Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it is a harder question whether judgment could actually be given for performance of an act . |
| 2 | Many patients from eight practices in two of the zones were referred for examination to an adjacent district because radiology facilities were nearer . |
| 3 | Intended for use as an offshore racing boat , the J/44 has strong performance characteristics and a hull design not hindered by IOR distortions . |
| 4 | He was treated for shock by an off-duty doctor at the airfield before being taken to hospital , from where he was later discharged . |
| 5 | Mr Templeton said that when he arrived at the fire after 10pm , he had spoken to a man who was being treated for injuries in an ambulance . |
| 6 | On Sept. 9 it was announced that the only Romanian Cabinet official of Hungarian nationality , Deputy Minister of Culture Andro Horvath , had been dismissed as part of an efficiency drive . |
| 7 | It was designed for use as an appetite suppressant , to be taken along with a certain pill . |
| 8 | Tommy Leeman for Ards and Newry 's Paul O'Neill were booked for tackles in an otherwise tame affair . |
| 9 | This tradition postulates that all the manifestations of an era — philosophy , art , social structures , etc — must be considered as expressions of an essence , an identical spirit . |
| 10 | And when it 's time to stroll , the flower-filled town of Garmisch offers a rich supply of coffee shops , restaurants and boutiques , supplemented after dark by an international casino , traditional beer cellars , wine bars and discos . |
| 11 | Enrichment of the hydrogen content is accomplished by passing the syn-gas mixed with steam over an iron catalyst , when the mildly exothermic ‘ water gas shift reaction ’ occurs , |
| 12 | The illusion is of savannah-like country scattered with trees in an apparently natural state . |
| 13 | Two Albanians were killed aboard a boat which reached Otranto , Italy , on June 12 ; it had come under fire from an Albanian coastal patrol . |
| 14 | A spot of work here and there , liberally interspersed with rendezvous with an old flame ? |
| 15 | Woods , fields , brooks , materialised through the morning mist to be dappled into perfection by an early , creamy sunlight . |
| 16 | The project 's battle to break down barriers between communities has finally been won in spite of an atmosphere of very insecure funding . |
| 17 | He therefore lives The Natural , something apparently forgotten in favour of an alienating fiction . |
| 18 | The man they call Lurch was the villain of the piece after his uncharacteristic boob let in Oldham for an 85th minute equaliser . |
| 19 | Yesterday Alwyn Rowlands , the AEU 's regional officer , said a large majority had voted in favour of an overtime ban . |
| 20 | Seed , mixed in water with an organic mulch , is sprayed from a slow-moving vehicle directly on to the sand . |
| 21 | Westmacott and Sgt. Deacon were scrambled before dawn as an unidentified ‘ plot ’ had appeared on the radar , approaching St. Paul 's Bay fast and low . |
| 22 | Kamara had no great love for Scottish strikers ; in April 1988 he made legal history as the first English League player to be fined in court for an on-pitch assault . |
| 23 | Theoretical issues relating to the concept of attitudes will be considered in relation to an actual social issue — British attitudes towards the monarchy . |
| 24 | The car was parked in front of an advertising hoarding , obscuring the health warning , while young women were handing out free Camel cigarettes . |
| 25 | In 1853 , through the good offices of W. E. Gladstone and other Peelites in the ministry of G. H. Gordon , fourth Earl of Aberdeen , he was rescued from penury by an appointment as commissioner of income tax , retiring through ill health some time before his death . |
| 26 | South Korea required support and the combination of the United States and Japan was important : the Americans were committed to Japan to an extent not applicable to South Korea and the South Korean aim was to draw the Americans in further . |
| 27 | ‘ If Britain is going to produce a Wimbledon Champion it is vital that young school children are continually attracted to tennis at an early age , ’ said Durie . |
| 28 | What is important here is the fact that even shared opposition to council housing ( manifest in petitions ) is usually blamed on incomers to an area . |
| 29 | On 28 May , he had a meeting with General Dulac , who had come to Colombey as an emissary from General Salan , to brief him about plans for Operation Resurrection . |
| 30 | She was only half Indian , her mother being a Viennese woman who had come to England as an au pair and married a doctor from Darjeeling , a surgical registrar in a Bradford hospital . |