Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having returned to London , the Goldsmiths considered the subject and it is remarkable that , after so many years in which scarcely a mention is made of Stockport in the Minute Books , it now occupied so much of their attention for five years . |
| 2 | Our charge against the metaphysician is not that he attempts to employ the understanding in a field where it can not possibly venture , but that he produces sentences which fail to conform to the conditions under which alone a sentence can be literally significant . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This suspicion is particularly strong among biblical scholars , and one of them , Principal T.M. Knox , said more than twenty years ago ‘ The spirit moveth where it listeth and is not to be reduced to the numerical terms with which alone a computer can cope ’ . |
| 5 | Find another two people to be prayer partners with you once a week so that some of these prayer burdens can be shared and agreed on and so that you can be spurred on by each other 's zeal in prayer . |
| 6 | Selection bias is specially important in family studies of diseases in which only a minority of the cases have a genetic origin . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It 's important people know the real facts about it instead a lot of this playground chatter . |