Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside , a slippery walk soon leads to a stream flowing across the line of approach : this , followed to the left , vanishes under a wall of rock , but a few paces upstream bring as a reward a vision of beauty . |
| 2 | The highest court in Britain is the House of Lords , but when they sit as a court the Lords consist only of a panel of members who have long judicial experience and who have been appointed as Law Lords . |
| 3 | I cite as an example the urban areas of the city which I partially represent — I speak for all of Birmingham when I speak on this issue , and I am trying to raise an important matter in which there may be some common cause . |
| 4 | ‘ You could video that and sell it as what you expect from a player the control , the passing , the will to take responsibility , to work , to retrieve situations . |
| 5 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 6 | These include the different rates of production for speech , and writing , the degree of standardisation in writing as opposed to speech and the absence in writing of intonational features that can only be compensated for by sentence patterns which provide to a degree the emphases more readily available in speech . |
| 7 | It is probable therefore that from 6d to 9d a week is as much as labourers ' wives in general , hereabout , earn on an average the year through . |
| 8 | They also remove at a stroke the central workplace the bedrock of strong trade union organization . |
| 9 | A series of record cards are produced which reveal at a glance the condition and effectiveness of the stock in each interest category , and an ‘ annual replacement target ’ is worked out which serves for the selector as the target figure of acquisitions for his category during the year . |
| 10 | Consider for a minute the tenacity that the concept of " form " has had in design even amongst those most determined to eradicate the idea of " aesthetics " . |
| 11 | Consider for a moment the bustle of the scene a hundred years ago , with horse-drawn barges and occasional steam tugs nearing the end of their journeys or perhaps setting out on the return trip towards the sea . |
| 12 | Consider for a moment the following : Bugs Bunny — gay ? |
| 13 | Consider for a moment the question of legitimate presence . |
| 14 | If we consider for a moment the extent to which the hero-kings of early agricultural societies did indeed come to play a maternal , provident role with regard to those dependent on them we can perhaps begin to see the truth of the claim that they became the heirs of the matriarchs . |
| 15 | All there is in this thunder is not relief but a revival of ‘ aethereal rumours ’ which ‘ only at nightfall … / Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus . ’ |
| 16 | Consider as an example the following data : |
| 17 | Such control will promote tight intra-system nutrient cycling and obviate to a degree the need for artificial fertilisers . |
| 18 | The council should ‘ in appropriate cases ’ add to an adjudication a recommendation that an apology be made to the complainant . |
| 19 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
| 20 | That is , if you introduce into a cell a protein molecule with a novel sequence of amino acids , the cell can not synthesize nucleic acid molecules with a base sequence coding for that protein . |
| 21 | the inspector for pastoral care work co-ordinate with a committee the promotion and development of the pastoral curriculum through INSET |
| 22 | Some get about a pound a week , while on girl gets a pound a day , another five pounds a fortnight . |
| 23 | Johnson , who has presided over eight matches since Cambridge dismissed controversial manager John Beck , said : ‘ I know for a fact the players and the fans are behind me . |
| 24 | From what he told me I know for a fact the IRA did n't use Mick during their bombing campaign in England at the beginning of the war . ’ |
| 25 | And they know for a fact the minute your kids grab them that you 've got to pay . |
| 26 | Shoppers punch into a keyboard the type of meat they want and how many they 'll be cooking for . |
| 27 | As Fig. 4 shows , the relationship , of course , is negative : the earlier women marry in a country the more are found infecund at age 20–24 years ; a clear suggestion of long lasting infecundity as a consequence of early , premature marriages and conjugal unions . |
| 28 | A I exercise , get on a treadmill every now and then … ‘ |
| 29 | When we drive down a road the road is the future : it is ahead of us . |
| 30 | It is helpful to bear in mind these recurrent instruction words ( " discuss " , " assess " , etc. ) as you contemplate in an examination a list of questions that you have to choose between . |