Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast the ecological lobby is weak and poorly organised in an area whose people have little romantic attachment to the countryside and see environmental protection as something of a luxury . |
| 2 | I do n't like it when presentation screens are multiloaded before each level though — that 's just waste of time , and there 's certainly no excuse for it in a game like Sly Spy . |
| 3 | They are equally brief when it comes to the details of Richard 's accession , Mancini in particular treating Gloucester 's actual assumption of the throne as something of a tailpiece to the real story . |
| 4 | They are equally brief when it comes to the details of Richard 's accession , Mancini in particular treating Gloucester 's actual assumption of the throne as something of a tailpiece to the real story . |
| 5 | According to Hermann , working in the late eleventh century , this happened because Edmund 's popularity was increasing , and this tends to be confirmed by the entry of his feast-day in calendars produced in Winchester and Canterbury at about the same time , and by the inclusion of a special mass for him in a sacramentary probably written in Ely . |
| 6 | Born on 12 April , 1941 , the only son of an electricity board worker , he was snapped up by his local club West Ham , and made his debut for them as a 17-year-old against Manchester United in 1958 . |
| 7 | We do thank you for your support for us as a family , and to those who have given financial support . |
| 8 | ‘ My mother 's very interested in it , and I have to know a bit about it as a florist . |
| 9 | Yet aside from that , my admiration for him as a person is perhaps as great as my fear of him . |
| 10 | Folly finished the sentence for him in a flat voice that she hardly recognised as being her own . |
| 11 | You have the look about you of a hired sword , Hrun of Chimeria . |
| 12 | ‘ Obviously , this is a new experience for me as a manager . ’ |
| 13 | Its base at Amboyna was overrun in 1623 and some of its garrison tortured to death in an episode Dryden reckoned would still be remembered when he wrote a play about it in a period of anti-Dutch feeling 50 years later . |
| 14 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 15 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 16 | 10-year old Danish company SuperUsers , which has its headquarters in a 16th century castle overlooking the sea North of Copenhagen , is carving out a niche for itself as a Unix ‘ knowledge house ’ for Scandinavian and European countries . |
| 17 | There were of course exceptions such as Mrs Cellier , mid-wife and women 's champion who against all the odds managed to carve a niche for herself as a nurse , to hold her own whilst on trial at the Old Bailey , calmly storing in her pocket stones thrown at her whilst in the stocks and attempted to found a college of therapeutic midwifery . |
| 18 | For it seemed to her then that he was aware that her thoughts were troubled and , when he had no need whatsoever to put himself out , he had decided to take her mind off them for a brief while . |
| 19 | Can you just get up and look under your seat for me for a moment ? |
| 20 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 21 | Is it worth four hours of oxygen therapy for somebody with a cons er , an airways disease ? |
| 22 | She knew she ought to get a piece about him in a national newspaper . |
| 23 | After fourteen minutes , Walston Ricketts looked to have set up Wayne Holden , only for the goalkeeper to superbly have the ball spin off him for a corner . |
| 24 | She had a tension about her like a strung bow , and every bit as lethal , and she had a piercing beauty — why had he never marked it , he who had known her nearly three years ? that made his heart contract as he looked at her . |
| 25 | But it 's basically down on the down on the first floor , we 've set aside a a room which erm the people from the Occupational Health Centre here in Harlow , come up and do vision screening for us on a regular basis they come when do they come ? |
| 26 | ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man . |
| 27 | Although he was fourteen years younger than Alexander , Daniel too was in the habit of thinking of himself as a survivor , a battered and grizzled survivor . |
| 28 | Instead of thinking of it as a zero-sum game in which one side gains what the other loses , they are beginning to regard it as a positive-sum game from which both sides may gain , provided both play with skill and finesse . |
| 29 | No person acting under a proxy may vote in favour of any resolution which would directly or indirectly place him or any associate of his in a position to receive any remuneration out of the estate of the bankrupt ( r 8.6(1) ) . |
| 30 | This immediately puts the farmer on the defensive and reinforces the public 's perception of them as a complaining , dissatisfied group . |