Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 2 | Unlike Lukács ' insignificant event from which the universal is precariously drawn out through the narrative , Sartre 's singularity works synecdochally in a conventional antinomy with the universal , the relation between the two structured according to the familiar nineteenth-century model of organic growth or process in which each singular event makes up the whole while , as he puts it , ‘ the whole is entirely present in the part as its present meaning and as its destiny ’ . |
| 3 | Lots of fun and excitement as Henry 's Cat sets off on a trip to Treasure Island |
| 4 | If the plant 's behaviour depends continuously on a single coefficient , then binary chopping is a safe standard approach . |
| 5 | Because her life is a little more vividly described than his , Mia 's character exists less in a vacuum than Dustin 's , and as a result her performance is more satisfactory . |
| 6 | Where a plaintiff 's claim arises out of a hire-purchase agreement , but is not for the delivery of goods , he shall in his particulars state in the following order : ( 1 ) the date of the agreement and the parties to it with the number of the agreement or sufficient particulars to enable the debtor to identify the agreement ; ( 2 ) where the plaintiff was not one of the original parties to the agreement , the means by which the rights and duties of the creditor under the agreement passed to him ; ( 3 ) whether the agreement is a regulated agreement and , if it is not a regulated agreement , the reason why ; ( 4 ) the place where the agreement was signed by the debtor ( if known ) ; ( 5 ) the goods let under the agreement ; ( 6 ) the amount of the total price ; ( 7 ) the paid-up sum ; ( 8 ) the amount ( if any ) claimed as being due and unpaid in respect of any instalment or instalments of the total price ; and ( 9 ) the nature and amount of any other claim and the circumstances in which it arises . |
| 7 | Lorraine Code 's paper arises out of a concern on the one hand with the epistemological status of experiences , and on the other , with the importance of recognising the ethical dimensions of knowing : what she terms ‘ knowing well ’ or ‘ taking epistemic responsibility ’ . |
| 8 | Since queen and chamberlain had to work closely together ex officio , Vivian 's promotion looks more like a counterweight than a complement to Adalard 's . |
| 9 | It could be argued that Lewis 's poem refers only to a failure of etiquette . |
| 10 | But a royal expert who heard one said : ‘ There is a huge question mark because the woman 's voice sounds more like an Essex girl than a Sloane . ’ |
| 11 | Immortalized by the soldiery in the war of 1914–18 , Fred Karno 's Army lives on as a descriptor of chaotic organization . |
| 12 | The situation in the traditional poem , as exemplified by Sidney , is an I — She one , where the pronouns reveal the gap between the lover and his mistress ; in Donne , as I have shown elsewhere , l it is an I-Thou , and above all a We/Us/Our relationship , where the lovers exist , after the consummation , as a unit , a model to others , from which point Donne 's wit takes off in a brilliant sequence of rhetorical strategies . |
| 13 | In these occasional pieces , he is revealed as a psychological critic whose apparent ability to immerse himself in another poet 's personality comes close to an act of clairvoyance . |
| 14 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 15 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 16 | The MP 's report draws heavily on an earlier study by consultants , W. S. Atkins , which said that CHP and district heating schemes would be viable in no fewer than nine cities in Britain . |
| 17 | The single person 's allowance goes up by a hundred and eighty pounds . |
| 18 | This cameraman 's pal wanders out with a tripod , and also walks straight across the fairway . |
| 19 | A banker 's acceptance starts off as a bill of exchange , which is itself a form of IOU . |