Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] an [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the slogan , however carelessly drafted , means something more than banality ; it stands for an attitude that is important and open to challenge . |
| 2 | She looks like an angel and she 's a slut … . ’ |
| 3 | BID FOR CGI LOOKS LIKE AN ADMISSION THAT IBMers CA N'T CUT IT ANY MORE … |
| 4 | Paris writes with an authority and fastidiousness that is breathtaking . |
| 5 | This , the first of a series of articles into the existence of an underlying geometrical pattern which governs our countryside , starts with an investigation as to whether the Circles of Churches discovered by Messrs David Wood ( Genisis ) and Henry Lincoln ( with Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh in The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail ) have a basis in fact . |
| 6 | Thus one starts with an indication that more than one person may be affected by the problem , and that there may have been a crisis or trigger-event leading to a referral for assistance at this point . |
| 7 | But usually it finishes within an hour and a half the next session . |
| 8 | But such an explanation is surely ridiculous to the modern reader forced to realize how far he stands from an age when mythological explanations were permissible . |
| 9 | On the tragedy and the hilarity of being in an uncomfortable place : Yasser Arafat jokes that he lives in an aeroplane because being made homeless , he might as well live in the air . |
| 10 | Defoe was much more impressed with the vitality of Lewes , or even Petworth , ‘ a large and handsome country market town , and very populous , and as it stands upon an ascent and is dry and healthy , it is full of gentlemens families , and good well built houses both in the town and the neighbourhood ’ . |
| 11 | If a variable measured in the course of an experiment settles down with time , to a constant , or a maintained oscillation , it seems reasonable to assume that it is approaching some stable , maintained course that corresponds to an equilibrium or periodic solution |
| 12 | So it points towards an infection but it does n't prove it . |
| 13 | Well what happens with an acid and an alkali ? |
| 14 | this is your way of working back rather than try and remember every little detail because a lot of them are similar , easy to get confused between them but you think well hey what would happen , what happens with an acid and a base , what happens with an acid and an alkali , now those two are virtually identical they they are more or less identical . |
| 15 | this is your way of working back rather than try and remember every little detail because a lot of them are similar , easy to get confused between them but you think well hey what would happen , what happens with an acid and a base , what happens with an acid and an alkali , now those two are virtually identical they they are more or less identical . |
| 16 | Well the easiest one perhaps is what happens with an acid and an alkali . |
| 17 | Intrapersonal conflict occurs in an individual where there are several equally attractive options but only one may be chosen . |
| 18 | Delegation of authority occurs in an organisation where a superior gives to a subordinate the discretion to make decisions within a certain sphere of influence . |
| 19 | In the human breast it acts as an antioestrogen whereas oestrogenic effects have been reported on human vaginal epithelium and endometrium . |
| 20 | Although the role of vitamin E in nerve function is unknown , Diplock and Lucy from the Royal Free Hospital Medical school have suggested that it acts as an anti-oxidant and protects the membrane of the cell by mopping up reactive free radicals . |
| 21 | It acts as an information and guidance centre in relation to European developments and policies and keeps a collection of relevant periodicals and publications . |
| 22 | Thus the quiteron acts as an amplifier or a switch , just as a conventional semiconductor might . |
| 23 | She sings and acts like an angel and is extremely pleased because Wolfgang has served her extraordinarily well . ’ |
| 24 | Silvikrin Pumping Spray acts like an aerosol but uses pressurised air to deliver a fine , concentrated spray . |
| 25 | In female worms the intestine terminates in an anus while in males there is a cloaca which functions as an anus , and into which opens the vas deferens and through which the copulatory spicules may be extruded . |
| 26 | Without being offered a particle of evidence to support the accusation the young man sees in an instant that it is true , and abandons the whole project . |
| 27 | Section 71(4) compendiously provides that ‘ a person benefits from an offence if he obtains property as a result of or in connection with its commission and his benefits is the value of the property so obtained . ’ |
| 28 | If it ends in an O it 's probably not always but probably going to be L and if it ends in an A as he says there it 's a good point it 's probably a word . |
| 29 | It has a digestive tract that ends in an anus and a group of tentacles around the mouth , enclosed within the two shell valves . |
| 30 | But yesterday 's announcement really amounts to an admission that the Government badly bungled its first attempt to lay down by law how English should be taught in schools — only two years ago . |