Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb -s] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the centre of their hive there sits a queen , radiating her implacable commands through the labyrinthine tunnels . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ Melissa murmured aloud as she listened to his footsteps pattering through the hall , followed by the slam of the outer door , ‘ there goes a man with a guilty secret . |
| 3 | There goes a genius who works miracles ; from a single key he 'd extract enough to write the whole Opera . |
| 4 | But once he was safely out of sight , these same strangers unclenched their buttocks and declared that ‘ there goes a wrong'n if ever there was , who 'll end in a gallows dance . ’ |
| 5 | There goes a woman who would dance on her enemy 's grave , he thought , curious and thoughtful . |
| 6 | Aha , here comes a car , there goes a car , vroom , Renault da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da have you said to your dad get Sky yet ? |
| 7 | Ho ho ho , ah God can you imagine that , Christ , aha here comes a car , there goes a car we are now in a country lane , looking out on the odd passing car bom , bom , bom , bom , bom I do n't know about Jessica and Rebecca actually |
| 8 | Let us suppose that to each positive integer n there corresponds a statement which we denote by S(n) . |
| 9 | However , there lies a problem beneath the labels . |
| 10 | There lies a group of stones deposited by the glacier , the largest of which , the Carlow Stone , is said to have been used by the druids for human sacrifice . |
| 11 | But behind this there lies a period , obscurely documented , in which there was far greater freedom and equality among the cities — an era brought to a sharp end by the threat of foreign conquest , which drew the Greek cities together in heroic resistance to the Persian invaders — and thus began the process which ended in the effective dominance of Sparta and Athens over their neighbours . |
| 12 | The term ‘ participant observation ’ is commonly used to describe rather different sorts of research methods , and in the very diffuseness of methods used under this umbrella term there lies a danger . |
| 13 | Yet in this latter ambition there lies a danger . |
| 14 | Typically , in between there are such doubtful cases as ‘ built a boat ’ — just alliteration , or assonance as well ? — while over the whole poem there lies a web of grammatical repetitions and variations , also never quite exact — ‘ her sails ( he wove ) of silver fair , /of silver ( were ) her lanterns ( made ) , or later ‘ his sword ( of steel ) was valiant , / ( of adamant ) his helmet tall ’ . |
| 15 | Would my right hon. Friend feel able to lead a crusade with other European countries to put pressure on the Governments of central and south America so that every child there has a home , food , clothing and education and is not allowed to fall prey to the worst excesses of human nature ? |
| 16 | ‘ Then there starts a game whose aim is to reverse the bank 's assessment . ’ |
| 17 | In the pond there lives a grass snake , which will emerge at some random point on the surface , and eat whichever frog is closest to it . |
| 18 | But in one corner of the churchyard , not far from the rotting wooden gate in the surrounding wall , there stands a cross which someone has taken trouble to keep upright and its inscription legible . |
| 19 | As regards the concept of time , the poem is remarkable for its modern point of view : ‘ Similarly , time by itself does not exist ; but from things themselves there results a sense of what has already taken place , what is now going on and what is to ensue . |
| 20 | Finally , the source of an instinct ‘ is that somatic process in an organ or part of the body from which there results a stimulus represented in mental life by an instinct ’ . |
| 21 | Within each class of equipment there exists a diversity which can satisfy the widest range of needs from a hot dog stall up to the multi million pound food processor . |
| 22 | He will not , for example , argue the question whether there exists a tort of offensive invasion of privacy , if his client has a clear remedy in defamation . |
| 23 | There exists a school of thought , that an expensive Biro , wrought from gold or silver and branded with the potential owner 's name , will become a chenshed possession . |
| 24 | Thus , there exists a state structure which includes the surveying specialisms and which provides accredited courses and awards to levels other than those of university or CNAA degrees . |
| 25 | I turn , therefore , to what I consider to be the primary issue in this appeal , namely , whether there exists a principle whereby a subject who makes a payment in response to a demand of taxation ( or other like demand ) from the Crown which is unlawful either because it is wholly ultra vires or merely excessive thereby acquires a prima facie right to its repayment forthwith as money had and received . |
| 26 | Secondly , with so many adolescents within the combat forces and given the communal living arrangements , there exists a sense of responsibility for their education and a feeling that they should not be led into promiscuity . |
| 27 | Equally , there exists a self-interest among the regulating profession to keep the reputations of their businesses untarnished by actively seeking out abuse rather than punishing offenders after the event . |
| 28 | The second of these equations immediately implies that there exists a function Φ such that . |
| 29 | We may now eliminate the kinetic energy from our energy equation giving , per unit of time , Under an adiabatic change of state of the body from which we deduce that is an exact differential and there exists a function W , the strain energy function , such that and , in this case , W = U. |
| 30 | The existence of a steady-state solution depends then on the extent of possible variation in the output-capital ratio , i.e. , whether for all values of s. n , and y there exists a k such that . |