Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [verb] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NSR involves plans to open an all-year-round shipping route from north Norway to the Far East along Russia 's northern coast . |
| 2 | There are many fertility treatments available to childless couples , and fertility counselling aims to enable clients to make an informed choice . |
| 3 | Dell became one of the world 's largest PC companies by using computers to avoid an expensive dealer network or salesforce and sell directly to consumers . |
| 4 | On Thursday and Friday volunteers at Morrison 's supermarket on North Road , Darlington , asked shoppers to buy an extra tin or two to send to hungry youngsters in Kostroma , County Durham 's twinned Russian city . |
| 5 | Volunteers at Morrison 's supermarket on North Road , Darlington , asked shoppers to buy an extra tin or two to send to hungry youngsters in Kostroma , County Durham 's twinned Russian district . |
| 6 | The product will utilise TCP/IP networks to connect clients running an X-based Motif user interface to a FAX server supporting one or more external FAX modems . |
| 7 | Now they are urging people to register lost and found pets to ensure an efficient service . |
| 8 | The suggestion for a community treatment order was rejected by some , on the grounds that it would infringe civil liberties , there was insufficient research to justify this extra measure , the existing legislation provided a sufficient framework to give the necessary powers to deal with the problem , and changing the law might divert attention from the real need to provide resources to support an acceptable programme of community care . |
| 9 | Comdex organisers had an independent survey done at the last mammoth fall show and discovered that 35% of the attendees were interested in Unix . |
| 10 | In experimental models of gastric damage , there is evidence that the ability of the gastric mucosa to synthesise prostaglandins plays an important part in mediating adaptive cytoprotection . |
| 11 | Nor does knowledge of contributing causes give an easy way out . |
| 12 | ICARDA 's multidisciplinary staff of over 60 senior scientists and 600 technical and support personnel has an international mandate for barley , faba bean and lentil production improvement and — with other centres — a joint regional mandate for wheat and chickpea production improvement . |
| 13 | Patrick had seen Caballeros boom an enormous drive down the 18th , splitting the fairway . |
| 14 | The following year , Plymouth and Devonport branches produced an enthusiastic review of their reclamation work in the association 's national journal , The Shield . |
| 15 | Conservative commentators are urging Republicans to stage an all-out attack on Mr Clinton as an old-fashioned ‘ tax-and-spend ’ liberal , locked out of government for the first time since 1981 , |
| 16 | It may be that the mischief to which Lord Wilberforce was alluding toward , namely that it allows buyers to avoid an improvident bargain , would in any case be solved if the Law Commission Proposals on Sale and Supply of Goods No 160 ( 1987 ) had been implemented by the Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 . |
| 17 | Patients assigned to receive steroids consumed an unrestricted diet and were asked to record their food intake during the first four weeks . |
| 18 | We do not expect doctors to run an intensive care unit simply by measuring the pulse rates of their patients . |
| 19 | Ministers also agreed to open negotiations to find an acceptable formula to bring the " three Chinas " ( China , Hong Kong and Taiwan ) into the group . |
| 20 | On a priori grounds we would expect humans to have an auditory area corresponding to temporal visual cortex since speech requires the categorical perception of sounds . |
| 21 | He could read the words — canal , lock , barge — but the illustrations of an urban canal with tall , industrial buildings and long painted boats portrayed an unknown landscape . |
| 22 | ‘ I am not a missionary , ’ he said , ‘ but I do believe schools have an important part to play . |
| 23 | The same applied to the acquisition of land by local authorities : since they had to meet the cost of compensation there was a danger that they would attempt to avoid sites having an admitted claim under the 1947 Act . |
| 24 | Flowers make an acceptable present does not entail Dandelions make an acceptable present |
| 25 | It had to be someone who could follow instructions to make an effective bow and sharp arrows , who had time to lie in wait , who wanted me gone , who had a universe to lose . |
| 26 | Possible complications and side-effects are ignored or minimised in a target-oriented programme because it is more important to add to the numbers of acceptors than to help women make an informed choice about contraception . |
| 27 | An old Russian lady who speaks five languages but most days does n't speak at all has to endure nurses teasing an old man into kissing her , several times . |
| 28 | They allow that part of communication to play an enormous role ; whereas we in the West tend to let words play an excessive role . |
| 29 | Control animals received an identical volume of the corresponding acetate buffer vehicle ( pH7 ) . |
| 30 | While one argument against expecting schools to carry an additional load of knowledge is that such knowledge , particularly in the vocational field , rapidly becomes out of date , two arguments from the other side have some lasting weight . |