Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of Aspel and Company I felt a bit daunted by this team of brilliant people who were , in some ways , doing my legwork for me , and the odd hiccup still arises from having lots of people on the case . |
| 2 | The obvious reply to this argument is that we need a reason to accept a decision reached behind this veil of ignorance , and the claim that no decision would be reached behind a differently constructed veil of ignorance is not such a reason unless it has already been shown , as it has not in fact , that we are bound by the results of some veil of ignorance , whatever it may be . |
| 3 | The US approach was criticised by Southern African countries at a meeting of the UN Environment Programme , where a split emerged between those countries wishing to stop the trade altogether and those seeking more radical measures to help conserve the rhino . |
| 4 | For though it stands so isolated today from human kind , St Mary 's church was a mother-church for a wide area round about , as befitted the spiritual centre of a royal estate ; and we do not know how far back a building stood on this site . |
| 5 | Again , as it was impossible for wheeled implements to cross the frequent deep water-cuts of a field ploughed in this way , all cultivation had to be done along the stetch itself ; and this meant that implements — drills , hoes , harrows , etc. — had to be adapted to fit the width of stetch used . |
| 6 | ( There was a long correspondence in a camp newspaper about the evil effects which female parts in a play had on such people . ) |
| 7 | The collapse of the Husayn-Arafat accord led to a new phase of cooperation between Israel , the United States and Jordan aimed at objectives similar to those of the early seventies : the erosion of support for the PLO in the territories , the reinforcement of the normality of occupation by a programme to improve ‘ the quality of life ’ , a term coined in this context by US Secretary of State George Schultz . |
| 8 | Surely it is clear to anyone who might imagine that we are discussing an activity that could legitimately be called ’ joyriding ’ — from the incident that I have cited and from the horrors of the case in Liverpool , where a car ploughed into some children — just what a murderous evil that activity is . |
| 9 | Commitment to a performance target is not assured because a boss asked for that commitment . |
| 10 | Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road . |
| 11 | When a child came in this morning , the one I , that we accused of taking that out , he said he did n't take it , I went on and on and on , he said he did n't take it , I said I want a letter from your father to say that you bought it then , that does n't mean anything , the father could lie . |
| 12 | Erm , I er have never known such a question asked in this council chamber where referring to members of parliament er in in er and that is why I did n't feel it necessary |
| 13 | It was strange and awkward , being dressed by someone else , seeing Lyddy kneel to put on her stockings , lace up her boots , feeling the steady foreign strokes on her head of a hairbrush wielded by another hand . |
| 14 | Glastonbury held the door open while a walking-frame entered at some speed followed by its lean and dapper-looking proprietor . |
| 15 | Some drag and drop issues , such as how an application will be launched when a file associated with that application is opened , are still to be resolved . |
| 16 | When a vacancy arose within this group of social workers in 1983 it was decided to appoint someone specialising in work with under fives with special needs . |
| 17 | But at least a quarter lived in some kind of poverty , even if the degree of their deprivation stopped short of actual destitution . |
| 18 | His own qualities as a choreographer blossomed in this setting . |
| 19 | ( There it merely provides musical interludes between acts , a pattern foreshadowed in some odes of Euripides . ) |
| 20 | Where a paper closed in these circumstances , the survivor picked up on average rather more than half its circulation . |
| 21 | In the process of overtaking a lorry , a woman crashed into another lorry reversing out of a side turning . |
| 22 | A bell rang in another part of the house . |
| 23 | Whenever a call came into that number , their electronic exchange could run back up the line to establish the source of the call . |
| 24 | Easy to see what effect sudden nausea at even the thought of the big glass would have on a life lived in this way . |
| 25 | Like sheep and horses , mules and asses … and finishes : From sulphurous eggs and oily fishes , And all the highly seasonal dishes : such is the odourous part of a man Devoted to this frying pan . |
| 26 | Watt used a cylinder closed at both ends to keep it as warm as possible . |
| 27 | In a book devoted to this question Robson ( 1976 ) contrasted the welfare state , as a means of providing services to the needy and underprivileged members of the community , with the ‘ welfare society ’ , in which ‘ welfare is of unlimited scope ’ , involving conditions of work , income , the character and scope of social services , the quality of the environment , recreational facilities , and the cultivation of the arts , as well as freedom of expression and movement , and the protection of individuals against abuses of power . |
| 28 | It 's rather like DIY in that one day you may need a power saw to cut up some timber , the next a hand saw for some precision work . |
| 29 | It is mountainous and glaciated with about sixty per cent of the land permanently covered in ice , and a coastline indented by many fiords . |
| 30 | At some stage a suggestion arose from both sides — principally Damerell of BUPA so far as the doctors were concerned and , strangely enough , also from Barbara and the DHSS — that the consultancy strike was so damaging that a mediator should be sought . |