Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all the attitudes which precede a review will survive once a management plan has been put into action . |
| 2 | I deliberately used the phrase ‘ cautious satisfaction ’ because as appears from page 2 of the accounts we achieved a surplus ( before exceptional items ) of £12,004 . |
| 3 | The whole process of matching the needs of lenders and borrowers is known as ‘ financial intermediation ’ , and the institutions which play a part in this process are known as ‘ financial intermediaries ’ ( see Fig. 17.1 ) . |
| 4 | Processes of genetic inheritance are only a part , at the physical level , of a multidimensional formative and creative system at work , but it is the mind which automatically forms the patterns which lead a soul into its new body . |
| 5 | From the ramparts I had a view across the bay to green marshes and , far above them , rising above a swathe of cloud , the snow-covered summit of Olympus , infinitely remote . |
| 6 | The colonel knew all the right people to approach , and every time Ryan submits the plans they put a stop to them . |
| 7 | As the Frenchman doubled past behind the prisoners he shouted a greeting . |
| 8 | ‘ You mean , as in ‘ it was n't a lone lunatic who killed Kennedy but the Mafia working in collusion with the Russians who had a deal with the FBI ’ — that kind of conspiracy ? ’ |
| 9 | The object can be the norms which structure society , or the norms which structure a part of society . |
| 10 | It is important to recognise this , for an acceptance of this fundamental point leads more easily to an understanding of the reasons which caused an increase in the military significance of those who did not fight on horseback . |
| 11 | ( This is one of the reasons we put a harp on every bottle . ) |
| 12 | Yes , this is exactly one of the reasons we had a crisis last last time was because erm we did n't know that the then director I 'm sure did n't know what , what was happening . |
| 13 | It 's not just the Paddies who like a fight , she thought bitterly . |
| 14 | When our locals assessed success story , the Nissan Plant , sells less cars , it 's an economic threat and could become an economic disaster , when the plant sells more cars , it adds to the increase in number of cars on the roads which represents a pollution threat and contributes to a pollution disaster , let alone traffic problems of course . |
| 15 | The performance , which was a great success , was staged at Stirling university 's Airthrey Castle — a fitting venue for the musicians who have a passion for historical music . |
| 16 | Pallister said : ‘ When I get back to Old Trafford , I will tell the lads we have a fight on our hands . |
| 17 | He called to one of the lads who opened a box door . |
| 18 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 19 | At the same time we are exploring the possibility of establishing an Aby Warburg Chair , to be held by people in any of the subjects which play a role in that scholarly tradition . |
| 20 | And of course most issue systems lead to the books themselves carrying a record of past loans on their date labels . |
| 21 | It 's okay for Australians to bang on about the risks they get a summer . |
| 22 | In the mid-1950s they had a sum of £600,000 outstanding on their sales ledger which was far in excess of any other asset . |
| 23 | Not a good one , a very small one , but in the circumstances I deserve a laugh . |
| 24 | Smart had always attracted friends , and they served him well now , securing him the necessary recommendation to St Luke 's by a bookseller , perhaps a connection of Newbery 's , who had become a banker , probably one of the bankers who formed a majority of the Governors of St Luke 's . |
| 25 | The shabby buildings and trailing shadows on the covers of The Derelict Day match the spent , post-war mood of the poems which evoke a sense of waiting and desolate emptiness , of desire present but concealed beneath the surfaces of things . |
| 26 | Referring to literature , painting and language , Jakobson shows how the conventions which guarantee a form 's verisimilitude and secure it in public opinion have temporal limits on their effectivity : through time , convention becomes cliche , picture becomes ideogram , genre becomes formula , and tradition becomes prison-house . |
| 27 | Over the years he visited a number of Buddhist centres around the country and he was about 25 when he made the decision to teach the faith through the then newly-acquired Pocklington centre , a grand Georgian house about 15 miles south of York . |
| 28 | There were at the time parallel proceedings against the mortgagees to preserve the plaintiff 's priority rights against the property by virtue of the caution entered at the Land Registry , and it was the mortgagees who requested an adjournment from 6 June 1991 to a later date . |
| 29 | Tony brings me a cup of coffee and tells me that the tracks we crossed a while back were , Odd-Knut says , jarv or wolverine . |
| 30 | Wayans is Johnny Stewart , a Chicago wide boy from the wrong side of the tracks who ekes a living by executing scams on unsuspecting white folks with his hyper-active bro Seymour , one Marlon Wayans . |