Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This incident proved the danger to Special Forces when they sought sanctuary in a neutral country , for Graham Hayes was shot in a Paris prison in the summer of 1943 . |
| 2 | After a few hundred yards , he sought sanctuary in a nearby house . |
| 3 | On Viola 's approach down the hall , Hilda turned up the gas and made preparation for a hasty departure , but this , it seemed , was not the idea . |
| 4 | Kalat and Rozin ( 1973 ) suggested that subjects given exposure to a novel flavour are capable of learning that the flavour predicts no aversive consequence , that the taste is ‘ safe ’ . |
| 5 | Although it was small and its facilities were poor , the standard of learning attained was high , as was illustrated by McJannet in his History of Irvine when he noted that as early as 1729 , the pupils ‘ translated part of a Greek Testament into Latin ; some of the Roman authors into English … and also translated many English sentences into elegant Latin with great dexterity . ’ |
| 6 | The County Council also accepted as part of this oral approach that there was a need for an alteration to the structure plan , because the approved structure plan did not make provision for a new settlement as an element of approved North Yorkshire strategic policy , and we 've progressed that erm alteration through to the examination er in public er today . |
| 7 | These independent structures are then transformed to dependent ones : " After she had swept the room " , etc. , and made part of a complex sentence . |
| 8 | So for the time being it would be prudent to treat money as a major variable in our relationship with crime and conformity . |
| 9 | ‘ You must regard exams as a joint problem you must solve together . |
| 10 | Systematic sampling of West German voters carried out in 1979–80 indicated that 13 per cent of all voters in the Federal Republic had a consolidated extreme rightist ‘ world view ’ ; 14 per cent responded positively to the statement that ‘ we should again have a Leader who would rule Germany with a strong hand for the good of all ’ . |
| 11 | Before the site became part of a private country park the building was lived in by a local tenant farmer named Mrs Hollington . |
| 12 | The paragraphs being added to the database became part of a new book on hypertext entitled Hypertext : from Text to Expertext . |
| 13 | Being part of the Garrowby estate , owned by the Earl of Halifax , it is rather unusual in this day and age as having no privately owned houses or farms , other than the old rectory which was sold several years ago when the parish became part of a joint ministry . |
| 14 | The first passenger packet boats operated from Warrington to Manchester and later became part of a through route from Liverpool to Manchester via Runcorn . |
| 15 | As late as the end of the nineteenth century in some Western European states local politics retained their dominance over central concerns , until markets , jobs , and communications like the railways became part of a national whole . |
| 16 | These companies in practice then became part of a national cartel . |
| 17 | All sorts of people go to see performers after a first night . |
| 18 | The organizational ‘ environment ’ has formed part of a managerial perspective on structures of authority which sees variations in management structures and forms of control as reflecting the mainly economic environment of the organization . |
| 19 | Virtually every house on the coast was built from stout oak planks , each timber bearing unmistakable signs of having once formed part of a wooden ship . |
| 20 | So when the Training and Enterprise Councils were given responsibility for a new stream of scheme they said quite rightly I think that they would only support survivable businesses . |
| 21 | In principle , any reasonably dry biomass can be gasified ; but the practical problems of using fuels with a high ash content or of low density are quite severe . |
| 22 | It destroys hope for a better life . |
| 23 | The capacity to use young leaves with a high protein content may have permitted the emergence of large primates in the first place , but primates capable of remembering the sites and fruiting and leafing patterns of a wide variety of plants , could move more directly to such food , when and where available , more efficiently than those searching randomly . |
| 24 | According to Israel Radio , this was " the first time since the beginning of the intifada that terrorists have managed to plant bombs in a Jewish place , wounding civilians and soldiers " . |
| 25 | For determining whether resource contributions of taxpayers , grantors , and service recipients intended to support activities of a given time period were sufficient to recover the cost of those activities . |
| 26 | For predicting the amount of resource contributions of taxpayers , grantors , and service recipients needed to support activities of a given time period . |
| 27 | A team of researchers at Aberdeen University have received support for a three year study of Scottish soccer fan behaviour . |
| 28 | Family counselling , or family therapy , began in the USA in the 1950s , underwent enormous expansion during the 1960s and is now a well developed technique with a sizeable literature devoted to it . |
| 29 | From there they proceeded to the Jebel mountains and made camp in a pleasant area of trees and plentiful water . |
| 30 | The Western banks regarded Romania as a good risk : cynically , they judged that Ceauşescu would keep the lid on the pot in Romania in a way that Gierek had manifestly failed to do in Poland . |