Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is in our power to develop our love and burnish it , for the image of love can have an existence separate from the beloved .
2 And tickets are to go on sale for an Easter draw with a huge Easter Egg as first prize .
3 Copies of the charter were being given out during the rush hour at Darlington but connections proved not to be the best with an hour wait for the next train south .
4 The guilty man was to be drawn on an ox hide to the gallows , where he was hanged .
5 And how would such an affixation cope with the evident fact that the techniques , modes of expression and performers claimed by the counterculture as their own were apparently so easily appropriated by the established music industry interests , and the music spread into every social corner and function ?
6 Would such an engine fit in the new car 's engine bay ?
7 If you are an onlooker speak to the victim/employer .
8 Similarly , the details of laws encouraging disclosure of information and requiring fairness in an exchange depend upon a more rigorous development of the communitarian political philosophy which values trust and solidarity .
9 And indeed this was how Schuman 's declaration began : ‘ the French Government proposes that Franco-German coal and steel production should be placed under a common High Authority in an organisation open to the participation of the other countries of Europe ’ .
10 Juries may therefore be reluctant to impose the stigma of it on an offender save in the most extreme cases .
11 Top of the list is Shell ( UK ) with its £1 million fine for an oil spill in the River Mersey in August 1989 .
12 One vulture sighting carrion below unintentionally informs all others of its availability by swooping downwards , and thus dozens of vultures arrive at the scene of an animal kill in a very short space of time .
13 Though Minton 's illustrations to an extent derive from the stock-in-trade ingredients used by topographical and Romantic artists , they yet compose an inventive and original style .
14 Thomas Paine was one radical who accepted the inevitability of representative rather than direct democracy , but urged that in order " that the elected might never form to themselves an interest separate from the electors , prudence will point out the propriety of having elections often " .
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