Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ankles suffer a high rate of injury wherever poor mats are used . |
| 2 | The cases display a mainly 19C head reliquary of the grandmother of King Wenceslas , Ludmila ; the 10C sword of St Stephen wrought by Ulfberth and a 13C mitre set with seed pearls . |
| 3 | Now , offices , the County Hall and even a car park make a bigger impact but the prison retains its huge central site . |
| 4 | Many books written for full-time or professional interviewers advocate a ‘ system ’ for asking questions . |
| 5 | Highly cohesive groups display a strong loyalty to their members and a strong adherence to group norms . |
| 6 | Climbers make a great mistake , however , in imagining that each of these groups aspires to the dizzy heights of dangling . |
| 7 | Cops nab a ‘ rogue ’ sandwich |
| 8 | On the basis of US experience , Edwards ( 1979 ) identified a progression of employer strategies from ‘ simple ’ ( direct ) control in small firms , whereby arbitrary power to issue instructions and discipline employees is accorded to foremen and supervisors , 8 through ‘ technical ’ control in which machines set the pace of work , especially in mass-production industries , to a ‘ bureaucratic ’ stage where work becomes highly stratified and employers develop a system of impersonal rules to control workers . |
| 9 | Although the written text may be very general and refrain from referring either to men or women , the illustrations make a definite point for the majority contain male figures . |
| 10 | Beyond the woods lay a valley and in the valley a lake , where the ruins of a fine Georgian house were reflected on a clear day . |
| 11 | Workers at British Aerospace fear a proposed deal with Indonesia could threaten more jobs at Prestwick . |
| 12 | I believe that the general practitioners find a problem list more informative ( although I have never investigated this formally ) and that the copy letters in the notes make a more useful case summary than the handwritten record . |
| 13 | ‘ Sheep make a noise . |
| 14 | Whilst such systems are powerful tools for marketing analysis and direct marketing campaigns ( indeed , such profile codings have been shown to be highly predictive when incorporated into credit scorecards ) , the credit marketer should never lose sight of the fact that these are likely profiles and there will inevitably be a small proportion of targeted customers whose actual profiles display a disparity from the system profile . |
| 15 | It is hereby ascertained that nine pints and one choppin of the said Standard measure make a peck , and that sixteen pecks make a Boll . " |
| 16 | However , cyclists make a good example because they too are starting to wear hard hats . |
| 17 | The environmental groups cite a number of examples of inappropriate use of the funds . |
| 18 | But , in the main , westerners fear a spell in the east will mean a kink in their careers , or that life will be too grey ( ‘ not even a decent pub ’ , groaned one civil servant back from an eastern town he decided not to work in ) . |
| 19 | In contrast , ‘ phalanx ’ growth forms develop a structure of tightly packed shoots ( most of the pasture grasses and some pasture dicots such as Bellis perennis ) ( Lovett Doust , 1981 ) . |
| 20 | Whatever advertisers and their agencies may think about the respective merits of Conservative , Labour or even Liberal Democrat administrations , general election mean a windfall of about £10m worth of business for media owners and a favoured few advertising agencies — reportedly some £8m of that spent by the Conservatives , £2m by Labour and a meagre £250,000 by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 21 | Here I must emphasize that , although social anthropologists in the field concentrate a great deal of their attention on day-to-day domestic relationships , it is not really the set of domestic relationships as such which is their ultimate focus of interest . |
| 22 | Figure 16–3 suggests that income taxes introduce a distortion that leads to a level of work that is socially inefficient . |
| 23 | Five minutes footage a day is good going and they use only 1 foot of film out of every 15 feet shot . |
| 24 | We either have them or we do not , although we can at times make a conscious effort to put certain feelings out of our minds . |
| 25 | Cornelissen make a reasonable substitute but other commercial manufacturers , such as Pelikan , offer it too . |
| 26 | Labels such as ‘ arts ’ or ‘ science ’ do not necessarily indicate the content of a course ; some institutions award a BA in almost every discipline , including science and engineering . |
| 27 | Only if sheep graze a combination of rough grassland and heather moor will the grassland slowly extend at the expense of moorland . |
| 28 | A traditional rural scene ; as sheep graze a Gloucestershire pasture , but this is the new face of farming . |
| 29 | Rather than supporting the status quo , the way things are , utopian ideologies advocate a complete change in the structure of society . |
| 30 | Brine shrimp make a good addition to its otherwise vegetarian diet . |