Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poems order experience and share it ; understanding them and writing them involves an act of creativity , and in both activities there is a kind of joy involved when the order of words , or insight into the effect of that order , corresponds with the way things are . |
| 2 | Nothing destroys a sense of humour more than fear . |
| 3 | No-one wins a dispute with Graham , so there 's hardly any point indulging in a slanging match . |
| 4 | In the learning enterprise , everyone has a share in it , the teachers as well as the taught . |
| 5 | Everyone has a purpose in life , he thought . |
| 6 | Nearly everyone has a snapshot of their dog caught at some amusing moment , and now is your chance to have it distributed nationwide in a leaflet or on a greeting card . |
| 7 | 8 Everyone has a chance to be the leader . |
| 8 | ‘ Whereas with workflow management the document could find itself round the company to the right person — everyone has a PC on his or her desk — and you not only outsource a lot of the data entry work but get rid of the paper . ’ |
| 9 | This process continues until everyone has a name on his or her back , the organizer putting a name on the birthday child 's back , who will have started the game . |
| 10 | Not everyone has a marriage like mine and for that , many women will no doubt be very grateful . |
| 11 | It 's vital that everyone has a sense of belonging to the school and is kept fully informed of events that are taking place . |
| 12 | ‘ Everyone has a record by The Drifters and I think we have all sung one of their numbers at a wedding . |
| 13 | Everyone has a right to first-rate care and everyone has the right to complain if they 're not satisfied . |
| 14 | Everyone has a right to be buried in the churchyard of the parish in which they die — assuming that one exists , and that there is space left . |
| 15 | Article 25 ( 1 ) of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights , subscribed by the United Kingdom in December 1948 , runs as follows : ‘ Everyone has a right to a standard of living adequate for the health and wellbeing of himself and of his family , including medical care. , |
| 16 | The statement ‘ everyone has a right to medical care adequate to his health and well-being ’ is , in the Universal Declaration , tantamount to the highwayman 's ‘ stand and deliver ’ : if this right is not realisable within a society , it must be realised by compulsory redistribution and reorganisation as between societies , and if it is still impracticable even by compulsion on an international scale , so much the worse for the international community ! |
| 17 | Everyone has a right to first-rate care and everyone has the right to complain if they 're not satisfied . |
| 18 | Since everyone has a right to treatment whether they have been contributors or not , it is difficult to justify . |
| 19 | Everyone has a right to be treated with respect . |
| 20 | Everyone has a right to everything . |
| 21 | Everyone has a right to his or her opinion and mum has received her fair share of opposition . |
| 22 | And it seems everyone has a reason for wanting to be a witch . |
| 23 | Like Lloyds , a number of banks claim customers will still want old-style cheques because not everyone has an account into which they can pay cheques . |
| 24 | But if the ground of challenge was unreasonableness , then a wider range of affected persons might be able to demonstrate sufficient interest because the notion of unreasonableness defines the limits of legal action ( and in one sense everyone has an interest in the government acting legally ) rather than the limits of individual rights . |
| 25 | Everyone needs a bit of time to themselves so something had to be done . |
| 26 | For staying power nothing beats a bowl of porridge and , as a bonus , oats are great health value , too . |
| 27 | These questions must be addressed , even if they can not be precisely answered ; simply raising them has an effect on the way old people are viewed and the action which it is deemed appropriate to take . |
| 28 | For the person with these projects the forwarding of them has an importance to which utilitarianism can not do justice , for it must regard them as simply among the many preferences of which as many as possible are to be satisfied . |
| 29 | Game theory , in general , postulates a set of ‘ players ’ ( the ‘ interested parties ’ , be they individuals or groups ) , each of whom has a set of strategies ; strategies meaning courses of action that can be taken , which may be conditional on moves made by the others . |
| 30 | And , as far as ridiculously pompous , overblown musical statements go , no-one holds a candle to Simple Minds . |