Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This poem and The Last of the Flock exhibit a pathetic clinging to a single idea or possession which must not be destroyed : I mean something far removed from a simple love of property . |
| 2 | The inference to be drawn is that , if we want to keep taxes down we should encourage everyone else to smoke like a forest fire . |
| 3 | Total , or , elsewhere , global , history assumes a spatio-temporal continuity between all phenomena , and a certain homogeneity between them insofar as they all express the same form of historicity — Althusser 's essential section — whereas in general history the problem is precisely to determine the relation between different series : whereas a total history draws everything together according to a single principle , a general history analyses the space of dispersion and heterogeneous temporalities . |
| 4 | This was greeted with shock and outrage by an Italian public which , although it goes to church in ever smaller numbers , would like to see the outward signs of the Church 's existence march on unchanged , and recoils at the prospect of a sacred building housing something so profane as a fashion house , for example . |
| 5 | In a minute he appeared , carrying something heavy draped in a white towel . |
| 6 | Instead of choosing one road or another , like Hercules at the crossroads — sin or virtue , company or solitude , capitalism or collectivism — as ancient religions and modern dogmas have sometimes demanded , it invites one rather to settle into a questioning and critical acceptance of things as they are . |
| 7 | Among the questions to which this project aims to apply recent public choice research are ‘ Why does anybody ever vote/work for a pressure group/stand for public office ? ’ 'What do bureaucrats seek to maximise ? ’ 'What ( if any ) political procedures ensure that what the people want is done ? ’ |
| 8 | For many years he was a Methodist Local Preacher , and always walked to his appointments anywhere in the Circuit , so that he did not cause anyone else to work on a Sunday . |