Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most authorities lacked such a committee before this except in a shadow , non-statutory form within the majority party caucus . |
| 2 | So he persuades his man with a natural talent for the proper administration of worldly affairs that to neglect this because of a preoccupation with spiritual meditation could be unwise . |
| 3 | We know this because of a telegram sent by Kirk at 2300 hrs that night to the State Department in Washington , asking " urgently " for advice [ KP 107 ] . |
| 4 | ‘ Guys like Stefan and Boris will be more pumped up for that than for a preparation tournament . ’ |
| 5 | Dickens 's Will Fern , with first-hand knowledge of life inside one , complains of this female tendency : ‘ It looks well in a picter , I 've heerd say ; but there a n't weather in picters , and maybe ‘ t is fitter for that than for a place to live in . ’ |
| 6 | Of the 53 farmers ( 35% ) who chose evenings for the 3 hour course , 21 ( 40% ) agreed that they might not gain full benefit from an evening course and 32 ( 60% ) felt that they would gain as much as from a day time course . |
| 7 | I said , he eats about a as much as much as like a corn packet ! |
| 8 | However , a spring sowing of such seed will produce some plants , though the number will be fewer than from a summer sowing . |
| 9 | Robert Owen is not to be understood at all except as a man of his time , of the French Political and the British Industrial Revolutions ; nor fully to be understood except as a man of the first stage of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 10 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 11 | It 's all because of a computer error at the Cheltenham based University Central Council on Admissions . |
| 12 | A holiday , which was n't going to happen because a travel firm went bust , has now been saved … all because of a chance conversation in a car-park . |
| 13 | And that is how the Charge of the Light Brigade , the most celebrated and glorious calamity in British military history came about — all because of a failure in the effective use of grammar to make an appropriate connection with context . |
| 14 | All because of a brake that was |
| 15 | Discussion groups meet , theses are written and moral messages are read into each line of the scripts and all because of a Cheltenham wine merchant . |
| 16 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 17 | Rain can thrash its surface , wind can chop it up , and the carp still have to be outwitted ; probably even more than on a water where the natural food is less abundant and the carp are smaller and therefore not so cautious . |
| 18 | But if talk of a right were insisted upon it would be seen as no more than as a flourish of personification to emphasise that the trustee had legal obligations towards the grave . |
| 19 | If you 're driving in a flash car , driving a porsche you 'll pay more than in a mini . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're more than due a holiday , ’ her mother at once declared . |
| 21 | Note that even without the exact position of the original markers being known , the line from Bishops Cannings church through the WKLB and the centres varies by less than of a degree . |
| 22 | In the community tank where the decor consists of numerous caves made from rockwork , with a good depth of gravel to act as a filter medium , and where the fish tend to dig less than in a tank especially set up for breeding , then undergravel filtration will be adequate once the biological action in the gravel has become firmly established . |
| 23 | If you want to experiment at home , it 'll cost you far less than in a salon but you should get a friend to help put the rollers in to get perfectly even curls . |
| 24 | The physical effort required in speaking would also be less than against a background noise of heavy traffic . |
| 25 | Cos these are exactly the same except with a well and two erm those four holes missing . |
| 26 | My consideration of difference originated in a turn to history in order to repudiate one such theory — specifically , that which construed homosexuality as an embrace of the same because of a fear of the different . |
| 27 | If the pipe has frozen , the ice ‘ plug ’ is almost certainly outside , and the solution is the same as for a supply pipe — that is , the application of heat . |
| 28 | As far as " goods " are concerned , the situation is the same as with a sale of goods contract because the definition of goods excludes things in action of which copyright is an example . |
| 29 | Much the same as In a family . " |
| 30 | The level of detail may seem much the same as in a catalogue raisonné , but the stress falls in a different way . |