Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it was , in truth , as if his legs followed a route from which he could not turn them back — along the sales signs in Oxford Street occupied by a bedraggled army of Christmas bargain hunters , and off that up to the grandiose frontage of the hotel . |
| 2 | Insider dealing provides a route by which they may do so . |
| 3 | Most of them also use personal experience as Owen uses traumatic experiences of his during the war , to act as a base to what he is trying to say and to help to get his message across . |
| 4 | Others found their way into the western reaches of Argyll , also using shore caves as a base from which they went out seasonally fishing , hunting and gathering fruit , nuts and birds ' eggs . |
| 5 | So the choir has a base from which they can work and now the same hills which inspired Elgar are echoing to the sound of 28 powerful Ukranian voices . |
| 6 | This special report provides a base from which we can develop our health , safety and environmental service into the next century . |
| 7 | By introducing a programme for the training of drawing teachers in 1871 , the school opened up a vocation to women : a vocation through which they could attempt to have more secure incomes . |
| 8 | Write out a chit for whatever you use , as usual . |
| 9 | Now if it 's only a fuse like mine I 'll get him one and we 'll be able to get the computer back down cos er the like right ? |
| 10 | 3.17 In Bayley v Bloomsbury Health Authority ( Kemp & Kemp , Vol 2 , para E3-012 , Henry J said , in making an award to a student nurse who had suffered a prolapsed lumbar disc at the age of 20 , that there was a world of difference between such an injury happening to a victim at that age as opposed to the age of 33 , the age of a plaintiff who had suffered a comparable injury in a case to which he had been referred . |
| 11 | I 've yet to see a case of what we would define as really rape . |
| 12 | I think it 's a case of what we have , we hold . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a case of what I know now … . |
| 14 | It , it 's a case of what she 's letting herself in for if we strike this out . |
| 15 | But I think it 's always a case of what you bring to acting — bring to the parts that are being offered to you . |
| 16 | But er the these production investment activities are associated really with production engineering , er very closely aligned with development and erm unless you can do those between now and the end of nineteen ninety five , when we start the P I phase in nineteen ninety six before you can really make any progress you would then have to do a further year and a half of production engineering so in the new quotations Eurofighter are making a case for what they term a development assurance phase , some advance production engineering work starting later this year and going on until the end of ninety five but when we start P I in ninety six , we can start with a bang and make fast progress . |
| 17 | Instead of building a case for ourselves we attack the opponent or his case . |
| 18 | As Ferrini laments , this is a case in which we must be content to practise the ars nesciendi . |
| 19 | This is a case in which we distinguish between a person 's body as it appears to that person , and as it appears to others . |
| 20 | It was difficult to know whether she had understood everything he had tried to explain to her about his being involved in a case in which she was the chief witness , about his career , and how he had a mother and sister to support . |
| 21 | In support of his argument , Mr. Coghlan relied on Cozens v. Brutus [ 1973 ] A.C. 854 , a case in which it was held in the House of Lords that the meaning of the word ‘ insulting ’ used in section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936 was not a matter of law but a matter of fact . |
| 22 | In his judgement , the Lord Chancellor said , ‘ I am seldom called upon to decide in a case in which I felt so strongly that on one side or the other there had been abominable wickedness . ’ |
| 23 | Like a detective displaying the only clues in a case in which he has become personally involved , he holds out the croci with a shrug of quiet resolve . |
| 24 | Well if that were so my Lord then there would never be any any solicitor 's negligence claims , in which any expert was ever called to give evidence because it 's always going to be eventually a matter of law as to what the defendant 's duty is but what the er what the plaintiff had not said at any stage is that a matter of law is ever going to be admissible and in fact the is Justice our in the course of er er a case in which he , despite expressing reservations about the admissibility of the evidence , plainly admitted it because he was within the course of his judgement . |
| 25 | Leeds had given up by then but it is not hard to present a case from which they , rather than City , might have ended up celebrating . |
| 26 | Erm I thought I 'd tell you a bit about what I did apart from medicine . |
| 27 | MR RICHARDS : First of all I d like you to tell me a bit about what you 've been doing . |
| 28 | There 's a telephone on the wall just by my table and I think for a bit about who I 'd like to phone . |
| 29 | When you do know a bit about it you yes you want to know |
| 30 | Erm I think that 's that worked quite well but there is a bit of I I suspect if I was to show a video every week there 's a reluctance th for people to want to pay me in a sense . |