Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such essential measures as library expenditure per student , per capita computing costs , and many other management data , are now available for the first time in published form , so that universities can see at a glance how they measure up to similar institutions . |
| 2 | If their memories dwelt on the pains , they would quickly push themselves to a point where they gave up running altogether . |
| 3 | They too have assumed that there is something natural and self-evident about the human individual as a separate physical body , but then , in order to distinguish their own field of enquiry from that of the physical anthropologists , they have reified their special concept of culture to a point where we end up with the implicit definition : " Culture is everything which concerns the life and behaviour of human beings which is not an aspect of human nature , as the physical anthropologists perceive it . " |
| 4 | ‘ I imagine art school is a place where you sit up all hours putting the world to rights ? ’ |
| 5 | So we shall use this at our great banquet which I 'll tell you about in a moment when we go round , which is our next event . |
| 6 | Nurse Motley said that except for a moment when she picked up a piece of paper and threw it in the bin , she had been standing by Kayley 's head the whole time . |
| 7 | Habit shouldered curiosity out of the way for a moment when he got back to the house , and he checked around the Mercedes for damage . |
| 8 | There had been a moment when he sat back and looked at her , naked and submissive in the grass , and his heart started to sing and his mind spun into a dazzling vision of what might be … because we can only ever be a might-have-been , my dear love … that little boy with dark mischievous eyes , slender and supple , and Ireland 's future Prince … |
| 9 | She 'd been digging for a while when she looked up to swing the stone in her hand on to the pile , and saw Clare standing there . |
| 10 | You 'll see it in a minute when you get back to the end again . |
| 11 | But , in addition , the muscles and tendons have a mechanism whereby they join up with whatever element is next to them . |
| 12 | The horse turned into a courtyard where he slowed down , trotting round the small square . |
| 13 | So you really do n't want a situation where they go out and get drunk every night . |
| 14 | From these bits of activity , a richer life could develop ; but it is vital that whatever Harry and Elizabeth choose is something they both really want to do and not a situation where she goes along with it in a patronising way , and then leaves him high and dry . |
| 15 | It 's too traumatic coming back to nothing and besides , my girlfriend refuses to travel with me AND my camera again , she needed a holiday when we got back . ’ |
| 16 | It 's too traumatic coming back to nothing and besides , my girlfriend refused to travel with me AND my camera again , she needed a holiday when we got back . ’ |
| 17 | He visits them once or twice a year when he goes back to India . |
| 18 | I sent her Nit Ac LM1 and did n't hear anything for a year when she rang up with a headache — it turned out that the anal fissure had cleared quickly and she felt she had been miraculously well given her sister had been murdered 12mths previously and she 'd had 4 months leave of absence from work to deal with the aftermath which had involved her nephew joining the family . |
| 19 | a month a year where they go back on the tools . |
| 20 | We do n't even have sex on holiday , when from what some of my friends with young children say , that seems to be a time when they catch up . |
| 21 | There came a time when he doubled back after the others had gone on the trail taking their cyan hardness with them . |
| 22 | Go past that , then there 's one or two ne ne newish buildings and then you come up to a spot where you drive in and you go up or over the concrete , that 's Norblast |