Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to consider for a moment the true price of coal . |
| 2 | Time is money , and one must expect to see more pressure being brought to bear to reduce to a minimum the time taken from the start of a project to the arrival of the product on the shelves . |
| 3 | As a consequence they pose real problems to the policy maker , practitioner and manager , who are expected to respond to a problem the magnitude and significance of which are open to wide and sometimes conflicting interpretations . |
| 4 | At the start , you will need to approach from a spot a little bit more upwind due to the effect of the other yachts , but not much higher than before . |
| 5 | The time for Eliot is just after the passing of ‘ the dark dove with the flickering tongue ’ , a German plane which has left behind a city every bit as much of a waste land as the earlier poem 's London , though now the ‘ crowd ’ has gone , leaving only the speaker who , ‘ before the urban dawn wind ’ , communicates with the ghost . |
| 6 | Since August 12th Mr Hussein has repeated like a gramophone the refrain that he will not budge from Kuwait until Israel gives up the West Bank and Gaza . |
| 7 | Well a way back in the last century they they had to go looking for a life a living elsewhere because of the poverty of the place . |
| 8 | The nearest he had ever approached to any hint of levity was when he had stopped frowning for an instant the day that news had reached him of the death of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in Rome . |
| 9 | Suddenly , through the front door came bursting like a tornado the lithe , dark-haired figure of a girl in a blue mini-skirt . |
| 10 | Would you like to get into a vehicle the length of a bus with no extra tuition |
| 11 | Would you like to get into a vehicle the length of a bus with no extra tuition |
| 12 | It is hard to exaggerate the importance of this development , which , for reasons purely of financial accountability , involved the Colonial Office intimately in economic planning for the empire and thus helped to bring to an end the old imperial system in which colonies had puttered along as virtually independent satrapies , with the Colonial Office exercising only a watching brief . |
| 13 | They were told to enter in a book the goods and income of all men . |
| 14 | These measures could quite justifiably be regarded as something of a sledgehammer to crack a very small nut , since they are intended to deal with a problem the existence of which is almost totally unproven . |
| 15 | Companies legislation ** also prohibits treating as an asset the expenses of and commission on any issue of shares and debentures . |
| 16 | But to have gone himself to Verdun at this hour would have demolished at a stroke the legend of imperturbability , upon which so much had been built , and the crash would have been deafening . |
| 17 | He was probably going to start bleeding like a pig the instant the barb was out , and he only hoped — |
| 18 | This may be reflected in the faunal changes and may have brought to an end the stable conditions represented by the pure quartzites that extend all the way from the Welsh borderland to Morocco . |
| 19 | Rather than try to describe to a journalist the subtle but crucial distinctions between individual and group differences , these scholars describe their results in technical journals and allow merchants to sell their products quietly . |
| 20 | The latter , a somewhat shadowy figure in the biographical sources , is chiefly noted in the history of the time for having authorized with a fetva the execution of Seyh Bedreddin Simavi in 823/1420 ( ? ) . |
| 21 | At one stage his entire family of fourteen were reported as having lived on a dollar a week ! |
| 22 | In the road named after him , today 's so-called tribunes of the people decided to bring to an end the antics of the hon. Member for Coventry , South-East . |
| 23 | Under a slab of rock which lay propped at an angle the earth had been scraped away to make a shallow burrow and lying in it , curled up comfortably on his side like a sleeping dormouse was a boy . |
| 24 | They could all ride now — after a fashion — and stay on over their modest course of jumps ( built of railway sleepers ) ; they could all swim at least three lengths and run a mile without stopping to fall in a heap every hundred yards , not very fast perhaps , but improving all the time . |
| 25 | I went looking at a house the other day and it backed on to a lake . |
| 26 | Permit me to take up our plight — try to imagine for a moment the straight and level run in to the target , " bombs gone " followed by the desperate seconds ( best described by one of my Canadian pilots as " when I bite buttons off my parachute cushion " ) before the automatic photoflash and the aiming point picture taken by the night camera . |
| 27 | The connoisseur also hopes to have in a drawing an authentic work by an artist 's own hand , which in the case of an oil painting may not be so assured . |
| 28 | If you doubt it , try discussing with a lawyer the sensory perceptions of a pilot rotating an aircraft into a climbing attitude while increasing engine power and accelerating , and whether or not the pilot can believe he is pulling the aircraft right up on to its back . |
| 29 | By proclaiming the arrival of democracy , and with it " the end of ideology " and ideological politics , the revisionists of the 1950s perhaps hoped to bring to an end the perennial debate about democracy . |
| 30 | The ‘ Fouchet plan ’ that ensued called for a summit every four months ; for foreign , defence and education ministers to meet regularly ; and for a special secretariat . |