Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes that a young king held out his hand , declaring , " I am the commander of the faithfully . " |
| 2 | The story goes that a housewife , who was making pancakes before Lent , realised she was late for church … and rushed off , still clutching her pancake . |
| 3 | Deep House at its absolute best with itchy slices of funky , ‘ Superbly ’ -style guitar swishes and a desirable female cry vocalising insignificant yet enchanting phrases . |
| 4 | Or , better still , maybe we should question the present shibboleth that a bath or a shower a day is necessary for hygiene . |
| 5 | This kitchen looks like a bomb 's hit it . |
| 6 | And Williamson emphasises that a BSD/AT&T Unix license is required , and that MacMach , containing BSD 4.3 source code , is not a public-domain product . |
| 7 | Woven fabric is especially good with shirt looks and a classic finish , particularly since the seams may need firm sewing . |
| 8 | But Lang insists that a final blueprint has yet to be prepared . |
| 9 | A company has banned its staff from wearing wedding rings after a worker lost a finger when her ring caught in machinery . |
| 10 | There are still a ‘ few ’ leaves left just as the poet has but a little life remaining within him . |
| 11 | Such relationships belong to problem novels , rather than to novels of action , to fiction where a place is not the scene in which action develops but a certain spot where characters place themselves in order to talk . |
| 12 | Er you fi What the feminist the schools says that a lot of languages minimize and trivialize interests and achievements of women and denigrate them by the way in which they use language and the way in which they talk about things . |
| 13 | If more shakes are needed then a gradual increase in potency occurs until a saturation point arrives and presumably only intensification takes place . |
| 14 | as if its race/record plans were n't enough , ARI says that a modified version of the aircraft , with a single engine and two-seat cockpit , may be marketed as a homebuilt kit . |
| 15 | It is agreed that an appropriate vehicle for the transport of the plaintiff in the future is a vehicle called a Nissan Serena , the plaintiff claims for a cost of conversion of such a vehicle at six thousand , two hundred pounds , it would need to be renewed of course from time to time and allowances made for that , the defendant says that a firm called can convert the same vehicle for less than the tenth of the price , six hundred pounds , Mr says that such advantages , if any , of the conversion for which the plaintiff claims are so minimal that it can not possibly be right to spend ten times the money on achieving them . |
| 16 | The first law of thermodynamics says that a small change in the entropy of a system is accompanied by a proportional change in the energy of the system . |
| 17 | repair by second intention occurs when a considerable amount of tissue has been lost and the wound edges can not be approximated ; a mass of new tissue is required to fill the gap . |
| 18 | Strong observational backing from scientists at the University of Arizona shows that a wave of gravitational energy sweeps through the gas clouds in the galaxy , with a mass at least one-thousand times that of our Sun . |
| 19 | Yes , yes , but you know , it well to me , the mind boggles that a young mum can make a fuss over a television programme , it really does . |
| 20 | RESEARCH shows that a child 's recall is usually accurate , and errors are of omission rather than commission , Dr Danya Glaser , a consultant child psychiatrist , said . |
| 21 | Research shows that a large percentage of known deserted settlements in England and Wales were deserted or began to decline 600–700 years ago . |
| 22 | Certainly , psychological research shows that a single sight of a picture can produce clear recognition of the picture when it is seen again , even at intervals of months or more : ‘ implicit ’ memory in action . |
| 23 | Research shows that a high profile group which is seen to be effective in its campaigning at both national and local levels , draws people to itself . |
| 24 | Some 140,000 miles of hedgerows were grubbed up between 1946 and 1976 and RSPB research shows that a further 3,000 miles are still lost every year . |
| 25 | Yet research reveals that a large number of services in Flanders ( 40 per cent ) operate without such plans ( Hellinckx and Munter , 1990 ) . |
| 26 | Townsend 's data shows that a higher proportion of the non-manual groups — 19 per cent — received paid holidays of five weeks or more compared to a very negligible proportion of the manual groups — 1 per cent . |
| 27 | On a different level-'professional' rather than ‘ amateur ’ Antoine Hennion 's account of studio recording methods emphasizes that a variety of differentiated roles are brought together into a ‘ creative collective ’ : each member has a specific job , but they interact critically and continuously ( Hennion 1983 ) . |
| 28 | On other occasions in a , in a different though I think related way , erm Proust shows that a phrase such as , for instance , ‘ the Church of St. Hilaire ’ is a piece of shorthand which the intellect employs to define and to stabilise and to make easy to deal with what is at the sense level a complicated and continually changing reality . |
| 29 | This evidential rule states that a party should submit to court the original evidential document rather than a copy . |
| 30 | Mr Shekhar replies that a flawed election is better than no election . |