Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The radio set can remain on for hours at a time ; you can enjoy it as background to reading , writing , homework , housework … . |
| 2 | The search now goes on for cancers over a wider area . |
| 3 | We will begin by illustrating the simplest form of melodic construction , where the melody is formed entirely by repetitions of a small rhythmic cell ( Example 11 ) : Example 11 is the first half of the melody , modulating from E minor to G. Notice how the melody , though apparently continuous , falls into four phrases , forming two main sentences . |
| 4 | Any hypothetical choice situation which requires agreement among the parties will have to impose strong restrictions on the grounds of choice , and these restrictions can be justified only in terms of a conception of the good . |
| 5 | The Danes will not have to go along with plans for a single currency , or with plans for a common Euro-defence policy . |
| 6 | These various examples of working personification of the community fit together as partners in a general system of thought . |
| 7 | It has been designed especially for students with a different educational background from those entering the degree programme . |
| 8 | According to the Thera-vada school of Buddhism , the Southern Buddhism of Burma , Ceylon , Siam and Cambodia , there is no grace from outside man 's being to support , strengthen and save him ; he must rely on his own efforts , and the task will need more lives than one , countless lives in this world , alternating perhaps with lives in a heaven or hell . |
| 9 | Teesside magistrates heard how the two Middlesbrough men used an electronic tagging device to track a terrier as it bore down on badgers in a well known sett . |
| 10 | But quotas set to ensure the sustainability of the resource were widely ignored : Russian and East European factory ships moved in for months at a time , and Spain took the opportunity to develop a host of industries back home — from ship-building to canning — based on the hake resources of Namibia . |
| 11 | Such a muddled approach is symptomatic of a tendency , among all too many people who should know better , to treat the taking and driving away of vehicles as a less serious offence than it is . |
| 12 | It is interesting in this context to look at the large ( 2 MW ) windmill built largely by students at a college complex in Tvind , Denmark . |
| 13 | For the collector of Munros , the skyline boundaries of Glen Shiel provide exhilarating expeditions with Munros so profuse that they can be picked off like apples from a tree . |
| 14 | Lash and Urry ( 1987 ) , for instance , write of the break-up of ‘ organized capitalism ’ and the development of ‘ disorganized capitalism ’ , in the variable responses of the United States and some of the West European nations to the end of the post-war boom ; Piore and Sabel ( 1984 ) write of a ‘ second industrial divide ’ opening up in societies as a result of the development of flexible manufacturing systems . |
| 15 | The wine-red to brownish-pink leaves with a prominent midrib grow oppositely in pairs on a rigid , yellowish-brown stem covered with fine hairs , and full of axial buds . |
| 16 | The court heard that McGregor had been caught up in attempts by a neighbour to end a relationship between his 20-year-old daughter and an older man . |
| 17 | Even today , decades after I saw my first such microscope slide , I still think them extravagantly beautiful and can easily get lost in contemplation of the cellular thicket the microscope reveals , made the more intriguing by the curious , almost three-dimensional effect the stain gives ; as it brings into vision only a few of the total population of the neurons present , the cells seem to stand out like trees in a winter mist ( Figure 10.6 ) . |
| 18 | However , most who moved out of cities as a result of planned decentralization did so through the new-town programme . |
| 19 | Low grade tumours occurred mainly in men with a history of several years , and who presented with non-specific gastric symptoms without remarkable exploratory or laboratory findings : most patients were in stage IE-IIE and achieved remission and cure . |
| 20 | Like Sutton , Packford had dropped out of papers as a career . |
| 21 | Endlessly undulating soundwaves spiral upwards like bubbles from a deep ocean trench , desert island discs becalmed in a sea of tranquillity . |
| 22 | Marje now admits that her carefully nurtured image has been torn apart by revelations from a new biography . |
| 23 | A good deal of discussion focussed , in the early meetings , on whether and how to reduce the ‘ all-pervading ’ influence of the subject boards , and at its second meeting discussed an officers ' draft paper which sought to undermine the boards and considered the pros and cons of the CNAA relating primarily to institutions as a whole . |
| 24 | In the towns , markets contain whole sections given over to stalls with a vast variety of herbs and roots for every conceivable ailment from toothache to tuberculosis . |
| 25 | All the Victorian fry were grown on in tanks with a pH of only 7.4 . |
| 26 | Some sea urchins are almost spherical , with large strong plates looking rather like shields with a boss in the centre . |
| 27 | The ‘ anti ’ minority , who believe the evidence for their case lies in Scripture , seem to forget ( or rather , refuse to see ) that the Bible was written predominantly by men in a world which despised women . |
| 28 | Susan : ‘ Well , Vera , I was down in the Bank this morning paying my ESB and you know what happened — an old gentleman came in with flowers for a member of the staff — it was lovely to see ’ . |
| 29 | William suffered greatly from nightmares as a child . |
| 30 | So dead bodies are hygienically whisked away by undertakers within a very short ti me of the person dying , funerals are conducted in twenty minutes at a busy crematorium with a bizarre queue of other funerals waiting in an approach way , and grieving people are expected to be back at their employment in as short a time as possible . |