Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember doing the mate 's cabin and being mildly surprised to find two cartons of cigarettes and two bottles of whisky in an obvious place under the bottom drawer of his bunk . |
| 2 | It can be argued ( though I do not have space to do it here ) , that there is an incoherence in a view of the subject which regards all notions of unity as an illusion . |
| 3 | Indeed , the national is often a concept used deliberately to conceal conflict over the issues , to force one kind of unity around an existing status quo ( and if the arguments do not achieve unity , troops can be used to enforce it on the recalcitrants ) . |
| 4 | The concept of play as an activity entered into with delight for its own sake is important for both the theology and the psychology of religion . |
| 5 | I should like to reiterate those comments to you now as I believe they remain relevant : 1 ) Control the duration of play by an ice hockey-type clock to prevent time-wasting. 2 ) Players to have their names on the back of their shirts . |
| 6 | It is much more difficult to predict the performance of someone with mental disorder , and the process of assessment of an individual in a real situation requires time and skilled judgment . |
| 7 | This replacement of the pleasure principle by the reality principle is expressed in mythic form in religious notions of rewards in an afterlife for the instinctual renunciations of this life . |
| 8 | Televideo Systems Inc has reported a first quarter net loss of $49,000 after an investment gain of $853,000 from an affiliate , against a profit last time of $50,000 , on turnover down 25.7% at $4.0m . |
| 9 | The CDU , which has been weakened steadily in state elections since the December 1990 general election , now only rules the east German state of Saxony with an absolute majority and is in the minority in Bonn 's Bundesrat , or upper legislature . |
| 10 | repetition of a closed loop containing a series of instructions for a fixed number of values in an arithmetic sequence |
| 11 | The progenitor cell now receives a signal from the adjacent optic nerve which switches its pathway of differentiation from an oligodendrocyte to that of an astrocyte . |
| 12 | To conclude , we may place the three notions of saliency in an ordered relation as follows : Fig2.1 literary psychological statistical RELEVANCE----------------PROMINENCE------------DEVIANCE ( foregrounding ) We interpret the arrow in " X — Y " to mean " all instances of X are instances of Y " . " |
| 13 | Such indirect arguments are scorned by modern biologists , but at the turn of the century they were the mainstay of support for an active Lamarckian movement . |
| 14 | And , along with former Newcastle Knights full-back Mark Mulligan and half-back Dean Marwood — the League 's leading points scorer this season with 220 — the powerful Pickering will have plenty of support from an anticipated 10,000 crowd at Town 's tiny Derwent Park ground . |
| 15 | And , along with former Newcastle Knights full-back Mark Mulligan and half-back Dean Marwood — the League 's leading points scorer this season with 220 — the powerful Pickering will have plenty of support from an anticipated 10,000 crowd at Town 's tiny Derwent Park ground . |
| 16 | Accordingly , the LTQ programme was conceived of as a series of structural realignments and common processual techniques which is embedding a culture of change as an everyday and on-going process rather than for a specific , limited period . |
| 17 | Undoubtedly there is a need to continue to emphasise the importance of change in an area where exhaustion of general practitioners is clear . |
| 18 | In fact Porter really offers just two possible competitive strategies ( i.e. be a cost leader or differentiate your product ) which can be applied over either a broad range of products in an industry or just in a special niche . |
| 19 | There was a half-bottle of champagne in an ice-bucket and two glasses . |
| 20 | It is not the purpose of this book to provide a history of coinage , however brief , but rather to focus on the methods by which coins are studied , for only when these methods are properly understood and applied can we realise the full potential of coins as an aid to interpreting the past . |
| 21 | One idea on the horizon is to alter the structure of molecules with an AFM — making it the ultimate precision tool . |
| 22 | The ratio of the number of molecules in an excited state to those in the ground state , assuming dynamic thermal equilibrium at room temperature , is , where E ν is the excess energy in cm -1 . |
| 23 | The companies say that the finished product will manage every aspect of software , and all activities relating to software licences , including the all important tracking of the number of copies of an application relative to the number of licences held . |
| 24 | One of these is none other than Caccini 's celebrated ‘ Amarilli ’ , in which Nauwach inserted ‘ passages ’ more suggestive of fingers on an instrument than vocal ornamentation , with the necessary additional bits of continuo bass . |
| 25 | Chairman , you , you have in a sense already seen this item as part of your budget this morning , er , this is the transfer of payment from an appropriate sum er , other than from the Health Authority , to er , the Local Authority . |
| 26 | On Sept. 16 , in his first report as UN Secretary-General , Boutros Boutros-Ghali defined the UN 's mission as one of " transforming a period of hope into an era of completed tasks " . |
| 27 | The interviewer is seeking to interview a sample of housewives on an estate about , let us say , the work-day pattern of wives who work only within the home . |
| 28 | We can regard the statistical argument about numbers of planets as an argument of last resort . |
| 29 | Within the group of authorities with an establishment over 300 , 12 of the 15 libraries ( 80% ) specifically budgeted an amount for training , 71% of libraries with establishments of between 100–300 did so , while only 55% of small libraries specifically budgeted money for training . |
| 30 | As a man without qualifications he drifted towards a commercial career but , after two and a half years in a city shipping office , was rescued by a legacy of £1,000 from an aunt . |