Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [adj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The member who brought this matter to our notice stated that had he known about this in one particular case , a capital gains tax assessment due by a client would not have become payable in consequence of the option available to pay at one-half the taxpayer 's rate of income tax . |
| 2 | They can also buy equipment such as a typewriter or calculator . |
| 3 | One of the best-known hoodlums in the south east , 44-year-old Jean-Louis Fargette , was last week found shot dead on a road-side wasteland at the Franco-Italian border . |
| 4 | This week you 'll commence phase two of a transformation which began a while back . |
| 5 | However , the results of experiments on members of a number of African tribes whose culture does not include the custom of depicting three-dimensional objects by two-dimensional perspective drawings indicate that the members of those tribes would not have seen Figure 3 as a staircase but as a two-dimensional array of lines . |
| 6 | Stepping forward , he advanced to the centre of the arena , where he stopped and saluted Angel One with a half bow . |
| 7 | In Butterfly , for instance , they open coral and as they mature turn green with a cream margin ; in Kagiri-nishiki the leaves are pale green , edged in pink . |
| 8 | On Aug. 16 Iraq 's permanent representative at the UN , Abdul Amir al-Anbari , rejected Resolution 706 as a violation of Iraq 's sovereignty and claimed that it reduced Iraq 's position to one of " trusteeship " . |
| 9 | ( iii ) The third statutory limitation on the right of a floating charge holder is section 15 of the Insolvency Act 1986 which empowers an administrator to sell property subject to a charge which as created was a floating charge without the need to obtain a court order . |
| 10 | March 2 The UN Security Council passes Resolution 686 on a ceasefire in the Gulf war [ see p. 38116 ] . |
| 11 | A decision was taken in 1984 by F.I.S.A. at Pau to create Formula 3000 as a replacement for Formula Two . |
| 12 | Dick Bennetts runs West Surrey Racing from an engineering works near the M3 , concentrating on Formula Three but serving Formula One with a supply of drivers . |
| 13 | I mean point one of a millimetre 's not much . |
| 14 | In contrast , France which has made no declaration under Article 18 , will only make compulsion available to a commissioner if he is a French judicial authority , appointed as commissioner . |
| 15 | So why was this condition not seen as giving prospects of profit and therefore providing adequate incentive to new investment which , in turn , would have strengthened the balance of payments and made sterling less of a handicap ? |
| 16 | Earlier he ends chapter three with a hint of humour saying that many people are not what they seem despite the appearances and begs her to try her utmost not to be worse than she appears , concluding : Here the word " form " is ambiguous referring to his writing as well as to a life-style . |
| 17 | And you could then if you wish say well we 've got point five of a post , and that person saw eighty percent of those or ninety percent or |
| 18 | A team of scientists from the distinctly untropical environment of the University College of North Wales in Bangor has solved some of these problems by designing food fit for a prawn to eat . |
| 19 | A FORMER hotel worker will spend Christmas alone in a tent after his retirement home was bulldozed by Spanish planners . |
| 20 | However , the IBA would not run Channel Four as a franchise in the same way as it ran the other regional companies , but would instead own it . |
| 21 | This is something I had been thinking a lot about recently , using Psalm 37 as a basis . |
| 22 | Lord Tenterden was of opinion that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover because , in point of law , he was bound to give evidence pursuant upon a subpoena . |
| 23 | K ( knitter ) : ‘ Stitch size 7 on a Brother ’ . |
| 24 | The male of the species , displaying peacockery unprecedented for a century or more , was despite paisley , ruffles , velvet and all , secondary . |
| 25 | It 's not easy When the wind is force two or three — but by now it is blowing force six with a sea state to match and it is becoming dangerous . |
| 26 | Mr Dassac , in his turn , was found shot dead with a bullet through his head last year . |
| 27 | In December 1975 , on what was ever afterwards to be known as Black Saturday , four Christians were found shot dead in a car outside the electricity company headquarters in east Beirut . |
| 28 | Mark Bosnich , snapped up by Atkinson when he left United last summer , produced a wonderful performance to keep Villa afloat in a match dominated by United . |
| 29 | He could hurt her with so little , she reflected , realising that she was finding it more and more difficult to keep hatred alive as a counterbalance to love . |
| 30 | If the plans go ahead , there are fears that up to 80,000 visitors a year will converge on Snowshill … ruining the character of the village and make life more of a misery for the residents . |