Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , in the mouths of conservative lawyers , we catch an appeal to the radical doctrine of the sovereignty of the nation ; it alone could provide a theoretical basis for resistance to a French king whose claim was legally established by the formal abdication of both Ferdinand VII and his father . |
| 2 | It began in 1857 with four young men meeting for prayer in an old school-house near Kells in County Antrim . |
| 3 | Later , play-group and school greatly extend the range of influences , especially through exposure to a wide range of planned and spontaneous social interactions with peers . |
| 4 | In gold shops they also burn off mercury on a huge scale . |
| 5 | Readability researchers often emphasise that it is not possible to use a formula to assess difficulty at the individual sentence level ; a formula or graph can only make predictions about difficulty at a global level . |
| 6 | ( Gqozo had taken power in Ciskei as chairman of a Military Council in March 1990 — see p. 37305 . |
| 7 | One had served as chairman of a local Soviet through these years , with a canny transformation into starosta ( village elder ) when the White Army appeared briefly . |
| 8 | Krustyu Petkov was named as chairman of the new confederation , having served as chairman of an interim CCTU executive committee since the December 1989 dismissal of former BCP politburo member Petur Dyulgerov as CCTU chairman [ see p. 37109 ] . |
| 9 | Sir Herbert Morgan took it upon himself to act as chairman of an unofficial committee to help realise the three-year project . |
| 10 | He holds a number of directorships , is a member of learned institutes , an author , is a recipient of many awards and honours and hold many offices , including some as chairman in a wide range of organisations , including some in the voluntary sector and many concerned with education and training . |
| 11 | We have chosen the South Face , for we fear the Normal Route will no longer do for our insatiable appetites , but as we gain the foot of the face the snow worsens desperately and Enrique if obliged to wade through powder to a dubious perch on the lip of the bergschrund . |
| 12 | This is essentially a distinction between assessment as an integral part of the curriculum and assessment which is designed primarily to be a form of communication serving the needs of the outside world . |
| 13 | Further threats came from the withdrawal of legal aid for undefended divorces , with tacit official encouragement for do-it-yourself petitions , and the pressure for change to a no-fault system of personal injury compensation . |
| 14 | In the past Europe looked to America for support against a predictable Soviet threat to the survival of European democracy . |
| 15 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 16 | The minority , in particular the 1540s , also produced a concentration of the more ‘ normal ’ bonds by the magnates , hitherto made for local purposes but now reflecting the need for support in a major political crisis . |
| 17 | I am a sole practitioner and have been asked to stand down and make way as auditor of a limited company for a larger outfit , following a JMU visit . |
| 18 | Six months before she was due to be released she was assessed for admission to a special hospital , at the request of the prison psychiatrist ; two months later she was transferred to Moss Side hospital . |
| 19 | All candidates for admission to a taught postgraduate course should have a first degree in an appropriate subject , or a qualification or experience which is acceptable as equivalent . |
| 20 | Many old people face up to accepting the necessity for admission to a residential home , on the basis of discussion within the family and advice from professional workers . |
| 21 | It has been found that it was rare that an old person initiated a request for admission to a local authority home ( Stapleton , 1979 ; Sinclair , 1988b ) . |
| 22 | Similarly , events arising out of long-standing difficulties would increase risk of depression : where , for instance , a husband left home after years of arguing and discord ; a child was arrested for burglary after a long history of behavioural problems at home and school ; or a substantial fine was incurred after a long period of extreme financial difficulty ( Brown et al. , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | The investment by Glaxo is for part of a new research site , due to open in 1995 , which will provide facilities for 1,500 staff including more than 1,000 scientists . |
| 24 | A POTENTIAL bidder for part of a privatised British Rail has named two lines which could close to ‘ rationalise services and reduce costs ’ . |
| 25 | Newton , who celebrated by clubbing in London 's West End , has played in every position for Chelsea — including goalkeeper for part of a reserve game — and Porterfield must be tempted now to leave him at the front for the next test against Middlesbrough . |
| 26 | It said : ‘ I 'm much criticised for part of a written order under my signature which includes a sentence that the Yugoslavian nationals were not to be told their destination . |
| 27 | Replication meets the need for reliability in a distributed environment . |
| 28 | The year 1890 was that of the Baring crisis , when the partners of Barings , largely through mismanagement of a major transaction in Argentina , found themselves in difficulties from which they had to be rescued by a group of City banks and financial houses organized by the Bank of England . |
| 29 | This creates a dilemma for health service policy of choosing between fragmentation plus a possible increment in consumer choice and a more thorough-going version of family doctoring with its concomitant problems of paternalism . |
| 30 | Its cause is not fully understood , but in view of the known connection between infra-red reflectance and water content on the one hand , and the demonstrated correlation between exposure to a low humidity regime and a decline in the measurement on the other , it is possible that this behaviour is related to reflectance . |