Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wrote in the card : ‘ Thanks for treating me like a human being . |
| 2 | It was the RSPCA 's intention to try and sedate the animals before taking them to a sanctuary . |
| 3 | Where in his character-drawing O'Brian touches the reader 's imagination by the unexpected , Forester satisfied his readers by helping them to a complete acquaintance with his officers and men . |
| 4 | Some researchers have attempted to capture the core meaning of words by decomposing them into a small set of ’ building blocks ’ known as semantic primitives [ Wilks 1973 ] . |
| 5 | For instance , in the squatting ‘ demoiselle ’ Picasso had dislocated and distended the various parts of the body in an attempt to explain it as fully as possible , without the limitations of viewing it from a single , stationary position . |
| 6 | Part of the answer must be that the element of risk in a PRP scheme reduces its attractiveness to employees , hence the advantages of introducing it at a time when the alternative ( no pay rise ) is even worse . |
| 7 | Perhaps the best result of the current fascination with ‘ world music ’ is that , after decades of using it as a fashion accessory or status symbol , people have actually begun to listen to music again . |
| 8 | GDA , as part of the SEN Scottish Defence Initiative , is pro-actively addressing the needs of defence dependent companies by assisting them in a programme of new market identification and diversification . |
| 9 | He describes the tour of Wales as ‘ a joke ’ , not meant as a jibe at the opposition but at Australian officials for keeping them on a whistle stop that would daunt American tourists . |
| 10 | She thought she might avoid the place for a few days herself , just in case the boy had any ideas of adopting her as a protector . |
| 11 | However , its sale plan has been halted by a court action over the trusteeship of the collection and has already provoked the National Art Collections into stripping it of a grant . |
| 12 | Russell Kulsrud of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ( PPPL ) believes that by polarising the deuterium atoms before feeding them into a fusion device , it may be possible to accelerate the rate at which D-T reactions occur . |
| 13 | The teacher 's purposes in selecting it as a ‘ collaborative ’ activity would be undermined if some children worked individually . |
| 14 | In time the dog should come to accept your slippers without viewing them as a potential threat . |
| 15 | The law of passing-off is particularly useful if there is no registered mark to be infringed ; perhaps a trader or manufacturer has used a mark for several years without registering it as a trade mark . |
| 16 | Now doubtless to some people this is an everyday situation and so they have no problems in tackling it as a mathematical exercise . |
| 17 | Once the girls are at playgroup , Faith spends the rest of the morning catching up on chores before collecting them for a leisurely lunch . |
| 18 | Efforts at turning him into a sort of global brand — a line of shoes for L.A. Gear , toys called ‘ Michael Jackson 's Pets ’ — have failed miserably . |
| 19 | Let me now illustrate some of these things by introducing you to a twentieth-century saint who lived a life of love in a radical way . |
| 20 | In this second part we shall look at what is required of a spiritual director and suggest some ways of exploring it as a personal resource . |
| 21 | Then check your guesses by measuring them with a protractor . |
| 22 | The determination Alexander demonstrated as a war-leader undoubtedly resurfaced on a number of occasions after Russia made peace , but explaining the emancipation of the serfs by depicting him as a latter-day Peter the Great oversimplifies Russian politics between 1855 and 1861 and says almost nothing about the shape of the emancipation settlement . |
| 23 | Scar-faced Moore , 33 , dragged two-year-old Clare and David , four , from their mother 's arms after threatening her with a sawn-off shotgun . |
| 24 | She missed two games before finding it behind a cushion , but then took only a few days to call house on number 52 in game 230 . |
| 25 | An optical path reflects the beam along a series of 10 mirrors mounted alongside the arm 's joints before focusing it with a zinc selenide lens . |
| 26 | Collinson was meticulous in his careful distribution of plants and seeds always including instructions on growing them in a manner approximating to their native conditions , as carefully described by John Bartram . |
| 27 | This has meant , for example , that despite some valiant efforts Marxism has been ultimately unable to deal with other important social dimensions such as race and gender differences without reducing them to a mere aspect of class oppression and class struggle . |
| 28 | Scald and skin the tomatoes by placing them in a bowl , pouring boiling water over them , counting to fifteen before pouring off the hot water and replacing it with cold . |
| 29 | You can insert comments into assembly language programs by preceding them with a semi-slash ( \ ) . |
| 30 | An especially clear example is in the fabliau Boivin de Provins , in which the hero , Boivin , having deluded a household of whores into providing him with a meal and a girl for free , and having set them at each other 's throats , goes off to tell the provost of the town the tale , who in turn spreads the tale around , producing much mirth and laughter . |