Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | — As in the terga , the sternal region of each segment consists typically of a segmental plate and an intersegmental sclerite , the latter associated with the segmental region in front of it . |
| 2 | But , read the chapter this way or that , if there was ever a case for recognising that unions have a right to share in the management of companies , that case depended critically upon a general expectation — amounting to a near-certainty — that , rather than give primacy to their sectional interests , unions would and could act in the general interest whenever it was necessary or desirable for them to do so . |
| 3 | That opposition began locally with a meeting in Fintown , Co . |
| 4 | Each papilla arising entirely from a single area is represented by the letter m . |
| 5 | Now 30 per cent of its junior management are women , although that figure falls away to a paltry 1 per cent at the highest levels . |
| 6 | It was in some measure propped up by a crimson tea-caddy , also of Japan ware . |
| 7 | It takes not only effort but courage of another kind to love again after a certain age , when the body may be far from beautiful — and a sense of humour , too . |
| 8 | This term refers not to a single theory but rather to a set of assumptions underlying a particular approach to the study of perception and cognition . |
| 9 | This conception arises out of a ‘ distinct but recurring type of historical situation in which a fundamental challenge is directed at established institutions and in which the supporters of those institutions employ conservative ideology in their defense ’ . |
| 10 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 11 | This fear derives more from a recognition that they often lack the additional personal qualities which they see as necessary for certain types of work , which is why most policemen are reluctant to deal with rape victims or to undertake community and neighbourhood policing . |
| 12 | This chapter sits uncomfortably in a book about public disorder . |
| 13 | Bearing these points in mind , the remainder of this chapter consists chiefly of a discussion of backward projection of variability , including case-studies from my own research . |
| 14 | This chapter draws extensively on a paper jointly written with Michael Griffiths — Griffiths and Johnston ( 1991 ) — and his substantial contribution to development of the ideas in it is fully and gratefully acknowledged . |
| 15 | This chapter dealt briefly with a selection of management aids which come under the heading of Operational Research ( OR ) or Quantitative Techniques . |
| 16 | " To bed , " she said decisively , " I 'll have some tea sent up in a little while . " |
| 17 | When she stopped her feeble battering I took her some tea topped up with a couple of powdered sleeping pills . |
| 18 | The folds of this pinafore fell amply from a short yoke , and beneath it she wore a succession of woollen jumpers . |
| 19 | The practice of using the passage of years since the birth of Christ as a numbering system had its genesis in some work carried out by a monk , Dionysius Exiguus , in AD525 . |
| 20 | This work arose out of a project in which a sample survey program was written specifically for use by developing countries . |
| 21 | Another can shot out with a clunk . |
| 22 | This machine reads more like a wish list than a specification : it 's a 66MHz DX2 with 16Mb of RAM , a 200Mb hard disk , a cached IDE local bus host adaptor , local bus video , topped off with Jumbo 250Mb internal streamer . |
| 23 | The Batband choose this moment to strike up with a counter attraction , and our Jeremy has a hard job making himself heard . |
| 24 | Well there was one sad part was n't it that when I was on my in training during the and the rockets and so in classrooms and had a lecturer talking to us and erm this lad come in with a message from the teleprint and erm give it to the instructor , and he 'd call a name and the chap would go out . |
| 25 | Another tentacle shot out like a whip and coiled around his throat , choking him . |
| 26 | This article arises out of a research project on the ‘ Identification of Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties : Participant perspectives ’ , funded by the Economic and Social Research Council , Research Grant No . |
| 27 | This point leads on to a further problem in sampling — which is non-response . |
| 28 | Adrian become–the over-protective parent to his miserable father and although we can understand how this behaviour comes about in a child whose parents are asserting their own needs , who are themselves needy children , it nevertheless feels funny , feels inappropriate . |
| 29 | After a two-hour meeting , the Lib Dem leader , Jim Wallace , said his party had given the organisation another chance to come up with a new way forward . |
| 30 | This suggests that ri2 originated from the transposition of ri1 , but that this event dates back to a time before P.wickerhamii and S.obliquus diverged . |