Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an executive with a long-term career plan to protect , you may have sound reasons for leaving before a dismissal occurs or for departing on mutually agreed terms . |
| 2 | There are quite good educational reasons for believing that a diverse spread of subjects is more suitable for the late twentieth-century academy than the traditional single-honours degree , as is suggested by experience in America , and in Britain in polytechnics and colleges of higher education . |
| 3 | However , there is at least a prima facie case for believing that a word form like bank should be considered to represent more than one lexical unit . |
| 4 | As such , the escalating conflict in Northern Ireland offers a useful paradigm for predicting whether a similar process of escalation might feasibly occur on the British mainland . |
| 5 | Thus to make a wonderful stock base for poaching or a clear soup , water would be highly flavoured with lemon or lime juice , plus lemon grass and kaffir lime leaf . |
| 6 | A&M have left them to it , stumping up the money for recording and a sampler along the way . |
| 7 | There are two principal strategies for proving that a collocationally unique item is a semantic constituent . |
| 8 | REDKEN 'S Trust Permanent Body System includes a Perm Map Indicator Paper which reveals any waving lotion left on the hair after rinsing and a Perm Lock Perm Life Extender which prolongs the life of your curls . |
| 9 | Other features include adjustable variation , steering indicator , three settings for damping and a low voltage alarm . |
| 10 | A separate coalfield culture developed in the Dukeries in the 1920s , and we have suggested ( as do Krieger , Sunley , Waller and others ) that the milieu within which that culture was set has been the transmission agent for ensuring that a separate culture remained in the Dukeries in the 1980s . |
| 11 | The letter f is simply a shorthand for indicating that a furnished tenancy will be determined by the elements within the bracket . |
| 12 | Well , I think that there is an argument of sorts for saying that a computer of the kind described does not have a theory of the external world , does not have mental states which refer , and does not therefore have thoughts in any significant sense . |
| 13 | The Revenue 's criterion for determining whether a trustee is a " professional trustee " for this purpose is whether he is carrying out his functions as trustee in the course of his business ( being a business which , as a matter of fact , includes the management of trusts ) rather than as a private individual . |
| 14 | The information contained on Form BD8 was previously the main criterion for deciding whether a pupil required education in a special school or an ordinary school , and whether the pupil should be referred to and educated as a blind or a partially sighted child . |
| 15 | Tony with his ‘ hands on ’ approach to the practical side of moving and a view towards being economical , decided to do the whole move in house . |
| 16 | Indeed , at this level they have the disturbing effect of implying that a whole range of tasks can be undertaken concurrently . |
| 17 | Mostly they have a dry hacking cough with morning expectoration , increasing to a most violent , gagging cough with vomiting and a sensation as if their head would burst or fly to pieces . |
| 18 | KEEN swimmers at Manchester Longsight Branch dived into action on hearing that a customer 's 11-year-old daughter required major heart surgery . |
| 19 | " It being stated to this Meeting that the Water of A-ruagh under Kilchoman House is at present impassable — and a total obstruction to Travelling until a Bridge is erected — … |
| 20 | Notwithstanding Roh 's efforts at damage limitation , however , the opposition attempted to exploit the government 's vulnerability by suggesting that a cover-up had been perpetrated in order to minimize the government 's involvement in the Suso scandal . |
| 21 | Instead he incorporates an evaluative criterion by arguing that a value orientation is more appropriate than others if it : |
| 22 | We also noted that children 's interpretation of sentences can be improved by presenting a preceding context which serves to inform the child about the kind of meaning that a sentence will contain . |
| 23 | Altogether more of a Second Empire kind of guzzle than a Roman treat , that invention . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's the kind of feeling that a new world has broken , that you get after any very long period of office by one party . |
| 25 | The next sentence begins ‘ Yet reason tells me … ’ and ends ‘ … then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection , though insuperable by our imagination , can hardly be considered real . ’ |
| 26 | What makes the issue of the legitimacy of our constitutional arrangements so problematic is the general open ended-ness of those arrangements ; that is , the difficulty of knowing whether a practice or non-practice is or is not constitutional . |
| 27 | A related fundamental problem for empirical work in the elite theory tradition is the difficulty of demonstrating that a power relationship exists . |
| 28 | The first is the difficulty of stipulating when a sound-change is completed ( this is amply demonstrated by the history of ( h ) , above ) , and hence the difficulty of saying precisely what is meant by ‘ sound-change ’ . |
| 29 | First , there is the notorious difficulty of deciding whether a case should be categorised as judicial , administrative , executive , etc . |
| 30 | This discrepancy arises from the ever present difficulty of deciding whether a particular cell could be either a lymphocyte or part of a macrophage , neutrophil , or fibroblast . |