Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that Saul 's Crack is not a route on which to learn the mystical art of jamming , but it is a good test of technique . |
| 2 | The New Urban Left saw local authorities as a base from which to demonstrate the advantages of a different approach to politics . |
| 3 | But how useful is it as a base from which to discuss the complexities of ‘ race ’ and representation in British cinema ? |
| 4 | Indeed , it is not so much a case of them accompanying the AIB team members as of them being part of the team . |
| 5 | But that would be a case of our having a competing or countervailing reason that conflicted with our main positive reason for not killing or stealing . |
| 6 | So its a case of who has the nervous breakdown first , you or the dog ? |
| 7 | Cos I saw erm a photo when I was eighteen and I it was sort of short in the neck over my ears short in there and then sort of fuller there and then just a bit of you know a light fringe not a heavy fringe and I thought I might have it like that so |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm keeping my fingers crossed that I might get a bit of it to strengthen the squad . ’ |
| 9 | It 's a bit like us watching a what 's name film with the words up , but only without the words , it 's like us watching that , to him . |
| 10 | She was looking a bit like she had the morning of her hysterectomy . |
| 11 | David escorted her there on her first morning and was touchingly concerned for her , insisting on taking a cushion for her to soften the hard seat on the press benches and urging her to promise to leave the stuffy , dark-panelled room if she felt faint or troubled . |
| 12 | Thus , he argued , when Henry VIII quarrelled with the pope over his marriage , he was able to use a pre-existing anti-clericalism as a stick with which to beat the church , and when he subsequently embarked on the official Reformation , the greater part of the political nation readily gave him their support . |
| 13 | So that , when young gentlemen were on the rampage , the past — instead of being used as a stick with which to beat the deteriorated present — became the justification for taking a lenient view . |
| 14 | I remember once erm when basically all erm there was a gang of us had a sort of wine that was warm . |
| 15 | somebody else that er we were doing a course with who had a tremendous skill with high |
| 16 | The IT General Systems Sector involved in downsizing Motorola 's internal computing operations — a part of which services the cellular business — itself contributes $3.5bn in revenues to Motorola Inc . |
| 17 | Meanwhile the Pisans had carried off their booty and used a part of it to start the rebuilding of the cathedral , as an inscription in it still records . |
| 18 | That probably played a part in us winning the title . |
| 19 | A board beside it bore a specification of the car and an outline of the services offered by Hazards Limited , who were sponsoring this prize for the first player to ace the hole . |
| 20 | The evaluation is a summing up which places the work in the experience of the critic , and helps the reader to form a judgement . |
| 21 | In her insistent way she asked Jane for the loan of a field in which to hold a charity fair . |
| 22 | A rustle behind us broke the silence . |
| 23 | In Liverpool the local School Board , which controlled the state primary schools in the city , voted by a majority of one to use the Catechism for its ‘ non-denominational religious instruction ’ . |
| 24 | Moving a few yards along the tunnel , he found a crevice into which to wedge the second pack , with the sensor directed behind . |
| 25 | In my letter of 1st August 1990 I mentioned the request of the Parish Council ‘ for an extra swing of a kind that is suitable for toddlers , i.e. one with a rail round it to stop the child falling off the seat . ’ |
| 26 | It simply did not , and does not , offer a framework on which to hang a convincing story … the geographer , when he analyses the material properties of the man-environment systems , must base himself on the central functions of that system , rather than on the traditional divisions of physical geography . |
| 27 | Before providing a framework within which to see the information industry , we can get some sense of scale by comparing the size of the electronic media markets with print-on-paper markets . |
| 28 | This tendency was continued in the post-war era of enterprise groups to shape a framework in which developed a quite distinct set of practices and forms of calculation of economic action . |
| 29 | Oh well , I , I , I mean I , my mind , my memory is going I know , but I , but I look at that and I turn it over each month and I have a look at I have an idea what 's |
| 30 | A change in what drives the organization . |