Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A might still suspect B of having stolen something from him elsewhere ( e.g. if he has just discovered that a bunch of keys is missing from the hall table ) . |
| 2 | The closing date for applications has just passed and an appointment is likely to be made on June 23 . |
| 3 | The Government has always envisaged that a range of measures would be needed . ’ |
| 4 | There is the further consideration that if after a Jury has deliberately decided that a person ought to be put to death , the Home Secretary should nevertheless find it his duty to recommend clemency , there would appear to be a conflict between the Crown and the Jury . |
| 5 | Jess Artem , of London NW6 , has clearly heard that a neutron left to its own devices will decay , with a half-life of about 11 minutes . |
| 6 | In another study in Wales , Nutley ( 1980a ) used around 10 indices , including bus services , distance to shopping centres , and access to Cardiff , to produce a composite index , and in a Scottish example Nutley ( 1979 , 153 ) has also argued that a number of a different methods should always be used , ‘ as no single method can adequately represent the various alternative conceptions ’ of accessibility . |
| 7 | The committee has also ruled that an emergency motion from the Southern region on the Crawley disp Crawley dispute is in order and will be emergency motion number one . |
| 8 | Contemporary literary theory has also questioned whether a relation between words and things is easily achieved , even possible . |
| 9 | He has also shown that a child is likely to share the same birth months as other relatives . |
| 10 | A Dumfries and Galloway Police spokesman has now announced that a man has been taken into custody . |
| 11 | No reported case has even suggested that an expert in the range of circumstances discussed in this book owes no duty in tort to the parties to the contract under which the expert makes his determination . |
| 12 | It is indeed becoming increasingly recognised that a number of skills vital to our success as teachers can only be acquired within the context of schooling as it is currently organised . |
| 13 | It is said by the appellant … that International Law has firmly fixed that a locus such as this is beyond the limits of territorial sovereignty ; and that consequently it is not to be thought that in such a place the legislature could seek to affect any but the King 's subjects . |
| 14 | An animal that has previously learned that a stimulus is not correlated with other events will have learned something quite incompatible with what is true during conditioning and so negative transfer can be expected . |
| 15 | Yet the latest genetic discoveries indicate that , on a different level , man is so close to the great apes that one researcher has seriously suggested that a man/chimpanzee hybrid might be a viable creature . |
| 16 | This is plausible enough , although Bo Gräslund has recently contended that a watercourse near Stockholm once bore the name too , and that a battle there would provide a better historical context for the Sigtuna coinage and Cnut 's claim to rule some of the Swedes . |
| 17 | The House of Lords has recently ruled that an action of false imprisonment can not be brought by prisoners challenging the conditions of their custody . |
| 18 | Even so , B.T. Hudson has recently stressed that a spelling in D is irrelevant to one in E , and used twelfth-century evidence ( and E is a twelfth-century manuscript ) to show that in any case Mælbæth is a convincing English version of Macbeth , whose family ruled , conceivably by the early eleventh century with the title king , an area around the Moray Firth as far north as Sutherland and Caithness . |
| 19 | HE insisted that the Church has never ruled that a priest should not have sex , only that he should not marry , ’ says Monika ( sic ) Kocanek by way of explaining how she ended up in bed with Fr Christopher O'Neill and then found herself pregnant . |
| 20 | We were feeling rather disgruntled at how many good films we 'd obviously missed when a man came on to the stage to read the nominations for one of the categories . |
| 21 | Rincewind hurriedly recalled that a dryad was so linked to her tree that she suffered wounds in sympathy |
| 22 | Under his leadership northern Europe became more settled and a period of building activity was begun , though it was not of long duration . |
| 23 | By Feb. 11 , guerrilla attacks had been recorded in 15 departments , with communications , gas and electricity supplies severely disrupted and a total of 14 soldiers , 11 police and 39 guerrillas killed , according to army reports . |
| 24 | He was critical of Clive Thornton for having once claimed that a house was the best investment , since prices rise and never fall ; they may reach a plateau , but will then rise again . |
| 25 | ‘ Having always believed that an apple a day kept the doctor away , the realisation that an apple a day might actually give my child cancer one day was absolutely terrifying . ’ |
| 26 | We may have further suggested that a droplet of rain falling on southern California was as likely as a sincere comment at the Oscars — and that young Californian children would probably never see a cloud in their lifetime . |
| 27 | But if a person is injured , then the ultimate inquiry to be made is whether or not the injury was a reasonable and probable consequence of the act of carelessness , and whether or not the defaulter should have reasonably anticipated that a class of persons , of which the plaintiff was one , might be affected by his careless act . |
| 28 | Equity theory that we examined earlier suggested that a feature of motivation was the individual 's perception of equity compared to others . |
| 29 | She was used to insolent treatment from fellow servants — for she had long learned that a companion , be she never so genteel , was regarded as little more than that . |
| 30 | The General knew he would probably die , for infantry took pleasure in killing cavalry and he would be the leading horseman in the attack on the bridge , but the General was a soldier and he had long learned that a soldier 's real enemy is the fear of death . |