Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Council became a genuinely learning process , and once the name of the game had been defined as aggiornamento , once ecumenical understanding and co-operation with other Christians had been moved from the presupposition of ‘ dangerous ’ to that of ‘ Christian ’ and ‘ highly desirable ’ , there developed for a while a new logic which could not easily be denied . |
| 2 | Is being treated as a child an intrinsically humiliating and self-denying experience ? |
| 3 | The city council now plans to introduce more security patrols but the AA is now campaigniung for a change a law … so that car parks can be set minimum safety and security standards . |
| 4 | ALEXEI GRYSCHENKO , the joint skipper of Fazisi , the Soviet entry in the Whitbread Round the World Race , was found dead yesterday , hanged in a forest a mile from Punta del Este , Uruguay , writes Stuart Alexander . |
| 5 | The new eukaryotic cell was porous , and surrounded by a membrane a few ten-millionths of a millimetre thick . |
| 6 | Harlow should of applied for a designation a long time ago if Harlow had been designated then surrounding councils would have had to live up their responsibilities to provide adequate sites for travellers which they have not done and successive governments have also failed to apply the caravan sites act nineteen sixty eight adequately . |
| 7 | Tabor , named from a hill a few miles from Bethlehem , was founded in 1420 by the Taborites , the radical wing of the Hussite movement . |
| 8 | In Jervis on Coroners , 10th ed. ( 1986 ) , p. 196 under the title ‘ Self-neglect or lack of care ’ there are collected in a footnote a number of modern cases in which verdicts ‘ aggravated by lack of care ’ have been returned . |
| 9 | One of our sponsors , Hills ( Medway ) Ltd. of Bromley , have offered as a donation a new ‘ Living ’ Gas Fire , fully approved and tested worth £210 . |
| 10 | Felix pondered a bad time that Stephen had had with a girl a while ago , and fiddled with his shortwave radio . |
| 11 | He quickly devoured a few fragments and stuffed into a bag a lot of miscellaneous food which Irina was evidently leaving behind . |
| 12 | In that case a farmer had bought from a dealer a towing coupling for his Land Rover . |
| 13 | Given the opportunity not to be continually wrapped in a nappy a 1-year-old child will show a lot of interest in urination and indicate what has happened . |
| 14 | As she put down her cases a large shiny 1935 Armstrong Siddeley car came around a bend in the station drive and braked to a halt a short distance from her . |
| 15 | If at any time after a person has been charged with or informed he may be prosecuted for an offence a police officer wishes to bring to the notice of that person any written statement made by another person or the content of an interview with another person , he shall hand to that person a true copy of any such written statement or bring to his attention the content of the interview record , but shall say or do nothing to invite any reply or comment save to caution him in the terms of paragraph 10.4 above . |
| 16 | In one of these , Agdistis , a hermaphrodite , born of the seed of Zeus and Mother Earth , is castrated by having the male genitals torn off through being tied to a tree a not exactly common method , the reader will agree . |
| 17 | I did n't feel pain from the burns any more , but that had been replaced by a pain a thousand times worse . |
| 18 | They still need to start with ‘ subjective ’ descriptions of psychologists , subjects , and specific mental processes like memory and language comprehension , which are then translated into a form a computer can deal with . |
| 19 | Elizabeth Cheng looks at the space where her mantlepiece clock used to be … it was stolen in a burglary a few days ago . |
| 20 | It makes no difference whether the current is distributed within a radius a or concentrated at the axis ( only the enclosed current counts ) . |
| 21 | In this way , the model can be brought to a halt a short distance from the ground with all of the blade energy and pitch range still available to make the landing . |
| 22 | The onset of drought in the 1970s simply compounded and brought to a head a situation that was almost inevitable from its inception , the root of which was fuelled by European interests to counteract competition from soya bean imports from the USA . |
| 23 | The recent departure of manager Liam Brady has also brought to a head a bitter boardroom battle which threatens to tear the club apart . |
| 24 | The English Cup and league champions brought to an end a 33-match unbeaten home run by Neath , dating back to Pontypool 's visit on 8 March , 1988 , and recorded their first win over Neath since 1983 . |
| 25 | Walmsley looks at several possible explanations and concludes that the change is largely due to the Act itself , firstly in the simple sense that the passing of the 1967 Act brought to an end a trial period of uncertainty for the police by making quite clear that , although in the future homosexual acts in private between consenting adults were to be legal , such acts in ‘ public ’ as defined by the Act were not . |
| 26 | Queen Anne died a year after the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht , which had brought to an end a cycle of wars which , while primarily concerned with the balance of power in Europe , had given English governments an opportunity to take colonies away from other European countries and increase their empire by annexation as well as by settlement . |
| 27 | The incident brought to an end a month-long period of peace in Kashmir , and dashed hopes of a reduction in the border tension . |
| 28 | The decision brought to an end a case which had begun in 1979 when a female student filed a complaint over the exclusion with New Jersey civil rights officials . |
| 29 | This decision brought to an end a hunger strike which several city councillors had been observing since the police force had been taken out of the city 's control . |
| 30 | His murder brought to an end a political dynasty stretching back through his mother Indira Gandhi to Jawaharlal Nehru , Indira 's father and India 's first Prime Minister . |