Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he is subordinate to both of them then a partnership with either animal may be established as an aid to intervention . |
| 2 | The first is : if your father ran off with someone only a couple of years older than you , what this probably means is that he really wanted to run off with you . |
| 3 | I hope all of you know or have met this good friend of the Hundred I 'm sure that most of you have and he has with him today a guest from Germany , Herr and his charming daughter er and Mr was a member of the and has provided invaluable information here , who as you know is doing a , a comprehensive book on the monster mission and in commemoration of what we have done today , we have a letter addressed to er the Hundredth Bomb Group Memorial Association U K , from the Most Reverend Doctor the Bishop of Munster which I would like to read to you . |
| 4 | Abandoning the need to show the self , it uses documentary to do the things which documentary does best , to detail and report , but carries with it too a wealth of fantastical imagining which has , over the last decade , made women 's photography so strong and be severe . |
| 5 | You may recall that this committee has asked for a health and housing conference but we seem to get under it rather a lot of times , nothing it appears to be happening . |
| 6 | Tordjman noted that 9% of business came from IBM AS/400 systems , up from nothing only a couple of years ago . |
| 7 | Particular to graphite intercalation compounds is their tendency to form periodically stacked high-stage compounds in which only a fraction of the interlayer spaces of the graphite host lattice is filled with intercalated layers . |
| 8 | Selection bias is specially important in family studies of diseases in which only a minority of the cases have a genetic origin . |
| 9 | Close-ups range from those which include the whole of the head and shoulders of a human subject to those in which only a part of the head is shown in ‘ big close-up ’ ( BCU ) . |
| 10 | A file in which only a number of selected attributes have indexes provided is known as partially inverted . |
| 11 | Up to 500 were in the largest establishment , Kings Bush Prison in London , but most were in small town and provincial lock-ups in which only a handful of prisoners were kept . |
| 12 | Although many towns and housing estates are served by live and dynamic churches , many are not , and even within a small community of 12,000 like ours in Cranham , there can still be whole estates from which only a handful of people are Christians . |
| 13 | There were plenty of wild places downstream where he could wade ashore , and then — well , if the Patrician really had sent out word about him then a change of clothing and a shave should take care of that . |
| 14 | Third , her dispute with ‘ interpretation ’ , which is for her also a dispute with any kind of critical theory , is due to the assumptions of cultural differentiation built into the former and latter . |
| 15 | In this poem we see their shared Jewishness , and the ‘ irreverence ’ ( as some would see it ) they each had for the Tradition — at least for that view of it which some espoused ; we also see a shared disdain for rabbinic ( and priestly ) logic , to them both a form of mental death . |
| 16 | I understand that you will be faxing to me today a request for banker 's details and credit references . |
| 17 | Similarly , Benjamin 's description of cinematic form provokes immediate comparisons with the potential of recording and mixing techniques ( mike-positioning , rebalancing , dubbing , and so on ) for musical ‘ montage ’ and an ‘ analytical ’ revelation of new sound details and relationships ( for instance , Elvis Presley 's ‘ voice ’ — that is , the vocal ‘ image ’ we hear on his records — seems to me precisely a product of this kind of process ) . |
| 18 | Another famous conventional melody-and-bass , ‘ Ruggiero ’ ( to which originally a stanza from Ariosto 's Orlando furioso , xliv , 61 , was sung ) , also made probably its first appearance in a Spanish source , the Tratado de glosas ( treatise on ornamental variation ) ( Rome , 1553 ) Of Diego Ortiz . |
| 19 | Or is I come to you just a projection from the voice of the Enemy , saying to Frodo what he wants to hear , putting words in the mouth but not in the heart , creating ugly fictions as he does later with the phantasmal corpses of the Dead Marshes ? |
| 20 | She was trapped in the middle lane , there was a solid wall of lorries to her left , and to her right a blur of fast cars . |
| 21 | Well , as you know , she did n't have a sweet tooth , not her , but I — They were sent to her twice a year for as long as I can remember . |
| 22 | The directorship , for which he had struggled for years , represented to her only a house in Vanier Heights . |
| 23 | In what many observers regarded as a further example of the new censorship , Gosteleradio on Feb. 1 withdrew from Radio Russia two frequencies giving it an audience throughout the Soviet Union , and assigned to it instead a frequency on which it could reach only 60 per cent of the population and which reduced the quality of reception . |
| 24 | It 's important people know the real facts about it instead a lot of this playground chatter . |
| 25 | I felt then that at last the ambitions I 'd had for so long were possible , and that I could stop worrying about the gypsy who 'd looked at me closely a couple of years earlier , and said : ‘ You 'll never come to anything , you wo n't . ’ |
| 26 | Josie looked at her strangely a couple of times , and asked her if she felt ill . |
| 27 | Here , as with most of Shostakovich , the content they locate is a projection of what they know of its circumstances - by which only a heart of stone would not be moved . |