Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb base] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Small desert rodents and the Bedouin goat can survive short periods of dehydration which result in a 20–30 per cent weight loss . |
| 5 | It had not been lived in recently it had none of that slight warmth of humanity you find in a dwelling whose inhabitant has gone out for the day . |
| 6 | When I offer you champagne you laugh in a way that only you have , like a stream all at once a delighted cascade into this deep swirling pool of warm humour . |
| 7 | The type of teacher you get in a school like this is often enough a screwball , an outsider , or so I should guess . |
| 8 | Let me give you one or two specific examples , I 'm always interested , having been in a college for thirty five years in adult education , I 'm interested in the primary schools and I must admit I get more job satisfaction the moment we go in a primary schools than ever I had when I was in the college itself ! |
| 9 | Crossing that distance I suppose in a hurry was going to take you erm considerably less than a second . |
| 10 | Isolation from other artists is a disadvantage , so I was pleased to discover that quite by chance I live in an area literally teeming with all varieties of visual artists , most working in studios in their homes . |
| 11 | but the minute you walk in a shop , pretty curtains , Austrian blinds , a new shower |
| 12 | Moreover , though he devotes several pages to a description of the work done in these oil refineries , Gallie does not address the question of whether the technology itself differs in the French as compared to the British plants , nor whether details of the work organisation itself differ in a non-random way between the two countries . |
| 13 | he added , ‘ I know that has meant taking younger men as lifeboat crew to withstand the battering they receive in a heavy sea . |
| 14 | And from C P R E's point of view we we would feel that the best way to do that is to is to reconvene if that 's the right word , the forum of Greater York authorities to look in more detail at at each of the sectors and under undertake the the technical comparison I think in a in in a fair and reasonable way which which I do n't think we 've really we 've really achieved during erm three hours of discussion today . |
| 15 | An easy way to do this is keep track of the units of alcohol you drink in a week . |
| 16 | As an Inspector you work in a small team and operate from one of more than 20 offices in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 17 | If you ca n't find the pattern you want in a vinyl , you can protect paper wallcoverings with a polyurethane varnish , but it may yellow the pattern slightly . |
| 18 | However , I can not get excited by them ( and that applies to the passion they generate in a sexual as well as a moralistic sense ) and would certainly not ever describe them as sublime . |
| 19 | Devise a recipe incorporating potatoes which shows what a valuable role they play in a healthy eating regime . |
| 20 | The claim that concepts derive their meaning at least in part from the role they play in a theory is supported by the following historical reflections . |
| 21 | We consider that shoppers need to be made fully aware that a seller 's commission might make the advice they get in a shop or garage at least potentially biased . |
| 22 | Clients will be allowed all the freedom they require in a flexible , tailor-made schedule . |
| 23 | However , there are a number of post-war schools of thought which lie in a direct line of descent and which continue a distinctive democratic elitist pattern of argument . |
| 24 | He said , well I only live next door you know in a , in a village school quite obviously they all lived nearby and he was only gone about two or three minutes and he came back and once again , the young lady will know , but erm men might not know , I know , skirt hangers , you know skirt hangers , they 're on springs are n't they ? |
| 25 | But the treaty on European union signed at Maastricht gave voting and candidacy rights to citizens of the union who live in a member state without being a national of that state . |
| 26 | Although the majority of modern word processing packages have a built-in Thesaurus , their content is limited and you will often find yourself looking up the word you require in a book . |
| 27 | This model incorporates all different categories of information which interact in an ongoing manner to constrain the processing of a sentence . |
| 28 | ‘ VR is a world you enter in a waking state . |
| 29 | Erm I 've got a Mercury account at home and I 've got it set up so that after the Mercury number you type in a user code , and one of my user codes is for the business . |
| 30 | In this section , we look at two important questions you should ask about any assertion you make in an essay : |