Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As executive producer of the mini-series version of Shogun , broadcast in the '70s , he ensured that each episode began and ended with a shot of the paperback edition on of the novel with his name in big letters . |
| 2 | While still centred on Greek tragedy and associated topics , the plan began and ended with a wide range of other subjects from Buddhism to modern culture and education , from Schiller and Goethe and their drama to the generalities of " art " , " religion " and " science " ; the Greek items went from " Dionysus and Apollo " to " Plato against art " , via the central " music and drama " The plan contained no Greek items unrelated to tragedy , or the birth and death of tragedy , which makes it the earliest of Nietzsche 's plans to define the scope of the Greek material as eventually realized in BT . |
| 3 | Thus ‘ abstract ’ is opposed to ‘ concrete ’ , ‘ explicit ’ to ‘ implicit ’ , ‘ elaborated code ’ to ‘ restricted code ’ , ‘ extensional structure ’ to ‘ in tensional structure ’ , and these types are taken to be related to differing kinds of social experience mediated or formed by a literate organization of reality , on the one hand , and an oral organization of reality , on the other . |
| 4 | Antoine Bloye is not simply the story of the life of a father recounted and explained by a communist narrator for the edification of a son . |
| 5 | A junk-shop , where a withered , pale woman sat and knitted by a paraffin stove among broken old things — pitchers , candlesticks , a few books , a sagging chair , a limping table , a chipped enamel bread-bin full of cracked saucers . |
| 6 | ‘ A 20th century Paladin ’ , cried US News World Report , a magazine that seldom let itself get too excited ; ‘ He stands alone as the sacrificed knight in the Iran-arms gambit , a true believer steeled and scarred by a lifetime of have-gun-will-travel missions . ’ |
| 7 | A commercially-produced greetings card , with a colour photograph of a handsome and well-muscled man blindfolded and tied to a pillar , had clumsily printed across it : You made me love you . |
| 8 | Theodossin also implies a third element here , that the scheme began and developed with a wide range of institutional consent precisely because of features of its initial design ( he points , for example , to the choice of a term-long unit and the control retained by staff over field changes , if not module changes , by students ) . |