Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her face has been seen on millions of TV screens in the chocolate advert , where she lies in a bath calmly eating a Flake . |
| 2 | Yes , I I 'd like to go back to that very traditional Hogmanay , I mean , I think that Hogmanay is very important , not the the Hogmanay that we have now where everybody gathers round a T V but it was very much erm like a I always think Hogmanay at my granny 's , as do er , most of the people in in th the mining area , actually her house was a focus . |
| 3 | ‘ The eventual aim ’ , wrote Alexander Cockburn in Student Power ‘ is the cementing of a revolutionary bloc with working-class forces ; but the immediate power of the student lies in his university , his college , where he works as a student . ’ |
| 4 | There is a scene where he 's sitting in his bathrobe , where he looks like a woman from Coronation Street . |
| 5 | No drain should pass under a building , but where this is unavoidable it must be specially protected by encasing in concrete and supported against settlement where it passes through a wall or foundation . |
| 6 | These obligations should be owed only if the firm owes the putative customer fiduciary duties , for example where it sells to a brokerage client back-to-back with its own trade in the market , or advises him ; perhaps also if the firm is a market maker or holds itself out as a dealer ( since that is providing a service ) . |
| 7 | Or , again , space figure differently in the socially responsible naturalism of a public service system , where it figures as a representation of a real environment , than it does in the ‘ market ’ realism of entertainment television where it functions as a scene for action . |
| 8 | Complex instances of the clause occur in the following cases discussed : D. 34.3.28.1 , where it amounts to a repetitio of the provisions of an earlier will ; D. 32.34.3 , where it imposes the burden of paying dispositions on one of the heirs in particular ; D. 40.5.56 , where it amounts to a repetitio of dispositions from the substitute heirs . |
| 9 | Complex instances of the clause occur in the following cases discussed : D. 34.3.28.1 , where it amounts to a repetitio of the provisions of an earlier will ; D. 32.34.3 , where it imposes the burden of paying dispositions on one of the heirs in particular ; D. 40.5.56 , where it amounts to a repetitio of dispositions from the substitute heirs . |
| 10 | What characterises these speaker-initiated insertion sequences , then , is that the London English part of the speaker 's turn is a sequence embedded in the turn but not part of the mainstream ; it does not necessarily start at a syntactic clause completion point ( for example ( 8 ) , where it begins after a subject pronoun ) and its purpose is to elicit information , or check on information to make it possible for the speaker to complete the current turn ( Sebba and Wootton 1984 : 4 ) . |
| 11 | Minton must have recognised its truth for he bequeathed it in his will to the Royal College of Art where it hangs as a memorial to him . |
| 12 | Varroa originated in the Far East where it lives as a parasite on the Apis cerana species of honey bee . |
| 13 | Or , again , space figure differently in the socially responsible naturalism of a public service system , where it figures as a representation of a real environment , than it does in the ‘ market ’ realism of entertainment television where it functions as a scene for action . |
| 14 | The object also acts to integrate the representative individual within the normative order of the larger social group , where it serves as a medium of intersubjective order inculcated as a generative practice through some version of ‘ habitus ’ . |
| 15 | It was an extraordinary development in an extraordinary saga and striker Gary Bull said : ‘ This has taken us all by surprise , although nothing comes as a shock at Barnet anymore . |
| 16 | Similarly , remind yourself that even if the worst comes to the worst and you need to go in the middle of the interview it is no big deal although it feels like a disaster to you . |
| 17 | Chlorinated trisodium polyphosphate is the combination of a strongly alkaline phosphate and chlorine and therefore has a significant cleaning capability although it suffers as a disinfectant through its low chlorine content . |
| 18 | So , although it sounds like a greeting , it probably still has some of the ‘ come along , follow me ’ meaning in it . |
| 19 | The problem is that , although it pulls like a train , I ca n't get any more than 35 mph out of it , comfortably , that is . |
| 20 | Science ultimately is self-contradictory precisely because , although it begins with a supposal about reality , it also depends upon a concrete reality ; and once scientists admit the necessarily hypothetical character of that knowledge , they cease to be scientists . |
| 21 | Although it appears as a contradiction , just like some of the stated motives of those leaving , I believe it is a form of adaptive behaviour . |
| 22 | Yes in the sense that although he comes from a peasant background originally , it 's a rich peasant background and he himself had er a reasonable education and subsequently erm built on the education that he was given becoming in part self-taught . |
| 23 | Tom Arnold himself is appointed , not elected and , although he reports to a committee ‘ representing ’ the voluntary party , he is not accountable to that committee , nor is that committee elected by the constituency associations on whose behalf it is supposed to act ( it does not even report to them ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I reckon I 've got more in this pocket than he gets in a month . ’ |
| 25 | Sweeney has no sooner stood up and shaved than he appears in a vision of reversion taking the form of the second parenthesis , the importance of whose material strains against the parenthetical format , guiding our reading of the poem : |
| 26 | Well yeah I guess I did he gets confidence and he walks up with this he 's getting cockier by the minute and he 's well proud and he 's got he sees this , his in this bar trying to chat up this woman , he says I need a , I need a did n't he say I need a smoke or something , so he looks for a woman |
| 27 | It must be stressed , however , that this is what can be achieved by effort , innovation and good management in production , rather than what happens in a laissez-faire atmosphere . |
| 28 | Now an enzyme is more than what comes with a pack of washing powder . |
| 29 | The best thing to get richer is like , going round car boot sales , like my mum , she 's so funny , dad said she 's a different woman , she 's just like , cos when Phil and I erm , were engaged , we were trying to save up money , so we , oh and like we 'd sell off all our old stuff , so just give me of money , and then , we got these and my mum was pricing everything up , and she 's going , if someone asks for a discount , do n't , just do n't give it to them , she said , everyone 's going round pricing everything up and erm , when they come to you , they just , they just want things for nothing . |
| 30 | In conventional crime there is no such similar fracture ; a person is charged with the consequences of his/her action ; if someone dies as a consequence of being stabbed , the assailant is more likely to be charged with a homicide offence rather than ‘ carrying an offensive weapon ’ . |