Example sentences of "[det] [prep] an [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campese dismissed the matter , but when he chose to put less confidence in the cover on the field and deliberately knocked down Peter Winterbottom 's pass , Bevan should have taken that as an admission that the so-far impregnable ‘ Gold Wall ’ was about to be breached . |
| 2 | Now y'know you can come up with a description of that as an ellipse but in exactly the same shape , in a slightly different context , yeah , you know it 's actually circular and it 's a hoop and your perception of the object is different . |
| 3 | I took that as an indication that I could play him every match . |
| 4 | Just walk around with that for an hour or so . |
| 5 | But one does feel sometimes — is a film entitled to sweep you so compellingly into someone else 's life so completely that for an hour and a half you are them — is it then entitled to drop you just when this character is in a perfectly hopeless situation ? |
| 6 | The Lonrho case establishes this as an exception but leaves the court with the problem of determining what is meant by an ascertainable class . |
| 7 | So do they see this as an imposition or |
| 8 | The French King seems to have taken this as an insult and , if he had not already been in touch with the Poitevin rebels , he very soon was . |
| 9 | He goes , do you know what one of them is , he goes , it 's just sort of like evolutionary thing between the ape and man , and he goes , it 's sort of part way between , and it 's sort of like some sort of creature , and it 's half like an ape and half like a human , and he goes , and you 're one of them he goes , you 're one of them Gran , he goes , you 've got a brain like one of them , as well , and Gran just like went oh shut up Ryan . |
| 10 | It is n't my amplifier , as I have tried this with an SG and it was n't effected . |
| 11 | She smiled and winked at Marco — all this in an instant after the flare exploded and before she threw herself down , arms and legs spread wide , at the shrieking Perks below . |
| 12 | GIVEN THAT Jacob 's Mouse have been involved in this rock ‘ n ’ roll malarkey in some form or another from an age when your hack still believed a bosom was Captain Birdseye 's right hand man on the SS Fishfinger , you would , perhaps — just like the kids of Bury St Edmunds — expect Sam , Jebb and Hugo to be precocious little shits with heads as big as Frank Sidebottom 's . |
| 13 | And this on an island where there appeared to be next to no gold and a few sparse cotton plants . |
| 14 | Although nothing became of this beyond an agreement that there were widely different views on the matter , that same year the Government of Australia proposed that the so called cull grenade should be banned . |
| 15 | In some construction contracts the decision of the engineer or adjudicator may be that of an expert but still be reviewable by arbitration and therefore not final , although it will be binding until it is reviewed by arbitration : see 6.8.4 . |
| 16 | His voice mimicked that of an aristocrat and Kate laughed . |
| 17 | The others have a rank which is below that of an officer but above that of an ordinary soldier . ’ |
| 18 | Even if Tommy had been right on both counts and Charlie voiced those opinions , it would only be his word against that of an officer and a gentleman . |
| 19 | In the different sense of the priest ‘ representing ’ the people to God in worship the role is more that of an intermediary or go-between — a role more akin to that of a Member of Parliament who understands the needs of his constituents and represents them to the Government in Parliament . |
| 20 | When all the possible beneficiaries are of full age and under no disability ( such as that of an infant or lunatic ) , they may put an end to the trust by requiring the trustee to transfer the property to them or to dispose of it according to their directions ; and this is so in spite of any direction to the contrary in the settlement , such as a direction that payment is not to be made to a beneficiary till he reaches the age of 25 . |
| 21 | The distributor acts in a different capacity to that of an agent because he is the actual buyer and seller of the goods , whereas the agent works principally on commission . |
| 22 | It can be hard to leave your work behind when you go home , especially if something has happened to upset you , such as an illness or death . |
| 23 | But the remedies given by the sections include personal remedies , such as an order that the recipient of property transfer it back to the company , or an order that the other party to a transaction pay a sum of money to the trustee of the bankrupt 's estate . |
| 24 | An account number or clear reference such as an order or delivery note number for identifying the invoice or statement . |
| 25 | ROI is here at its most valuable as a familiar , easily understood diagnostic tool for appraising the short-term economic performance of an organizational unit such as an SBU or division , decoupled from the evaluation of managers ' performance . |
| 26 | Sociobiology 's central idea is that an organism such as an animal or human being acts and competes for resources in such a way as to maximise its reproductive success . |
| 27 | What happens is that a matter particle , such as an electron or a quark , emits a force-carrying particle . |
| 28 | Sanctions can be informal , such as an approving or disapproving glance , or formal , such as a reward or a fine given by an official body . |
| 29 | When it is true that an effect-the wine bottle 's being open-is my means , it is not such as an effect but as a cause of something else , which other thing is not a means to it . |
| 30 | I would follow her around the house , clinging on to her skirt , unwilling to let her out of my sight , and demanding to be fed with some small token such as an apple or a piece of bread . |