Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations . |
| 2 | ‘ For a couple of hours I feel like a man again , ’ said one . |
| 3 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |
| 4 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth ’ , he writes , trying to retain some sense of the world even as he prepares to leave it . |
| 6 | For six months I looked after a valiant clerical worker with cancer of the colon , which had spread to her liver before her condition was diagnosed . |
| 7 | For the first two months I lived with a French family in Fontainebleau and studied with a Commandant Lettaure , who was coaching fifteen other young Englishmen . |
| 8 | One of the first books I read as a young adult was A G L Fisher 's History of Europe . |
| 9 | From an old book of local walks I read of a route up the Remarkables , the jagged range of peaks which overshadow Queenstown across the lake , and which rise to nearly 8,000 feet . |
| 10 | We studied the operations required by those dominant data-types which act on a complete word : fixed and floating-point binary arithmetic , and logical values . |
| 11 | The Catholic Education Commission for Scotland welcomes the development of Short Courses in Religious and Moral Education , and endorses the considerations which led to a change in title . |
| 12 | After last season 's floppy-hatted waifs , this time around models were given hair styles which looked like a punk reworking of a clipped poodle ; make-up featured a spatter of sequin shapes glued on around the eyes . |
| 13 | Yes , the life span of a junior international is a short one and it seems that it 's the back ends of rinks which suffer as a result . |
| 14 | If all three of these things make us explore new territories of the imagination , the flight of ten blue-lined Steps which rise to a pinnacle in the room next door is another matter all together . |
| 15 | Looking down the basement steps which led to a paved area from which a door led straight into that kitchen which had secretly housed Bill Egan , he thought he could see that the door was ajar . |
| 16 | ANOTHER strong trade of 1,140 sheep at Ballyclare saw an easier trade for hoggets but still an excellent demand for well fleshed sorts which sold to a top of £49 per head for a pen of Suffolks from W Taggart , Doagh , and to £48.50 for four crossbreds 24kg presented by Mrs H Porter , Newtownabbey . |
| 17 | Of all the multiplicity of middle-class organizations which arose as a response to the dislocation of war and the perceived threat of socialism in Great Britain , the distinguishing feature of the Britons Society was its crude and obsessional anti-semitism . |
| 18 | In each of their second and third years , students of the single-subject English course takes a series of four core units which have as a focus the relationship between literature and its background . |
| 19 | Thus the Sino-Indian border disputes which led to a localized war in 1962 brought some joint Anglo-American action to try to deter China from further military action , and especially from air attacks on Indian cities . |
| 20 | Dingy façades which crumbled like a cliff , |
| 21 | Schmidt 's study differs from those discussed so far in that it does not quantify network structure at all , but uses the concept to account for differences between speakers which emerge from a quantitative analysis of linguistic data . |
| 22 | Under the 1950 Shops Act the council has a duty to prosecute shops which trade on a Sunday . |
| 23 | Erm as far as teaching employment goes , full or part time teaching , supply teaching in erm a local authority school , or in independent schools which participate in a teachers superannuation scheme , will actually have an effect on your pension . |
| 24 | Too often some of our Catholic families are not aware of the existence of our excellent senior schools which provide for a solid Catholic education and a growth in faith for our children . |
| 25 | The method used to translate the financial statements should reflect the financial and other operational relationships which exist between an investing company and its foreign enterprises ( refer to SSAP 20 ) . |
| 26 | A sequence of words which ends at a point where a pause may be made without any detrimental effect to the sense of the utterance . |
| 27 | He found them a quarrelsome lot , patronizing though kind to a provincial , giving him opportunities to address large crowds , but leaving him time to attend to the new NAS&FU branches which developed as a result of the strike . |
| 28 | This years fund managers are looking for gains in order to diversify into those cyclical sectors which benefit from an economic recovery . |
| 29 | There was a happy burble of voices which came from a few children discussing some design they were doing . |
| 30 | On a more general level , differences between adult feminine and masculine roles which persist as a ( more or less ) uniform feature of our society have a pervasive effect on the gender role perceptions and preferences children develop . |