Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That meant I was travelling a route that stretched from Darwin in northern Australia to Invercargill in southern New Zealand . |
| 2 | Walkers on the Three Peaks marathon usually start from Horton in Ribblesdale and do the journey anti-clockwise , visiting Penyghent , Whernside and Ingleborough in that order and returning to Horton from the last named by a route that approximates to a beeline . |
| 3 | In many cases , as where the persons entitled are not of age , or not yet in existence , or not to be found , an executor or administrator will have to retain the property in his hands for a considerable time , though he may sometimes relieve himself by a payment or transfer into court , and in any case he can obtain the direction of the courts when doubts arise as to the proper course which he should take . |
| 4 | Wexford pushed aside the willows that hung like a pelmet and came to the rubbish pocket , where he knelt down . |
| 5 | A parents and toddlers group , toy library , bulk buy groups , senior citizens clubs , adult learning classes , bingo , whist drives and all sorts of fund raising activities can use the room as a base and add to the income of the school . |
| 6 | Furthermore , two-earner couples enjoy greater allowances ( 2.6SA ) than single-earner couples ( 1.6SA ) , a provision that dates from the Second World War when there was a policy to encourage married women to work . |
| 7 | The principal difficulty I have on this aspect of the case is that in Mr. Lester 's submission reference to Parliamentary material as an aid to interpretation of a statutory provision should be allowed only with leave of the court and where the court is satisfied that such a reference is justifiable : ( a ) to confirm the meaning of a provision as conveyed by the text , its object and purpose ; ( b ) to determine a meaning where the provision is ambiguous or obscure ; or ( c ) to determine the meaning where the ordinary meaning is manifestly absurd or unreasonable . |
| 8 | Personally , by the time I had cycled up the hill in the dark , battling against high winds and rain , wearing my rain cape in a futile attempts to keep dry , I felt more like flopping into bed than sitting up all night making silly marks on a chart and plunging outside every sixty minutes to see if it was still raining . |
| 9 | Viscount Dilhorne similarly held that if the requested court was not satisfied that evidence was required , direct evidence for use at a trial as contrasted with information which might lead to the discovery of evidence , it had no power to assist . |
| 10 | I do n't know about you fellahs , but I do n't like having a sister that looks like a tramp . ’ |
| 11 | Although a number of writers suggest that a full-track bucket is always too large , they are talking of a bucket that has to be transferred as a whole into and out of main storage . |
| 12 | Once in , they had to dive for a golf ball , put it in a bucket and return to the trapeze to do it all again — fun eh ! |
| 13 | But erm and then at during er before lunch and all that I used to have to go take a bucket and go to the smithy and erm as you may know , there 's a a cooling er tank beside in the in er beside every every every erm blacksmith 's fire and er you know to bo keep the er no t no to keep the nozzle of the |
| 14 | ‘ Right , ’ he said , and then grabbed a cable and slid through a gap Masklin had n't even noticed was there . |
| 15 | ‘ Very high increases could lead to a recession as happened in the late 1970s and early 80s due to the oil price hikes . |
| 16 | What he produced was a volume for which he really should have kept his title The Conduct of the Kitchen — a title borrowed incidentally from Meredith — because that was just what the book of menus was about : the logical and orderly conduct of a kitchen as related to daily life and seen not through the medium of a few isolated menus for special occasions , but as part of the natural order of everyday living . |
| 17 | Or symbolically , if we let $ be the set of sentences in language L , C the set of possible contexts , P the set of propositions , and U the cartesian product of S x C — i.e. the set of possible combinations of members of S with members of C , and we let the corresponding lower case letters stand for elements or members of each of those sets ( i.e. s e S , c e C , p e P , u e U ) : ( 16 ) f(u) =p ( or:f ( s , c ) = p ) i.e. f is a function that assigns to utterances the propositions that express their full meaning in context Gazdar ( 1979a : 4-5 ) , on the other hand , wishes to capture the ways in which utterances change the context in which they are uttered ; he shows that Katz 's formulation is incompatible with that goal , and therefore suggests instead : ( 17 ) f(u) c ( or:f ( s , c ) c ) i.e. f is a function from utterances to contexts , namely the contexts brought about by each utterance ( or : f assigns to each sentence plus the context prior to its utterance , a second context caused by its utterance ) The idea here is that the shift from the context prior to an utterance to the context post utterance itself constitutes the communicational content of the utterance . |
| 18 | So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 . |
| 19 | So I came in with an American-made guitar ( the T-60 ) in a case that retailed for 350 dollars at a time when a Les Paul was 1,000 dollars and a Stratocaster over 800 . |
| 20 | We report a case that alludes to a facilitating mechanism . |
| 21 | And while I , I was there last year , erm , there was er , a case that came to court , about a man who 'd installed a ceiling fan in his kitchen . |
| 22 | J. H. Eaton , a magistrate , declared : ‘ It almost goes without saying that there is hardly a case that comes before our courts , to which the natives are parties , in which this crime [ perjury ] is not more or less freely indulged . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I might be blowing a bit or struggling against a younger player and Stuart will feel we need a fresh pair of legs . |
| 24 | He just picked the head up from the floor and wiped the blood off a bit and looked at it . |
| 25 | And , perhaps going back a bit and looking at the history of the last ten years , it is important to realize that we have developed small centres as well as large ones . |
| 26 | I had known that this was pending but when , over the last few weeks , I had enquired when they were going to start out , the reply was always the same , ‘ Oh , I think we 'll wait a bit and hope for some warmer weather . ’ |
| 27 | LAST TIME I meet Bobby Paine was in a hotel room in Milwaukee at 3am , when myself and Brian Setzer were playing indoor golf , drinking a bit and listening to Bobby tell his mad stories about Jerry Lee , Billy Idol and sundry LA psychos — barmy late-night company ! |
| 28 | I thought I 'd go back to Ireland for a bit and go to Clonmacnoise . |
| 29 | Changez waggled the hand a bit and laughed without self-consciousness ; Anwar tried to laugh too . |
| 30 | We all groaned a bit and snivelled like kids , and we were putting it on , but we were only putting it on because underneath we did feel sad seeing our names rubbed out . |