Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , offices , the County Hall and even a car park make a bigger impact but the prison retains its huge central site . |
| 2 | Workers at British Aerospace fear a proposed deal with Indonesia could threaten more jobs at Prestwick . |
| 3 | 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 . " |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Cornelissen make a reasonable substitute but other commercial manufacturers , such as Pelikan , offer it too . |
| 7 | Brine shrimp make a good addition to its otherwise vegetarian diet . |
| 8 | Opinion poll findings of this kind raise a problem . |
| 9 | Characters not of Good alignment suffer a -5 penalty to all tests here . |
| 10 | Moreover , despite the recession , an overwhelming majority favour a $5–10 tax surcharge for the arts . |
| 11 | Peppermint — aids digestion ; cooled teabags squeezed and rubbed onto skin make a good antiseptic tonic . |
| 12 | One assumption is that any intelligent species will in due course develop a technology , just as we have done . |
| 13 | In that case make a second search before the first has expired . |
| 14 | But perhaps worst of all , it has been clearly demonstrated that while a change in attitudes to a brand or product can precede a purchase of that brand , it can equally well follow the purchase : does attitude change influence a purchase , or does it merely result from it ? — since people often feel the need to justify a purchase , especially a major purchase , after they have made it . |
| 15 | In men undergoing elective inguinal hernia repair a very detailed account of what might go wrong does not increase patient anxiety significantly and has the advantage of allowing patients a fully informed choice before they consent to surgery , thus reducing the potential for subsequent litigation . |
| 16 | If the pump or cable develop a fault , the electrical supply is immediately cut off . |
| 17 | The introduction of the national curriculum and new modes of assessment provide a context for the study . |
| 18 | The official receiver must in every case send a copy of the certificate to the trustee and file a copy at court ( r 6.120(5) ) . |
| 19 | Legal labels will not in this instance provide a ready-made answer ; they can only serve as the repository for the conclusion reached from a particular system of political thought . |
| 20 | The wider areas of open space to the south and east of the reserve provide a mosaic of habitats , coastal grassland , scrub , bush and rabbit-grazed patches . |
| 21 | In this sense , the ‘ essential ’ standards established at Community level provide a baseline ; provided goods and services meet these baseline standards , they must be permitted free access to the whole Community market . |
| 22 | But workers against racism say a former prison is the wrong place . |
| 23 | If Pine v. Collacott itself had originally been under challenge in your Lordships ' House on the ground that in an obligatory section 7(4) case the simple requirement that the driver provide a specimen of blood without reference to the possible alternative of urine was insufficient , I should have been inclined to reject that challenge . |
| 24 | Is he really trying to convince the people of Britain , as they tried to do then , that policies of this kind provide a basis for sustained recovery and sustained growth ? |
| 25 | This method works fairly well provided that the publishers of the index provide a conversion table enabling the current figures to be related to earlier figures , and usually they do so . |
| 26 | It is suggested that this non-invasive techniquemay provide a useful screening test of the pathophysiological basis of the functional obstruction in children with chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction . |
| 27 | The actual official published positions of the field provide a new and powerful model of environmental medicine that contains numerous valuable insights and perspectives into the dynamic causes of many acute and chronic illnesses and provide powerful tools to vastly improve both the quality and cost effectiveness of the health care of applicable illnesses . |
| 28 | The current project aims to produce and field test a French adaptation of the Nottingham Health Profile . |
| 29 | Even so , recent re-estimates of their weighting suggest a degree of caution in evaluating their contribution . |
| 30 | In a diagram : Verbs such as try evoke a movement towards the beginning of the infinitive event but do not reach it , whereas verbs like manage take one all the way up to the point of actual realization . |