Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All parties realize this , and so protectionism acts as a bargaining counter for the rich , and a bluff for the poor , and mainly comes to life in its use as a rhetorical device to satisfy domestic constituencies . |
| 2 | Thus orientation conceals under a pretence of ‘ equal but different ’ a process of sorting and selecting pupils according to their academic level for different scholastic and ultimately occupational routes . |
| 3 | Elsewhere Genet writes of a 19-year-old , washing the clothes of his friend who is shortly to go and fight , declaring that he loves the revolution and all the fedayeen , but his friend especially : ‘ Yes . |
| 4 | The group are also computer buffs on a mission to not only push out musical frontiers but combine the whole thing into a total multi-media package . |
| 5 | One family tradition which is rigorously upheld is the big soul-food blow out which they all enjoy whenever Sheila returns from a tour , or when a TV project is over . |
| 6 | So whenever electricity whenever electricity goes through a conductor , usually a wire , the wire gets warm . |
| 7 | ‘ Nomination ’ is the process whereby the client chooses a subcontractor to carry out specialist works under a building contract and where the contractor is obliged to employ that subcontractor . |
| 8 | In the early years of the century , laboratories were for one or two people , with assistants and perhaps a friend or two to watch , to perform research ; or else to carry out routine analyses for a fee ; or a mixture of these things . |
| 9 | A typical instance of late medieval anxiety about time occurs in a letter of 1399 written by the wife of the ‘ Merchant of Prato ’ , Francesco di Marco Datini , to her ageing husband : ‘ In view of all you have to do , when you waste an hour , it seems to me a thousand … . |
| 10 | Here Heisenberg refers to a notion to which he often had recourse , that quantum mechanics had revived Aristotle 's old idea of potentia . |
| 11 | We can also examine the behaviour of the cost surface as we vary only one of the outputs , the analogy here being returns to a factor . |
| 12 | Grounded in the work of Barthes and Lacan , such criticism has looked instead at how cinema operates like a language . |
| 13 | The process of developing a referral is followed through , showing how assessment leads into a piece of planned social work offering social care , using case studies as examples . |
| 14 | ‘ So this Nevil asks Ken about me and then Ken runs into a car door , eh ? |
| 15 | How radon gets into a house |
| 16 | Sometimes knowledge comes in a flash , sometimes one does not have to see someone for weeks at a time . |
| 17 | Among the factors that affect how smoke moves in a building are the weather outside , the type of heating installed , and the position of emergency light fittings . |
| 18 | It was foolish of me to forget how news spreads in a village . ’ |
| 19 | Content should help to show how science proceeds through a method of discovery . |
| 20 | By talking about Renaissance texts , or more accurately texts produced during a period defined by current readers as the Renaissance , we are attempting to provide a type of structure ( how language operated in a defined period ) which deconstruction , in some purist sense , would argue is to miss the point of how language acts as a supplement . |
| 21 | Then one can address the question of whether rape should be confined to cases where submission arises from a threat or fear of violence , or whether it should be phrased more widely . |
| 22 | One possible situation in which a peer group would not cause a loss of efficiency is where democracy acts as a spur to individual effort and productivity . |
| 23 | Simon and Janie now live in their new home in Baillieston where Janie works as a nurse with Minerva Medical Services . |
| 24 | By contrast , the films made to exploit the vitality , comic talent and phenomenal singing voice of Grace Fields are at their best when set not against a showbusiness background , but in the midst of depressed working-class communities where Fields stands as a beacon of cheerfulness and hope . |
| 25 | Rather language acts as a substitute for the thing , or in Derrida 's formulation it acts as a supplement . |
| 26 | ‘ Look lady , for what other people pay for a one-way ticket to Chicago , you can travel anywhere Delta flies for a month . ’ |