Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , the final cherry on the snake-chasing cake concludes my hysteria with a warm flow of urine down my leg . |
| 2 | The work of Askew and Ross ( 1982 ) stresses the ever-present fantasy images of the tough , macho heroes and challenges its appropriateness as a sole model of manhood . |
| 3 | I 'd rather be a paid-up churchgoer with a sense of pride in myself and my family than a part-time schizophrenic who lives her life in a fog of garbled third-hand mysticism and a building that houses goats , chickens and , from the feel of it , fleas like small sharks . |
| 4 | Indiscriminate use of praise devalues its power as a motivator and reward . |
| 5 | The collection owes its origin to a major bequest of drawings and sculptures by the neo-classical artist John Flaxman in the 1840s and was further enriched by a bequest of German graphic works by George Grote in 1872 . |
| 6 | A number of other dinosaur bones found nearby are currently on display at Swindon Museum — an exhibition which doubtless owes its popularity to a movie that 's doing rather well at the box office . |
| 7 | Duddingston village owes its existence to a church built by monks from Kelso in 1143 . |
| 8 | The News International ban was arguably effected along party lines , but it owes its place as a landmark in censorship , and censorship in libraries in particular , to the fact that legislation and hence the State was used to lift censorship rather than to implement it . |
| 9 | But it owes its status as a national monument to the way it has reflected from its opening in 1796 to its closure in 1924 the most dramatic and moving events in the history of modern Irish nationalism . |
| 10 | The company recognises it owes its status as a major world force in fast food to the quality of its products and the quality of its franchisees . |
| 11 | It owes its effectiveness to a patented twin-nozzle diverter and clever bowl design . |
| 12 | Overladen buses trundle about the city , and a taxi fleet pensioned off in colonial days still plies its trade like a permanent veteran car rally . |
| 13 | Generalization to both test stimuli ( to B and to C ) has its origin in a common source ( the responding governed by A ) , thus eliminating the problem identified with the between-subjects design of Table 5.1 . |
| 14 | Generalization to both test stimuli thus has its origin in a common source ( the associative strength acquired by stimulus A during aversive conditioning ) , eliminating the possibility , inherent in the between-group comparison made for the results in Fig. 5.6 , that differences in the associative strength of stimulus A might be responsible for the outcome . |
| 15 | This Hawking radiation has its origin in a quantum effect hitherto neglected in the previous discussion of black holes , namely that the vacuum is in a state of constant activity because of the creation and subsequent annihilation of particle-anti-particle pairs . |
| 16 | The elephant not only has its beginning in a single cell , a fertilized egg . |
| 17 | The ideal treatment , irrespective of the antibiotic , is one which has its effect with a single dose . |
| 18 | The notion of identity has its source in a " fiction of the imagination " , whereby an object is represented as invariable through a supposed variation of time . |
| 19 | Each of these aspects has its place as a foundation for faith , though the church 's part is not so much essential to faith as an expression of faith . |
| 20 | Zande consider that this innate capacity has its seat in a distinct physical organ within the witch 's stomach . |
| 21 | Although we both have circadian rhythms which divide our time up into days , the fly lives its day at a much faster pace than we do . |
| 22 | Reviewer Ron Rum said of their show at London 's Old Kent Road Ambulance Station : ‘ They play loud , fast , sharp and with a stringent discipline for guitar interplay which develops their sound into a splendid , if not technical , terse pop noise . ’ |
| 23 | A young woman in a spotted dress exposes her breast in a surprised and friendly way , while another , gawky and perplexed , lies on a primitive bed as if wondering why she is there . |
| 24 | She holds her novel like a hymnal . |
| 25 | For this reason , instead of joining in the stampede for the latest and newest , I suggest it would be more prudent to wait for a year or two to see if the strawberry blonde holds her place as a glamour queen , or in reality is a blowzy old dame hobbling into the has-beens in the back row of the chorus , where she will find plenty to keep her company . |
| 26 | Capitalist accompanies its development with a fanfare about freedom of choice , free markets , and all the rest of it . |
| 27 | Wearing a Dupatta over one 's head is also a sign of respect for elders ( and for God : a Sikh woman entering a Gurdwara ( Sikh temple ) always covers her head with a Dupatta ) . |
| 28 | Ceramicist Mary Rose-Young covers her work in a myriad of colour . |
| 29 | He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter , even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial . |
| 30 | He 's still very intense about the art , still loves his cricket with a passion . |