Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This heater may or may not be calibrated and/or pre-set to a useful fishkeeping temperature . |
| 2 | Connery is n't playing with politics or toying with a party allegiance ; he opinion is founded on his life experience . |
| 3 | Albert writes : ‘ The inescapable conclusion is that the two models of capitalism diverge on the fundamental question of whether to live for the present moment — and to hell with the consequences for future generations — or to plan for a better tomorrow , though it may require sacrifices today . |
| 4 | L 24 , p. 1 ) , whereby only fishing vessels flying the flag of or registered in a member state may fish against the quotas allocated to that member state , which in other words are reserved to ‘ national ’ vessels to the exclusion of vessels from other members states . |
| 5 | Anyone who boards a certain ferry or walks down a certain street or enters a certain building or goes through a certain door disappears for ever into that other city . ’ |
| 6 | In almost all cases this venom is used as a means of defence , and most people are stung after handling or stepping on a fish . |
| 7 | For example , Gumperz identifies the following functions ( 1982 : 75 – 84 ) : quotations ( using a different code to mark a stretch of quoted speech ) , addressee specification ( choosing a code to pick out one 's intended addressee ) , interjections ( " sentence fillers " offset from the the main content of the sentence by a code switch ) , reiteration ( the message content is emphasised by repeating it in the other code ) , message qualification ( the main content of the message is " qualified " or adjusted by a clause in the other code ) , personalisation versus objectivisation . |
| 8 | In later years a boy may continue to look unconsciously for a mother with whom to relate , or a girl for a father to take the place of a loved parent or compensate for a lack of satisfaction in that direction . |
| 9 | Although I recognise that for obvious reasons the Secretary of State will not want to be locked or painted into a figure of 512 as the maximum , which is what it would be , will he tell the House whether , in the light of last week 's discussions with President Yeltsin and the changes that have taken place since Christmas , the Government are now considering the minimum deterrent to be somewhat lower than they had previously considered it necessary to be ? |
| 10 | At eleven a child might transfer to a grammar or central ( technical trade ) school or remain in a ‘ reorganised secondary school ’ . |
| 11 | They were watching , because a machine rolling around by itself is something that you do watch , even if you 've just had to climb a tree or hide behind a hedge . |
| 12 | All day and all night he would be there loitering in the streets of Chichester , either surrounded by hoards of admiring people or dismissed as a dirty scavenging wretch , ruining the ornate Georgian Streets . |
| 13 | What " the " does is to tell the reader that what the noun phrase names is something ( or belongs to a group of things ) which is already familiar to the reader . |
| 14 | It can be sold mild when young , or matured to a greater depth of flavour . |
| 15 | As a result , surveyors are likely to charge a higher fee or insist on a more extensive and therefore more expensive survey ; alternatively they may persuade the building societies and banks to stop showing valuation reports to borrowers . |
| 16 | When sideways movement or typing in a wide document reaches the edge of the window the text scrolls horizontally in steps to reveal parts of the typing line which had been offscreen . |
| 17 | It signals the transformation of the large , lucid Great Sinner into the man who is beyond definition and self-definition , beyond calling himself bored , and whose actions — whether he is biting an ear or enduring a punch in the face or hanging by a well-soaped rope — explain nothing and nobody . |
| 18 | In the event of our cancelling this order as to all or any of the goods and/or the work covered thereby we shall be entitled to purchase from a third party a like quantity of goods of similar description and quality , or a reasonable alternative thereto , bearing in mind our need to take delivery of the goods by the date specified overleaf , or to contract with a third party to perform work of a similar description and quality , and in that event you shall be liable to reimburse to us on demand all expenditure incurred by us in connection with our said cancellation , including any increase in the price over that stated overleaf . |
| 19 | Take out one item and scrub or agitate with a brush or cloth . |
| 20 | The closure of the Talbot works in Linwood in Scotland , announced in February 1981 , with its resulting localised mass unemployment , is a pointed reminded of the limitations of cheap loans or grants as a means of maintaining the allegiance of capitalist enterprises to given investment projects . |
| 21 | ‘ I might be blowing a bit or struggling against a younger player and Stuart will feel we need a fresh pair of legs . |
| 22 | They may , for example ( to paraphrase the original submission ) either broaden their areas of study in order to learn the principles and methods of several disciplines or concentrate on a more extensive study of a single discipline . |
| 23 | Indeed , you have probably broken previous weight-loss diets because of social pressures , such as eating in a restaurant , or eating in a friend 's house , where their encouragement , " go on it wo n't hurt " , and your response , " just this once , " are the first fatal steps to weight gain . |
| 24 | Put the soup in a food processor or blender , or push through a fine sieve , and return to the pan . |
| 25 | Or sit for a while with your back against the trunk of a mature tree ( preferably an oak ) ; breathe deeply and allow yourself to merge , as it were , with the energies of the tree . |
| 26 | Two balconies face the tubes and plumbing mysteries of the solar heating system ; to enjoy the great views from these you have to stand , or sit on a very , very high chair . |
| 27 | To get the intended effect the listener must either wear headphones or sit between a pair of loudspeakers positioned like large headphones . |
| 28 | There are several methods you can use and of course you must find the one which suits you best but , as a starting-point , here is a simple and effective one : Lie on your bed or sit in a chair with a back which is high enough to support your neck and head . |
| 29 | Why stand in a bus queue or sit in a traffic jam when you can walk almost as quickly ? |
| 30 | If there was a grievance the students would refuse to eat their evening meal , and parade and make noises , or sit in a solid wall of silence . |