Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When cholera toxin is used as secretagogue a variable response in stool volume should thus be expected . |
| 2 | Mr Dayton currently co-chairs a committee seeking to raise $50 million for endowment a far cry from the $30,000 annual drives he remembers leading in the 1940s ! |
| 3 | Mobil Badger is to offer for license a novel technology for reducing the benzene content of light reformate , the Mobil benzene reduction process . |
| 4 | This process directly undermined the rule of law : ‘ such transference of authority saps the foundation of that rule of law which has been for generations a leading feature of the English constitution . ’ |
| 5 | In the following year he had succeeded in attracting so much public attention that the government was obliged to hurry through parliament a new Merchant Shipping Act setting a fixed load line for ships — the " Plimsoll Line " . |
| 6 | John was full of invention , always making up steps and sequences which he called by odd names : for instance a stamping step he called ‘ Sherman tanks ’ , which he devised for the zephyrs in Primavera and used again for the unicorns in Harlequin in April . |
| 7 | When reading aloud , for instance a visual analysis will be followed by a transformation into a sound-based code , and the process in this case may involve the application of grapheme-to-phoneme correspondence ( GPC ) rules . |
| 8 | And if it 's for instance a second marriage husband 's side of the family could be missing out all together . |
| 9 | Some calls have a more general effect , for instance a loud neigh or whinny may alarm the whole herd … in the main however , so far as communications between individuals are concerned , visual signals are more important than sounds . |
| 10 | Take for instance a young couple just married . |
| 11 | For instance a large chunk of those voters who did declare firmly their intention to vote Labour were still prepared to recognise that Michael Fallon has done a good job as a constituency MP for the town since his election victory in 1983 . |
| 12 | I I I it is very easy to find examples which , which show how absurd they were , the results f f , for instance a large area like Devon and Cornwall with four thousand square miles having now thirty elected members reduced under the Bill to eight would be absurd . |
| 13 | in Kenlin v. Gardner that self defence was not available against an assault that was justifiable in law , as for instance a lawful arrest . |
| 14 | But significantly all these recording are of sound effects , replete with high frequencies , for instance a ratting matchbox , or earth falling on the top of a coffin in which the dummy head is being buried . |
| 15 | For instance a thin stream of liquid , from a tap which is being turned off , will reach a diameter at which it pays it to break up into separate drops simply because these have less aggregate area then the cylindrical stream . |
| 16 | For instance a dynamic model may be used to show the effect of changes in advertising expenditure on sales . |
| 17 | The prompt reply showed just how little Security now had to do : CCOAC translated as Churchgoers Concerned About Communism a one-off conference had in May 1968 . |
| 18 | For £9.4m a sensible organisation would expect to buy a fully completed office development of up to 90,000 square feet , equating to £100 a foot completed . |
| 19 | First and second encounters can be managed by conventional openness — a third meeting may necessitate a humorously resigned grin — a fourth can be handled by pretending to be wrapped in thought — a fifth may require some dramatised horseplay such as play-acting a Western duel . |
| 20 | This was for centuries a strong point and later a prison ; among its prisoners , during the time of the Revolutionary Wars , was Lord Elgin , he of the marbles , who was held hostage in Lourdes on his way back to England from Turkey . |
| 21 | For centuries a Royal Mile eating and drinking house has stood on this site . |
| 22 | When talking about grief a frequent comment is , ‘ We never used to have this sort of fuss made in the good old days : we just had to get on with it ! ’ |
| 23 | About Picasso a great artist |
| 24 | But for Branson a quick death had become preferable to the prospect of prolonged agony . |
| 25 | After completion a random block of 12 months brought in £172 : 1s. : 3d . |
| 26 | It seemed that soon after dark a rough-looking man wearing ragged clothes had appeared at the manor house , demanding to speak to Meredith Putt . |
| 27 | But the Bolsheviks were determined to frustrate them and immediately after October a bitter struggle ensued between the workers and the party . |
| 28 | A high-quality academic background , experience in consultancy and line management and qualities such as weight and drive are by no means a total guarantee of success . |
| 29 | Also , it is by no means a foregone conclusion that the ‘ expert ’ way is either ‘ correct ’ or ‘ more appropriate , ’ nor that the conclusions need always be reached by the same processes of thought and action . |
| 30 | ‘ Even if I were able to discover the whereabouts of these establishments — and that is by no means a foregone conclusion — the moment I produced my warrant-card , everyone would close up like a clam . ’ |