Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are on a low income , you may be able to get dental treatment for free or at a reduced cost . |
| 2 | None of the colony would talk about warm and after a while she stopped asking . |
| 3 | Indeed , Braveman and Jarvis ( 1978 ) , having argued that their results imply separate mechanisms for the two phenomena , go on to acknowledge the possibility that their results might simply reflect the use of a test procedure that was less sensitive as a measure of conditioning than as a measure of neophobia . |
| 4 | The large figure of Athena is drawn in a modification of black-figure but in a style that could well be Euthymides 's . |
| 5 | Sepulveda justified the enslavement of the Indians on the grounds that they were the natural slaves mentioned in Book I of Aristotle 's Politics ; the Dominican Friar Las Casas admitted the frailty of the Indians but argued that they were all the more children of God owing to their very lack of capacity and skill , which still implies a sort of sub-humanity but of a different kind . |
| 6 | It was indeed a bit like an LTP effect , though generated not by the artificial injection of current but by a behavioural experience . |
| 7 | From the 1850s and more particularly the 1870s onwards military considerations — new weapons , the importance of rapid and effective mobilisation in case of war , the balance of military and to a lesser extent naval power in general — were more prominent and pervasive than in the past . |
| 8 | His was the quiet type of a Christ-lived life , and his influence was marked for good and for a strong quality of wisdom which left its mark upon many whom he came in contact with from day to day . |
| 9 | A total of 103 beds , including a unique ward , are being closed for good because of a shortage of cash . |
| 10 | The common English proverb " Early to bed and early to rise , makes a man healthy , wealthy and wise " is less concerned with self-denial than with a prescription for regular habits . |
| 11 | The game started disastrously for United when after a mistake by Martin Shepherd , Kenny Langston ran on to beat the advancing Richardson with a low shot into the corner of United 's goal in the fourth minute . |
| 12 | Until the death of her sister , the Duchess of Alba , in 1860 , Eugénie would herself occasionally waltz with her husband at these ‘ Mondays ’ , but from 1860 onwards she rarely danced in public except as a duty . |
| 13 | Their Korean hosts were said to be upset at the way they barely acknowledged each other in public except for a few surly and petulant exchanges . |
| 14 | He also became friends with the eccentric Duke of Montagu of Boughton House in Northamptonshire , for ‘ In Stamford … there was not one person , clergy or lay , that had any taste of learning or ingenuity , so that I was actually as much dead in converse as in a coffin . ’ |
| 15 | The illustrations , like those he subsequently did for Reginald Arkell 's Old Herbaceous ( 1950 ) are printed not in black but in a softer sage green . |
| 16 | Pateman naturally sought , and was given , assurances that his reduced salary , which was only one-half of the National WEA 's prescribed scale of £400 a year for District Secretaries , would be paid in full and on a regular basis throughout the year . |
| 17 | Martin can then liaise CFS General Manager Tony Gauci on the overhaul programme in general and as a customer . |
| 18 | 21.4 Coherent structures : in general and in a wake |
| 19 | The TUC evidence to the Royal Commission on Legal Services appeared to place greater emphasis upon the preservation of the union role in advice-giving than on a general expansion of legal services . |
| 20 | Oxford Placement Tests have proved effective with all students from elementary level up to post-Proficiency and in a wide range of institutions . |
| 21 | He felt that the appraisal would highlight some of the problems the school was faced with , in particular the change in the intake from white middle class to multi-ethnic and with a growing proportion of pupils with learning difficulties . |
| 22 | Here the employer chooses , by whatever method he likes , a specialist either in the specification prior to tender or in a variation order during the course of the contract . |
| 23 | In this case , the Court of Appeal held that there had been a breach of s14(2) as the plaintiff had thought he was buying a second-hand enthusiast 's car in good condition at a fair price when in fact he was buying , at the same price , a car which no one , knowing its history ( a car insurance write-off because it had been submerged in water for over 24 hours ) , would have bought at other than at a substantially reduced price . |