Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the son who is chosen by his family to go and earn money in a town and city may achieve a certain status in the joint family — he has been chosen , after all , for his abilities and strength of mind — but he has to suffer months , even years , of separation from his wife and loss of all contact with those who love him . |
| 2 | This Report has already pointed out that something more than singing and playing may lie needed if boys and girls are to remain part of a choir or music group . |
| 3 | He left home at the age of ten and went to London , then to Stamford , where he became apprentice to a draper and educated himself in his spare time . |
| 4 | And I mean it is your sort of second home , and the guys that you work with every every week , I mean sort of become , I mean it 's a bit of a cliche to say , but I mean part of a family that you living out there that you live with out there and it is a real I mean when you think of the number that was lost , I mean there were a lot of close friends involved in it . |
| 5 | If ever I was tempted by the seductive stasis of an eidetic image , I punctured its reflecting skin with a dart and tore it away to reveal the structure of habit below . |
| 6 | Not only doing unnecessary jobs , but actually creating work by transferring cooked food out of saucepans into dishes before serving it , decanting milk into a jug and margarine on to a saucer . |
| 7 | It is difficult to see how such chaotic initial conditions could have given rise to a universe that is so smooth and regular on a large scale as ours is today . |
| 8 | Prevalence of krill in summer surface waters has given rise to a misconception that krill and other euphausiids constantly dominate the zooplankton . |
| 9 | Now the consequences of seeing prayer as a hallway and as a telephone are momentous . |
| 10 | Real interest in the tradition was actually waning ; during the 1820s great difficulty was experienced in procuring money for a bull and the last Christmas run occurred in 1831 . |
| 11 | If you borrow money from a bank and it becomes insolvent you do not have a problem . |
| 12 | It is up to the Secretary of State , if he keeps internment on the books as he has told us he will , to begin to educate people throughout this kingdom about the need to implement internment at a time that he judges correct — when he is advised by the Chief Constable and the GOC to do so . |
| 13 | Apple is still expected to proceed with the tattered case on the few elements that were not thrown out , including the idea of using a picture of a dustbin to signify deletion of a file and the way Windows handles type fonts . |
| 14 | Harty , 27 , of Zetland Hunt , The Chase , Aycliffe , admitted fishing without a licence and attempting to take fish in water where there was a private right of fishery . |
| 15 | A Raman spectrum is normally excited using light of a frequency that is not absorbed by the sample . |
| 16 | William was given command of a schooner and spent the next 6 years trading on Lake Erie . |
| 17 | The organizing theme of the book is distilled in chapter ten , where I delineate exactly why black sportsmen regard themselves as at a possible disadvantage in sport , how they perceive blackness as an impediment and , most crucially , how they react to it . |
| 18 | I am not interested in scoring cheap points in this debate about the underfunding of sport , but if sport is using underfunding as an excuse or justification for taking large amounts of money from the tobacco industry , the Government must address the question whether they should put more money into sport so that sport does not have to use that excuse . |
| 19 | To extrapolate from the fact that some forms of literacy practice develop explicitness to a theory that literacy is intrinsically capable of being culture-free and therefore represents an evolutionary advance in intellectual power , as some of the writers we have been examining do , is to take literacy out of the very context that enabled it to develop explicitness . |
| 20 | Secondly , Meshkinpour did not regard confirmation of a diagnosis as influencing patient management whereas we felt that it was of value in certain situation such as in patients with suspected achalasia before myotomy . |
| 21 | Of course the swell has been gathering force for a century or more , since Joseph Thompson first saw ‘ the most peculiar band of men to be found in Africa ‘ . |
| 22 | Large leaves may need support from a cane or , in the case of ficus , can be gently rolled up with an elastic band . |
| 23 | We can see why Michael was to be admired ; but Michael 's son , who left for the town , was forced to do so because his father had to find money in a hurry and would not sell his land . |
| 24 | For every incident which causes damage to a glider while it is being flown , there must be many more that happen because of careless or thoughtless ground handling . |
| 25 | ‘ Permit ’ is not as precise a term as ‘ cause ’ and denotes an express or inferred permission of a general or particular type . |
| 26 | It covers damage to a car that you may damage , damage to the driver of that car , and damage to your car in the case of fire or theft . |
| 27 | Some children moved out of specialist provision into playgroups ( full or part time ) and made considerable strides in social relationships , becoming part of a community and friendship network which continued into their schooldays , whether or not they went to special school at 5 years . |
| 28 | I 've been keeping watch for a week or two . |
| 29 | The problem remains though that Althusser has begun to theorize ideology in a way that is dependent on some other form of knowing being possible . |
| 30 | ‘ Tell her to try thinking of a hat and a cheap suit ! ’ |