Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who boards a certain ferry or walks down a certain street or enters a certain building or goes through a certain door disappears for ever into that other city . ’ |
| 2 | ( a ) in what it selects from or assumes about an historical problem . |
| 3 | This limits , or complicates to a high degree , the explanatory force of a psychoanalytic discourse whose terms are founded on an Oedipal moment of lack , castration and desire . |
| 4 | The basic questions posed are : First , can children attach themselves to psychological parents whilst they also maintain contact or links with a non-custodial birth parent or other relative ? and second , would the maintenance of such links confuse the child and impair his developing personal and social identity ? |
| 5 | However , if the broker fills an order left with him by his client or deals on a discretionary basis , he is as a matter of law dealing on both sides of the " client " contract ; he is agent for the client , in that he binds the client to the contract , and at the same time he is technically the client 's counterparty . |
| 6 | If you get only a mild reaction to a particular food , watch it carefully until it either disappears or increases into a full-blown reaction . |
| 7 | When a Vet first takes up running — or resumes after a long lay-off — he or she can count on one thing : several years of improvement . |
| 8 | When back pain and arthritis are the problems it can help to take short rests or breaks from a long stint in one position — say sitting at a desk or standing at an ironing-table . |
| 9 | Runners-up were the Community Network — a telephone conferencing facility for various charities and social groups — and The Rainbow Centre — a small , national charity working with families where a child has either died or suffers from a life-threatening illness . |
| 10 | Erm looking now at page three hundred and fifty seven er paragraph seven three two oh seven three one and seven three two , page three hundred and fifty seven where the report makes the point that er when legal proceedings are entered into they tend to create further barriers and make it m less and less likely that th there can be conciliation between estranged partners erm and paragraph seven three two points out a growing need fo or speaks of a growing need for conciliation . |
| 11 | Anyone who boards a certain ferry or walks down a certain street or enters a certain building or goes through a certain door disappears for ever into that other city . ’ |
| 12 | This situation is unlikely to be satisfactory to either party especially if the pipe is shared or runs under a shared access . |
| 13 | For instance , there are no yellow daffodils in the underlying system of mass in motion ; daffodils appear yellow to us because of the effect of suitable wavelengths ( or corpuscules in a rival theory ) of light on human sense-organs . |
| 14 | We began this chapter by emphasising that fitness for purpose is the chief factor deciding whether an information product succeeds or fails in a given application . |
| 15 | Brokers joining are charged an initial three month licence fee of £150 for each location , £60 a month that goes into a secure advertising fund , and 7p for each telephone enquiry . |
| 16 | It was impersonal , furnished to the exact specifications of any government building in the islands that goes with a civil servant of a particular grade ; the chairs and table in ‘ ant-proof ’ hardwood , lacquered a pale brown , three armchairs , one sofa , chairs and table on the verandah , a desk , two bedrooms , a couple of beds , their legs in jars of water , a shower . |
| 17 | It is left with one unused electron that sits in an isolated energy level in the middle of the energy gap . |
| 18 | If IBM has any sense ( which is in itself a topic worthy of serious consideration ) it will offer versions of its engine for the entire ES/9000 range ; should it do so , the 9221 version might be nothing larger than a circuit board or two that fits in a standard rack . |
| 19 | No one , for example , supposes that the knowledge that belongs to a good cook is confined to what is or may be written down in the cookery book . |
| 20 | The College , opened in new buildings in 1963 , had not , five years later , exhausted the strong initial impetus that belongs with a new venture . |
| 21 | If for example , you wanted to make a previously designed garment in a yarn or a stitch pattern that knits to a different tension , you would simply load the required file from the disk and enter the new tensions in place of the original ones . |
| 22 | In order to achieve the state of energy that manifests as a rested body and mind , we must become active against our negative emotions as well as following other disciplines on a daily basis . |
| 23 | And human touch The touch that quivers to a new identity . |
| 24 | This logic is set out in a manner that illustrates in an exemplary way the structuralist intention to map out all the possibilities of literature as distinct from its actual manifestations . |
| 25 | The sufferer is con-fronted with truth — as seen by the peer group of patients — rather than the version of it that corresponds to a false picture that only he or she perceives and finds acceptable . |
| 26 | On the positive side , it says that the company 's financial condition remains strong , with about $150m of cash and long-term investments at 1992 year end , and $112m of debt , and a debt-to-equity ratio that stands at a conservative 13% . |
| 27 | then star that stands for a wild card , that 'll do all files which have got the back up . |
| 28 | Sometimes his willingness to raise the alarm is literally the only thing that stands between an old person and the possibility of a lonely and lingering death following a fall or sudden illness . |
| 29 | For Opposition Members to suggest that we should have nuclear weapons but not the ability to test shows how little they understand the responsibility that lies with a nuclear power . |
| 30 | If they 're selling those imitation trees , and if they 've got that wonderful one that looks like a real tree if they can say to me yes , we can rope it up for you in such a way that it 's got a handle on it . |