Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) having entered any building or part of a building as a trespasser he steals or attempts to steal anything in the building or that part of it or inflicts or attempts to inflict on any person therein any grievous bodily harm . |
| 2 | ‘ When we had n't seen her at the grave for a while we thought she must have gone away and so when we had any flowers left over we put them on Brian 's grave , ’ said Mary . |
| 3 | We are a bit tired of getting up early ( breakfast 7.30 , start teaching at 8.30 — and that 's a concession to us lazy foreigners , since teaching starts at 8 normally here ) so Comrade Wu kindly arranged for us to have breakfast in our rooms today — the first opportunity for a lie-in we 've had ! |
| 4 | A surface is represented on the retina as a region whose brightness and surface markings change only gradually . |
| 5 | To resolve the struggle between a lipstick which is moisturising but not durable , and one that lasts but dries and stains the skin ( a common problem with more vivid colours ) , Lancôme has used an Active Gel Network to keep the contradictory elements under control and properly distributed . |
| 6 | But it is essentially an inter-generational struggle between a father who has magical powers and a son who is usurping them . |
| 7 | It is an amazing success story for a company which has known good times — and bad . |
| 8 | There was indeed something rebarbative — as there may prove to be about The Manson Family when and if we see it on stage here — about the use of a serious story for a work which struck many as frivolous and even posturing . |
| 9 | It 's a remarkable rise for a company which in the early days operated from a nissen hut at the same site . |
| 10 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 11 | So for all those reasons sir there does seem to me to be erm the case for a policy which would allow this exception to erm attract to North Yorkshire inward investment of this strategically important kind . |
| 12 | What sort of creature was she after all who could feel only loathing for a woman who had suffered so ? |
| 13 | If a woman can make an excuse for a man she loves and wants to hang on to , she will . |
| 14 | Our immediate problems were sorting out our living arrangements , for although it had been agreed with Tandri that we would occupy the ship 's only excuse for a cabin we now found our things moved down into the hold . |
| 15 | Generally , people think of inequality as a test which is performed on numbers . |
| 16 | 1971 ) has made great progress as a geologist who used the wing cases of fossil beetles ( Coleoptera ) to indicate climatic characteristics of palaeoenvironments because coleoptera are very sensitive to changes in wetness and dryness . |
| 17 | The hope for a language which would express the essence of things rather than being conventional noises perpetuating old-wives ' tales is an old one , going back beyond Lavoisier to the seventeenth century . |
| 18 | There is a locking attachment for a windsurfer which may take a wave ski but there are no facilities for fitting uprights , C , J , V or U bars . |
| 19 | How the sensor transmits the pulse into a usable driver for a tacho I do not know . |
| 20 | I usually have some sympathy for a player who is dismissed simply for being over-aggressive , but I draw the line when this aggro is carried out on a fellow team mate . |
| 21 | They 've slain some mighty teams in their time and tomorrow Hereford United are at Huish Park for a tie which should bring pleasure , but could carry pain . |
| 22 | Er we set up on a regional basis er er Robert talked to you a couple of months ago about the initiatives that he 's taking from our and that again is a very much of a cross practice initiative er which is drawing on all the skills that we 've got within the with within the office penetrate the middle market sector and we are going to er specifically use er our grounds expertise and er computer audit expertise as a product which we saw would be attractive to these er these sort of companies . |
| 23 | After sticking the hook through a crust I make an experimental cast across the river , well away from the swim , choosing a dock leaf as my target on the far bank . |
| 24 | On your appointment or re-appointment as a tutor you will receive at the beginning of the session : — |
| 25 | The old nineteenth-century role of Parliament as a body which chose the government , maintained it and could reject it , which operated as an intermediary between the electorate and the executive , has gone . |
| 26 | The work has led to the development of a conceptual framework for a period which is both a phase and a process . |
| 27 | The fact that the Queen was pro-German would have been particularly hurtful to the Emperor personally , for only he had not succumbed to the general enthusiasm for a war he had never wanted and for which he feared the country was ill-prepared . |
| 28 | What a turnaround for a Government which only a couple of years ago actually raised more money than it spent and was dedicated to not borrowing . |
| 29 | Brahms took about fifteen years to complete his First Symphony , and when it was first performed in 1876 , he was 43 — an extraordinary late symphonic debut for a composer who had been publicly proclaimed as a genius by Schumann when he was 18 , and who had gone on to justify public expectations with such works as the ‘ German Requiem ’ , which had given him financial security for life . |
| 30 | An occasional treat or privilege for a child who has made a big effort to master a new skill or managed to give up a bad habit hardly comes into that category . |