Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who boards a certain ferry or walks down a certain street or enters a certain building or goes through a certain door disappears for ever into that other city . ’ |
| 2 | ( a ) in what it selects from or assumes about an historical problem . |
| 3 | This limits , or complicates to a high degree , the explanatory force of a psychoanalytic discourse whose terms are founded on an Oedipal moment of lack , castration and desire . |
| 4 | The basic questions posed are : First , can children attach themselves to psychological parents whilst they also maintain contact or links with a non-custodial birth parent or other relative ? and second , would the maintenance of such links confuse the child and impair his developing personal and social identity ? |
| 5 | However , if the broker fills an order left with him by his client or deals on a discretionary basis , he is as a matter of law dealing on both sides of the " client " contract ; he is agent for the client , in that he binds the client to the contract , and at the same time he is technically the client 's counterparty . |
| 6 | If you get only a mild reaction to a particular food , watch it carefully until it either disappears or increases into a full-blown reaction . |
| 7 | When a Vet first takes up running — or resumes after a long lay-off — he or she can count on one thing : several years of improvement . |
| 8 | When back pain and arthritis are the problems it can help to take short rests or breaks from a long stint in one position — say sitting at a desk or standing at an ironing-table . |
| 9 | Runners-up were the Community Network — a telephone conferencing facility for various charities and social groups — and The Rainbow Centre — a small , national charity working with families where a child has either died or suffers from a life-threatening illness . |
| 10 | Erm looking now at page three hundred and fifty seven er paragraph seven three two oh seven three one and seven three two , page three hundred and fifty seven where the report makes the point that er when legal proceedings are entered into they tend to create further barriers and make it m less and less likely that th there can be conciliation between estranged partners erm and paragraph seven three two points out a growing need fo or speaks of a growing need for conciliation . |
| 11 | Anyone who boards a certain ferry or walks down a certain street or enters a certain building or goes through a certain door disappears for ever into that other city . ’ |
| 12 | This situation is unlikely to be satisfactory to either party especially if the pipe is shared or runs under a shared access . |
| 13 | For instance , there are no yellow daffodils in the underlying system of mass in motion ; daffodils appear yellow to us because of the effect of suitable wavelengths ( or corpuscules in a rival theory ) of light on human sense-organs . |
| 14 | We began this chapter by emphasising that fitness for purpose is the chief factor deciding whether an information product succeeds or fails in a given application . |
| 15 | He has had to make do without his familiar retinue of civil servants and , as plenty of critics from his own side have pointed out , he neither looks nor sounds like a prime minister . |
| 16 | The pulsar has a period of 102ms and slows with a characteristic age of 17,300yr . |
| 17 | Ben gets two or more walks a day and plays with a rubber ring . |
| 18 | Keith has his good side — he laughs a lot and plays in a limited way with a toy garage , cars and some Lego . |
| 19 | Keith has his good side — he laughs a lot and plays in a limited way with a toy garage , cars and some Lego . |
| 20 | There is a simple sense that Coleridge is happy to write them , that although Kubla Khan has its savage side , it is a savage side in which he revels and although Frost at Midnight carries lonely memories ( particularly bitter to someone so desperate for love ) he overcomes them and thinks upon a happy future instead . |
| 21 | The following evidence was printed in summer 1800 , and refers to a public letter by Devismes which has not yet been traced : |
| 22 | Thus H-YRDN ( which is translated throughout the Bible as Jordan ) is not the name of a river but means the ‘ Ridge ’ and refers to a huge escarpment which dominates Asir and explains , says Salibi , why the Old Testament nowhere makes reference to the Jordan as a river . |
| 23 | The masons were busy with their mallets and chisels inside a makeshift hut on the site and it was easy to talk to them privately . |
| 24 | A mariachi band approaches and launches into a lively lament on what it is to be alone and without love . |
| 25 | It complements EE in many ways and builds into a living encyclopaedia of electronics which keeps up with the ever advancing world of technology through regular updates/supplements . |
| 26 | Giving her little time to question this version of the truth , he swings the car off the main road all concrete and glass buildings and turns down a tiny side street . |
| 27 | And in a city feeding largely on rice and noodles in a thin soup of stock and vegetables , we learned our hosts were planning a splendid welcoming banquet . |
| 28 | Nobody is playing as yet , but the lines have been freshly painted , a large old roller is being stored by an elderly man with tribal scars on his cheeks ( like the marks made by French grill pans on bifteck ) , and a big jug of lemon squash is standing in the shade of a little thatched tennis house , protected from the desires of wasps and flies by a beaded lace doily . |
| 29 | The report optimistically continues that it was ‘ practically certain ’ the course would be built and adds with a final flourish of conviction ‘ Mr D. Stephenson , now professional to the Princes Golf Club , Sandwich , and formerly in a similar capacity at Huntercombe , has prepared plans of an 18-hole course on that portion of the Bolney estate fringing on the Harpsden road , with a clubhouse to be built almost directly opposite Mr. John Hodges ' cricket field . |
| 30 | Cross-border banking is essentially wholesale banking and has to a large extent been dependent on euro-currency deposit growth . |