Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were told that he was still at lunch , Morton thought that Bragg would explode , but he controlled himself and settled for a middle-aged assistant . |
| 2 | I found it was possible with Paradise to talk about individual and personal responsibility , something which if set in a contemporary context would have had a preachy feel about it . ’ |
| 3 | This provided an example of a well-understood formalism which if interrogated in a particle-like way gave particle behaviour and if interrogated in a wave-like way gave wave behaviour . |
| 4 | The population of these three conurbations was over 8 million which when added to a similar population in London meant that approximately one-third of the population of England would have been within areas covered by a two-tier structure of local government . |
| 5 | Nevertheless any such other business will be likely to interfere with the partner 's ability to devote his full time and attention to the firm : such matters should be discussed between all partners and special arrangements agreed as necessary in relation to individual partners to be either incorporated in the partnership agreement itself or contained in a separate memorandum to which all partners are signatories . |
| 6 | I think this is mainly due to the fact that , Rosa Guy , the author of the novel is black herself and raised in a black community in Harlem . |
| 7 | Being entirely uninhibited when expressing herself and equipped with a famous ( and at times infamous ) ‘ caustic wit ’ , her self-assertion was never subtle . |
| 8 | The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female . |
| 9 | Yet another view regards it as formed in a similar manner from the gonopods of the 10th abdominal segment . |
| 10 | F five , now all of these you 've got to increase e something by something there so you 've got to change each of those percentages you 've got to think of it as added to a hundred and then the decimal equivalent . |
| 11 | If we are to succeed as teachers ( or parents ) we must accept that children may well be brighter than us and blessed with a potential far beyond our own . |