Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [conj] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They clammed up after a bit and would n't show me everything , but he thinks I put it all in the water hoping Harry would get tangled in it . ’ |
| 2 | He and his colleagues were understandably concerned about the lack of evidence to support the beneficial claims of holistic medicine , but Dr Richards , who thought much evidence could be produced if funds were available , sagely remarked that ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ , a remark that lingered after a discussion that would have been better if longer and better left to the end of this excellent series . |
| 3 | Today , had lots of corners , scored actually from a corner , or after a corner but could n't make their possession tell . |
| 4 | Implicit information , or " know-how " , is that information which is an integral part of a skill and can be acquired only by apprenticeship from an expert . |
| 5 | A look that claimed her for his own and spoke of a love that would bind them together for always . |
| 6 | Example ( 3 ) ( d ) , for instance , would be an abbreviated form of a structure that could perhaps be realized more fully as : ( 26 ) our lawyer sent the packages ; the packages are registered It may of course be claimed that we should think in terms not of actual clauses but of some more hypothetical and abstract clause ; maybe the last five words in ( 26 ) should be replaced by something like : ( 27 ) [ subject the package plural ] subject be registered |
| 7 | Since then the tournament has inevitably become bloated — too many teams , too few really competitive matches — and has occasionally been cynically exploited because of a structure that can require teams to produce only strategic , drawn games rather than daring wins . |
| 8 | They are a rather different animal , as far as the sorts of applications are concerned , from single chip microcomputers — a single integrated circuit that has all the features , including the processor , of a computer that can be made very cheaply and embodied particularly in things like low cost domestic goods . |
| 9 | Providing an assurance to parents that children are not only well fed but properly supervised during the mid-day break adds to the appeal of a school and could well be the deciding factor which finally influences parental choice in sending their child to your school rather than to your neighbour 's . |
| 10 | Jumped ‘ The gunman got out of a window and must have jumped at least 25 feet to the ground . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a sham of a marriage that should never have taken place , and you 're doing no one any harm . |
| 12 | The valuation of time is a good example of a benefit that can be valued , albeit with some difficulty . |
| 13 | Two films gave him temporary solvency and cast him straight into the seedier end of the youth market , the biker movies which were at the beginning of a craze that would last four or five years . |
| 14 | An application for , i transfer does not require to be heard by a quarterly meeting of a board but can be heard by a meeting convened under s.5(1) . |
| 15 | According to the theories of associative learning presented in Chapter 1 , certain conditions of training ( roughly , those in which the CS predicts the omission of a US that might otherwise be expected to occur ) allow the formation of an inhibitory CS-US link . |
| 16 | Even so , these sessions reveal much of the formula that would make the MJQ so successful in later years , with the loose basis of a style that would later ( perhaps unfairly ) become known as ‘ chamber jazz ’ . |
| 17 | Then he turned , and with a little gesture of farewell crossed the highway and headed back towards Lima , a small , shambling figure glancing back every now and then in search of a truck that would give him a lift . |
| 18 | Consequently , it was possible for them ( but not for Christians , because they rejected pantheism ) to speak of a world-soul that could measure time , and this was , in fact , the answer given by Plotinus to Aristotle 's question . |
| 19 | There we have in one of its aspects the likeness of the old country society that has just passed away to the society described by Chaucer : a cool , matter-of-fact treatment of a subject that could have so many overtones . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , they appear to be of a type that would be used in the manufacture of bulk chemicals . ’ |
| 21 | This was welcome news to those who sought a federal Europe , for the federalist implications of the dilemma were very clear : a European army would need European political control of a type that could not be provided by the EDC institutions . |
| 22 | On receipt of an application the Commissioner and her team will decide if the application is of a type that can be assisted and if so whether , on the merits of the case , assistance should be granted . |
| 23 | Indeed , in most cases there is no effect at all on the premium as these sort of policies give cover of a type that will not result in a reduced premium just because a few people more or less are covered at any one time in a particular situation . |
| 24 | The public and professional opposition to I M Pei 's famous glass pyramids at the Louvre was of a ferocity that would never have been withstood in England . |
| 25 | Getting rid of a nuisance that could be there . |
| 26 | Like getting rid of a nuisance that could be there . |
| 27 | Frank McAvennie , meanwhile , will today give his answer to the offer of a contract that will take him up to the end of the season and with the promise of a more substantial agreement if his progress is satisfactory . |
| 28 | The ECSC Common Assembly threw its weight behind the establishment of a committee that would explore means of rounding a common market . |
| 29 | In her eyes the madness of a starvation that will be satiated , the tempered contempt of one who will survive . |
| 30 | Not only is it a bad conductor of heat — so putting up running costs — but the fur can reduce the effective internal diameter of a pipe and can eventually lead leaking , immersion heaters burning out , and noises in the water heating system . |