Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expertise and experience count for nothing if a fighter is n't mentally prepared before he enters the ring . |
| 2 | People on legal aid will only be able to get the most inexperienced lawyers to work for them if a plan to set fixed hourly rates goes ahead , the Law Society warns . |
| 3 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 4 | Foreignness for me provided a difference that moved me in a way that sexual difference never did ’ ( ‘ Home and Abroad ’ , 44 , my emphasis ) . |
| 5 | And it was perfect for me because a lot of the vibrato that I had developed over the years suddenly sounded more like me , because the vibrato bar was n't there taking up the slack and giving way every time I applied vibrato . |
| 6 | It may involve the agency 's casting team ( which may be a specialist in a large agency , but is usually the creative group head and the TV producer in a small one ) in seemingly endless poring over directories of actors , and actually seeing a large number of them before a decision can be made . |
| 7 | If the beach is crowded with swimmers , sail well clear of them since a board travelling even at low speed could do severe damage to someone 's head . |
| 8 | Tennis Courts are still in the District 's possession but , to date the tennis club has made no move to make use of them although a meeting had been arranged . |
| 9 | Tennis Courts are still in the District 's possession but , to date the tennis club has made no move to make use of them although a meeting had been arranged . |
| 10 | This could occur where someone has a lien over the goods , i.e. a right to retain possession of them until a debt is paid . |
| 11 | A small painting of his provided a moment of calm reflection among those of his more raucous colleagues in Alana Heiss ' ‘ Slow Painting ’ show last summer at P.S.I . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm fully prepared to step in front of her if a gunman suddenly pops up . |
| 13 | But they obviously felt they could n't make too much of an example of him because a lot of people , mainly on Sky TV , had already judged the issue . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps I also used these silly criticisms of mine as a kind of buffer against the way I was starting to feel about you . |
| 15 | Anybody who 's anybody knows that a pair of brand new trainers — bright laces undone , tongues out , displaying that all important brand name — says more about you than a wallet full of gold credit cards ’ , you know it 's time to leave the country and live on a desert island in your bare feet or search the loft for your ex-issue Diadora Borg Elite or Stan Smiths . |
| 16 | A walk before breakfast every day or exercise done after work every day — say a fifteen-minute run , a game of tennis or another walk — is very much better for you than a game of rugby once a week and nothing else . |
| 17 | " Look , " his mother had said , making him watch with her while a tide spent itself . |
| 18 | I was with him when a TV interviewer asked him , ‘ Now Alec , tell us about your past . ’ |
| 19 | If the court wishes to regulate the child 's contact with anyone while a supervision order is in force it must make a contact order under s8 . |
| 20 | Well it should be in the file and I asked for this and keep it before me when a scheme is set up , A we have a map which I must have sent out letters , |
| 21 | ‘ You 're an offensive shit , Bellybutton , ’ I said in a very friendly voice , but he had already turned his attention away from me because a car had suddenly appeared in the yard . |
| 22 | The choice was taken from her when a gust of wind suddenly snatched the door from her fingers and slammed it tight shut . |
| 23 | Paige had been happy to house-sit for him until a relative could arrive , and in the meantime she had done a little searching around of her own in the markets . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the night was nearly ruined for everybody when a horde of beery Welsh rugby fans descended on the venue and proceeded to expose their gargantuan bellies in a threatening manner and generally menace the anorexic pop people present . |
| 25 | She stood on the threshold of that world when war broke out and she went to work in a factory ; it began to open up for her when a photographer first spotted her and the camera became her true love . |
| 26 | We always tried to get some payment to them before a term started |
| 27 | It was obvious that the air raid siren had never been much more to them than a bore . |
| 28 | He meant no more to me than a painting or a sculpture . |
| 29 | At the time West Ham was little more to me than a name , most directly associated with a football team that had a reputation for style and steadfast support in spite of limited success on the field . |
| 30 | Miss Evans said , ‘ You might say he 's been more like a father to me than a brother . ’ |