Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it is not restricted to conduct causing or intended to cause injury or damage but includes any other violent conduct ( for example , throwing at or towards a person a missile of a kind capable of causing injury which does not hit or falls short ) ( Section 8 ) . |
| 2 | I would be sorry not to hear Mravinsky 's incandescent performance of Siegfried 's Funeral March again , but that is also available on Olympia , and as a whole the Erato Wagner disc is difficult to recommend . |
| 3 | He tells stories such as how his grandfather shot at a flock of wild geese from the back of his pony , which took fright , threw him and he broke an arm which had to be amputated , and as a boy the tumulus where the arm was buried was pointed out to him , The list of the founders of Port Ellen in 1821 and their occupations and place of residence which he gives is of great interest . |
| 4 | He tells stories such as how his grandfather shot at a flock of wild geese from the back of his pony , which took fright , threw him and he broke an arm which had to be amputated , and as a boy the tumulus where the arm was buried was pointed out to him , The list of the founders of Port Ellen in 1821 and their occupations and place of residence which he gives is of great interest . |
| 5 | Very few were included in the initial lists of historic buildings and as a result a very large number have been demolished . |
| 6 | For instance , if the surveyor failed to carry out his inspection and to present his report within the agreed time and as a result a house at a bargain price was lost , then a claim could properly be made for compensation . |
| 7 | This had necessitated a large number of meetings , particularly for the Socialisation of Industries Committee and the Social Services Committee : ministers had tended to bring too many items to committee ; senior ministers had wanted to keep an eye on their more junior colleagues , and as a result a heavy burden fell on a handful . |
| 8 | The recently-held Day of Recollection for members of the APC and friends had been greatly appreciated and as a result a further Day of Recollection will be held in the spring . |
| 9 | When I replaced him he was quite stressed and as a result a week later became ill and had a fungal growth on him . |
| 10 | For David there is not really a lot more to tell except perhaps that I got some new teeth and as a result a few more pounds have been gained . |
| 11 | Twenty-two years of war had honed that skill to near perfection , and as a result a mother in France would soon be weeping . |
| 12 | Headlines in a US paper saying that the Open Software Foundation has dropped Tivoli Systems Inc 's management framework from its Distributed Management Environment are flat out wrong and creating unnecessary waves : as our sister paper Unigram.X has already said , DME 1.0 is being made fully compliant with the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker , a specification that post-dates development of both DME and the Tivoli framework and as a result a small piece of low-level code is being reworked , hardly something to write home about , and the Foundation says Tivoli 's framework remains central to the object management framework . |
| 13 | But following the changes in Eastern Europe and the virtual ending of the cold war this particular danger has receded for the time being , and as a result a new process of gradual disarmament by the major nuclear powers has begun . |
| 14 | ICAS has been invited by the Bank of England for its considered views on the subject and as a result a report is being sent to the DTI and to other interested bodies . |
| 15 | At the meeting in January 1989 the focus of discussions was the social dimension of the SEM , and as a result a steering committee was established to maintain progress in the development of the " social dialogue " . |
| 16 | The need for training in the area was identified through the Ballybeen Estate Strategy Steering Group and as a result a ‘ Training and Education Working Group ’ was established . |
| 17 | British industry 's rates of growth were markedly below those of its European counterparts and as a result an absolute advantage was transformed into an absolute disadvantage over the period . |
| 18 | The Army established its ordnance depot in Bicester in 1941 , and as a result the town is the second largest population centre in the Cherwell district , yet , despite that expansion the town essentially remains a market town serving its rich agricultural hinterland . |
| 19 | In Northamptonshire , four such tutors were appointed by the District and as a result the number of courses increased from thirty-two in 1942–43 to fifty-two in the following year . |
| 20 | Although there is no shortage of childless couples in Britain , there is a shortage of couples prepared to adopt or foster handicapped children , and as a result the numbers of fostered and adopted children remain small . |
| 21 | The principal transitions from one phase of people 's life to another were thought of as crises and as a result the community to which they belonged assisted with the appropriate rituals . |
| 22 | By chance , the cloud arrived in the middle of a series of measurements of the ‘ extinction ’ of Sun and star light caused by the atmosphere , and as a result the Lowell team has a very good record of day-to-day variations in the transparency of the atmosphere . |
| 23 | Some teachers have found it difficult to integrate the tutors into the way they teach , and as a result the close relationship with the pupils has failed to materialise . |
| 24 | ‘ They have maintained a low profile in their life and as a result the coverage of matters affecting them is virtually non existent . ’ |
| 25 | The weather had been appalling and as a result the whole family had caught colds . |
| 26 | An appeal in the local newspaper that year attracted sufficient interest in the project and as a result the Southport Locomotive and Transport Museum Society was formed . |
| 27 | The reason is not hard to understand : hot dry weather puts great strain on the continuity of moisture supply at root level , and as a result the plants slow , the foliage flags , and in the wet dew the fungus runs like mad . |
| 28 | Some of the technology the group is using such as speculative loads has never been used before and as a result the designers believe the specification will stand unmodified for the next twenty years with only a few extensions . |
| 29 | England had a target of 240 in 140 minutes , but could not meet it in the end , and as a result the Test was drawn . |
| 30 | It was a good victory for Lancashire , and as a result the two counties changed places in the County Championship . |