Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same is done when religion is reduced to ethics , or treated simply as a movement within history , to be explained and defended , or even proved , by historical research and demonstration . |
| 2 | These go on every day in a Home — they wo n't be planned beforehand or written up on a board , they are the little things of everyday life : |
| 3 | Strips stuck on skirting boards or used instead of a cornice between ceiling and walls can greatly expand the sense of space for very little cost . |
| 4 | or fixed perpetually in a frame … |
| 5 | No books left lying about , no newspapers scattered or folded untidily on a table , no dirty cups or glasses . |
| 6 | I can assure you that there is nothing sub-standard or left out of a home built machine . |
| 7 | If a man believes in a different god , or even if he uses a different ritual for worshipping the same god , blind faith can decree that he should die — on the cross , at the stake , skewered on a Crusader 's sword , shot in a Beirut street , or blown up in a bar in Belfast . |
| 8 | There are obviously more overheads when the client group is geographically dispersed rather than grouped together in a home . |
| 9 | In this garden annuals and bedding are used particularly well as they are dotted around perennials and shrubs , rather than grown together in a bedding scheme . |
| 10 | Although presented mainly as a measure of penal reform that was desirable for its own sake , officials were more sanguine that parole might lead to the hoped for reduction in the prison population than the dubious promise of the suspended sentence . |
| 11 | Motoring costs went down by 1.3 per cent , thanks to a further fall in the average cost of second-hand cars and an average drop of 7p a gallon in petrol prices which , together , more than made up for a rise in car insurance premiums . |
| 12 | Although born out of a concern for the economic decline of Britain , such an emphasis provides a sad irony in the 1980s with massive youth unemployment . |
| 13 | Mitch 's image alone does not make clear that he will be mocked rather than taken seriously as an object of desire . |
| 14 | Sir Bryan told the insurance industry yesterday that commissions should be related to the long-term maintenance of policies over their full lifetime , rather than paid out as a lump sum immediately a policy was sold . |
| 15 | The exposition is more easily understood if broken down into a number of stages . |
| 16 | In December 1940 , Wolverton Road Vehicle Shop undertook the construction of four Mobile Kitchens , on the lines of a container which could be lifted and placed either on a road trailer or lorry , or on a railway freight wagon — exactly the same idea as the container which the LMS developed pre-war for removing furniture directly from door to door . |
| 17 | Ngune was helped into the back of the van and placed gently on a palliasse with his head resting on a pillow . |
| 18 | I was promptly carried outside into the garden and propped up in a chair . |
| 19 | The Snotling unit is immediately broken and treated just like a unit broken in combat or fleeing following a failed panic test . |
| 20 | Instead , in 1947 it was organised as a politically autonomous territory in an economic union with France , and treated almost as a colony . |
| 21 | The words came out as if propelled irresistibly from a well of compressed emotion . |
| 22 | No previous study of Scottish medieval prices exists , mainly because information on the subject is scarce , and scattered widely through a number of sources . |
| 23 | There are numerous castles to visit for a day trip including the magnificent Harlech Castle built between 1283 and 1289 and perched proudly on a cliff . |
| 24 | The victims , many of them homeless , were blinded and torn apart in a frenzy of violence . |
| 25 | ‘ For a man is formed and torn out of a man ’ . |
| 26 | He breathed the air deeply , hauling it into his broad chest as if this particular air on this exact spot could be stored up and carried around as a reserve and reminder : for minutes on end he stood there , resisting any move which would lift the spell , gazing into the hidden valley as if in there lay the treasure he wanted . |
| 27 | A report 's been commissioned by the National Rivers Authority and carried out by a group of local councils . |
| 28 | Mrs Thrigg plumped the coffee and home-made biscuits down on the low table beside the sofa in Mrs Baggley 's drawing-room and stumped out like a stage char . |
| 29 | In East Africa a gracile and a robust form of man–ape seem to have coincided and overlapped ecologically for a time — perhaps in a manner comparable to chimpanzees and gorillas in certain areas of their ranges today . |
| 30 | After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel . |