Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main clause , for its part , expresses a judgement about or a reaction to the fact of the infinitive event 's having acceded to existence . |
| 2 | ‘ I love Harvey , ’ and little noises came out of the sphere of hair as if a canary was eating a hearty meal of seeds . |
| 3 | You fitted into my heart as if a space had always been there waiting . ’ |
| 4 | As discussed above , a more robust recognition system may result from allowing multiple interpretations of a segment , and letting lexical access make the final decision about whether a segment is or , for example , in the context of or , since neither gis , nor kif are valid lexical sequences . |
| 5 | For example , if there was some slight uncertainty about whether an input segment was as legion or as in lesion the ambiguity at the lexical level would not be enough to resolve the ambiguity at the phoneme level . |
| 6 | An application is not necessarily unreasonable because it is inconvenient for the addressee of the application or causes him a lot of work or may make him vulnerable to future claims , or is addressed to a person who is not an officer or employee of or a contractor with the company in administration , but all these will be relevant factors , together no doubt with many others . |
| 7 | Each is marked by an engagement with and a retreat from the world , a constant movement backwards and forwards which ends , if one stays in the profession , largely , though not wholly , in a withdrawal , for these are the picturing not the tinkering trades . |
| 8 | There is still no sign of a buyer for the main consultancy business , Hay , and uncertainty over whether an agreement is imminent on Gartner Group . |
| 9 | If however , you had been mistaken about the location of and and the assignments had been reversed , the effective starting-points would be and and the movement towards equality would involve a loss to and a gain to of , yielding a net gain of 83-10-9 as by construction . |
| 10 | What needs to be explored with the students is the effect of uncertainty on whether an asset should be included or not . |
| 11 | Always try to make it look as if someone is in the house — leave a light on or a radio playing . |
| 12 | A fall in the real wage rate from w 1 to w 2 results in both a rise in the notional demand for labour to and a rise in the notional supply of output to Y 2 . |
| 13 | She had a long , loose dark brown skirt on and a cotton shirt and waistcoat . |
| 14 | Clearly it is of interest to know whether the memories of witnesses to crimes are likely to be altered by the often stressful nature of being a witness to or a victim of a crime . |
| 15 | The assessment of whether an odour problem amounts to a statutory nuisance within s.92 of the Public Health Act 1936 is a most difficult decision and then to justify that decision before a court equally so . |
| 16 | There should be more — even if , on inspection , the examples cited can again be seen as part of or an extension of the practice of good personnel management . |
| 17 | They are at once a replication of and a threat to the unitary governing structures of the society in which he lives . |
| 18 | Kind of but a cross between the ringlets you do and the ringlets that I had and the type of hair I 've got . |
| 19 | And until there is evidence to prove any of these claims it is best to try to make your own judgement of whether a method works or does not work with your learners . |
| 20 | As the book unfolds , the condition of trees becomes an index of or a metaphor for the health of the surrounding culture . |
| 21 | Fisher 's study also suggested that recall was not a good measure of whether a road sign had been heeded . |
| 22 | ‘ You have been entrusted into your own keeping as if an orphan had been committed to your trust . |
| 23 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 24 | The test of whether a surface needs disinfection can be made by applying the definition to a working situation . |
| 25 | Exclusive possession as a concept for identifying tenancies does not drive a coach and horses through the Rent Acts but rather puts the cart before the horse : a phrase used to describe the collective rights of the tenant is inappropriate as a test of whether a tenancy has in fact been created . |
| 26 | the test of whether a plaintiff had acted reasonably in bringing a case late was an objective one not subjective . |
| 27 | But me only objective test of whether an organism has tree will is whether its behavior can be predicted . |
| 28 | The determination of whether a capital instrument represents a liability is based on whether it contains an obligation for the issuer to transfer economic benefits ( paragraph 21 ) . |
| 29 | The determination of whether a fabric is grain- or mud-supported otherwise takes considerable experience to determine from thin sections , which are essentially two-dimensional . |
| 30 | The issue of whether a church represents a significant body of opinion is a matter for the decision of the licensing board . |