Example sentences of "[det] [be] [adv] [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is surely arrogance on a pretty preposterous scale . |
| 2 | So when we look at the grimacing gestures of a chimpanzee and wonder at the almost ludicrous parallels with our own behaviour this is just part of a whole host of behavioural and anatomical similarities that show without doubt that we ought to be classified with the apes ( we are all of us primates ) , and that we share a distant ancestor with our diminutive caricatures . |
| 3 | And all this is just part of a programme that seeks to help women help themselves . |
| 4 | Theoretical research which fashions concepts and perspectives — this is usually part of an academic discipline or sub-discipline . |
| 5 | This was largely thanks to a concerted registration campaign by local councils . |
| 6 | This was only part of a general sort of pattern as it were , where people were beginning to impinge on their lives , there was another well-known local alcoholic there who was knocking on doors trying to get money off people , and there 's several elderly people who gave this woman money , because they were frightened that if they did n't something would happen to them . |
| 7 | She explains that Thru is ‘ a text that is really constructing itself and then destroying itself as it goes along … whenever I slide into a realistic scene … something happens later to destroy it , to show that these are just words on a page ’ ( 4 ) . |
| 8 | Some of these were admittedly men with a local following , but others , like Baudinus at Tours , Flavius at Chalon , Badegisel at Le Mans , Licerius at Arles and Charimer at Verdun were royal servants with no known connection with their sees . |
| 9 | These were hardly signs of a significant anti-Axis shift in Spanish foreign policy . |
| 10 | All are currently co-owners of a mysterious consulting firm called Pol-Nippon , a Polish-Japanese joint venture that , among other things , is bidding to build a refinery and port near Gdansk . |
| 11 | That 's rigidly adherence to a written formula for programmes is considered counter-productive |
| 12 | That 's about quarter of an hour is n't it ? |
| 13 | We reckoned that was about quarter of a page . |
| 14 | Her savings — in August , that was about £1200 in a post-office account , and a little under £4000 in the Leeds Permanent Building Society . ’ |