Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular I would like to know about your own background rather than having to guess at this while reading about a set of fictional characters . |
| 2 | ( Alternatively we can read this as beginning with a clause in which the given is ellipted : ‘ although he was energetic and successful ’ . ) |
| 3 | As the language used in this posting is much snappier than normal I think I 'll take this as arising from a Man Utd supporter — if there is such a thing . |
| 4 | They also know how paranoid I am ; I 'll be on the phone if the monitor so much as flickers during a thunderstorm . |
| 5 | Her slogan is : ‘ we aim to create the arts as a service for the many as opposed to a luxury for the few ’ . |
| 6 | Shell also said the foreign exchange loss would be more than offset by a tax credit of £149 million from its Japanese subsidiary . |
| 7 | It said that ‘ short-term and somewhat minimal job prospects ’ created by gold mining would be ‘ more than offset by a drop in tourism jobs . |
| 8 | And they , of course , fuel the form of crime fiction that attempts to do something more than indulge in a contest with the reader — the books I call the detective novel and the crime novel . |
| 9 | The number of cases have more than tripled in a week , registering the highest increase since the 1975-76 epidemic — when a peak of 350 cases per 100,000 were recorded and 1,283 people died . |
| 10 | Le Monde of Sept. 6 said that an estimated 400,000 hectares of rice had been affected , adding that rice prices had more than tripled in a week . |
| 11 | When the younger counsellor shares these experiences with the older counsellee they are both doing far more than embarking on a process of recalling the past , they are sharing a common heritage which has been formative for the young as well as the old , although less directly so . |
| 12 | There is a great deal of potential here for criminalising conduct that amounts to little more than arguing with a policeman , which it should be one of the aims of public order law to prevent . |
| 13 | Taking a funeral policy can cost less than paying for a funeral plan by instalments but it depends on average life expectancy . |
| 14 | Flying forwards is exactly the same as hovering in a wind except that you now have consciously to do things which you probably did automatically in the hover . |
| 15 | To live under an effectively working constitution is not the same as living under a regime of moral laissez-faire . |
| 16 | When the recipe called for a sprig of ‘ bruised thyme ’ it added a further twenty minutes while he and Kate deliberated as to whether bruised was the same as battered with a knife handle , or meant merely rubbed between the forefinger and thumb . |
| 17 | In some countries that 's virtually the same as going through a wedding service . |
| 18 | ‘ Expenses are always the same as costs for a period . ’ |
| 19 | The EtherLink III 16-bit combo adaptor costs $225 for one unit and $200 each when sold in a five-pack . |