Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The title sits uneasily on a place which is , for very good reasons , unsure of its own identity . |
| 2 | But , in the language of social anthropology , " kinship " has very little to do with biology ; it refers rather to a widely ramifying pattern of named relationships which link together the individual members of a social system in a network . |
| 3 | There is no necessary link between tense and time ; it is likely in this instance that the use of the present tense is not restricted to a particular time ( which is the time of the utterance ) but refers rather to a " general " present . |
| 4 | In Proverbs 16 verse 25 we read ‘ There is a way that seemeth right unto a man , but the end thereof are the ways of death . ’ |
| 5 | 2 The defender drives upward with a full knee spring out of the attacker 's reach . |
| 6 | At An Lochan Uaine the route leaves the main track , turns right at a post marked blue , climbs the hillside and contours along with views across the valley . |
| 7 | However , at the end of the film , the car driven by Mark ( Sean Connery ) drives right down to the end of the road , and instead of falling into the ( non-existent ) harbour , turns right into a previously unsuspected street or quay along its edge and disappears from view . |
| 8 | One could perhaps say that the pronoun here refers successfully via a discourse-deictic reference to a prior NP . |
| 9 | An XY graph plots points alone in a two dimensional graph relating two factors . |
| 10 | That goes nicely behind a six foot trestle or whatever it is . |
| 11 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 12 | When the ritual is finished , a ring of stone around the perimeter of the magic circle flies out of the ground and a huge spout of blood gushes outwards in a wave over the adventurers . |
| 13 | Maccoby and Jacklin , authors of the standard review of psychological sex differences , note that even a study like their own , which finds mostly similarities , turns inexorably into a trait psychology ( 1974 : 3ff ) , centred on masculinity and femininity , and the differences between them . |
| 14 | You can hear it in the jazz metal fills in ‘ Glam Slam ’ and ‘ U Got the Look ’ , in the way the West Coast power pop of ‘ I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man ’ subsides brilliantly into a brooding meander of acid guitar , in the raga anthem ‘ The Cross , … |
| 15 | The individual gives to the group as an undifferentiated whole , and receives only as a member of a larger group . |
| 16 | The tentative Taif agreement , on the other hand , sets no timetable for a total Syrian withdrawal and refers only to a pull-out from the Beirut area within two years . |
| 17 | It could be argued that Lewis 's poem refers only to a failure of etiquette . |
| 18 | The bridle in this case is a lateral one with lines to either side of the central pick-up point , and all at the very leading edge of the kite which then flies much like a glider on its towline . |
| 19 | It persists only as a matter of ingrained habit , not ideology . |
| 20 | The spiritual ( or is it the psychic ? ) intensity of their presence goes together with a marvellous air of freedom and delicacy . |
| 21 | But as he pulls at the silk of her sari , it just unwinds endlessly in a cloud of colour until he falls bundled in fabric . |
| 22 | Let's begin by assuming that your plot actually has somewhere for a garage to stand . |
| 23 | It lies at the extreme edge of the constellation , and I have found that the best way to locate it is to use Beta Comæ , which is of magnitude 4.3 and lies rather off a line joining Cor Caroli to Arcturus ; though dim , Beta Comæ is rather isolated , and not difficult to identify . |
| 24 | It looks remarkably like a trumpet . |
| 25 | The answer is that they will become superfluous , to be replaced by a new prototype that looks remarkably like a rugby league player . |
| 26 | In the first case , elitism does not provide an explanation , being merely a loose term to describe a social category about which other features rather than the elite characteristic provide what explanation there is ; in the second case , the power elite looks remarkably like a social class , and elite explanation has come back full circle to its point of departure . |
| 27 | It should be noted , however , that already with Schumpeter we have moved away from models based on the distinctiveness of the elite characteristic as an explanatory factor , to a lower-level operation which explicitly refers to realistic definitions rather than to explanations , and in which the model , such as it is , looks remarkably like a composite description of liberal democracy . |
| 28 | The Life itself looks remarkably like a version of the Passion of the Byzantine " megalomartyr " Menignos , relocated in Dijon , and the whole Benignus dossier is probably best interpreted as the response of a bishop to a non-Christian cult which he had not been able to stamp out . |
| 29 | ‘ We did not have enough heart or bravery around the penalty area where it matters most against a team that was committed and strong . |
| 30 | This rare and peculiar fossil looks rather like a sea-lily without arms , and has more than a passing resemblance to a tennis racket ! |