Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Appeal to labour solidarity wo n't wash either when most of the labour force is non-unionized , many of whom earn only a pittance in the secondary labour market .
2 Others , like Hayling , obviously had talent , but none of them had even a fraction of the experience or ability which had twice earned him the Journalist of the Year award for his coverage of Vietnam and Cambodia .
3 After dinner , all six finalists were treated to an evening at the West End award-winning musical The Forbidden Planet and each of them took home a Supersoft goodie bag , full of luxurious styling and finishing products from the range .
4 There are only four vacancies in Kington … one of them offering just a week 's work .
5 ‘ They 've got three ships in there , and God knows what other generators and so on , all of which generates quite a bit of heat .
6 Mann tries to combine the desperation of their plight with a more lyrical look at Indian respect for struggle and death , all of which sits together a smidgeon uneasily until the final reel .
7 This service often involves breaking security systems , most of which take about a minute to get through .
8 Then he stepped towards her to stand just a couple of feet away .
9 Just when his eyes were adjusting to the gloom , the novice ahead of him threw open a door , and Gabriel emerged into pale but blinding sunlight flaring in low through the window of the gallery .
10 They were a large family , much married in the neighbourhood , and certain members of it spent quite a lot of money in his pub .
11 Today the inner enclosure should still be the climax of the fort , but the sight of it produces only a sensation of severe anticlimax .
12 Most of us defecate once a day and at a convenient time .
13 Each of us consumed quite a bit of time on the complications .
14 And there were two of us worked together a lad my age and myself .
15 Modern technology and the discourses of knowledge associated with it represent both a threat to society and a possible means of expanding human consciousness .
16 She had by that time , however , had a whole week in which to do quite a lot of thinking .
17 The distribution of points in it contains quite a lot of information , but the basic clustering algorithm will lose it because this algorithm will lump all the points into a single cluster .
18 ‘ I only told you about her staying away a lot and men turning up looking for her and things like that .
19 ( The work of Hoggart 1957 and others on popular culture seems to me to constitute largely a variant of the first tradition , though with some Marxist influence in some cases . )
20 Its origin , and its method of financing , almost inevitably led to it becoming effectively a horse infirmary .
21 As Simon Frith puts it ( 1978 : 195 ) , ‘ Adorno 's is the most systematic and the most searing analysis of mass culture and the most challenging for anyone claiming even a scrap of value for the products that come churning out of the music industry ’ .
22 What so often happens is that we do not share feelings till finally the back filter gets overloaded and we literally blow a hole through it sending forth a gush of accusations which are totally counterproductive .
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