Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One important direction of expansion was southward into the Altai-Sayan mountain region on the border of Mongolia , where the Russian town of Kuznetsk was for long an outpost threatened from west , south and east by the ‘ White Kalmyksn ( Teleuts and other Altaian tribes ) , the Oirats or western Mongols , and the Chinese . |
| 2 | After only a day testing the new system , on and off road , around the Wiltshire countryside , floating like a butterfly is the only way I can describe the ride . |
| 3 | This time she contacted me again after just a week to say that , for the first time , she had been able to buy clothes for her children in a certain famous store rather than having to rely on ordering from a mail order firm . |
| 4 | There was no details on the vouchers as to how much they are worth just a note saying that vouchers must be redeemed before 12 on the matchday . |
| 5 | Ireland now face defending champions Scotland this morning with the Scots looking for just a draw to retain their title . |
| 6 | Then he turned to Rachel and for just a moment allowed his gaze to meet hers . |
| 7 | It 's a red panda cub , one of only a handful to have been born in captivity . |
| 8 | Join The Women 's Press Bookclub as an annual member on the coupon below and receive a free copy of Not A Man To Match Her : A Feminist View of Britain 's First Woman Prime Minister by Wendy Webster ( The Women 's Press , £6.95 ) . |
| 9 | writes from : THE funerals of both a soldier blown up in Ulster and a young mother murdered on Wimbledon Common were marked by the same poem : |
| 10 | This comparison of procedures reveals that the CMI Rules ' receipt message plays the role of both a paper based dock or mate 's receipt and of a preliminary bill of lading . |
| 11 | It did not help that the ‘ Hitler Diaries ’ , the story of how a forger fooled British and German newspapers as well as reputable historians with amateurish fakes purporting to be the German leader 's handwritten diaries , was currently on television . |
| 12 | To understand the behaviour it is essential to consider the question of how a cat faces death . |
| 13 | On one level Affliction is the story of how a man named Wade Whitehouse , living in a New Hampshire milltown , comes to be a murderer . |
| 14 | He thought often , in his dim place , of how a man becomes his job . |
| 15 | This is a wonderful illustration of how a person strays from God and from his fellow human beings . |
| 16 | A fly ball , I take it , is the baseball equivalent of a skier in cricket , so the problem of how a fielder knows where to go , where to place his hands to catch , it is the same . |
| 17 | Those who come to it fresh , without preconceived ideas of how a spreadsheet works , will find it a dream . |
| 18 | This is the story of how a woman made of iron emerged from the depths of a grocer 's shop in Grantham and , speaking with a strange tongue given to her by the God of Graven Images , Sir Gordon Reece , held a nation under her spell . |
| 19 | It says erm The theme is an urgently felt personal one , an exploration of how a woman comes to maturity in the world of the writer 's youth . |
| 20 | In his mind that was guarded by grey , disinterested eyes and his sallow tight-drawn forehead , Holly could picture the process of how a match lit in innocence had tumbled upon an incendiary device . |
| 21 | Such declarations are of little intrinsic importance but they tell us something of how a politician sees the world and his own place in it . |
| 22 | Kitcher gives a good example of how a theory becomes accepted by the generality of scientists : Alfred Wegener 's theory of continental drift achieved acceptance after half a century of intermittent discussion only when the concept of plate tectonics provided an acceptable mechanism . |
| 23 | He tells them of a tale he has heard , of how a monster called Grendel has killed many of Earl Hrothgar 's people . |
| 24 | The reason behind this two-stage approach is that it is often very difficult for the viewers of the demonstration to understand the principles of how a product works while at the same time watching it work . |
| 25 | For an instance where one of the parties did object to the principle , see Chelsea Man plc v Vivat Holdings plc ( 1989 ) unreported , Court of Appeal , 24 August discussed at 13.8.2 : and for two examples of how an expert dealt with points of law , see 13.8.3 . |
| 26 | It is all a matter of taste , and more importantly , a matter of how an aroma makes you feel . |
| 27 | The subtle acquisition of a sense of the agency norms — ‘ the normal working standards ’ — is suggested in the following description of how an officer learned the rules about when to take ‘ a stat ’ : |
| 28 | This was an intriguing first hand account of how an engine works , its maintenance , and driving . |
| 29 | It will also give you a more objective idea of how an employer sees you when reading your application form or letter . |
| 30 | The analytical core which Keynes shared with Pigou did not extend to their respective prognoses of how an economy responds to excess supply in the labour market . |