Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some spiders hide in a handy crevice in the bark of a tree ; some hide beneath a leaf ; and other spiders build a funnel as part of their web and hide in that . |
| 2 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 3 | It was built in 1632 by Sir Edward Peyto , some say to a design by Inigo Jones , though that is unproven . |
| 4 | I 've noticed that most people over the age of forty whinge like a chainsaw about their memory not being as good as it used to be , or not being as good as they wish it were . |
| 5 | But some depend on a specific view of science , notably that there are objective and timeless laws at work and that normative considerations are to be excluded . |
| 6 | Genesis 1 and 2 consist of a general account of the creation of the heavens and the earth , followed by a more detailed description of the making of man . |
| 7 | Some consist of a simple bowl with a lip , over which the water trickles , while others come in sections of varying lengths and shapes which can be joined together to form complex arrangements . |
| 8 | Radiographic pneumonia was defined as the presence of an alveolar or interstitial infiltrate in a chest radiograph . |
| 9 | To be honest I have never seen this happen in a community tank , where as Neon tetras will even spawn in this environment . |
| 10 | FORMER Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher now pockets more every minute than the unemployed get in a week . |
| 11 | Some get about a pound a week , while on girl gets a pound a day , another five pounds a fortnight . |
| 12 | In Britain most people who are in full-time contracted employment receive full pay for six months , followed by half pay for a further six months , if they have a serious illness or accident which prevents them from working . |
| 13 | Some arrive in a prison with a death sentence barely literate , but the years on death row offer bizarre opportunities for examining the legal system , the injustice of the death penalty , and social deprivation in America . |
| 14 | Some arrive in a blaze of publicity and promise , only — like DDT and many others — to be banished in disgrace for creating insufficiently researched ‘ side effects ’ . |
| 15 | The components provide for automatic on-line retry as a way to achieve high system availability , AT&T says , adding that software fault tolerance can be provided in an application whether or not the underlying hardware or operating system is fault-tolerant . |
| 16 | A few go to a kind of " halfway house " , of which there should be many more , which usually consists of four or five small flatlets which girls either share or occupy on their own . |
| 17 | Some argue for a distinction between soft and hard porn ; others for a distinction between erotica and pornography . |
| 18 | The grave is of the late sixth century , but the krater was probably made some decades earlier , most likely in Laconia though some argue for a South Italian colony . |
| 19 | Of the remaining 120 fabliaux recognized in the Nouveau Recueil Complet des Fabliaux , more than half exist in a single copy , and fewer than twenty of the more innocently titled fabliaux exist in four or more manuscript copies . |
| 20 | London 's evening paper was similar in lix score to a Swedish evening paper , but there were major differences in word and sentence scores . |
| 21 | Many gardeners plant up colourful tubs , window boxes and baskets for the summer , but few arrange for a similarly splendid winter and spring display . |
| 22 | Most of these industries have closed down and only a few survive as a reminder of the type of activity found adjacent to the railway in past years . |
| 23 | And , like all Jandel products , SigmaPlot 4.0 come with a moneyback guarantee and the full technical support of jandel 's experts . |
| 24 | There are two or possibly three sections that require close inspection and ropework and the gorge should not be taken lightly but do not less this detract from a river that has everything . |
| 25 | Others may experience a light-headed sensation as if they have had a few glasses of wine ; a few fall into a deep sleep ! |
| 26 | A half swing with a pitching wedge or a sand wedge should get the ball onto the green ( photo 7 ) . |
| 27 | Sections of the retail trade itself are also likely to welcome a slow down in what some see as a development free-for-all which could damage the balance of retail provision and lead to an over-supply of retail space in the near future . |
| 28 | ISDN is currently priced in fixed 64Kb/second chunks , which some see as a limitation : with the latest compression techniques in place , 64Kb is a bit excessive for phone calls , but it is insufficient for some other purposes . |
| 29 | It 's profitable let on a single-day basis . |
| 30 | The reduced appendages each consist of a limb-base or coxite bearing a distal stylus which is sometimes regarded as the vestige of the shaft of a typical walking limb but which may conceivable be a " coxal epipodite " homologous with the coxal styles of Symphylan or Machilid legs . |