Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assuming that there is a perfect capital market , so that the individual can borrow or lend freely at an interest rate r ( about which he has confident expectations ) , a person 's expected lifetime discounted income is measured by , where W u and M u are expected wage income and capital receipts at time u , and P u denotes the survival probability . |
| 2 | After deciding we like a band , we would consider whether to make singles with an option for an album , or to go straight for an album . |
| 3 | ‘ I ca n't think or work properly on an empty stomach . ’ |
| 4 | Riders have to learn to cope with the contrasts of the Alpine stages , dropping like a stone or plodding upwards like an old soldier . |
| 5 | It will banish any anxieties that you may have about being alone at night or coming home to an empty house . |
| 6 | Similarly , if you are on the beach , you should discourage your dog from drinking the water , or plunging straight into an area where the swell may be dangerous . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) Nothing in subsection ( 1 ) above shall prohibit or restrict : ( a ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor in any premises at any time within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours ; ( b ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours and was not supplied or taken away in an open vessel ; ( c ) the sale or supply to , or consumption by , any person of alcoholic liquor in any premises where he is residing ; ( d ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises by a person residing there ; ( e ) the supply of alcoholic liquor , in any premises , for consumption on those premises , to any private friends of a person residing there who are bona fide entertained by , and at the expense of , that person , or the consumption by such friends of alcoholic liquor so supplied to them ; the ordering of alcoholic liquor to be consumed off the premises or the despatch by the vendor of liquor so ordered ; ( g ) the supply of alcoholic liquor for consumption on licensed premises to any private friends of the holder of the licence bona fide entertained by him at his own expense , or the consumption of alcoholic liquor by persons so supplied ; ( h ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor at a meal by any person at any time within half an hour after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if the liquor was supplied during the permitted hours and served at the same time as the meal and for consumption at the meal ; ( i ) the sale of alcoholic liquor to a trader for the purposes of his trade , or to a registered club for the purposes of the club ; or ( j ) the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor to any canteen in which the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor is carried on under the authority of the Secretary of State or to any authorised mess of members of Her Majesty 's naval , military or air forces . |
| 8 | Those who fail or do poorly in an examination , or some other competitive test , find consolation in the wiles of witchcraft . |
| 9 | I imagined it all dissolving in a white heat , or swept away in an enormous wind . |
| 10 | It is n't some shallow need that goes away after an hour in bed with you . |
| 11 | I can indeed mean the thought that occurred there , rather than mean the thought that occurred nowhere on an occasion when my location was Venice . |
| 12 | One underlying issue , however , troubles me , Throughout there is the implication that to partake wittingly in an arms race is a perversion of science — as the conclusions say , ‘ the role of scientists in the arms race is of crucial importance . |
| 13 | In the late eighteenth century this symbiosis of peers and paupers is revealed in the fashionable aping of lower-class mores and dress , a version of the return to nature that came naturally to an upper class lacking a culture of its own . |
| 14 | There 's often a lot of hot air spoken about airbags — you know , the devices that inflate rapidly in an accident — but one things for sure , they certainly help save lives . |
| 15 | On the other hand , rather than move away from an area where similar firms operate , some firms may consider that it is in their own particular interest to move into such a location . |
| 16 | There is nothing more demoralising than coming home with an injury which keeps you out of action for a few weeks . |
| 17 | He looked up and saw the vicar carrying a book that looked more like an illustrated part work from W. H. Smith 's than Holy Writ . |
| 18 | Stults pointed out that trained rescuers who are on their own often delay calling an emergency service and may use neighbours and other bystanders rather than dialling immediately for an ambulance ( the main source of a defibrillator ) . |
| 19 | Mitch 's image alone does not make clear that he will be mocked rather than taken seriously as an object of desire . |
| 20 | The two hundred sheep jostled and complained and tried to jump the queue that stretched deep into an olive grove . |
| 21 | They had to pass idle days of waiting that stretched ahead to an eternity of weeks in August . |
| 22 | Is there evidence of the scheme becoming more of a predictive tool and aid to decision making rather than working primarily in an administrative function ? |
| 23 | Recent studies of language acquisition reveal that children are very attentive , and actively process evidence in ways perhaps not fully appreciated at the time when Chomsky was championing a theory of innate linguistic universals that depended heavily on an alleged gap between the scanty data available to the child and the rich system that he eventually masters in response thereto . |
| 24 | However , as the Democratic nominees left their convention and plunged immediately into an eight-state overland campaign tour through the Midwest , Clinton was recording opinion poll ratings of up to 30 percentage points ahead of Bush . |
| 25 | It 's a mysterious , diablo-enhanced thing and fits snugly into an album that takes in pre-pop escapades like ‘ Hey Boots ’ and ‘ Eau Water ’ and then flits to the lilting balladry of ‘ Love In A Hollow Tree ’ which is capable of passing for Julian Cope on a clear day . |
| 26 | It 's a mysterious , diablo-enhanced thing and fits snugly into an album that takes in pre-pop escapades like ‘ Hey Boots ’ and ‘ Eau Water ’ and then flits to the lilting balladry of ‘ Love In A Hollow Tree ’ which is capable of passing for Julian Cope on a clear day . |
| 27 | She likes them , she thinks their work is interesting , she longs to do Story Time and read aloud to an audience of adoring tots . |
| 28 | After his death his " rock band " disappeared and was last seen , rumour says , broken and tumbled together in an old wash-house . |
| 29 | If I should cry , trying to express the inexpressible , that I had walked the wind with archangels , she would have been worried and annoyed ; and if I had gone on to say that I had forfeited those heights and lived now in an unremitting shadowless glare of exposure in a runnel of Hell , she would have feared for my mental health . |
| 30 | It swelled , diminished , and swelled again like an oratorio . |