Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no-one has dismissed it as a rogue poll . |
| 2 | Fate has placed you in a situation of subservience ; but in the sight of God you are the equal of an emperor . |
| 3 | Eighth , they plant churches because ‘ God wants YWAM missionaries to build into local congregations the spiritual foundations ’ he has given them as a mission . |
| 4 | Their views are readily recognizable in a world where the fuss about the Turin Shroud has reminded us of a time when high hopes and claims of miracle were commonly attached to pieces of the true cross or heads of John the Baptist , where much Christian literature promises believers great success in life if only they have enough faith in God , and where men and women of political power still try to have God and his Church on their side , and to use their authority to enhance their own . |
| 5 | This is a relative newcomer to the hobby , so new that nobody has slotted them into a genus yet . |
| 6 | According to the survey , 44 per cent of the sponsored students among the 14,000 engineers graduating in 1989 claimed that their work experience , averaging 13 months , has discouraged them from a career in engineering . |
| 7 | According to the survey , 44 per cent of the sponsored students among the 14,000 engineers graduating in 1989 claimed that their work experience , averaging 13 months , has discouraged them from a career in engineering . |
| 8 | He has approached it as an example of a much more general position in the debate about the possibilities of knowledge which he called ‘ historicism ’ characterized by a presumption about the nature of history : |
| 9 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
| 10 | Comedian and writer Ben Miller has the answers , and has incorporated them into a tribute performance , Gone With Noakes ( playing at Covent Garden 's Donmar Warehouse on Dec 4–5 ) . |
| 11 | It was me who cut her ropes and killed the men aboard her , and it 's me who has sailed her to a place where you 'll never find her . |
| 12 | ‘ His addiction has turned him into a cheat and a liar ’ |
| 13 | So clueless and incompetent , so capable of mismanagement that it has turned it into an art form . ’ |
| 14 | She has turned you into an image of herself . |
| 15 | They have whetted a lust for sensationalism that has turned us into a nation of accident watchers . |
| 16 | The Operations Officer has briefed us on a shot fired from one of the Turkish observation towers . |
| 17 | One research scientist , a friend of mine said that the setting up of a particularly apt experiment has lead him to a sense of the beautiful . |
| 18 | He has employed you as a guide . |
| 19 | Bored with the custom of the bishop 's Easter letter , Hope has replaced it with a tabloid , just out . |
| 20 | Gabriel has ousted it as a skyscraper will fragment a cloud , as a charging bull will shatter the morning mist , as a massive ink-stain will erase a delicate sketch . |
| 21 | J. Howard , Secretary of Areley Kings Machine Knitting Club , has contacted us with a change of details . |
| 22 | ‘ I would ask you to stay longer , but His Majesty the King has invited me to a masque at Richmond . ’ |
| 23 | " Who has invited you to a dance ? " |
| 24 | Once again , Patrick Eggle has provided me with an excuse to get a paper round , take in laundry and even think about selling my body . |
| 25 | Mr Grainger , who believes that the association could be the first of its kind in the country , has contacted the American Brain Tumour Association which has provided him with a wealth of information . |
| 26 | Mr Grainger , who believes that the association could be the first of its kind in the country , has contacted the American Brain Tumour Association which has provided him with a wealth of information . |
| 27 | That has provided it with a group nucleus of up to 2,500 sows testing a minimum of six mainstream lines backed up by artificial insemination facilities with more than 100 boars . |
| 28 | In that event , the Antarctic ice sheet has provided us with a sample of a planetary body we have never seen , but which has a Moon-like anorthositic crust and a Moon-like soil layer . |
| 29 | Wolfgang Iser ( 1974 , p.288 ) has provided us with a picture of the competent reader 's behaviour , for — as he says — when we read ‘ we look forward , we look back , we decide , we change our decisions , we form expectations , we are shocked by their nonfulfilment , we question , we muse , we accept , we reject ’ . |
| 30 | Towards the end of his first letter to the Corinthians , Paul challenges the Corinthian Christians on the quality of their love , and in doing so has provided us with a bench-mark of quality as far as the practice of love is concerned . |