Example sentences of "[pron] an [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I an authorised officer in nineteen sixty eight , so it 'd have been twenty years and er from there I became er an instructor in nineteen eighty four er having successfully completed a number of national run courses on firearms , firearms tactics at the national school of firearms er which are in the metropolitan district and er Lancashire and West Yorkshire . |
| 2 | I le let my an open house to my friends from Liverpool . |
| 3 | The idea has had opponents who claim its an easy option for people who would otherwise be behind bars . |
| 4 | Its an uncached design from Headland , with just a handful of chips onboard . |
| 5 | If we 've come to guard and received forgiveness of sins , if we have become good followers of Jesus Christ and we are not amazed then there 's something wrong with what we 've received that god should so love , not just the world , but should so love me , that he gave his son to die for me and that was the sort of er discovery that these four lepers made they 've come down there , they 've found that the sight before them was amazing , there was no enemy there , the enemy had disappeared and the tents with all their contents were there before them , they were amazed with what they found and you and I when we come to god through Jesus Christ , we are amazed at what we find , we find forgiveness , we find the restoration of a relationship between ourselves and god , we find an access to receive god 's blessing to receive his favour , to receive his gifts that he has for us , no wonder the apostle Paul cries out thanks beyond to god for his unspeakable gift , but then again these four men they were not just amazed that what they found , they were , they got absorbed in what they got , because they got a lot more than they bargained for , they possibly in their wildest dreams thought they might at least get , get what the cook was throwing out , they might get to , to the dustbins , they might get what was left over , that would of been great , they were dying of starvation , the driest mouldiest crust would of been like , like a banquet to them , but they got so much more than they anticipated and they got absorbed in it , every thing was there 's for the taking as they pulled back the , the flap of the tent as they go in and they see the tables laid out there , they see the food and the drink , they see the plenty , these men who for weeks have known terrible poverty , there might of been a time earlier on in the siege when a few scraps got thrown over the city wall , when the bins were put out the side of the city of an evening , er they would go there and forage amongst them , but all that had stopped long since and it was only the bits and pieces that they managed to forage for themselves and get for themselves that they 'd been eating of late , but here every thing is there for the taking , they rubbed their eyes , they pinched one another to make sure their not dreaming , it really is food and drink in a , in an abundance they could n't of thought of a few mo hours earlier one moment they had nothing , the next they 've got every thing , what was it they needed , food , the tables would of been laden with it , it was the food , enough food for an army and there 's only four of them , did they , were they thirsty , here was drink , here was wine and , and drink in abundance the rags , the tatters they were dressed in , there were garments and wardrobe full of clothes here for them , did they need money , well the tents were full of the gold and the silver and , and , and valuables , there were a sufficiency , every thing was there you know the idea that the Christian life is drab and poor is such a terrible false hood , its an iniquitous lie of the devil , the tragedy is that we have actually often made it that way , we have made the Christian faith something drab , something boring , something for old folk er and er you know , people who are , who are , just wanting a crutch because their coming to the end of their natural life and we 've made it something drab and dull listen to what the apostle Paul says when he 's writing to Carinthian 's in his second letter in chapter eight , he says you know the grace of our lord Jesus Christ , that though he was rich for your sakes he became poor , so that you through his poverty might be rich , god , he 's purpose follows his people , he 's not that we 've a drab , grey , dull uninteresting life , Jesus said I 've come that you might of life , and that more abundant , that in all its fullness and god has purpose for us , and when Paul is talking about riches there , he 's not talking about pounds and pence , he 's talking about the richness of the life that we enjoy its not a case of not doing this and having to do that the other thing , its a case of enjoying life as god purposes it , as god intends it you know if you do n't enjoy your Christian life now , let me tell you your in for a rude awakening when you get to heaven , because the quality of life is not gon na change the only things that 'll change is its la it , it will , it will be in his presence , the quality of life will not change because already now we have received eternal life , he has given his life to us and he has n't got some other special , you know , super duper life laid up , there 's nothing , there 's nothing greater ahead , god has n't got any thing greater for us than what he 's already given to us in embryonic form here and now why if we take on er a , a , a dazzling scintillating new zest and zap when you get to heaven , that life is already given to you and to me know go back to these four men at the moment , they had never known any thing like this before this was better than all their birthdays rolled into one , this was the greatest day in their experience and if they would live to be a hundred they would never know another day like this , they were having a tremendous time , it said they , they , they , they went into one tent , listen to what they did , they went into one tent and they , they ate , they drank , they had a party and they carried from there the silver , the gold and the clothes and they went and hid they returned and entered another tent and then they did the same there , they were having a tremendous time , this was a beano to end all beano 's , this was the greatest day in their life , they were having a wonderful time and why should n't they , why not you know there are folk who would , who 'd want to make us as Christians er and er , ee , put us into a straight jacket the bible tells me even the sunsets free , is free indeed and I do n't see any suggestions as I read the New Testament , that first of all the life of Jesus was drab and uninteresting , or that he expects me as his follow to lead a drab , a grey life , oh its not always gon na be a ple an easy life but that does n't reduce the , the zest and the excitement in it but you see the danger is when having a good time is the reason for living and the only reason for it , you see , if god has intervened in our life , if the message of the gospel is true , if god in Christ has taken away your sin and made you in Christ a new creation then you have every reason to enjoy life , in a sense your only able to start enjoying life now , you may have enjoyed some of the things that , that folks suggest that make up life , but they 've finished , there gone , what happens when the , when , when the wine has run out , what happens when the parties over , you know all about it the next day , do n't you , what happens then , its such short lived , its only worth having whilst its coming to you all the time , but that 's not so with a Christian life , because it doe , depend on just the things that we have or the experiences that we go through , because it is something that , that we have within , it is , it is a quality of life that we possess , because we possess the one who is life himself , listen to what Paul says when he 's writing to Timothy in his first letter in chapter six it is command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant or to put their hope in wealth , those who think that , that er in having possessions that is the secret of life or , or in having a good time and , and , and the rest of it that is what life is all about , he said warn them not to do that , because that is so uncertain , he says but to put their hope in god who richly provides us with every thing what for , for our enjoyment , why has god given us these things , why is , why is god even , he is natural creation there for us , it is for our enjoyment , its not to make us miserable or to make us grey and drab and burden by it , it is for us to enjoy , when god created Ada Adam and Eve and put them in the garden , the , they were told to enjoy it , even the fruit enjoy it , its there for your benefit and then the new creation , every thing that god has provided is there for our enjoyment , but the dangers is when that enjoyment , is the reason for living and that 's all we do it for and were so taking up with ourselves , I am gon na have my good time , I 'm gon na enjoy myself as a Christian and I can do it and you can do it , you become insular and we become introverted and the only thing that matters is me having a good time , my world centres around me and me enjoying myself and me having this and me having that , this blessing and that gift and that other blessing , we become self centred and taken up with our own good times , as long as I can be there in the centre , as long as I can go from , from , from this celebration to that celebration , as long as I can go from this er festival to that festival to this special meeting to that one , I 'm gon na have my good time well that was what these fella 's were doing , they were going from tent to tent , from celebration to celebration having a great time and then the truth hit them they were ashamed with what they had done , they said to one another we are not doing right , this days a day of good news , but we are keeping silent , if we wait until morning light punishment will overtake us , now therefore , come , let us go and tell the kings household how guilty are we , how guilty are you , how guilty am I of the sinner silence , remember how we started , its not always the things that we do its often the things that we do n't do , how guilty are we of the sin of silence these men had known nothing , known poverty and , and , and , and starvation , they were amazed at what they 'd found , they 'd became absorbed in what they had got and now they 'd became ashamed of what they had done with it what was the sin that troubled these men they said we are keeping silent . |
| 6 | Health is the pivot around which an absolute concept of poverty revolves . |
| 7 | A century of observation and analysis of births and deaths by these variables in many developed countries and of studies focusing on the effect of childbearing patterns on the viability of the product of conception , including the survival of infants and children , has accumulated a great body of information , to which an impressive amount of comparative data from developing countries has been recently added . |
| 8 | His most important work , St Peter 's Leeds ( 1837–41 ) , a rebuilding of the town 's old parish church , was one of the key ecclesiastical projects of the 1830s , a landmark in both the scholarly revival of the Gothic style and the High Church revival of Anglican Christianity , in which an accurate use of Perpendicular Gothic detail was combined with an approximation to a medieval plan-form , complete with a fully developed chancel . |
| 9 | This was to have been changed by clause 54(4) under which the benefit received was to be assessed at the arm 's length price which an ordinary member of the public would have paid for that service . |
| 10 | But to assume that this must entail domestic arrangements which an ordinary speaker of modern colloquial English would recognize under the labels " marriage " and " family " is a mistake . |
| 11 | Chaucer 's pilgrims travelled only a short distance from London to Canterbury , but to embark on a pilgrimage was one of the ways in which an ordinary citizen of the Middle Ages could travel abroad . |
| 12 | Many will remember a street interview , I think by Scottish TV , in which an ordinary guy from Glasgow upbraided an old woman who was happy to see Thatcher back at Number 10 , with the all-too appropriate retort : ‘ Are you off your fucking head , Mrs ? ’ |
| 13 | The glee with which an upward blip in house prices has been greeted hardly suggests that Britons have weaned themselves from the inflation habit . |
| 14 | If a company has its registered office through which an effective transfer of shares can be made in , say , England , and is also resident in England , then dividends clearly arise from a UK source . |
| 15 | If a company is resident in , say , France and the registered office through which an effective transfer of the shares can be made is in France then the source is not UK and the dividends would comprise Case V ( possessions ) income . |
| 16 | The information is used to affirm a unique individual profile , from which an individualised plan for the person is developed through a more equal relationship with the elder being assessed . |
| 17 | a unique individual profile , from which an individualised plan for the person is developed through a more equal relationship with the elder being assessed ( Key , 1989 , p. 69 ) . |
| 18 | Growth from 1851 to 1911 was concentrated on the few urban industrial regions in which an increasing proportion of the population lived ; these experienced both net immigration and natural increase . |
| 19 | The Warnock Report has remained influential in staking out certain philosophi-cal ground rules , to which an increasing number of people are drawn , namely , integration . |
| 20 | Foreign mercenaries were hired to officer new-formation regiments into which an increasing number of peasant recruits were drafted . |
| 21 | For his part , Mr Stack was clear about the benefits : ‘ There is no question that this is the recognised standard which an increasing number of major international traders look for , and often demand , from their logistics partner ’ . |
| 22 | In its first year it had provided funding totalling ECU621,000,000 for 20 projects in central and eastern Europe , for which an overall total of ECU2,100 million of investment was made ( ECU1=US$1.24065 as at March 30 , 1992 ) . |
| 23 | Although the quietness of his end was made memorable by Reith 's BBC announcement that ‘ the King 's life is moving peacefully towards its close ’ , there had been no long-term illness during which an early change of reign had been accepted and prepared for . |
| 24 | … now with the GCSE things are very much more flexible , and the one thing we can get rid of immediately is the written paper , which is of course one of the bits of objective assessment in the examination , and which an awful lot of teachers clung onto . |
| 25 | For filmed commercials , the standard type of quantified pre-test involves showing a group of commercials in a break in a short film show to which an appropriate sample of people are invited . |
| 26 | This recommendation , which has not been implemented , appears to accept that legal need can be defined by reference to the existence of a legal problem on which an individual wishes to be advised , albeit that part of the half-hour would be used to examine the case and determine the ‘ need ’ for further advice . |
| 27 | In contrast , the knowledge of the rule system , which an individual needs in order to be able to produce and understand grammatical sentences , is referred to as language competence . |
| 28 | valence ( or the value which an individual places on an outcome ) |
| 29 | The proportion of genes which an individual shares with a relation depends on how close the relationship is . |
| 30 | Isotope fractionation has been corrected for by measuring the 13 C ( to within 0.5–1.0 relative to the standard rock , PDB ) , except for OxA-3214 and OxA-3215 , for which an assumed value of -26 was used . |