Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [vb base] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or crackle open under a blue-black pressure . |
| 2 | As the last extracts indicate , schools and teaching exist in a social framework . |
| 3 | Another variant is the shorthold tenancy , created by the Housing Act 1980 , whereby the lessor and lessee agree to a fixed-term letting of a period not less than one and not more than five years certain , carrying with it automatic security of tenure for the period agreed . |
| 4 | The whole station was like some vast and awkward school dance , where need and constraint mingle in a heady , violent ferment of suppression . |
| 5 | Guarded by a collective representation in which theft and violence reside in a dangerous class , morally elevated by its correctional quest , the state achieves the legitimacy of its pacific intention and the acceptance of legality — even when it goes to war and massively perpetuates activities it has allegedly banned from the world . |
| 6 | A figure whose authority and weight crumble into a desperate poignancy before his wife 's obsessive importunities . |
| 7 | Higher up the size scale , larger structural elements also present similarities so that likeness and analogy operate as a focal principle at all levels whether we are aware of it or not . |
| 8 | With some horses , animation that is not a response to anxiety or fear , becomes a thing of the past ; but with others , especially Arabians , cheerfulness and animation continue as a consistent part of their personality . |
| 9 | A caricature of this exercise is that the tutor and student agree on a suitable project at a school which has been selected on the basis of its willingness to be disturbed by the student . |
| 10 | The decline of the extended family network , and its replacement by smaller ‘ nuclear ’ family groups , has meant that valuable networks of support and care have to a considerable extent disappeared . |
| 11 | International adjudication and arbitration operate within a bilateral model with only limited accommodation of third party interests . |
| 12 | Their political interests in maintaining and extending their social position and power depend on a stable regime which they help maintain through repression , through the manipulation of potential dissenting groups and through maintaining the loyalty of other powerful social classes who have a conflicting interest in the distribution of state income ( Ziemann and Lanzendorfer 1977 ) . |