Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that a payment made by him for goods bought is binding , though payment could not have been enforced against him . |
| 2 | John was a devout Christian and as a young man had hoped to be a minister , a vocation denied to him by a stammer in his speech . |
| 3 | When some sociologists talk of the ‘ socialization function of the family ’ , therefore , they are not talking of a family deliberately and consciously performing a function assigned to it from outside by ‘ society ’ , but rather of a more subtle process that arises out of the facts of being married , of sharing a residence over a long period of time , and of parenthood . |
| 4 | Maryon was getting a bit worried about him after an evening out in a restaurant : he had been getting behind with his alcohol intake so he decided to catch up . |
| 5 | And is it the same size ground as the match when there was twenty five thousand in you say you were a bit bothered about it in fact ? |
| 6 | The corporation may argue that a direction given to it by the National Rivers Authority to improve water is unreasonable . |
| 7 | The Court acknowledged that the Registry could not make a decision binding upon it in its judicial capacity . |
| 8 | He was living with his third wife , the ice goddess Veronica , in an LA mansion , surrounded by the gifts of a lifetime — a six-foot , hand-carved tiger given to him by Deng Xiaoping , a robe given to him by Elvis Presley . |
| 9 | This tells us two things : there is a conception of what amounts to trust wording ; but there is a willingness to depart from it in certain circumstances . |
| 10 | Somebody who has just had a trick played on them by Anancy ? |
| 11 | On his death in 1857 he left his books and manuscripts to Morden College , Blackheath , where they survive in a building designed for them by Philip Hardwick [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | Behind it , across an empty mile , a ridge looked at itself in a mirage lake . |
| 13 | A Range Rover pulling a horsebox sped towards them round the next bend , straddling the middle of the lane and causing Mossop to swerve through a muddy ditch at the roadside . |
| 14 | The design for Isvik was influenced to quite a marked degree by the Peterhead-type sailing vessels of the Mounties , also by a sketch made for him by that extraordinary Antarctic single-hander , David Lewis . |
| 15 | This tells us that Potnia had a sanctuary dedicated to her in some part of the Labyrinth at Knossos , since this temple — and only this one — was referred to in antiquity as the Labyrinth , at least as far as Crete was concerned . |
| 16 | This is the means by which LCH becomes the exclusive counterparty to both seller and buyer in respect of a contract made between them on the market . |
| 17 | The House of Lords having held that the swap transactions were void ab initio , the suggestion that the restitutionary claims in these actions are in matters relating to a contract seems to me to be placing a very severe strain indeed on the language of article 5(1) . |
| 18 | As he said that last part about ‘ bumping into her ’ he glanced across at Lisa , and a flicker passed between them as , silently , they shared their private joke . |
| 19 | Harrogate were 9–0 down against their first round who had not had a try scored against them since October . |
| 20 | Harrogate were 9–0 down against their first round who had not had a try scored against them since October . |
| 21 | The story that is told is a story which never ends — and which risks losing shape and momentum — because it is a story told of himself by a living author , an author who has yet to end , whose isolate 's imaginative fury lives on to tell another tale , some more of his own story . |
| 22 | Earlier in Weston-Super-Mare Salvation Army leaders had been arrested for proceeding with a march contrary to a ban placed upon it by the local magistrates . |
| 23 | Damn it all , we did n't even notice Everett was missing until a porter tripped over him in the quad , so anything 's theoretically possible . |
| 24 | It is a privilege enjoyed by everyone in this country but because the library profession has a responsibility for some considerable part of the provision of and access to literature and information , there is a heightened obligation for the library profession in the UK to resist censorship with a much greater collective and individual will than it has tended to show in the past . |
| 25 | Nizan 's refusal to be a loser remained with him to the end . |
| 26 | The Rabbitohs were to contribute to international Rugby League one of the great backs of any era , Clive Churchill , the Little Master , so dazzling there is even a stand named after him at the Sydney Cricket Ground . |
| 27 | A blanket wrapped about him against the cold , his bravest warriors at his flanks , Joseph rides out to make peace with Generals Miles and Howard , and their officers , in the Bear Paws Mountains , 5th October 1877 . |
| 28 | While each of the principal lacunae is developing , a tracheal branch and a nerve grow into it from the base of the wing , the lacunae apparently offering the paths of least resistance . |
| 29 | He had done no regular television work since appearing as Byron in the mid-Sixties , but a BBC producer who saw him on stage in No Sex , Please — We 're British realized that he was perfect for the lead role in a script submitted to him by a new TV comedy writer , Raymond Allen . |
| 30 | When I entered the Winter Gardens he was emerging surrounded by an hysterical crowd , having been greeted by a demonstration described to me by a hostile witness as ‘ reminiscent of a Nuremberg Rally ’ . |