Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [det] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louise was , in fact , that curse of the couturier , a woman with a mind of her own and a strongly individual fashion intelligence . |
| 2 | The trolley also had a mind of its own and a tendency to advance crablike , sideways . |
| 3 | The government then developed a momentum of its own as a focus of loyalty that ran against the party system . |
| 4 | We now know that two protons will not directly make helium ; two protons can not survive the electrical disruption on their own and the stable helium nucleus contains neutrons as well . |
| 5 | It is by no means unheard of for a band to be offered a deal on nothing more than a ‘ concept ’ . |
| 6 | Finance of any resulting centre was on a one-for-one basis , the ILEA matching expenditure of school funds by a grant of its own if the advice and guidance of its support team was carried out i practice . |
| 7 | Charlotte : Charlotte is a wealthy woman in her early forties who views aromatherapy as nothing more than an upmarket beauty treatment . |
| 8 | Although the more generally noticed constructional shoreline features are the large sand and shingle formations , interesting minor features are to be observed on many beaches , among them beach cusps and sand bars , for the formation of which little or no longshore drift is necessary . |
| 9 | It was at this stage , too , that the fields were granted an independence of their own and the aether , which had been considered necessary for providing a mechanical basis for the fields , was dispensed with . |
| 10 | Or perhaps it was just lack of choice , the need for a home of her own and a child . |
| 11 | It is also easier to stop the forward movement in this situation , since many models require a positive effort to make headway against anything more than a stiff breeze . |
| 12 | Rapidly , she outlined her plan , stressing the ease of it all and the perfect opportunity it represented to right what she must surely agree was a manifest wrong . |
| 13 | In that respect , Kundera could have fooled at least one of his readers ; but I do see that it belongs to the point of it all that the uncommon Jaromil should be thought humanly representative . |
| 14 | In fact , he had no need of anything more than a lock of hair he showed me . ’ |
| 15 | Mr de Klerk , while failing to offer any firm assurances , did say in a press conference of his own that the government would look at ‘ areas ’ where the state of emergency might be lifted . |
| 16 | A multi-millionairess with a fortune estimated at more than £10 million , a property tycoon in Australia where she was spending a fortune renovating her latest acquisition , a mammoth Victorian town house in the Melbourne suburbs , a singer poised to come of age with a backing band of her own and a world tour — the hologramic face of high technology in Japan , how could she ever again have been expected to have slipped into oily dungarees to tinker with the engine of a Land Rover ? |
| 17 | Susan sets up a business on her own as a sole proprietorship and has the following balance sheet at the end of year one . |
| 18 | In the more complicated case of Fig. 8–1c , the equilibrium is locally stable in that there is an interval around it such that the economy tends to converge ; but it is not globally stable . |
| 19 | Each chariot is drawn by two fine Elven steeds and carries a single Tiranoc noble who controls the chariot with nothing more than a spoken word . |
| 20 | The introduction of a geographical dimension at this level could be taken up even by those who saw evolution as something more than the selection of random variation . |
| 21 | The federation broke up in 1964 and David said : ‘ Zambia decided to continue a service of its own and the finger of fate pointed at me . |
| 22 | an organisation whose structure lends itself most readily to ensuring that employees work effectively for the achievement of their own and the organisation 's goals . |
| 23 | As a result of this potent combination of sentiment and self-interest , the war had assumed the character of something more than a military operation : in the minds of the military and of many civilians , left and right , it had quickly become a decisive test of France 's national will and international power . |
| 24 | This is the court to which any and every politician hoping to influence the California legislature must come and pay his respects . |
| 25 | The sheet of gut endoderm assumes a characteristic tubular structure at the anterior and posterior ends of the embryo although , unlike the neural tube , this is not due to a fusion of folds but rather to its folding back on itself such that the hindgut and foregut are present initially as blind ending tubes . |
| 26 | Only 26 per cent of women over 65 had income from their own or a survivor 's pension , as compared with 62 per cent of men . |
| 27 | Amitha : There was a great feeling of solidarity between us all and a common suspicion as to why management had called the meeting . |
| 28 | Miss Marple is , in fact ( quiet-mannered village pussy though she was ) , an example of nothing less than the Great Detective . |
| 29 | Developed through having had this magazine of my own since the age of six , and listening to the Top 30 every Tuesday only to run off instantly to the typewriter in order to compile my own personal Top 30 which totally conflicted with how the world really was . |
| 30 | From a practical standpoint we are suffering from some jail overcrowding problems here and certainly this was one option to take an offender who does n't really belong behind iron bars and punish them at home , and from a personal standpoint I was sort of intrigued with the novelty of it all and the technology aspects of it . |