Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity you have as a student to do a lot of work is good though . |
| 2 | But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’ |
| 3 | They should be able to offer you the support you need at an academic and personal level . |
| 4 | You may decide that you wish to eat less in future and send the money you save to a worthy cause — but it 's far too late to do anything now with that extra roast potato or the last spoonful of pudding . |
| 5 | The money you save on a hyped discount today will probably have to be passed on to the car 's next buyer as well , although discounts you negotiate privately may not be . |
| 6 | Its whole future rests on the decision we take as a nation when we vote in the General Election on Thursday , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Clients will be allowed all the freedom they require in a flexible , tailor-made schedule . |
| 8 | The noise we hear on a Sunday , you know ? ’ |
| 9 | Converse , a Massachusetts sneaker firm , hopes it has an answer : the kind who identify with a new advert being broadcast in America and Britain for its Chuck Taylor All Star brand . |
| 10 | Such changing adviser practices seem to have had an impact upon arts advisers which can still be observed in the tension they feel between a commitment to the professional development of the general class teacher and the supervision of centralized performance activities ( Tweddell , 1988 ) . |
| 11 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 12 | The report said that UNESCO had not accepted the need for budgetary restraint and was still excessively politicized , adding : " The leverage we retain as a sought-after non-member … is greater than we would wield simply by being one vote among 161 others . " |
| 13 | Stick foods are currently very popular — with a lot of air in the mix they float like a Li-Lo . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's just the horse you need for a competitive race like the Andy Capp Handicap . ’ |
| 15 | It is perfectly possible to obtain all the protein you need from a balanced daily diet . |
| 16 | ‘ We have maintained the low profile here because the level of publicity we received at the start would actually hamper the work we do at a community level . |
| 17 | You have that choice , that chance to do that for my patients and I tell you , to be with you , to be part of you , I 'm as a , I learn for you , I think of you , and I can just tell you , I wish you all the best , but I wo n't forget your responsibility to help the medical profession to make , with the work they do for a better tomorrow possible , due to your work , your hard attempts to give that financial ability through the best insurance policies on the market today . |
| 18 | THERE can be few musicals that so vividly evoke the era they portray as A Slice of Saturday Night , a 60s skit on teenage passions set in Eric ‘ Rubberlegs ’ De Vene 's Club A Go-Go . |
| 19 | All the kit you need for a day at the races . |
| 20 | Let me give you one or two specific examples , I 'm always interested , having been in a college for thirty five years in adult education , I 'm interested in the primary schools and I must admit I get more job satisfaction the moment we go in a primary schools than ever I had when I was in the college itself ! |
| 21 | Economics , sociology , mathematics , law and accounting were suggested as the essential subjects , and although colleges could provide liberal studies also , ‘ we would stress the importance we attach to a liberal treatment of the whole curriculum ’ . |
| 22 | The size of the weighting factor can be chosen to reflect the importance we attach to an objective , but the use of this linear form implicitly assumes that the weights should be independent of the solution and does not permit one to model , for example , the proposal that profits should be given higher priority relative to exports when profits are low than when they are high . |
| 23 | Individuals will also vary in the importance they attach to a particular time-cue . |
| 24 | It is notable that the US Congress has recently granted President Bush fast-track authority to negotiate both the Uruguay Round and the North American Free Trade Area , showing the importance they attach to a favourable outcome in both . |
| 25 | Foltene is a deep conditioning programme containing natural biological substances normally present in the body which act as a natural scalp stimulant to revitalise blood flow to the hair follicles . |
| 26 | The picture we glean from a straight intercensal comparison is , however , misleading . |
| 27 | About three miles beyond the town we turn into a leafy lane leading to a farm . |
| 28 | he added , ‘ I know that has meant taking younger men as lifeboat crew to withstand the battering they receive in a heavy sea . |
| 29 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 30 | but the minute you walk in a shop , pretty curtains , Austrian blinds , a new shower |