Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Kylie , after two years travelling the world and using England as a base realises for the first time , this really is a home from home . |
| 2 | It would , for example , count my instruction to my son to be back by midnight as legislative , and the policeman 's order to move on when a driver stops in a prohibited zone as adjudicative . |
| 3 | As a programmer struggles over the fifth tedious revision of a 25-word frame , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that if he had worked this hard on every sentence of the textbooks he had written , these textbooks would probably teach as well as programmes … |
| 4 | Given some aspects of what a sentence conveys in a particular context , is that aspect part of what the sentence conveys in virtue of its meaning … or should it be ‘ worked out ’ on the basis of Gricean principles from the rest of the meaning of the sentence and relevant facts of the context of utterance ? |
| 5 | If a sentence starts with an unstressed syllable , leave it out of consideration — it does n't belong in a foot . |
| 6 | Samson Agonistes exemplifies a problem which has stood at the centre of current inquiry into the negotiations a text has with an historical context . |
| 7 | But she was always adored by the British public , especially the people of Swindon , where a statue stands as a permanent memorial . |
| 8 | A GYROSTABILISER consists of a small , rapidly spinning , motor-driven flywheel which is able to sense movement of a model about any chosen axis and apply a cancelling movement to the appropriate servo . |
| 9 | A description follows of a typical module header , as shown in figure 2.1 . |
| 10 | When I press the space-bar a computer appears with the following information beneath it : |
| 11 | At the halfway point of the walk a waterfall serves as a life-saving cold shower and then it is all downhill . |
| 12 | A technique refers to the mechanical or agronomic method applied , and in any one conservation project there may a considerable variety . |
| 13 | Entry is from Adele Street opposite Motherwell Civic Centre , to North Lodge Avenue from which a lane leads into the reserve area itself . |
| 14 | Getting into a shirt comes at a later stage , a sweater later still . |
| 15 | A skin sloughs from a leafless apocalypse . |
| 16 | Such a conception allows for a greater fluidity between the two modes than has hitherto been found acceptable . |
| 17 | An investor who gives his broker an order to sell when a stock falls to a certain figure is setting UP just such a system . |
| 18 | Such a condition leads to a degraded cliff , one that is principally the product of subaerial erosion and only locally sharpened at the base by marine erosion . |
| 19 | In other words , in an oligopolistic framework , the non-equivalence between an optimal tariff and a quota arises since the latter changes the behaviour of the competing firms . |
| 20 | The public rooms are graceful , fresh and elegant and by night a pianist adds to the relaxed atmosphere . |
| 21 | The number of states into which a term splits in a particular field is determined by group theory , but that is only the start of the problem ; determining the relative energies is difficult . |
| 22 | If a loss occurs in a foreign country , enquiries should be made to see if there is a Travel policy in force . |
| 23 | Such a disruption corresponds to the critical assessment by Chaucer of the features of another category , the genre of fabliau itself , through this tale . |
| 24 | Do remember to rub out your dots if a remedy works at a later date and only mark your bottle when the remedy has no effect if you are very certain that it should have worked . |
| 25 | Less than a second elapses between the two stages . |
| 26 | A lady arrives at the front counter with something to be looked at . |
| 27 | But if a child mutates in a big way , so that it has moved a long distance away from its parent in genetic space , what are the odds of its being better than its parent ? |
| 28 | Are we to deduce from this that Vincent saw Theo as an artist-manqué , or was he simply trying , not too hard in this instance , to shift the guilt a child feels before a self-sacrificing parent ? |
| 29 | In Germany a child proceeds to the next year only when he has achieved a satisfactory standard in every subject of the curriculum . |
| 30 | Hot food and drinks should not be placed on a table where there is an overhanging tablecloth ; in a second , a scalding accident can occur if a child pulls on the over-hanging end of the cloth . |