Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lure of big money was on the way and director Bob Rafelson had fortunately obtained Jack 's signature for another BBS film before the price went up and put him back on track as a counter-culture player , a route which Nicholson analysed in terms of the way he wanted his career to go . |
| 2 | Even a prince whose parentage was known could not be certain of succeeding his father , especially if his mother had been discarded from the royal bed . |
| 3 | This large degree of regional economic responsiveness served the developing economy well , in that the outcome was a provision whose components were complementary . |
| 4 | Thom 's theoretical analysis was based on the work of S.R. Broadbent , a statistician whose quantum hypothesis allows the extent to which data are quantised to be assessed objectively . |
| 5 | He just limped around gaining more sympathy from his students by hinting what a brute his wife was . |
| 6 | She had the sad and deflated appearance of somebody who had once lived life to the full but now had only the memories of such times to sustain her — like a galleon whose sails sag limply round the masts where once they have billowed majestically . |
| 7 | He regarded Lexandro musingly as a brother might a sister whose honour he must protect — a sentiment which Lexandro had purged from his own soul , though he recognized the symptoms . |
| 8 | Small things to many , but at Miele excellence of design and construction ensure a kitchen whose performance will remain faultless and give pleasure for life , which has been our philosophy since we introduced major kitchen appliances at the turn of the century . |
| 9 | Thinking the same way about syntax , we can say that a given set of rules ( a syntactic analysis ) is a function whose domain is the set of possible combinations of morphemes in the language L , and whose range has just two elements , denoting the grammatical and the ungrammatical in L ; or thinking about semantics , we might say that a semantic analysis of L has as its domain the set of well-formed sentences of L , and as its range the set of semantic representations or propositions representing the meaning of each of those sentences . |
| 10 | Since a sentence plus its context of use can be called an utterance , Katz 's suggestion amounts to the idea that a pragmatic theory is a function whose domain is the set of utterances and whose range is the set of propositions . |
| 11 | In such a case your report should be prepared at once , and the original instructions and any other documents sent to you by your mortgagee client , as well as your notes on title and the replies to requisitions , should be carefully perused . |
| 12 | If , on the other hand , it never occurred to the defendant that the victim was young or mentally abnormal , and he was not aware therefore that he was in a situation of potential risk , he should not be liable for rape providing that he took reasonable steps to ascertain that she did agree to vaginal penetration , for in such a case his conduct is reasonable in the light of the facts as he perceived them to be . |
| 13 | you can a bit its sort of it , you know the pub on the other side |
| 14 | You remind me of bit , eh , you 're like a bit what Joanne 's like , except Joanne 's better at maths but she 's not very good at English , like when they were doing Animal Farm , I had to explain that it was a parody of the Russian revolution and everything and she just sat there with her mouth open . |
| 15 | Not a bit what Owen had in mind , but since the unions had neither the resources nor the will to use them , the revolution did not come at all . |
| 16 | But after a bit my curiosity got the better of me and I spread my fingers slowly to peep through . |
| 17 | A bit His Master 's Voice is n't it ? |
| 18 | ‘ Anyway , I think it was a bit our fault , like . |
| 19 | ‘ I think it was after we 'd talked a bit and then played a bit our personalities seemed to go well together and our playing did as well . |
| 20 | Quietly , Shell invests in its businesses at the rate of some $10 billion a year — a level which Sir Peter Holmes , its chairman , says will not change , Gulf war or not . |
| 21 | The Paris jet and a Mooney its inspiration |
| 22 | A single glance at the crucified Christ , the worshipped corpse : a figure bent like a branch whose shape has changed in the stretching agony of fire . |
| 23 | Procul Harum superimpose on the Bach harmonies a vocal whose style derives from soul music . |
| 24 | Not surprisingly , such unselfish acts by a runner whose ability commands respect , have made Zarei one of the most popular figures in ultra running , and he was recently referred to by one of his rivals as ‘ Gentleman James ’ . |
| 25 | By presenting the information on a videodisc which managers could view quickly , locally and at a convenient time , BT reduced the cost of the exercise to £15 per manager . |
| 26 | The other book was Must England Lose India ? ( 1930 ) by Lt. Col. Arthur Osburn , a retired Indian army doctor and member of the Labour party , who hoped one day to see a ‘ United States of India ’ dwelling ‘ contented within the orbit of the British Commonwealth ’ , a hope which Kennedy regarded as absurd . |
| 27 | And Steve Albini says about Steve Albini : ‘ I really do n't give a shit what people think of me , that 's not an issue . |
| 28 | You know , I did n't give a shit what fit Mrs Goreng would throw . |
| 29 | Messrs Hoult and Cowan also went through the report with Mr Barnes but concentrated on the financial crisis , rather than mentioning fraud and malpractice , a decision which Bingham finds ‘ surprising and unfortunate ’ . |
| 30 | But as with every planning inquiry , hearing or whatever , we need not to avoid closing the discussion before we have all the information we need to reach a decision whichever way we decide to reach it . |