Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can eat good food in a variety of fascinating and often historic settings . |
| 2 | As well as admiring a variety of modern and more traditional pieces , the Queen met many of the sculptors and was also introduced to some of the people who had worked behind the scenes to make it all happen . |
| 3 | There were , of course , the inevitable extremists who foresaw the demise of one or other system for a variety of different and often conflicting reasons . |
| 4 | If medical expenses are being claimed , the estimate should include a provision for these and also any medical fees we may incur e.g. a PMA report or Additional Certificate of Medical Attendant . |
| 5 | Common Law would treat a provision in a contract as to time as being ‘ of the essence of the contract ’ , meaning that if a certain act was not done by one party within a certain stipulated time , he should lose all rights under the contract ; Equity treated such a provision in general as not being of the essence of the contract , but as giving a right only to damages . |
| 6 | Is it a function of ageing or simply that the mode of communication may become more restrained and that the emotional experiences are as rich as ever ? |
| 7 | In fact , the final point on this graph is almost exclusively attributable to one subject who gave a rating of 17 or over on nine separate occasions during the drive . |
| 8 | Not , however , a balanced diet made up of a bit of one and then a bit of the other , but an integration between the two . |
| 9 | So I mean do think that perhaps you still got a lot , a bit of unnecessary and indeed and we er will not . |
| 10 | Well it 's a bit like that but instead of making it go round all the church it goes on to the tape . |
| 11 | Mine 's like , it 's a bit it 's a bit like this but not as thick . |
| 12 | And I think you know the management ought to learn , hopefully they will learn a bit by that as well . |
| 13 | The reason it 's come out in this way is that you had the debate on the er original proposals for this extra money which did n't go as was recommended er and you made a decision on that and then later in the agenda , and I ca n't find the , the exact point now but you had a discussion and a suggestion was made and agreed that if there was any money left over investigations should be made and that the surveyor should give erm consideration Madam Chairman to using any of that , perhaps for a camera , and that was agreed , and it is noted somewhere , and that 's what Mr has done . |
| 14 | right and then you 've got an infinite backing where you got speakers there like that and then you got a board behind that and then one behind that and behind that |
| 15 | The growth of beliefs over many centuries , during which new ideas were added to earlier ones but nothing was ever discarded , resulted in what appears to be a mass of confusing and sometimes contradictory elements . |
| 16 | plastic ones which were close to the ceiling , can you , could you give me a bit more of a description of that or perhaps a manufacturer 's name ? |
| 17 | ‘ He 's brilliant , he 's happy , he wakes up every day joyous and he never holds a grudge for more than about three minutes . |
| 18 | Steve Groves for ‘ We shot it yesterday when it was 3 feet higher' ’ Nick Reason for ‘ Dad , I know you 've got to have a head for heights to canoe over a waterfall like that but why 's that man got two heads ? ’ , |
| 19 | Most of the canvas is blown by the wind n the fore and middle grounds , while a strip of distant but finely detailed farmhouses , trees and human paraphenalia grips the top of the canvas . |
| 20 | Now you could say that was perhaps maintenance , but it 's all been cleaned , it 's been repointed , there are new lanterns , they 've done all the paintwork and they made such a beautiful job of it , it 's really almost for the craftsmanship and the care that we gave them a certificate for that as well . |
| 21 | Well they got these blacklegs and I could tell you a story about that as well . |
| 22 | I 'll take a look at that as well . |
| 23 | And if you 've got some particular local problems , we 'll we 'll have a look at those as well . |
| 24 | He finds it difficult , some times impossible , to make any change of direction in Government without trying to explain that it is not really a change at all and certainly not a change that Lady Thatcher would not personally have approved . |
| 25 | A wave of unexplained and apparently random bomb explosions occurred in central Johannesburg on May 17 , wounding 12 people , black and white . |
| 26 | There may be some truth in the claim that there are problems in seeking to postulate ‘ a transcendental ideal of which the historical actualities are a succession of mundane and therefore imperfect , compromised manifestations ’ , and that the term religion is not something ‘ that can be formulated and externalized into an observable pattern theoretically abstractible from the persons who live it ’ . |
| 27 | But all Goddard did was to tell a succession of risqué and not at all funny stories more suited to the smoking-room than to a dinner in mixed company . |
| 28 | Thus a sweater with front and back in tuck stitch and sleeves in stocking stitch would have to be split into two files , one containing the front and back pieces and another containing the two sleeves . |
| 29 | Finally , behind schedule , he explains , so simply that I can understand , that he is going to take the Peter Brooke nomination , allow a little debate on the topic , then take an amendment to substitute ‘ Boothroyd ’ for ‘ Brooke ’ , take a vote on that and then see where we are . |
| 30 | How far is it possible to speak of a partnership at all if only a restricted set of activities is undertaken ? |