Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no question that Leapor 's play concludes with a reaffirmation of patriarchal values . |
| 2 | The Transport and General Workers Union 's decision comes amid a row with Labour leader John Smith over plans to limit union votes on party matters . |
| 3 | Blyth 's decision comes as a surprise because of their opposition to the pyramid during the Eighties , while Northallerton 's letter is indicative of their ambition to progress beyond the Northern League . |
| 4 | Mr Mathew 's story begins with a death , that of his elder brother , Theobald , in July 1983 , who left a will stating that his £1 million estate should be split among his four younger brothers . |
| 5 | The general 's cuirass appears as a support beside his left leg . |
| 6 | Celtic 's patience hangs by a thread |
| 7 | PRIDE of place in Robert Maxwell 's study goes to a photo of him with President George Bush . |
| 8 | The detention of COWAN 's president serves as a lesson especially because we had similar experiences with Brooklyn Village in Acornhoek , between 1989 and 1990 . |
| 9 | Leapor 's poetry strives toward a vision of wholeness . |
| 10 | Quite apart from the conceptual fragility of the enterprise , Kane 's work suffers from a problem of method : his evidence for the above assertions was collected from a sample of sportsmen who had already achieved a level of success , in other words the sportsmen he studied had ‘ made it ’ . |
| 11 | Susan Herbert 's work comes from a person who ‘ loved to draw all her life ’ . |
| 12 | Except in unusual circumstance , each day 's business ends with a half-hour debate on the motion that ‘ the House do now adjourn ’ . |
| 13 | Today 's meeting comes after a weekend in which the Libyan leader accused the West of starting a ‘ new global conflict between Christianity and Islam ’ . |
| 14 | San Carlo 's body lies in a silver and crystal casket given by Philip IV of Spain . |
| 15 | If pressed , many ERM-sympathisers would agree that last year 's crisis calls for a rethink , but few see the need for anything radical . |
| 16 | But the other thing is , Judith 's husband plays in a band now I 'd , I th it might be a pipe band , I 'm not sure |
| 17 | Wendy Ramshaw 's inspiration comes from a diversity of sources which include the wildlife of the Australian bush and the machinery of the space age . |
| 18 | If Foucault 's Pendulum fails as a novel , does it work as an intellectual game ? |
| 19 | Chris Hinsley , Tao Systems chief executive and the operating system 's architect claims without a blush that the Japanese computer industry will completely steam-roll the US and Europeans , and that Taos will be the fuel . |
| 20 | Chris Hinsley , Tao Systems chief executive and the operating system 's architect claims without a blush that the Japanese computer industry will completely steam-roll the US and Europeans , and that Taos will be the fuel . |
| 21 | The accuracy of the tablet is matched to the Spectrum , the grid inside the tablet 's surface consists of a wire mesh 176 by 256 , so the movement of the stylus on the screen corresponds exactly to its motion on the surface of the Grafpad . |
| 22 | Greenblatt 's explorations proceeds by a process of ‘ thick description ’ , paralleling some of Shakespeare 's plays with texts neither dramatic nor formally literary but which stand in symbolic relation to one another . |
| 23 | Hamnett 's defection comes at a time of high anxiety in the British fashion industry — but then she 's a woman well known for choosing her moments . |
| 24 | The falsification of Einstein 's theory remains as a challenge for modern physicists . |
| 25 | So Ponman and Bertram 's paper impinges on a number of important issues : the prevalence of the dark matter , the existence of cooling flows , and the evolution of galaxies and clusters . |
| 26 | The way in which the Prioress 's Tale hangs like a shadow over the pilgrims is reflected by the continuation of the rhyme-royal verse form from the tale into the following link : a feature matched only once elsewhere in the Tales , by an apparently repressed stanza at the end of the Clerk 's Tale ( IV : 1212a — g ) . |
| 27 | The Miller 's tale concludes as a fabliau , not only with appropriate , marked fabliau language : but also with a general and amiable benediction : The more recent moral — allegorical readings of the Miller 's Tale have seen John , Nicholas and Absolon as type figures , representing the sins of Avarice , Lechery and Pride respectively , all of whom come to judgement and punishment in their discomfiture . |
| 28 | However , Dworkin 's argument depends on a master principle which is seen as ‘ uncontroversial ’ , and whether Dignan 's reformulation would be acceptable may be a matter of debate . |
| 29 | B AGEHOT 'S phrase comes in a passage in which he appears to propound the dispiriting theory that a politician , if he wants to get anywhere , must appeal to ‘ the average man ’ . |
| 30 | The Panel 's ruling refers to a document sent to shareholders on October 5 in which the Twigrealm offer was incorrectly valued at 314p a share . |