Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN a bowl of gruel is all that stands between a toddler and death , it was wonderful to see little Issi gain his salvation in Somalia . |
| 2 | That looks like a face or something — a beak — it 's a face anyway ’ . |
| 3 | Even this belongs to a type that one might call the ‘ declamatory madrigal ’ ( cf. |
| 4 | There is the danger that , when we get to college , this grinds to a halt when there is no one to tell you to do it . |
| 5 | This occurs between a firm and either a supplier or an outlet . |
| 6 | This amounts to a portfolio or collection of possibilities ranked on an agreed basis to enable decisions to be made on allocation of resources . |
| 7 | This leads to a requirement that hyperdocuments be self-contained . |
| 8 | This leads to an openness as companies realise the necessity of quality improvement for the wider business community . ’ |
| 9 | It also means that the speaker hears his or her own voice and this acts as a check that the system is working . |
| 10 | The fair gradually declined during the 1930 's and ceased just before the Second World War ; but it has continued to be proclaimed each St Swithin 's Day , except when this falls on a Sunday and then the custom usually takes place on the following day . |
| 11 | Moreover the newcomers do like to see farm workers around the village since this serves as a reminder that they do indeed live in a ‘ truly rural ’ village , as opposed to a kind of rustic suburbia . |
| 12 | This functions as an adjective and therefore qualifies a noun or a pronoun in another clause . |
| 13 | When the systems of government in Britain , the United States , most of Western Europe and much of the Commonwealth are claimed to be democratic , that rests upon a view that a form of representation of the people prevails in their governmental systems . |
| 14 | This east wing is all that remains of a house that was once in the shape of an ‘ E ’ without the middle . |