Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I 've just been saying about the importance of time and movement in Proust 's novel give rise I think to a further question . |
| 2 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 3 | But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’ |
| 4 | Unless one supposes there to be two categorially different kinds of appearances presented to the mind it will then seem that this flat circle must be the only object of visual perception , and the round globe I seem to see , the epistemic appearance , must really be a judgement I mistake for a sensation . |
| 5 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 6 | Pon de Telly dem talk fe a while |
| 7 | Towards the end of this review I put in a call to Ovation 's distributors , Korg UK , to check on some details , and after raving on about what a great guitar I though it was I was told that Korg did n't want it back . |
| 8 | If reading is complex , so also is writing ; and when we come to the mystery of literary composition , we can scarcely begin to explain the operations of the creative mind which result in a sequence of words on the written page . |
| 9 | There are , for example , passages in the Old Testament which speak of a ‘ sabbath rest ’ for nature . |
| 10 | The typical finding of a left hemifield superiority in facial recognition is , however , consistent with other findings reviewed in this chapter which point to a relative dominance of the right hemisphere in dealing with non-verbal events in general and visuo-spatial processes in particular . |
| 11 | Such a definition also excludes approaches to modernity and modernism which focus upon an outlook or attitude usually restricted to elite sections of the population such as artists and planners ( for example Berman 1983 ) . |
| 12 | It is perfectly possible to obtain all the protein you need from a balanced daily diet . |
| 13 | Whatever figure you choose as a hero , you will hardly be able to keep out something of yourself . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's just the horse you need for a competitive race like the Andy Capp Handicap . ’ |
| 15 | It 's because that 's the sort of trace you get with an oxygen minimum around eight hundred metres . |
| 16 | The report said that UNESCO had not accepted the need for budgetary restraint and was still excessively politicized , adding : " The leverage we retain as a sought-after non-member … is greater than we would wield simply by being one vote among 161 others . " |
| 17 | For musicians , the lure of the West must be strong , and for reasons as understandable as basic working conditions and standard of living , but as a result we stand at a crossroads : how can we possibly avoid the continuing standardization of orchestral , instrumental and vocal production , and continue to have the opportunity of hearing music played in a style and tradition for which it was probably originally conceived . |
| 18 | First , many aspects of every action we perform for a reason are not uniquely determined by reasons . |
| 19 | Difficult for bread-and-butter manufacturers , never mind the makers of cars so far off the scale ( up to £80,000 for the 600SEL Merc and twice that for the Bentley ) that by any rational thinking they belong to a different era altogether — one without recession , a war just over and all the current uncertainties . |
| 20 | Stick foods are currently very popular — with a lot of air in the mix they float like a Li-Lo . |
| 21 | Such changing adviser practices seem to have had an impact upon arts advisers which can still be observed in the tension they feel between a commitment to the professional development of the general class teacher and the supervision of centralized performance activities ( Tweddell , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | In the third term they embark on a general survey of the History of Medicine and Science which allows them to put other subjects which the study into their historical context . |
| 23 | Small desert rodents and the Bedouin goat can survive short periods of dehydration which result in a 20–30 per cent weight loss . |
| 24 | Er , for the most part , industry , er we have refused to pay additional costs at the government level which arise as a result of the slip er induced by industry 's own er causes . |
| 25 | So now if I need a ‘ new ’ piece of equipment I go to a reputable second-hand wood working machinery dealer . |
| 26 | And I suppose he that 's an area where one is worried about quantity and quality because it 's in a way you can always provide more quantity I imagine at a lesser cost by going into a conurbation than you can by going into rural areas . |
| 27 | Working with , while at the same time competing against other schools , raises questions about management which bear on a point made by Rutter et al. |
| 28 | De Matteo ( 1977 ) has argued that one has to understand sign language in terms of its visual imagery and he has particularly highlighted the syntactic devices used in ASL which derive from a visual representation of events . |
| 29 | Although it is the traditional culture which continues to manage the western world , Snow argued , only science can feed that world , create wealth , provide hope for the poor and the sick , and forge the essential links between intellect and practicality which make for a proper wisdom and awareness of moral and social issues . |
| 30 | For instance , he will take a wooden bowl , burn it and then , using the pieces of charred wood which result as a medium , make a drawing of a bowl . |