Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Th it 's not a case of everything 's contained within the stimulus that 's coming in and we elaborate it into whate the object . |
| 2 | It 's always a case of who gets there first gets the best position and things like that ! |
| 3 | Fair enough , well if I can help him in any way by talking to him , it 's not a case of who wins and who loses , we all lose . |
| 4 | So its a case of who has the nervous breakdown first , you or the dog ? |
| 5 | Had a bit of everything chips We 'll put it all in one dish an it 'll eat it all . |
| 6 | Everybody needs a bit of what does you good . |
| 7 | A bit of it has rotted now though . |
| 8 | I can understand it cos I , I , when I 'm feeling a bit down it gets to me , you know I think oh God |
| 9 | This is a bit like what happens when one fires a rocket upward from the surface of the earth . |
| 10 | Angry deputies of the parliament , the Supreme Soviet , voted 125-16 to ask the Constitutional Court to rule on the president 's announcement on Saturday that he was assuming special powers to force through a referendum on who rules Russia . |
| 11 | A suggestion that a decision on what comprises ‘ unfit conditions ’ should be influenced by how much rain was falling was answered by umpire Paul with : ‘ That 's academic . ’ |
| 12 | The IT General Systems Sector involved in downsizing Motorola 's internal computing operations — a part of which services the cellular business — itself contributes $3.5bn in revenues to Motorola Inc . |
| 13 | That is the way of fools and failures who plunge to their own destruction because a part of them has despaired and wishes to die . |
| 14 | It is felt as a tussle of will , a powerful urge to transgress standards of thought or behaviour which only a part of us declares as inviolable . |
| 15 | Similar to other villages in the area in most respects , a part of it has acquired a semi-industrial facade because of its proximity to the main highway . |
| 16 | The evaluation is a summing up which places the work in the experience of the critic , and helps the reader to form a judgement . |
| 17 | A statue to him stands at the junction of Seagate and Castle Street , Irvine . |
| 18 | no I just leave it and I 'll have a think of who 's got , you know a two year old , a two , three year old , ca n't think of anyone |
| 19 | When life seems strange , uncertain and frightening , the church should provide a sanctuary from which emanates understanding , support and the possibility of new attachments in all their variety and hope for the future . |
| 20 | For example , you could interpret the meanings of events in a narrative , starting with a description of what happens at an apparently realistic level , then interpreting the events as having an alternative , symbolic meaning . |
| 21 | It must be said , however , that despite the beautiful detail of Piaget 's behavioural descriptions , his picture of the mental reorganizations underlying behavioural change was painted with a very broad brush ( by present-day standards ) ; and indeed the assimilation-accommodation model is little more than a description of what has to be explained , awaiting , what we now call , a ‘ computational model ’ . |
| 22 | Sometimes this is no more than a description of what has to be done but sometimes it incorporates how the operator does it or should do it . |
| 23 | Freud 's model of the collective evolution of some parts of humanity from archaic responses , found in religions , to more rational and reality-based responses , found in science and technology , may be little more than a description of what has happened , but it enables him to avoid the position of cultural relativism and its logical extension — nihilism . |
| 24 | The last section of the book is devoted to a description of what has been achieved with the telescope and is dedicated to John Bolton , who has been largely responsible for the dish 's successful operation . |
| 25 | As far as I 'm concerned anybody who wants to sign a contract with me gives me copy and a cheque is a legitimate . |
| 26 | For Oakeshott the ‘ rationalist ’ error is the equation of reason which technique , and thus the problem is not the use of reason in politics as such but a misidentification of what constitutes reason . |
| 27 | The idea of non-meanings as identical subjects of predication while implying the possibility of a framework within which references to such items can be contextually checked for truth , is not explicable in terms of any particular criteria of re-identification . |
| 28 | Let's just have a look at what happens as we increase the lab , the labour output . |
| 29 | To put this into context it is worth taking a look at what has been achieved over recent decades in obtaining access agreements for canoes to pass along our rivers . |
| 30 | Right if you have a look at what has come up on the screen , on the screen . |