Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GIVEN THAT Jacob 's Mouse have been involved in this rock ‘ n ’ roll malarkey in some form or another from an age when your hack still believed a bosom was Captain Birdseye 's right hand man on the SS Fishfinger , you would , perhaps — just like the kids of Bury St Edmunds — expect Sam , Jebb and Hugo to be precocious little shits with heads as big as Frank Sidebottom 's . |
| 2 | with intent to cause that person to believe that immediate unlawful violence would be used against him or another by a person or |
| 3 | Buy Back is normally used in capital projects where the exporter is supplying part or all of a project and is paid by agreeing to take back part of the output from the manufacturing plant either for his own use or for onward sale . |
| 4 | Although Big Blue has said that its interest lies in exploiting computer technology and developing digital film ‘ software ’ rather than creating movies , we can not imagine IBM buying half or more of an enterprise and then remaining a passive investor . |
| 5 | ( Rapidly ) Has it ever happened to you that all of a sudden and for no reason at all you have n't the faintest idea how to spell the word — " wife " — or " house " — because when you write it down you just ca n't remember ever having seen those letters in that order before … ? |
| 6 | 1973 ) found that those with a daughter or daughters were more likely to die in their own homes than those with just a son or sons . |
| 7 | Other advantages are that employees working direct for a company are often better motivated than those of an intermediary and it is easier to control a subsidiary because it is under the parent company 's direct control . |
| 8 | you see I go on fruit and that for a day and all I do the next day is get a terrible cramp in the stomach |
| 9 | And this on an island where there appeared to be next to no gold and a few sparse cotton plants . |
| 10 | If the year of our folly 1990 had started inauspiciously for me , then the Fates , Lady Luck , Lord Chance , God , Life , Evolution — whoever or whatever — immediately thereafter set about the business of proving that the entangled disasters distinguishing the year 's first few days were but a mild and modest prelude to the more thorough-going catastrophes planned for the weeks and months ahead … and this with a rapidity and even an apparent relish which was impressive — if also bowel-looseningly terrifying — to behold . |
| 11 | Screwy sort of argument — I mean , what she was really saying was half right on the nail , and half like a whirlpool that sucks everything into it . ’ |
| 12 | Public rooms include a television lounge , and another with a bar and open fireplace . |
| 13 | Bodies wrapped in blankets , linen burial suits , a coffin of the best elm lined with lead , one covered with black cloth and decorated with white nails — indicative of a spinster — and another with a double or false lid . |
| 14 | " We took prints we had lying around and played with them and all of a sudden that broke everything loose " . |
| 15 | I was working and all of a sudden and one the woman began to sing Rock of Ages in a loud voice and then the man joined in and I sort of thought I heard sort of and I thought oh , they 've got a bottle which they 've taken out of their pockets which they were passing from side to side . |
| 16 | And all for a price that at an ordinary hotel would barely cover the cost of bed and breakfast . |
| 17 | And all in a package that 's the most compact in existence — anywhere . |
| 18 | Retailers have a tendency to be quite selfish people wanting more and more of a product that is selling well , but cancelling an order and telling you to go away and solve your own problems when there 's a product that is n't selling well . |
| 19 | But in its way it is more exciting and more of a challenge than the current enthusiasm for plate tectonics and sea-floor spreading . |
| 20 | In sum , the academic English scholar was becoming less of a public policy maker in aspiration , and more of an arbiter and custodian both of literary language and literary knowledge . |
| 21 | ‘ Indeed , ’ he accepted the charge , ‘ and more of an embarrassment than you know . |
| 22 | Those with tumour regrowth requiring laser energy of around 5000 J or more and those with a stricture that would not immediately allow passage of an endoscope were given a follow up appointment at four to six weeks for repeat laser endoscopy . |
| 23 | The focus of further enquiry and activity by the NCB and those with an interest as providers , users , and regulators of residential schools should be twofold . |
| 24 | Between the main road and the sea are the small , cliff side resorts , first of Bid art , which has a delightful town square , very Basque , with church , pelota wall and hotels gathered affably together , and excellent beaches to walk down to ; and then of Guéthary , which is smaller , lower down and less of a village than Bidart , but has the better coastline . |
| 25 | As more and more survive and are kept alive beyond the utmost limit of working life , the economic or social function of the individual provides less and less of a motive or framework for his survival ; and when we ask Why ? we find ourselves thrown back upon purpose in a sense which is neither economic nor social nor even secular . |
| 26 | ‘ And I am still your maid , ’ McAllister had said gaily to him , but , of course , she was now less and less of a maid and more a member of the family , working side by side with Matey in cheerful equality , living and playing with them in the evening , and when Dr Neil spoke of the wedding day again she said that she must write to her uncle at least , before anything could be arranged , and let him think that she had done so . |
| 27 | Also , before therapy , I used to be constantly plagued by memories of my childhood , but all of a sudden that had ceased to be a problem . |
| 28 | We were marched out in a crocodile , just like schoolgirls — were n't allowed to go out two-by-two or in threes or fours , but all in a line so we would n't disturb the pedestrians . |
| 29 | The Court appears to have taken the view that although the victim was staying overnight in the offender 's house , and therefore he had a degree of responsibility for her welfare , his responsibility was not so strict as that of a parent or other person with a longer lasting relationship with the victim , and that the degree of responsibility in this case did not justify the adoption of eight years as a starting point as opposed to the normal five years . |
| 30 | Her hands were cupped before him in a stylised gesture which he recognised not as that of a beggar but of a supplicant , a penitent , someone reaching out for a blessing from God . |