Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] a [noun sg] a " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | The council should ‘ in appropriate cases ’ add to an adjudication a recommendation that an apology be made to the complainant . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some get about a pound a week , while on girl gets a pound a day , another five pounds a fortnight . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose in a way a man remains a child until he has his own . ’ |
| 8 | Article 15 , in particular allows a state party to the Convention to take measures derogating from some of its obligations under the Convention ‘ In time of war or other public emergency threatening the life of the nation ’ to the extent strictly required by the exigencies of the situation , whilst many of the individual articles establishing particular rights allow to a state a measure of liberty of action in order to secure the public interest . |
| 9 | In the novel I can believe he is saying such things , perhaps because I am hearing his voice in my head , in the privacy of my own mind ( I am thinking him ) and I am extremely relieved to hear him say them because his words bring to an end a certain kind of conflict between himself and Connie . |
| 10 | The association cause for the ending of criminalisa criminalisation , the word , of pensioner 's , who 's only fault is their poverty , it is confident that the British people will support this cause and that their protest will be , speedily bring to an end a situation which is the shame of our Country , that 's signed by the President of the British Pensioner 's and Fred the Secretary . |
| 11 | The bars here are unique in that unlike the rest of ‘ puritan ’ Germany , they only close for an hour a day to let the cleaners in ( many bars even pour drink through a loophole by cleaning half the bar at a time — prost ! ) |
| 12 | The two boys become in a sense a composite hero , complementary to one another and useful to the story in a purely formal way . |
| 13 | If I 've been working a lot I deep cleanse with a mask a few times a week . |
| 14 | They belong to a world a hundred years away from us . |
| 15 | Take as an example a simple sore throat . |
| 16 | If we take as an example a fall-rise without extra pitch height : then something symbolised as could be any of the following |
| 17 | The pilot stationed the Lynx in a controlled hover above a dell a hundred yards away from the target . |
| 18 | The most promising such theory is the theory of ‘ mental models ’ , whose crucial insight is that readers extract from a text a ‘ model ’ of the situation in the ‘ real or imaginary ) world that the text is about . |
| 19 | The nature of Burne-Jones 's aims and predilections in art are well-enough known by this time , and have been defined by himself absolutely fitted to this thought : ‘ I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was , never will be — in a light better than any light that ever shone — in a land no one can define or remember , only desire . ’ |
| 20 | We either treat as a corporation a group of persons — usually the governing body of the institution , though it may include individuals who are beneficiaries and have no share in the government ( for instance , the scholars of a college ) — or else the property of the institution must be vested in a number of individual trustees , who are bound to apply and deal with it for the purposes of the institution . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the gap between movements of this kind ( which have sometimes been called ‘ pre-political ’ ) and modern social movements remains large , for the latter exist on a vastly greater scale , are more directly involved in political conflict , are influenced by more rigorous and elaborate ideologies , and have as a rule a more enduring , less ephemeral , character . |
| 22 | Policemen are not usually intellectuals and have as a rule a distrust of them as animals of a different breed . |
| 23 | Res restoration job you 're talking er if you actually work on a vehicle a week , talking five hundred quid a week . |
| 24 | It 's no good preaching sermons to young people about the value of labour if all they do is to guide a piece of metal into a press and tread on a pedal a hundred times a day … |