Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably Tolkien would have accepted the thesis ( not unfamiliar to medievalists ) that all great works of fiction should contain a kernel scene or a ‘ lyric core ’ : to use the terminology of Marie de France , whose ‘ Breton lays ’ Tolkien imitated in ‘ Aotrou and Itroun ’ , 1945 , every conte or story comes from a lai or song . |
| 2 | Experience has shown that increases in the cost of newspapers , magazines or books leads to a reduction in sales . |
| 3 | ADAM & EVE draws on a database of 3000 sentences to allow you to create exercises that will give your students experience and practice with these different meanings . |
| 4 | Such agents will therefore affect the learning process even though they are not directly part of it , in the same way as the tone or volume controls on a tape recorder affect the recording and playing of the tape even though they are not directly part of the message the tape carries . |
| 5 | ‘ The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large , but mostly one who , through ignorance or stupidity steals in a way that is not customary . |
| 6 | Each OR symbol acts as a name for the set of symbols { P , Q , R , … } on the right sides of its productions . |
| 7 | difficulties ensuring discipline , either because of uncertainties over parental status or power struggles in a remarriage where the partner adopts the child . |
| 8 | The recent appearance of low-price Rickenbacker copies from Encore and Tanglewood calls for a bit of discussion on the replica guitar business in general . |
| 9 | And Sarah sounds like a ship does n't it ? |
| 10 | I do n't get tired unlike some of the other drivers and experience counts for a lot in this sport |
| 11 | The sixteenth-century shroud was a voluminous sheet , gathered at the head and foot ends in a knot ; those of the eighteenth century were more tailored , with sleeves and draw-strings ; whilst in the nineteenth century they were fully fashioned . |
| 12 | Buksch , only a few yards away , sees the aftermath and Wright escapes with a lecture . |
| 13 | One sermon to urge the duty of penance and confession tells of a woman who had committed a sin which she could not bring herself to confess for shame . |
| 14 | For example , there are two sum icons — a 2D sum that sums the cells to the left or above the cursor and can even fill in the row and column totals for a block ; and a 3D sum that consolidates data in the pages behind it — so you can do cookie-cutter sums on a whole range in one go . |
| 15 | Paul Cadd looks like David Batty ( before the haircut ) , and Halvard looks like a bouncer from a Norwegian trawler . |
| 16 | The distinction between rationalism and empiricism relates to a distinction between knowledge acquired by reason and knowledge acquired by the senses . |
| 17 | His film debut prompted Richard Winnington to write that Brando 's ‘ combination of style , depth and range comes like a blood transfusion into cinema acting ’ . |
| 18 | As Colin ( looking wasted as in exhausted ) goes off to the tour bus to sleep and Jhelisa disappears with a relative , he hangs out with various fans . |
| 19 | Player A observes its type before play begins and z enters as a parameter in A 's preferences . |
| 20 | Well , erm , Adrian goes on a Mondays and Tuesdays to nursery , and on a Wednesdays and Fridays to his dad , and Tiffany goes on a Tuesday and Thursday and Friday to nursery . |
| 21 | On the other hand , the opposing approach used by social anthropologists and ethnographers fails as a solution in the opposite way . |
| 22 | Despite these problems , most LDCs are increasing their education expenditures as the lack of skills and knowledge acts as a barrier to economic progress . |
| 23 | At first glance , Tony wearing his off-duty clothes , a panama hat and blazer looks like a cricket umpire , but his line of work is far , far battier . |
| 24 | But the fundamental incommensurability of idea and event re-emerges in a precariousness in this narrativization of history where each disturbance in the writing punctuates it with the unassimilable , discontinuous and disjunctive temporality of the event . |
| 25 | The need for further discussion and debate arises from a number of issues . |
| 26 | Similarly , the apparent text of my obsessive orderliness read , ‘ Form and order make for efficiency , and efficiency makes for a well-structured , meaningful life ’ , while the sub-text read , ‘ Unless I impose some form and order on life , I shall lose control , chaos will ensue , and life will become meaningless . ’ |
| 27 | And Les works as a care assistant at the Royal Forest of Dean Centre for those with learning difficulties . |
| 28 | Place the carrots , sauce , butter beans , Edam and egg yolks in a food processor . |
| 29 | He still has his portrait , painted in blood and grass stains by a colleague . |
| 30 | Ingram ( 1987 ) estimates that the stamp duty and commission costs on a £500,000 deal fell from 1.5% prior to ‘ Big Bang ’ to somewhere between 0.5 and 0.7% soon after . |