Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may also consider the value to A and to B of a bet , say for a simple example a 50 per cent chance of £0 and a 50 per cent chance of £1000 . |
| 2 | This may be no more than a judgement of which line on a graduated scale a movable needle is nearest to . |
| 3 | They adopt in a lively fashion the colours and shadows of the sky and the surrounding fells , on their rippling surfaces . |
| 4 | Fuck me I think you get about a grand interest a week from a million , so living off 500quid a week ai nt too bad ( and you should be working so that s extra ) . |
| 5 | You fully know as an old pressman the difficulty of dealing with a big speech late at night … |
| 6 | The reader will , he predicts , find in a machine-produced text the quintessentially human ‘ ghosts ’ that haunt the collective unconscious ( 1967 ) . |
| 7 | They have , so far as is possible , wished to interpret the texts within a context of earlier teaching and pre-conciliar practice , against which the Council was , to a considerable extent , deliberately reacting ; yet , as the texts even as finally formulated remain to a considerable extent a jumble deriving from different hands and including material composed substantially before the Council began , there is much in them to countenance such a viewpoint . |
| 8 | Thus , because its shares trade at a low price the company will need to issue a larger number of them to raise a given amount of capital than would otherwise be the case . |
| 9 | If you play against a particular army a lot then you 'll naturally try to assemble your own force so that it stands the best possible chance against that foe . |
| 10 | CAT is a donee-based tax in which the more people who share in a particular inheritance the lower the tax will be . |
| 11 | Unless you live in a warm climate a wet suit will be a necessity , as it is very difficult to learn anything if you are cold and shivering . |
| 12 | The children do most things in imitation of their elders and illustrate in a striking way the theory that play is anticipatory of adult life . |
| 13 | I think to a certain extent the West Indian kids tend to get labelled and these labels they feel they 've got to live up to . |
| 14 | It looks alright on the surface , you 're not going through a hassle at the moment , and our memories are short , fortunately and once we come into a calm patch the hassles of yesterday are quickly forgotten . |
| 15 | Cultural products reflect in a mediated form the aspirations and interests of specific classes . |
| 16 | right , right what I see as an interesting possibility the papers that we got in this week from Telford College that came to me |
| 17 | It is easy to assume that both workers and management in a plant have as a common objective the survival of that plant . |
| 18 | There are some companies that perform in a different venue every night . ’ |
| 19 | Added to this , MPs and ministers have in a special degree the conviction that central government knows best and that any devolution from London must mean giving powers to authorities that are poorer , weaker , slower , perhaps corrupt , perhaps more reactionary ( for Labour members ) or perhaps more reckless with public funds ( for Conservative members ) . |
| 20 | The dangers of perpetuating in power a weakened and uncertain Conservative Party , set alongside the progress Labour has made in modernising itself , justify by a fine margin the risks of a change . ’ |