Example sentences of "[verb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philippa was laughing in the perimeter of shadow that surrounded the light and Lee felt oddly stable looking down at Larry as if she were surveying an actor from the height and comfort of the gallery . |
| 2 | Some people were having holiday romances : they radiated an air of barefaced sin and were itching to talk about it . |
| 3 | President Bush was said to have addressed an appeal to Mengistu in April and to Prime Minister Tesfaye Dinka on May 21 concerning the Ethiopian Jews , and press reports focused on the role of US envoy Rudy Boschwitz . |
| 4 | Joe does earn some money on the after-dinner speaking circuit , and has addressed an assortment of lawyers , writers and bankers since his release . |
| 5 | It may also be argued that numbering an Information Memorandum shows an intent to control and restrict the circulation and therefore complies with Companies Act 's requirements for prospectuses and the provisions of the FSA . |
| 6 | The ability to go back to a previous question in order to modify an answer/input in light of current best information is provided by Truth Maintenance . |
| 7 | The kits enables the distributor to modify an X-Window System 11.5 server running on a Sparc processor to use the Display PostScript extension . |
| 8 | There was a tendency for REM sleep time to recover slightly during the week of restriction , and during recovery sleep an increase in REM sleep time over baseline levels ( an REM sleep rebound ) indicated an accumulated pressure for REM sleep . |
| 9 | Surveys have shown that adults sleep an average of seven and a half hours , with a standard deviation in the sample of about one hour . |
| 10 | One night in 1962 Kurdish rebels entered a Kirkuk cinema disguised as policemen and silently surrounded an officer known to be torturing opponents of the government . |
| 11 | To help , Tarantino took Roth on a tour of places like In And Out Burger , and gave him a crash course in the kind of trash culture that would have surrounded an LA child of the Seventies — old TV copy shows , cartoons like Speed Racer , Fantastic Four comics , bubblegum pop . |
| 12 | It is instructive to preface an exposition of the theory with Kane 's somewhat ingenuous comment on the ancestors of modern blacks : |
| 13 | Another aspect of trying to appreciate the task from the child 's point of view is found in studies of class inclusion , which involve an ability fundamental to classification . |
| 14 | The Act confers extensive powers of entry , search , and seizure which necessarily involve an invasion of the citizen 's rights of privacy and property ; on that account the legislation might be thought to call for a strict construction . |
| 15 | If it is accepted , as I argue , that a judge , when sitting in his court , is frequently required to make decisions which involve an assessment of where the public interest lies and so to make a political decision , then he can not be said to act neutrally , although he may still be the person best suited to make that particular decision . |
| 16 | Similar principles apply in the case of bonuses , which often involve an element of profit sharing . |
| 17 | Barclays also has a special loan scheme which it says is particularly suitable for enterprises starting up in new technologies that involve an element of risk . |
| 18 | They seem deaf to any plea that most of the things designed to improve the quality of life involve an element of risk . |
| 19 | It follows that assessment procedures — the unit credit which attaches to every unit — should reflect all four aspects of achievement and involve an element of pupil self-assessment . |
| 20 | ‘ When theft is alleged and that which is alleged to be stolen passes to the defendant with the consent of the owner , but that has been obtained by a false representation , has ( a ) an appropriation within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 taken place , or ( b ) must such a passing of property necessarily involve an element of adverse inference with or usurpation of some right of the owner ? |
| 21 | ‘ When theft is alleged and that which is alleged to be stolen passes to the defendant with the consent of the owner , but that has been obtained by a false representation , has ( a ) an appropriation within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 taken place , or ( b ) must such a passing of property necessarily involve an element of adverse inference with or usurpation of some right of the owner ? |
| 22 | ‘ When theft is alleged and that which is alleged to be stolen passes to the defendant with the consent of the owner , but that consent has been obtained by a false representation , has , ( a ) an appropriation within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 taken place , or , ( b ) must such a passing of property necessarily involve an element of adverse interference with or usurpation of some right of the owner ? |
| 23 | They recognize that even the most basic logical processes involve an element of indeterminacy ; they also base their techniques of communication on the strategies of narrative fiction rather than the endless flow of information . |
| 24 | Commercial valuations , albeit based on established principles , necessarily involve an element of negotiation . |
| 25 | Commercial valuations , although based on established principles , necessarily involve an element of negotiation . |
| 26 | All R&D projects involve an element of risk as described in Chapter 5 . |
| 27 | All R&D projects involve an element of risk as described in Chapter 5 . |
| 28 | Reichenbach argued , also in support of ( a ) and with an ultimate view to ( b ) , that all indexicals involve an element of token-reflexivity , i.e. refer to themselves , so that , for example , I means " the person who is uttering this token of the word I " . |
| 29 | Most batteries involve an assault , and the tendency is to refer generically to ‘ assaults ’ , but the exposition of the law is clearer if the two offences are kept separate . |
| 30 | Colleague contracts , such as most friendships , involve an exchange of similar kinds of things whereas , in the patron-client relationship , the different status is reflected in the fact that the patron offers something quite different to the relationship from the contribution of the client . |