Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much more controversy has been generated by the question of whether a mistake also qualifies as a reason , and , more particularly , how serious the mistake has to be . |
| 2 | It was as if a voice not my own was making the call . |
| 3 | It was as if a crumbling away of the carefully built-up layers of education , technical training , so-called civilisation , was taking place , leaving her stripped of all her carefully acquired adult assurance . |
| 4 | He guides us among its ‘ toy-like villas , each different in design and each set against a background of trees A curling road winds through , but not everything is revealed at once : a chimney for but a moment here , a turret window through a gap between two acacia trees , a gable partly concealed by the fretted roof of a conservatory , an almond tree in blossom branching over the pavement , a spot of scarlet colour made by a distant pillar box . ’ |
| 5 | All — his pride in his memory , his sense of the internationale of writers , painters , musicians , and the aristocrats , his study of form as technique ( no contours , no edges , intellectual concepts , but rounding , thrusting , as a splash of color , as Yeats described his aim in the Cantos … ) it is all a huge AESTHETICISM , ending in hate for Jews , Reds , change , the content and matter often of disaster , a loss of future , and in that a fatality as death-full as those for whom the atom bomb is Armageddon , not Apocalypse . |
| 6 | across the road from but a floor below |
| 7 | Erm it was still pretty marginal er but er at least it was opened and erm in eighteen er it carried on until , in eighteen seventy , seventy one , the line was extended back to or a station roughly halfway between the two . |
| 8 | Add to that a history as rich and compelling as that of any in the country and the possibilities for excursions with a difference take shape . |