Example sentences of "a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A prince 's entourage provided his closest friends , his most trusted servants , the knights on whom he relied in time of crisis . |
| 2 | For surely they could be forgiven for believing that a prince 's promise to pay later must be firmer than a pauper 's ? |
| 3 | A warrior 's uniform hung up next to the standards . |
| 4 | From then one we are taken through a Druids ' Grove to consider swords , war trumpets , and the bronze shield cover discovered in the River Witham in Lincolnshire and dates from the second century BC . |
| 5 | Andrew-wa He 's been a bit er green has n't he , I think . |
| 6 | The doctor did a bit erm arm twisting . |
| 7 | The property of springiness is easy enough to detect : it is in direct relation to the speed with which a runner 's foot leaves the surface after contact with the ground . |
| 8 | The force of a runner 's foot deflects the pavement very little in running , and therefore does little work ( in the Newtonian sense ) on his environment . |
| 9 | Now , there is a basic constitutional principle , embodied in the Bill of Rights of 1688/9 , that the levying of taxes must be authorized by statute , and so there is an argument for saying that non-statutory rules made by the Revenue which effectively determine a taxpayer 's liability to tax are ‘ unconstitutional ’ . |
| 10 | A text 's value rests partly then on the demand for it , and that demand is predicated on previous demand . |
| 11 | On one occasion he had found a sheep 's head jammed between some of the stones . |
| 12 | As in optics , a Snell 's law exists : where is the angle of incidence and are the angles of refraction , and and are the solid velocities . |
| 13 | And the man in question is not a philosophical or statistical abstraction from reality , but the reality itself ; not a theoretician 's concept to play a mechanical part in a Marxist phenomenology of history or a philosopher-king 's model of ideal society , but flesh and blood ; the thinking and feeling individual whose right it is to make his life , including his working life , as fully as possible his own in a society the essential purpose of which should be to maximise his chances of doing so . |
| 14 | For chunky knitting , a 90% Courtelle/10% Nylon Brushed Chunky has been introduced in five pale shades to retail at approximately £1.89 for a 100 gram ball . |
| 15 | Red deer stags regularly sniff a hind 's urine to detect the single day when she is in season . |
| 16 | Rather , an enlightened dualist will search for some significance , which we may call STYLISTIC VALUE , in a writer 's choice to express his sense in this rather than that way . |
| 17 | If we define style in terms of stylistic variants , we assume that language specifies a repertoire or code or possibilities and that a writer 's style consists in preferences exercised within the limits of that code . |
| 18 | In the heart of the Disney complex there are three championship courses , the Magnolia , the Palm and Lake Buena Vista , as well as a beginner 's course called Wee Links . |
| 19 | There 's a popular misconception that a beginner 's instrument does n't have to function in any way like a professional model , because much less is expected of it , and that is just not altogether true . |
| 20 | Then it is time for Frank to give a sample of his act , which is built around a ventriloquist 's dummy called Marvin the Monkey . |
| 21 | For example , we have yet to explain why congruity with a verb 's bias has a bigger effect when it is paired with gender cue , since the availability of a gender cue would appear to make congruity a redundant cue . |
| 22 | Currently influential acquisition theories provide two different sources for the acquisition of argument structure : a meaning-driven approach whereby cognitively available information as to a verb 's meaning predicts the number and type of elements involved in its syntactic complementation , and a syntax-driven approach whereby information as to verb 's complementation tells the learner about its meaning . |
| 23 | A fortune awaits any engineer who can devise a way of transferring , in real time , a sequence of animation direct from a computer 's memory to video tape or film . |
| 24 | ‘ That , ’ said Dick mischievously , ‘ was a computer 's attempt to imitate a chicken . ’ |
| 25 | That being moved by imagining from a sufferer 's viewpoint does draw me towards his goals is sufficiently shown by my impulse to shrink from imagining as painful in itself , and liable to draw me into action against my own interests . |
| 26 | In reply to BS Berlyn 's letter in the December issue of Credit Management where he complain about a creditor 's inability to enforce judgment against its debtor when a winding-up petition has been presented against that debtor , I can only say that he is ignoring one of the fundamental concepts of English insolvency law , that all creditors should be treated equally when their debtor becomes insolvent . |
| 27 | There was an echo , and no man ever saw a ghost with a shadow , so why should a ghost 's voice have an echo ? |
| 28 | Unless a Christian 's faith includes this level of understanding , he is short-changing himself . |
| 29 | Instead , the quality of a Christian 's experience depends on the quality of his faith , just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God 's truth . |
| 30 | However , a liquidation of this importance should operate with a creditors ' committee to represent them . |