Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their long-lived presence made it possible for them to act as a kind of semi-permanent critique of newer cultural trends . |
| 2 | Well that may be a bit of fun , but it is quite possible for you to write in a complicated manner without realising it . |
| 3 | Young Monodactylus are able to tolerate freshwater conditions but it is not usual for them to survive in a totally freshwater environment beyond a body length of 5cm . |
| 4 | The impact of the section has been very broadly based in the city , and for the first time we 've added for you in very brief terms , a Domiciliary Health information of just the total number of visits made by the city health care , erm and the level of work in terms of notices served , and prosecutions , note , going up in most of the sections , particularly their units they 're small numbers , but they are significant , just the same , and the table on the top of page forty-four , erm as I said earlier , I think we reached the highest level of insect complaints in the summer that we 've ever had to deal with , it 's very usual for us to deal with a thousand , over in the summer period , this time we dealt with sixteen hundred . |
| 5 | This , she thought , would make it easier for them to cope with a very traumatic situation . |
| 6 | It may be easier for them to talk to a fellow inmate . ’ |
| 7 | Much easier for us to deal with a conniving , self-serving bastard like Assad than try to cope with a religious fanatic . |
| 8 | For some it may be that the act of crying was left free for them to use in a healthy way . |
| 9 | In the 138-member Chamber of Citizens ( 108 seats for Serbian representatives , half of them elected on a majority system by constituencies and half on a proportional system by party lists , plus 30 for Montenegrin representatives , six by constituency and 24 proportionally ) the Socialist Party of Serbia ( SPS ) gained 73 seats ; Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro 23 ; Serbian Radical Party ( SRS ) 33 ; League of Communists-Movement for Yugoslavia two ; Democratic Community of Vojvodina Magyars ( DZVM ) two ; independents three ; two seats for Serbia went to a second round of voting , held on June 14 ( together with two second-round polls for the republican assembly ) . |
| 10 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 11 | Like the bats , the pterosaurs had membranous wings stretched between highly modified arms and ‘ hands ’ and the fore part of the legs ; unlike the bats some of them grew to an enormous size and the front support for the wing was provided by only one finger of the hand , grotesquely extended . |
| 12 | Their treks cost a lot of money , but strike a good balance between looking after people and keeping planning flexible enough to take advantage of unforeseen opportunities : on the Borneo trip some of them camped by a waterfall and , instead of eating dried provisions , cooked a deer shot by one of their guides . |
| 13 | There are a number of different kinds of bomb , some of them known by a variety of colourful synonyms , but in many cases , there is a good deal of argument about exactly how they acquire their shape . |
| 14 | The Templars were crushed but some of them remained as a secret coven and I have crossed swords with them over the years . |
| 15 | Reports are coming in , some of them confirmed by an independent observer , of large-scale destruction in Bosnia , not only of mosques and monuments ( see The Art Newspaper No. 19 , June 1992 , p.1 ) but also of places of learning , together with the books , archives and manuscripts contained therein . |
| 16 | From this tradition have emerged a number of notable black Gospel choirs , some of them performing to a very high standard . |
| 17 | Some of them work for a number of different organisations , and some of this sub-group operate via specialist employment agencies , which act as intermediaries between them and the user organisation . |
| 18 | But it was countered by the somewhat cooler attitude towards the royal family that had emerged in recent years , some of it captured in an ‘ anti-jubilee ’ number of the New Statesman edited by Anthony Howard . |
| 19 | Some of us suffer from an aversion to talking about money — known as remuneraphobia . |
| 20 | Later in the week , some of us went for an evening swim at a nearby beach — or rather not so nearby , as it entailed a few miles of driving and then a long walk down a deserted track . |
| 21 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will understand if some of us treat with a certain amount of scepticism some of the assurances that BR has subsequently given . |
| 22 | ‘ But , on the other hand , probably very few of them decide on a whim to spend their entire capital on a shop in a strange city in a country they know nothing about , without doing the most elementary homework . |
| 23 | Although many people do not make such a dramatic move from a very special garden to a flat , most of us leave a few favourite plants behind when we move house , so framing a few of them serves as a lovely reminder of times gone by . |
| 24 | Just last week a survey by Brook Advisory Centres revealed an estimated 84,000 15 year old girls are sexually active , yet just 18,000 of them go to a family planning clinic . |
| 25 | There will eventually be 10 zones in all , each of them designated in an area of particularly high unemployment . |
| 26 | If a crack begins to.penetrate into the wood across the grain , the Cook-Gordon mechanism — which we discussed in the last chapter — comes into operation in the region around the crack tip and the various cells become separated so that each of them operates as an independent helix , something like a drinking straw . |
| 27 | Each of them ended in a shiny black shoe . |
| 28 | What each of us does over a long period of trial and error is to acquire a set of tools with which we are comfortable and which we can apply in different ways to the myriad problems which we need to solve . |
| 29 | Each of us lived in a concrete box , nine feet long and six feet wide , with walls one and a half foot thick , and 14 air holes . |
| 30 | Our normal reality is like each of us living in a tiny , windowless cell in a house that contains a hundred thousand rooms and covers a thousand acres of land . |