 In the latest incidents , an antiques dealer was attacked at Keele services on the M Six shortly after midnight and yesterday a woman driving along a quite country road in Chepstow had her car rammed by a gang wielding baseball bats .
8 With this unstable machine and the limited resources of post-war Spain , Ferdinand hoped to recover the American Empire ; his dilemma was that only American silver could stave off bankruptcy while only a solvent state could reconquer America .
9 In Fig. 5.2 the shift in the demand curve from to ’ shows a reduction in the demand for bills and simultaneously an increase in the demand for liquidity .
10 Callers of any sort were scarce at Four Winds , mostly people who came asking for directions or even a glass of water when the weather was hot .
11 The psychoanalytic movement , partly under Freud 's own direction , did develop the characteristics of a sectarian organization rather than those of an open scientific community , but this does not invalidate the arguments for psychoanalysis as potentially a key component of the human sciences .
12 Their rarity has led to the suggestion by Briscoe that the majority were made of a less durable material such as wood or even a soft stone such as chalk .
13 A service between midnight and 0700 should be the responsibility of family health services authorities , which could arrange for visits and perhaps a night time surgery .
14 Thus , in the Maya world-view there was no sense of progress but only a blending of past , present , and future , which all tended to become one .
15 Not only did David 's suggestion earn him a Winning Ideas Gold Award and the tidy sum of £1,000 but also a luxury trip to the Imola San Marino Grand Prix .
16 Carry on through a strip of woodland and over a second stile .
17 They do not realise that to make a discovery of some magnitude requires not only great ability and a bit of luck but also a considerable investment of time and effort in mastering a demanding discipline .
18 Notice that it reflects less a dramatic change in the number of mergers and more a spectacular increase in the size of companies involved .
19 The temptation is to rush out to lose one 's aloneness in all sorts of activities and perhaps a wild search for replacement company .
20 Science , then , is not the whole of experience but only an abstract mode of experience .
21 In contrast to figure 12.1 , the map resulting from this construal revealed not only a higher number of judgments but also a more effective structuring of their relationships .
22 Thirdly , there is a group of institutions where only a minority of students are on advanced courses .
23 I 'm not afraid of money but occasionally a writer wants to write something for love and for pleasure
24 Instead of a systematic policy of imperialism , Unionists had Montagu 's Indian policy and Milner 's policy in Egypt ; instead of settlement in Ireland there were outrages ; instead of a broad social policy there was first a reckless waste of money and then an abandonment of almost all that had been proposed .
25 The opening of the Springfield Works not only marked a change of base but also a change of direction for the company .
26 If the direction is reversed the defect is called a fold , while if the defect causes neither displacement nor reversal of direction but only a local disordering of the zigzag configuration it is called a kink .
27 You do n't want a bit of sedimentation and then a gap when nothing was being laid down and then a bit more being sedimented , because , you know , you do n't know then whether the jumps you see in the record are simply there because there was a gap in deposition , or whether they really reflect the sudden change in the population .
28 Reflecting the connection between good teaching and its management and good learning , institutional statements about the principles of in-service work include , as an example , " The ultimate aim of all in-service education for teachers is the improvement of pupil/student learning through the development of teachers as reflective , autonomous professionals who have not only developed a range of skills but also a broad knowledge of understanding of subject content and of the conceptual framework of teaching and learning . "
29 But it does mean that the job is immensely diverse , with a lot of administration and only a small element of number crunching , which he seeks out as an extra because he likes doing it .
30 In 1828 George Hurst became a director of the House of Industry and subsequently a member of the Board of Guardians , a position which he held until he was in his nineties .
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