Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb -s] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jo 's lesbianism is also important to the way she dresses ; she does n't want to look what she calls ‘ too femme ’ , and says that when she wears a skirt she gets a lot more hassle from men . |
| 2 | Out of her black handbag she brings a packet of Silk Cut cigarettes . |
| 3 | ‘ If he has this horse he has a chance . |
| 4 | Well look at the speed it takes a disc onto the hard disc ! |
| 5 | In ret in terms of inward investment the economic development strategy focuses on inward investment it has a role to play . |
| 6 | For the defendant it means a life without the restrictions and overcrowding of prison , where the only contact with the family is at visiting times . |
| 7 | Also known as the COCKATRICE it has a cock 's comb on its head and it is born from an egg laid by a rooster and hatched by a snake . |
| 8 | Actively pursuing further ideas for community development and local economic regeneration it presents a challenge to conventional development rationale which focuses upon maximising the leverage of private sector investment for the minimum necessary public expense . |
| 9 | As a result he reaches a conclusion , which may seem astonishing , though is easily open to misinterpretation , ‘ The truth is that catallaxics is the science which describes the only overall order that comprehends nearly all mankind , and that the economist is therefore entitled to insist that conduciveness to that order be accepted as a standard by which all particular institutions are judged . ’ |
| 10 | In addition to the subjects discussed in this chapter it contains a list of rulers from the English settlement to 1154 , a table of regnal years ; exchequer years ; a list of popes from Gregory I to Paul VI , and a tabulation of saints ’ days and other festivals . |
| 11 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 12 | In effect he has a period of grace . |
| 13 | In effect it becomes a reflection of an almost puritanical social containment of the individual , with metaphoric import as a statement of correctness for the society outside . |
| 14 | The course is a joint project of Spurgeon 's College and the Oasis Trust and in effect it provides a choice for candidates for the Baptist ministry . |
| 15 | Leave my do n't destroy that carbon it costs a pound for a |
| 16 | Yesterday the education committee agreed Gillbrook can continue using Lowfields fields on condition it accepts a licence that prevents the school from claiming the land if it opts out . |
| 17 | In essence it becomes a matrix of connected businesses that normally have much weaker direction from the corporate centre than a Stage 2 company . |
| 18 | The man was given a 2 year probation order on condition he attends a clinic . |
| 19 | She has creases at the corners of her eyes , and when she lowers her head to avoid Howard 's serious gaze she has a fold of flesh under her jaw . |
| 20 | No that 's a dish she wants a box . |
| 21 | In addition to the objections already raised , such as the promotion of the goal of utilitarianism by questionable means , we can point to the fact that as compared with sarvodaya it shows a lack of humanity . |
| 22 | Although classed as a village it has a town hall in the market place . |
| 23 | Originally built for food manufacture it incorporates a number of free standing cold stores which can be removed if required . |
| 24 | The Faculty asks much of its students ; in return it offers a course programme that rewards and repays resourceful study and academic success . |
| 25 | I suppose if you are always breaking the law it creates a lot of pressure . ’ |
| 26 | Once a court has upheld a provision as being part of common law it creates a precedent to be followed by other courts . |
| 27 | Well it 's like a big lever and it has a , at the bottom it has a bar which the very high tensile steel is fixed into . |
| 28 | So for the animal-watcher it becomes a challenge , with every brightly coloured species encountered , to find out what particular advantage there is in giving up the quiet life and facing daily exposure . |
| 29 | In his present incumbency he takes a company into its twelfth season this spring looking remarkably solid and healthy . |
| 30 | Excited by this discovery he announces a novel and profound moral principle , a new addendum to the catalogue of human rights . |