Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clothes can be costumes , and for some young women , walking down the street with bleached hair or a biker 's leather jacket says more about them than a thousand words . |
| 2 | They 're kept warm When you saw those little babies last week that were born very , very premature , apart from being very small , if you looked at those arms and legs and their bodies what was the noticeably different about them than a full term baby ? |
| 3 | Horse drawn buggy rides : Great fun for everyone and a good way to see the village ! |
| 4 | ‘ Generally people here can expect more-balanced advice on the best holiday for them and a wider choice than from many mainland agents . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Generally people here can expect more-balanced advice on the best holiday for them and a wider choice than from many mainland agents . ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes girls are there because they are very young or they are homeless , sometimes it is because their parents can not cope at home with the responsibility for them and a newborn baby , and in other cases a home takes in and assesses girls whose ability to look after their baby is in question . |
| 7 | Like , it would be nonsensical to get Paul Weller to go play live on a kids ’ Saturday TV show , and it 's the same for all our artists : there 's a right environment for them and a wrong one , and it 's important not to force them . |
| 8 | During the month after her father 's death each of them had discovered the need to explore hitherto suppressed areas of feeling and half-knowledge that stood between them and a clearer knowledge of the selves they were now fully determined to offer to each other . |
| 9 | It sounded absurdly false to her , as though they were playing a rather bald comedy for the benefit of the elderly lady , who was dividing her benign attention between them and a quivering travel film . |
| 10 | Nor , as these raiders paddled towards an enemy shore , was there more than a canvas skin on its wooden frame between them and a hostile reception . |
| 11 | ‘ My plane is nothing for me but a flying machine gun , ’ he said , and he was a fantastic marksman . |
| 12 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 13 | It 's a great adventure for me and a big challenge . |
| 14 | Andrew added : ‘ This was the perfect return to domestic rugby for me and a fine display by an experimental side . ’ |
| 15 | Andrew said : ‘ This was the perfect return to domestic rugby for me and a fine display by an experimental side . |
| 16 | It was the birthplace as you soon find out of Marshal Foch , supreme commander on the western front in the later stages of the First World War , who has here an equestrian statue , a main street named after him and a small museum in the house where he was born in 1851 . |
| 17 | It was a linchpin of Lewis 's theism that thought itself was a metaphysical act ; his exploration of this theme in his book Miracles and the subsequent heated debate between himself and a fellow-Christian philosopher , Elizabeth Anscombe , provided one of the great academic sideshows in the Oxford of the late 1940s . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) Allowable also are the mortgagee 's costs , reasonably and properly incurred , of proceedings between himself and a third party where what is impugned is the title to the estate . |
| 19 | The panic-stricken fish bolt ahead of them until a whole shoal has been herded together and trapped between the birds and the shore . |
| 20 | A person with IBS who has ignored the symptoms for years may become acutely aware of them when a close relative succumbs to cancer . |
| 21 | On May 21 a young Palestinian , armed with a pistol and a knife and shouting " Gaza martyrs " , attacked a group of French tourists in Amman , wounding eight of them and a passing Jordanian photographer . |
| 22 | There are seventeen of them and a few sketches . |
| 23 | All the subjects ( young children ) were trained with three ‘ nonsense ’ figures as the stimuli , learning to apply one verbal label to two of them and a different label to the third . |
| 24 | My nephew , Martin , he 's one of them and a lovely boy . |
| 25 | There are a number of good reconstruction drawings of them and a clear idea of their appearance can be gained from the sixteenth century measured drawings by Renaissance architects like Palladio which were made when the remains were in a better condition than they are now . |
| 26 | It bound the parties to observe neutrality in the event of war between one of them and a third state and to refrain from any kind of aggression against each other . |
| 27 | Although some of the Wealden towns may have been regional centres for craft specialisation , such as Battle with its leather working and shoemaking , most of them provided a wide range of services which allowed a high degree of virtual self-sufficiency to their surrounding areas . |
| 28 | ‘ Millet has a gospel , and I ask you , is n't there a difference between a drawing of his and a nice sermon ? ’ |
| 29 | Only 18 months ago , it was little more than a dream , the brainchild of himself and a few radical economists , blending Mr Gorbachev 's plans for economic decentralisation with crystallising Estonian nationalism . |
| 30 | I know I 'm too old for you , but believe me , I 'll take more care of you than a younger man would . |