Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gill and Jackson ( 1983 ) found that five of the thirty-five children were to some degree proud of their colour but only a small minority of the children had positive feelings about their colour . |
| 2 | Since the notional content of adjectives , on the other hand , does not define the nature of their support but only a quality thereof they can be said to have external incidence . |
| 3 | The film 's musical score and song and dance numbers are surprisingly its weakest ingredient , though the shooting and editing of Earth Girls Are Easy is often highly original-especially the black and white dream sequence that 's a model of its kind and almost a music video in itself . |
| 4 | The conditions of its composition and even a precise date for the play are uncertain . |
| 5 | The jewel in the Cobra 's head has its counterpart in Australian Aboriginal folklore in the form of the quartz crystal which enshrines the colours and essence of the rainbow , and the Rainbow Serpent of Australian mythology is closely related to the Indian Spectacled Cobra in terms of its role as both a fertility symbol and a symbol of higher consciousness . |
| 6 | The proposed cuts had led to talk of its closure but today a reprieve was announced . |
| 7 | She exuded power : the power to change a boy 's destiny with a stern shake of her head and only a few official-sounding words . |
| 8 | They put the stranger down on the outskirts and left him standing in the middle of the road , his face in shadow under his cap and just a glimmer of those white , pebbly eyes . |
| 9 | The slow deliberacy with which the wife commences her reply , with not a hint of offence in her reaction but rather a hint of care in selecting the right mode of reply , emphasizes her willingness to converse on the topic : So does her subsequent appropriation of a rhetorical device , the occupatio , a statement emphasized by the speaker feigning unwillingness or lack of freedom to express it : The monk too takes a moment 's pause before replying : again seeming to digest the implications of the wife 's words , or ( and ? ) to express , silently but with an eloquent action , astonishment at the wife 's ready invitation to him to continue to converse on this topic . |
| 10 | Because the assessment is internal , there is flexibility in its timing and hence a student can work towards a module at his or her own pace . |
| 11 | The fog seemed to part without warning , revealing the great headland of Rhuaival over three hundred metres above us , mist trailing like smoke from its peak and even a stray beam of sunshine lighting up the craggy outlines of the cliffs . |
| 12 | If consent is needed any purported transfer by the vendor may be a repudiatory breach of that contract by the vendor exposing the vendor to a claim for damages from its customer and possibly a claim by the purchaser against the vendor if the customer treats the contract as terminated particularly if the vendor warranted that no consents were needed . |
| 13 | A dialling-tone purred in his ear and then a woman said , ‘ Number please ? ’ |
| 14 | I 'd get a phone call from his secretary and then a limousine would be waiting for me down the lane . |
| 15 | ‘ I went back to my room and soon a girl came with flat blonde hair , sickly-looking . |
| 16 | they then go back to their office and unfortunately a lot of what other people in the office are doing are taught |
| 17 | Robbie had no star on his head and only a half white collar , as did Sophie . |
| 18 | Who would ever guess from the benign expression on his face that just a moment ago he had been exploding with anger ? |
| 19 | These hints had their final expression in an astonishing personal letter written by Knox to Mary on 26 October 1559 , claiming that ‘ if it be the office of a very friend to give true and faithful counsel to them whom he sees run to destruction for lack of the same , I could not be proven enemy to your Grace but rather a friend unfeigned ’ — even if moderation was never Knox 's strong suit and so , unable to keep up the quiet tone of the letter , he felt impelled to throw in a postscript : ‘ God move your heart yet in time to consider that ye fight not against man , but against the eternal God , and against his Son Jesus Christ , the only Prince of the kings of the earth . ’ |
| 20 | It was Grandad 's basic contention in life that whenever you were cycling downhill with the wind behind you and the sun on your back and never a care in the world , some little bugger nipped out of a bush and stuck a spike in your spokes . |
| 21 | The 16-year-old forgot her contact lenses at her hotel and only a desperate delivery in the nick of time saved her from an embarrassing night at the Virginia Slims Championships . |
| 22 | All right then well thank you Simon that 's a broad thank you and and thank you very much for your money as well a hundred and fifty quid he gave that 's loads of dosh er to come in for the day as well and I 'm going to take you out for a a nice lunch in a bit when he can wonder around have a poke around everywhere this afternoon too so should be all right should n't it that ? |