Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seems to have a moth-like fragility until , spellbound by the weightless command she exercises in a long , intimate soliloquy , you realise that you are the moth and she the candle . |
| 2 | To my ears it sounds like a composed solo as opposed to an improvisation , and as such is very typical of his rock/metal soloing approach at that time . |
| 3 | On termination , the Seller may exercise any of the following rights , either alone , or in any combination : ( i ) dispose of the goods as it thinks fit ; ( ii ) retain any deposit or part payment made by the Buyer ; ( iii ) recover damages from the Buyer in respect of any losses it suffers as a result of the Buyer 's failure to take delivery , including , but not limited to , the profit it would have made had the buyer performed its obligations , the costs of storage of the goods and the costs of disposing of the goods . |
| 4 | Yeah I was thinking wonderful , your bedroom it looks like a palace your bedroom , . |
| 5 | If the odour persists after best practicable means have been taken and in the opinion of the local authority environmental health department it amounts to a statutory nuisance within s.92(1) of the Public Health Act 1936 , then permission would have to be sought from the Secretary of State for the Environment as required by s.92(2) of that Act , before the local authority could institute summary proceedings under the nuisance provisions of the Public Health Act 1936 . |
| 6 | As the sun strikes their heads it plays for a while , scatters silver seed and dances away again , unnoticed . |
| 7 | The funds it recovers as a result will be re-invested in reseller support , research and development and further anti-piracy measures . |
| 8 | The spermatozoon is much smaller even than the ovum and , although it is a single cell it consists of a " head " and long tail , which propels the sperm by quivering . |
| 9 | She is cheerful and stoical like so many others in her position , but to any outsider it seems like a hard life . |
| 10 | Gina Bellman stars as the girl who may or may not be his demure wife — and who may or may not be a hooker he meets in a hotel . |
| 11 | And with these words he points towards an icon of the Saviour before which he has lighted a lamp — ‘ to be on the safe side , ’ Peter suggests . |
| 12 | The pupil builds up the words he wants in a stand , and can test out his ideas without having to commit them to paper yet . |
| 13 | At first glance it looks like a straightforward consequence of overaccumulation ( chapter 11 ) . |
| 14 | Now , when p of the individuals are hawks , an individual receives the pay-off it expects against a hawk p times , and the pay-off it expects against a dove ( 1 - p ) times . |
| 15 | Now , when p of the individuals are hawks , an individual receives the pay-off it expects against a hawk p times , and the pay-off it expects against a dove ( 1 - p ) times . |
| 16 | In the flickering light he appears like a cat moving around cautiously . |
| 17 | Still , it would be churlish not to greet this release for the light it casts on an age long gone . |
| 18 | Where information is adequate from the poorest nations it points to a close relationship between poverty , underdevelopment and the spread of AIDS . |
| 19 | In practice he acts as a constitutional head of state . |
| 20 | In practice he acts as a formal head of state . |
| 21 | And because it has open server in front of it from the client 's side it looks like a server , so any of those two hundred clients or any of front end tools can have access to the email system as if it was a resource or server . |
| 22 | Like the trio of drinkers he meets in a Co Waterford pub who call themselves the KGB — because their surnames are Kelly , Gallagher and Boland . |
| 23 | Patrick is still having difficulties with girls : the married man keeps going to bed with them , not liking it very much and not liking the distress it brings to a wife whom he does like and who is carefully crafted to be likeable . |
| 24 | And graphite , cos I blew this graphite powder into the lock it acts as a what ? |
| 25 | On the other hand , if he wants a brilliant , vibrant scene he begins with a bright background , like Van Gogh 's southern landscapes . |
| 26 | The second tactic he regards as an attempt to keep him in line . |
| 27 | In all this work he functions as a kindly nurse who has no other business than to care for the well-being of her charge . |
| 28 | He admits that since joining the Specials he thinks like a policeman . |
| 29 | He admits that since joining the Specials he thinks like a policeman . |
| 30 | Larder has vowed to reform the bad boy he sees as a natural Test successor to 25-cap veteran Andy Gregory . |