Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the borrowing lecture and the lecture on job creation , I have been able to state on a number of occasions when I have been a little more demotic that all independent forecast suggest that under a Labour Government — heaven forbid — borrowing and unemployment would be higher . |
| 2 | Estimates suggest that between a fifth and a quarter of children may spend some time in a one-parent family . |
| 3 | Critics of the JCT point to these compromises and suggest that as a result either the client or the contractor is at a disadvantage . |
| 4 | Some people expect that in a few decades ' time youngsters will learn from their home tutor computers and rarely , if ever , have contact with a human teacher . |
| 5 | Phizacklea and Miles show some sensitivity to the contradictory nature of working-class consciousness and emphasize that in a number of workers high levels of class consciousness nevertheless coexisted with considerable hostility towards local blacks . |
| 6 | I realise that to a man like you this situation is probably an open invitation to a spot of casual sex , even if generally you do n't fancy redheads , as you so gallantly pointed out when we first met … ’ |
| 7 | They say that on a clear day you can see the Isle of Harris . |
| 8 | They say that at a certain point it will stop expanding and start contracting again , back into the original primal seed . |
| 9 | Pundits say that with a proven automatic gearbox and active suspension , Moustache Nightmare could well be world champion for Williams-Renault this year . |
| 10 | The experts say that for a woman over about 40 , SERPS is definitely going to be better , and if she has been paying into a contracted out PP scheme up to that time , she should change over then . |
| 11 | Cider sales are up seven percent this year … and the makers say that despite a bumper crop , they need all the fruit they can get . |
| 12 | Analysts say that as a result , the company 's financial room for manoeuvre is becoming limited . |
| 13 | Officials say that as a result of Mr Hindmarsh 's letter , bosses in the Darlington area which stretches to Middlesbrough , Hawes , Spennymoor and Northallerton , will preside over a service which will diminish in quality . |
| 14 | Q. In a previous reply to a question on Red-bellied Piranhas , you say that in a 4′ tank this species should reach its maximum length of 12″ . |
| 15 | And I say that in a right of some statistics that appear in today 's agenda . |
| 16 | They say and in a hall which |
| 17 | Females also croak but with a slightly softer tone . |
| 18 | I always regret that as a youth it never occurred to me to ask why they chose Easingwold and how they knew of a vacancy for someone who could combine the saddlery trade with being the landlord of the Jolly Farmers pub . |
| 19 | But if we deny that as a possible choice to the children , we tell them it 's wrong ( which they are very used to ) but we withhold from them a dramatic experience which , if handled carefully , would allow them to understand the morality of the situation . |
| 20 | We can not exclude them from our notion of property or deny that in a sense , at any rate , he is the owner of them . |
| 21 | Change that to a twenty six and then copy this er right . |
| 22 | You change that into a decimal that is what you multiply by . |
| 23 | We contend that in a democracy predicated upon the rule of law and public accountability , the enforcement of penal legislation should be the undiluted responsibility of the state . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But Martica Heaner , the hips and thighs expert , said I had to exercise every day for at least 10–15 minutes , and combine that with a calorie-controlled diet , ’ she says . |
| 25 | you make that into a little cornet and mi put it in |
| 26 | They always mean that as a compliment , but it 's a dubious one when you think about it : is it so very satisfactory to look MUCH better to one person than you do to twenty million ? |
| 27 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 28 | Bearded , chubby and deceptively jovial , he fields problems in Ronald Reagan-like fashion ( and I mean that in a Dame Edna-like caring way ) . |
| 29 | ‘ All the really intelligent people I 've met , and I mean that in a clinical sense , have a sort of specialised intelligence . |
| 30 | From a review of child and car stopping distances under various assumptions , they conclude that for a car travelling at only 16 km/h about 30m sight distance would be required , but that this is much greater than that normally feasible in existing shared space areas . |