Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb base] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’ |
| 2 | Unless one supposes there to be two categorially different kinds of appearances presented to the mind it will then seem that this flat circle must be the only object of visual perception , and the round globe I seem to see , the epistemic appearance , must really be a judgement I mistake for a sensation . |
| 3 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 4 | Pon de Telly dem talk fe a while |
| 5 | Towards the end of this review I put in a call to Ovation 's distributors , Korg UK , to check on some details , and after raving on about what a great guitar I though it was I was told that Korg did n't want it back . |
| 6 | If reading is complex , so also is writing ; and when we come to the mystery of literary composition , we can scarcely begin to explain the operations of the creative mind which result in a sequence of words on the written page . |
| 7 | Such a definition also excludes approaches to modernity and modernism which focus upon an outlook or attitude usually restricted to elite sections of the population such as artists and planners ( for example Berman 1983 ) . |
| 8 | Whatever figure you choose as a hero , you will hardly be able to keep out something of yourself . |
| 9 | It 's because that 's the sort of trace you get with an oxygen minimum around eight hundred metres . |
| 10 | For musicians , the lure of the West must be strong , and for reasons as understandable as basic working conditions and standard of living , but as a result we stand at a crossroads : how can we possibly avoid the continuing standardization of orchestral , instrumental and vocal production , and continue to have the opportunity of hearing music played in a style and tradition for which it was probably originally conceived . |
| 11 | First , many aspects of every action we perform for a reason are not uniquely determined by reasons . |
| 12 | Such changing adviser practices seem to have had an impact upon arts advisers which can still be observed in the tension they feel between a commitment to the professional development of the general class teacher and the supervision of centralized performance activities ( Tweddell , 1988 ) . |
| 13 | Er , for the most part , industry , er we have refused to pay additional costs at the government level which arise as a result of the slip er induced by industry 's own er causes . |
| 14 | Working with , while at the same time competing against other schools , raises questions about management which bear on a point made by Rutter et al. |
| 15 | For instance , he will take a wooden bowl , burn it and then , using the pieces of charred wood which result as a medium , make a drawing of a bowl . |
| 16 | That evening , once the children have gone to bed ( little ones at 7.30 p.m. and big ones at 9.30 ) we 're all in the sitting room for the monthly meeting between the women , the workers and the management committee who operate as a support group . |
| 17 | It had not been lived in recently it had none of that slight warmth of humanity you find in a dwelling whose inhabitant has gone out for the day . |
| 18 | When your most familiar role models are those of a compliant woman or the ‘ strong , silent type ’ of man you may find it difficult to reconcile these influences with the aggressive determination you feel as a female , or the sensitivity and intuition you experience as a man . |
| 19 | In his comfortable living room a Transylvanian poet scoffed at the idea of protest : ‘ On a barricade you burn like a flame in seconds . |
| 20 | No , erm , start all again hi , ho , hi , ho it 's off to work we go we 've a huff , huff , huff and a whin , whin , whin hi , ho , hi , ho , it 's home from work we go with a chuff , chuff , chuff and a whin , whin , whin hi , ho , hi , ho , it 's off to work we go with a chuff , chuff , chuff and a whin , whin , whin hi , ho , hi , ho |
| 21 | No , erm , start all again hi , ho , hi , ho it 's off to work we go we 've a huff , huff , huff and a whin , whin , whin hi , ho , hi , ho , it 's home from work we go with a chuff , chuff , chuff and a whin , whin , whin hi , ho , hi , ho , it 's off to work we go with a chuff , chuff , chuff and a whin , whin , whin hi , ho , hi , ho |
| 22 | hi , ho , hi , ho it 's off to work we go with a chuff , chuff , chuff , whin , whin , whin , hi , ho , hi , ho it 's home from work we go with a chuff , chuff , chuff , whin , whin , whin , hi , ho , hi , ho , it 's off to work we go |
| 23 | hi , ho , hi , ho it 's off to work we go with a chuff , chuff , chuff , whin , whin , whin , hi , ho , hi , ho it 's home from work we go with a chuff , chuff , chuff , whin , whin , whin , hi , ho , hi , ho , it 's off to work we go |
| 24 | ‘ We have maintained the low profile here because the level of publicity we received at the start would actually hamper the work we do at a community level . |
| 25 | In winter they act as a safety valve when the two straight bordering rivers , dug in the seventeenth century by a Dutchman , Cornelius Vermuyden , become swollen with rain and overflow . |
| 26 | It explains why judges must conceive the body of law they administer as a whole rather than as a set of discrete decisions that they are free to make or amend one by one , with nothing but a strategic interest in the rest . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's a bargain when you consider how much protection you get for a building 's contents alone , ’ says Kelly . |
| 28 | Er , but any change you make to a computer system , is likely to introduce bugs into the system , so that it does n't give the right answers any more . |
| 29 | And of course you do about a yard and then you 're stuck . |
| 30 | When I offer you champagne you laugh in a way that only you have , like a stream all at once a delighted cascade into this deep swirling pool of warm humour . |