Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assumption is about what lies behind our saying of a man , when he comes out with the sounds , ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ , that he is asserting that he is going to the bank , but our not saying this of the parrot . |
| 2 | Ms Gibson lives with her daughter in a two-bedroom flat in a mansion block . |
| 3 | ‘ Pump Up The Volume ’ suffers from the same flaw as most American teen-rebel movies : the trials of a white , middle-class American kids do not seem overly arduous ( the star of John Hughes ‘ Pretty In Pink ’ complains of poverty but lives with her Dad in a detached house and drives her own Volkswagen to school ) . |
| 4 | Elizabeth : Elizabeth , a young woman who lives with her sister in a remote and primitive cottage in the Welsh mountains , came to see me about an infestation of scabies . |
| 5 | Still actively politically , she now lives with her boyfriend in a one-bed apartment in Atlanta . |
| 6 | It lies with his distinction between a form of consciousness directed to ‘ practical ’ , ‘ material ’ or ‘ real ’ activity and a different form of consciousness that is directed to social relations and is taken as constituting ideology . |
| 7 | When he pulls himself up or corrects his placing or step he beams on the audience as , for example , when he finishes with his back after a pirouette and hastily turns to face them . |
| 8 | [ As a ] professional leadership group , organically structured and hierarchical , the behaviour and thought of the Communist Party of Brazil leadership corresponds with their situation as a social category and their political nature as leadership apparats of a party belonging to a particular current of the international workers ' movement . |
| 9 | Much of the interest in the experimental modification in Ingolstadt lies in its treatment of a heavily trafficked ring road , as will be seen in Chapter Ten . |
| 10 | It is often claimed that one of the most conspicuous shortcomings of Keynesian macroeconomics lies in its lack of a coherent theory of aggregate supply . |
| 11 | An insuperable difficulty , it is argued , lies in their lack of a positive notion of human fulfilment which can provide a valid set of methodological requirements for practical decisions . |
| 12 | And , from the viewpoint of the lawyer , their primary importance lies in their effectiveness as a means of avoiding disputes and preventing injustices . |
| 13 | Richard Chauncy tore down this house , and built the one which stands in its place at a cost of £20,000 between 1747 and 1752 . |
| 14 | The Disciplinary Code in Schedule 1 to the Police ( Discipline ) Regulations 1985 contains an offence of ‘ improper disclosure of information ’ , which is committed where a member of a police force without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force . |
| 15 | Improper disclosure of information , which offence is committed where a member of a police force ( a ) without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force … |
| 16 | If you disagree with , say , one point out of ten in your own side 's case ( but preferably not the main point ) , it adds to your credibility as a witness . |
| 17 | In the former he plays — with two fingers — a very large lyre with sound-box or rest ; he looks to his left with a " cross- eyed " gaze , and his cloak falls , rather than blows , behind . |
| 18 | The problem is that if a hotel reneges on its contract with a tour operator , there is little else the tour operator can do other than take legal action for breach of contract . |
| 19 | Each sector director looks at his business on a national level , ignoring regional boundaries , and has the power to deploy all his resources to the best commercial advantage . |
| 20 | And so he thinks of his labour as a commodity , like tea or iron . |
| 21 | Any sort of placement depends for its success on a good working relationship between artist , organiser and location . |
| 22 | It vanishes into your skin without a trace to leave your skin feeling deliciously supple and silky-soft . |
| 23 | In a society where a woman 's very livelihood depends on her affiliation to a man , her ability to determine her own life 's course is negligible . |
| 24 | Yes I think it depends on what kind of a message you actually have on your recorder to start off with . |
| 25 | Cheltenham prepares for its festival like a bride . |
| 26 | The key combination you use with EDIT is Ctrl P Ctrl G. This shows in your file as a little diamond shaped dot , but it produces a beep quite happily . |
| 27 | Jube had witnessed — and taken part in — sufficient bar-room brawls in his life as a trucker to know that a sure-fire way of making certain a felled opponent stayed down , was to heel-stomp him . |
| 28 | ‘ There is n't much loving in any of your kindnesses , Jane , ’ the middle-aged hero of John Osborne 's Inadmissible Evidence ( 1965 ) complains to his daughter in a long , unanswered diatribe against the younger generation — a new race of adolescents capable , for the first time , of subduing the earth around them and thinking nothing of it : ‘ not much kindness , not even cruelty , really , in any of you . ’ |
| 29 | er There 's a young girl in Didcot itself er her parents are known socially to the blokes at the fire brigade ; she , she suffers from cerebral palsy , she 's eight years old , and until recently she 's been going out on bike rides with her father on a child seat , but as you know kids grow up , they grow out of things , therefore she ca n't do it any more . |
| 30 | The plastic moustache clips onto my nose with a snappy bite . |