Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] word [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second-class citizen ! goes up in neon lights when those who use the pronunciation of the streets and not of the written word open their mouths . |
| 2 | This means that , for the vast majority of utterances , hearers are expected to identify specific intended senses for every ambiguous word form that they contain . |
| 3 | He was a giant of a man and did the work of three , and when someone flagged with exhaustion he would appear like a genie by his side and with a quiet word help him over the temporary crisis . |
| 4 | A representative assessment is that given by the library manager : I would say that one of the biggest advantages was the fact that senior management … from the Head down , from the very word go , were after making it a success … one thing we have got is a greater awareness from a greater number of staff , because they come in here to supervise and help [ and ] get involved … but I think the biggest advantage has been the fact that time devoted to … library skills for all the first year … [ has ] been extended to an hour a week … |
| 5 | For example , the mixed representation of a brief account , , will be parsed into agree the count , because the first four phonemes can be matched to the long word agree and because there is a possible parsing into words of the remaining phonemes . |