Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Anyone who just wants to play arcade-type games might as well buy a games console . |
| 32 | However , the only individual who appears to have a plan that will appeal to the developing world is Dr. Mustapha Tolba , head of the United Nations Enviroment Plan who proposed a users ' tax paid by the consumers of ozone depleting chemicals , to be collected by governments and used by developing countries both to modernise their production systems and to compensate the multi-nationals for the transfer of their most advanced energy effective technology . |
| 33 | ‘ The idea of nicking a Stones riff and putting it behind a James Brown backbeat and howling over the top is pretty appealing , but it 's not really what we 're into as a band . |
| 34 | ‘ The idea of nicking a Stones riff and putting it behind a James Brown backbeat and howling over the top is pretty appealing , but it 's not really what we 're into as a band . |
| 35 | Directors may , and frequently do , however , insure against negligence liability and this is likely , at least in part , to off-set any reluctance to take office through the fear of having to meet a damages award . |
| 36 | There may be some , but I would expect that this time sum , er or close to it , will be the final balance , and that , of course , will flow into the general balances of the County Council , and er , a one million pounds was allocated from the contingency , that finance sub-committee in October , to meet the price , er , to meet a prices inflation . |
| 37 | He said the US authorities were paying a substantial part of the costs incurred by the wives in preparing their legal challenge , but no provision had been made to meet a costs order in favour of Cherwell council . |
| 38 | The first aim of the NVALA was to establish a Viewers ' and Listeners ' Council which would consist of elected representatives of the ‘ churches , women 's organisations , magistrates , doctors , educationalists , parents , youth , social workers , police , political parties , local government and writers ’ . |
| 39 | In fact , pursuant to r 6.80 , no resolutions can be taken at the meeting of creditors other than : ( i ) a resolution to appoint a named insolvency practitioner to be trustee or two or more insolvency practitioners as joint trustees ; ( ii ) a resolution to establish a creditors ' committee ; ( iii ) ( unless a creditors ' committee has been established ) a resolution specifying the terms of the trustee 's remuneration or to defer consideration of that matter ; ( iv ) if two or more trustees are appointed , a resolution specifying whether acts are to be done by both or all of them , or by only one ; ( v ) a resolution adjourning the meeting for not more than three weeks ; and ( vi ) any other resolutions which the chairman thinks it right to allow for special reasons . |
| 40 | Sewell tried in 1841 to establish a cattle infirmary at Thomas Flight 's famous dairy ( formerly Laycock 's ) in Islington , housing some 600 or 700 cows ( there were thousands of cows in London until the railways facilitated milk supplies from the country ) . |
| 41 | A debate is in progress among scholars in the arts and humanities about whether it would be right to establish a humanities research council or a humanities , economic and social research council , or to continue with no research council at all . |
| 42 | By a government licence under the Act , Mercury Communications , a private company , was authorized to establish a communications system . |
| 43 | The Government ‘ had taken powers to establish a loans scheme by diktat . ’ |
| 44 | BE PREPARED to take a ribbing from the Scouts , British Telecom — you 've really dropped a gooli in your new advertising campaign ! |
| 45 | The folk of these towns and villages took their convicted witches , stood them in pitch-filled barrels and set them afire : in Forres stands a witches ' stone , site of such burnings — in thunder , lightning , or in rain ? |
| 46 | So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble . |
| 47 | Cuesta , Captain General of Old Castile , took the patriotic cause ‘ seriously ’ when the students of Valladolid erected a gallows in his courtyard and after his colleague in Badajoz had been murdered . |
| 48 | At a meeting tomorrow , councillors will discuss a governors ' resolution that future payments be made only for work completed satisfactorily . |
| 49 | Now shipwreck looters brave a police helicopter circling overhead as they carry their spoils away by bicycle . |
| 50 | LABOUR ‘ deadbeats ’ must carry the can for failing to secure a jobs bonanza in Darlington , it was claimed last night . |
| 51 | The women 's singles championship went to Joan Blackett who beat Gwen Wharton 21–13 while John Hanmer beat Les Appleby 21–13 to secure a men 's singles championship final place in a breathtaking match dominated by drawing to the jack end after end . |
| 52 | Labour 's objectives in education and training are ambitious : we want a skills revolution in Britain . |
| 53 | They want a corgi for the production of the Big Friendly Giant which is a sell out success on its present UK Tour . |
| 54 | you want a police to come as soon as possible , and you want to , to deal with it because it 's a priority to you . |
| 55 | I bet he wants a bollocks P C. |
| 56 | The landlord wants a months deposit and another month 's rent in advance which I already paid to the agency . |
| 57 | Miss Menzies suddenly stood up , looked him straight in the eyes and said , ‘ Do you know it 's a very serious offence to impersonate a police officer ? ’ |
| 58 | No , I could get water when I found a Ladies . |
| 59 | And he felt his searches had been vindicated when he found a savings book that he did n't know about . |
| 60 | Quijano , amongst others , takes this argument a stage further by utilising a modes of production approach . |