Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the novel I can believe he is saying such things , perhaps because I am hearing his voice in my head , in the privacy of my own mind ( I am thinking him ) and I am extremely relieved to hear him say them because his words bring to an end a certain kind of conflict between himself and Connie . |
| 2 | Shoppers punch into a keyboard the type of meat they want and how many they 'll be cooking for . |
| 3 | But all instances share one characteristic : the author 's words become for a time the transmitters of other voices , voices that come from inside someone else 's head . |
| 4 | The most promising such theory is the theory of ‘ mental models ’ , whose crucial insight is that readers extract from a text a ‘ model ’ of the situation in the ‘ real or imaginary ) world that the text is about . |
| 5 | Article 15 , in particular allows a state party to the Convention to take measures derogating from some of its obligations under the Convention ‘ In time of war or other public emergency threatening the life of the nation ’ to the extent strictly required by the exigencies of the situation , whilst many of the individual articles establishing particular rights allow to a state a measure of liberty of action in order to secure the public interest . |
| 6 | When the council 's officers work as a team the whole work of the staff will tick over smoothly . |
| 7 | What I 'm interested in is trying to promote more of the sort of spontaneous collaboration , where shared interests emerge from an activity the children are engaged in , and they develop it together . |
| 8 | As Fig. 4 shows , the relationship , of course , is negative : the earlier women marry in a country the more are found infecund at age 20–24 years ; a clear suggestion of long lasting infecundity as a consequence of early , premature marriages and conjugal unions . |
| 9 | The two boys become in a sense a composite hero , complementary to one another and useful to the story in a purely formal way . |