Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have well considered questions ready for both types of interview which you ask in a logical sequence . |
| 2 | The body felt , to the probe of a stick which they thrust into a chinke , like boyld Brawne . |
| 3 | It 's a small stretchy band , normally worn on the wrist , with a single wire of about six feet and a crocodile clip which you attach to a metal part of your office , that is , desk or radiator but not the computer . |
| 4 | A large vibration creates a strong wave which we hear as a loud noise , while a small vibration produces a faint sound . |
| 5 | With a tripod you lose the freedom of camera mobility which you have with a hand-held camera , and if you decide to dispense with a tripod , a position at 3 m ( 10 ft ) or so from the subjects will allow you to work the zoom from wide angle down to midrange for close-ups . |
| 6 | When life brings them into touch again twenty years later , and they are hopelessly in love , a climactic scene takes place in an inferior tea-shop which they visit during a furtive day together in London . |
| 7 | The President accepted his scrap of twisted limb with a gracious smile and said , on Susan 's advice , ‘ I am delighted to receive this gift which I see as a symbol of the cultural and commercial interdependence of the planets . |
| 8 | This is called " sensitive dependence on initial conditions " , a phenomenon which persists even when the strange invariant set becomes attracting ( see below ) and which gives the typical " chaotic " , " turbulent " or " pseudo-random " behaviour which we associate with a " strange attractor " . |
| 9 | There are two rings , one at the top which you fold into a figure eight and one at the bottom which hangs outside . |
| 10 | Copse Corner , copse er , is , is a name which we give to a small wood , a small group of trees is a copse , in India that can be called a shola , S H O L A |
| 11 | Again we have not found significant polymorphism in this pattern which we take as a male specific pattern for the purposes of parasite sex determination in the laboratory . |
| 12 | On the way into land we could n't find the mendlsham mast which we use as a land mark to find the airfield . |
| 13 | The theory which I commend as a guide to the fruitful development of international law in the control of force may be called ‘ ethical ’ or perhaps ‘ functional positivism ’ . |
| 14 | Police are appealing for witnesses to the attack which they describe as a very nasty injury inflicted after an earlier verbal confrontation . |
| 15 | Now , I 'm a pensioner , and I think it 's a scandal what we get for a pension after all the years that you , you fight for you , you put away for your old age , and before you know it you 've nothing ! |
| 16 | I ca n't remember what I ca n't remember what they charge , it is on that bill what they charge for a Saturday . |
| 17 | So I I just thinks it 's a , it 's a feature of the rapid development of the environmental sector , that , for , as I say , for quite understandable reasons , some of those links , and networks , have n't been fully established , and our project which we see as a , as a short term one , essentially a three year bit of work , is going to address that , and it 's been widely supported by er , a number of environmental groups . |
| 18 | In general terms the system is bureaucratic and inflexible , with prices not conveying the kind of information which they do in a market economy and with incentives being blunted . |
| 19 | I have three upright basses , and I take two on the road with me , plus an old ‘ 64 Precision which I use on a couple of numbers . ’ |
| 20 | In some cases they accrue entitlements to holiday pay which they receive as a lump sum on the termination of their employment , although in the holiday camps sector these accrued holiday entitlements are less than the holiday entitlements of comparable regular staff . |
| 21 | ‘ Have you any idea what I do for a living , Christine ? ’ |
| 22 | C. If you ask the people on a housing estate what they do for a living — what their occupations are — you probably will get answers like those in the drawing . |