Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not only because of the harmful effects they can have on the physical self but also because the need for them indicates a severe deficiency in the emotional self — a deficiency which needs to be helped and treated rather than disguised . |
| 2 | That part of a social policy course that is concerned with describing policies and the institutions responsible for them has a clear face value to the social policy ‘ practitioner ’ . |
| 3 | In pride of place was one of Rembrandt 's great representations of the Holy Family , the two women by the cradle , one of whom reads a Holy book by the frail light of a candle . |
| 4 | The interest in policy outcomes is influenced by a model of pluralistic evaluation which identifies the major constituent groups of a policy initiative , each of whom attaches a different notion of criteria for success to an operation , plus different strategies for pursuing objectives . |
| 5 | Each of them requires a complete day out to go and visit them and it 's very difficult to find a complete day because there are so many other things , so many other demands on your time . |
| 6 | One of them activates a secret latch , book shelves swing aside to reveal a flight of descending stone steps . |
| 7 | One of them frisks a large steel ashtray and hands a roach to another . |
| 8 | These sugar units are ‘ sticky ’ ; when one of them meets a matching sugar chain sticking out from the membrane of an adjacent cell , the two recognize each other and become attached . |
| 9 | One of them employs a psychological trick . |
| 10 | None of them commands a regular place in the team . |
| 11 | ‘ Neither of the pair of them looks a likely case , ’ said the earl consideringly , ‘ to crush another man 's head with a stone , though there 's no saying what any man may do in extremes . |
| 12 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
| 13 | None of them has a sore throat . |
| 14 | For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name . |
| 15 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
| 16 | One of them has a handle-bar moustache ; another wooden deity , dredged not long ago from Lake Geneva , has a formless face , like those that melt and distort in Francis Bacon 's paintings . |
| 17 | Each of them has a large leather money bag . |
| 18 | One of them has a fake beard . |
| 19 | At various points in this book I have referred to such agents — among them nations , dynasties , social classes , elites of diverse kinds , generational , ethnic and cultural groups — and we have now to examine more closely their role in political life and especially the conditions under which one or other of them has a predominant influence . |
| 20 | Anyway , Alison , that vicar of yours sounds a real attention seeker . |
| 21 | ( MacCabe 1974 ) The classic realist text then , as described by MacCabe , is defined by a structure in which the various discourses within the text form a hierarchy : among these discourses — each of which poses a particular view of ‘ reality ’ — -one is privileged as the bearer of truth and serves as a gauge by which the veracity or falsehood of other competing discourses are judged . |
| 22 | Another possible way of resolving the difficulty where the sole evidence is that the defendant was actually fighting is to say that , in the course of the fight , there is a series of threatening gestures , each one of which constitutes a fresh offence . |
| 23 | I repeat it here , as in sections 3.3 to 3.5 we will be looking at three different theories , each of which takes a different starting-point to the debate over the service economy , which in turn influences their conceptual framework and what counts as valid kinds of evidence . |
| 24 | Outstanding in the present group are two gold rings , one of which depicts a two-horse chariot with driver in raised relief engraved with superb naturalness . |
| 25 | Marx was then preparing the elaborate drafts for Capital , which have been published in English under the title Grundrisse [ 1973 ] , or Foundations , an important part of which forms a separate book in English under the title Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations . |
| 26 | They are the ‘ Warning Signs ’ , each of which reinterprets a familiar traffic sign or public notice to make a political or economic point . |
| 27 | In the latter only eight large compartments , each of which frames a large mammal and a stylised tree , are present . |
| 28 | The lycopods have long , narrow leaves like little straps , each of which leaves a characteristic scar on the stem at its point of attachment . |
| 29 | III ) , where a border of crowstep pattern encloses a mixed ( or failed ? ) meander of swastika and greek key , to the west of which lies a four-swastika meander design . |
| 30 | 24 ) is a 4 x 4 grid arrangement , ( in simple guilloche ) , of regular squares , each of which holds a circular medallion . |