Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's no use going on a six day trail ride , with six hours daily in the saddle , if all you want is some gentle hacking in a scenic setting , with perhaps a few longer pub rides as an added bonus . |
| 2 | Leaving aside our personal addiction , we have acknowledged ( as parents ) the convenience it represents as an electronic nanny ; also the entertainment it provides ( leaving precious time for parents to do chores and entertain themselves ) . |
| 3 | It is also an image which tells us that , it Gide 's contribution to the liberation of the subjugated was as a writer , it is also true that he exemplified the writer 's inevitably exploitative relation to the same , and that this exploitation persists as an aesthetic mode long after the blindness or impossibility of desire was acknowledged . |
| 4 | Gallons of intoxicating percussion guided rhythms fuel ‘ Pot Of Gold ’ like a train rampaging along an empty track as it goes for an energetic jog in the shadows , pacing along a tireless circuit . |
| 5 | A Monte Carlo simulation-based approach is used as a general means of estimating the effects of input data uncertainty on the map outputs after an arbitrary sequence of GIS operations . |
| 6 | Sometimes his willingness to raise the alarm is literally the only thing that stands between an old person and the possibility of a lonely and lingering death following a fall or sudden illness . |
| 7 | He eventually finds the contentment he needs through an admirable way , through Joe , when he is treating Pip on his sick bed , as we see here |
| 8 | In fact , it could be argued that too little has been made of the naturalness of depression — that to a large extent it develops as an understandable reaction to life circumstances . |
| 9 | Your letter stands as an eloquent obituary to a fine guitarist who I 'm sure will be missed by all of us . |
| 10 | Perhaps in the area of man-made climates has the physical geographer climatologist contribution been most significant and the work of T.J. Chandler ( 1965 ) on the Climate of London stands as an exemplary model in this field , and subsequent research by B.W. Atkinson on thunderstorm activity ( see Atkinson , 1979 ) clearly demonstrates the kind of contribution that can be made to document the inadvertent effects of man . |
| 11 | Although it stands as an important account of new anthropological theory and purports to throw a revealing light on the social organisation of Balinese society , its carefully organised narrative is also a good story arranged so the shifts between Geertz 's account of his gradual development as an aficionado of cockfighting and the development of his theory of the social significance of this sport merge . |
| 12 | Having said all that , the Freudian model stands as an indispensable starting-point for identifying a certain kind of homophobia , namely that conjunction of hatred , paranoia , and desire ( repressed , ambivalent , or overt ) which characterizes some of those same heterosexually identified men in their relationships with lesbian and gay people . |
| 13 | His Petersburg counts for an awful lot . |
| 14 | Finniston pauses for an ironical chuckle as he recollects the weight of responsibility placed upon his shoulders at the time . |
| 15 | An enclosed community guards and cares for an enclosed community and we the public gladly subcontract this duty , hoping that it will be carried out unseen and unheard . |
| 16 | There is no equivalent to the invalid care allowance which is given to the person who cares for an elderly person . |
| 17 | In the second part of his autobiography Ways of Escape , Graham Greene writes of an earlier period , ‘ … in Indo-China I drained a magic potion , a loving-cup which I have shared since with many retired colonels and officers of the Foreign Legion whose eyes light up at the mention of Saigon and Hanoi ’ . |
| 18 | Any simple class C1 lies below an ontological class C if all the functions and predicates used to describe C1 are in the set S for C. |
| 19 | Twenty-five years to the day since England beat West Germany 4–2 in extra time at Wembley to win the World Cup for the first time and , so far , only time in a glorious ( etc , etc — the back pages that morning were awash , as they had been for days , with nostalgia and breast-beating and rush-of-blood reminiscence ) footballing history ; the apotheosis of the game , which , according to one writer at the time , ‘ lives like an extra pulse in the people of industrial England . ’ |
| 20 | He probably looks like an absolute berk in this outfit . |
| 21 | It looks like an average piece of As bond at first sight but it is n't actually a standard size at all . |
| 22 | The repeated victory of the owner against intruders looks like an arbitrary convention , obeyed by both individuals , that the ‘ owner always wins ’ . |
| 23 | There was possibly another reason why they were kept away from it : the Linotype , hot , clanking and oily , looks like an industrial machine . |
| 24 | The Castle looks like an obscene multi-fingered , clawed hand , trying to tear the heart out of the sky . |
| 25 | ‘ Scope ’ looks like an assured chart return . |
| 26 | ‘ Scope ’ looks like an assured chart return . |
| 27 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 28 | The average Vadinamian looks like an over-sized larva , boneless and segmented . |
| 29 | They grey and filthy 2,000 capacity venue looks like an outsized Hammersmith Clarendon . |
| 30 | ‘ She is young , she looks like an ordinary child . |