Example sentences of "[verb] [det] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | WORLD champion Evander Holyfield last night received a piece of simple advice from his trainer Lou Duva : ‘ Take a shotgun in with you against Lennox Lewis — hold it , let's make that a machine gun . |
| 2 | Now this one can you make that a er a more useful fraction ? |
| 3 | So , then all we have to do is make that a statement . |
| 4 | Do you want that a bit closer |
| 5 | Yeah I always wan na paint that a different colour . |
| 6 | ‘ Can you explain that a bit more ? ’ |
| 7 | so it meant that for some time before contingency fund development was introduced you must of had some concerns er about the accuracy of the figures you were putting forward for the publication , can , can I explain that a little more ? if after a few years a major repair needs to be carried out there was no contingency fund , it might mean sticking another two or three hundred pounds a year on the service charges , might it not , to cover a major repair |
| 8 | Radulfus maintained his judicial calm , and the earl 's broad brow was suave and benign , though there was no guessing what went on in the highly intelligent mind behind it ; but Prior Robert and Sub-Prior Herluin sat very erect , stiff in the spine and with long , refined faces sharpened into steel , studiously not looking straight at each other , but maintaining each a bright gaze on distance , and the appearance of considering with magisterial detachment the situation that confronted them . |
| 9 | er we had a lovely one but frost got that a couple of years ago . |
| 10 | The classes are on certain days of the week only , but enrolment is not expensive given that a term is structured over the usual academic year . |
| 11 | The ADC felt that this was ironic , given that a property has to be close to amenities if it is to be excluded from the Right to Buy ; |
| 12 | Most important , given that a rogue GMO in the environment might continue to reproduce and spread , it can not be assumed that any system of regulation can adequately guard against an environmental catastrophe . |
| 13 | Given that a pharmaceutical company may have a database of perhaps hundreds of thousands of previously synthesised compounds , it is important to be able to ask whether anything in that database resembles a current lead compound or molecule of interest . |
| 14 | Given that a prime reason for investing in science is to boost the nation 's technological performance , where was the discussion about the implications of the government 's plans to privatise the British Technology Group , the descendant of a body set up by Labour itself in the mid-1960s to perform precisely this task ? |
| 15 | There is no reason why a change of context should restore α but given that a novel context is likely to be arousing , some increase in the likelihood of the OR might occur . |
| 16 | While prosecuted crime may be largely working class , whether crime as a wider category is so is rather debatable , given that a large amount of middle and upper-class criminality goes undetected . |
| 17 | In this sense it would be naive to make ‘ policy recommendations ’ , given that a central tenet of this work is that ‘ policy ’ is more the product of a particular set of vested interests than a technocratic implementation of neutral measures . |
| 18 | It was embarrassing to ask the punters at York Arts Centre to join in my comedy song by chanting the line ‘ fuck the system ’ , given that a fair few of them were over 60 . |
| 19 | Given that a large part of Sears ' business lies in the fashion area , responsiveness to the whim of the customer is particularly critical . |
| 20 | Given that a year 's ACT capacity will normally be falling outside the ‘ six year ’ period at each year-end , a company with potential surplus ACT problems will need to act promptly . |
| 21 | Hewlett-Packard Co is amongst Unix vendors Microsoft Corp has approached to help it develop a Unix version of Microsoft Mail : Microsoft expects Mail could be running under Open Look and Motif by year-end , though observers are sceptical given that a promised OS/2 Presentation Manager version has yet to appear . |
| 22 | Given that a totally closed economy is no longer a feasible option , questions remain about the optimal timing , the sectoral priorities and the best forms of liberalisation . |
| 23 | Incidentally there is no problem in proving the uniqueness of the positive gcd — given that a gcd actually exists at all . |
| 24 | The principle , then , given that a does not know that q , and that a does know that p implies q , allows us to infer that a does not know that p . |
| 25 | Given that a detailed examination of every transaction of a business is impossible , auditing concentrates on a sample confined to a period of time or to a type of transaction which is singled out for detailed examination . |
| 26 | However , given that a demand must be served before proceedings could be taken , it does not follow that Mr. Thomas 's second proposition is correct . |
| 27 | Given that a male in the operations department is required who is able to speak Italian , the male list is scanned first . |
| 28 | ‘ This assumes that the investment managers are making an average return of around 13 per cent a year — which they should be able to do , given that a PEP is effectively a tax- free fund . |
| 29 | Given that a person could be an illegal entrant through deception , what standard of proof was to be applied when reviewing the immigration officer 's decision that a person had entered by deception ? |
| 30 | Given that a very precise and reliable estimate of a required yield is unattainable anyway , the problems of both interdependence and estimation of covariances from key factors may be less severe if financial analysts work with the more homogeneous SBU as the unit of classification , rather than with a division which may contribute to various corporate business activities . |