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 Government has always envisaged that a range of measures would be needed . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Contemporary literary theory has also questioned whether a relation between words and things is easily achieved , even possible . |
| 7 | He has also shown that a child is likely to share the same birth months as other relatives . |
| 8 | A Dumfries and Galloway Police spokesman has now announced that a man has been taken into custody . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Rincewind hurriedly recalled that a dryad was so linked to her tree that she suffered wounds in sympathy |
| 18 | Under his leadership northern Europe became more settled and a period of building activity was begun , though it was not of long duration . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Equity theory that we examined earlier suggested that a feature of motivation was the individual 's perception of equity compared to others . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was right at the end of the main hunting season , and we had already watched as a group of males had twice unsuccessfully hunted the same group of colobus monkeys that day . |
| 27 | One other one , if I may just , that I 've just remembered that A lady who had a Again this is when I was big removals . |
| 28 | Boldwood was standing near the fire , and he had just noticed that a group of villagers were whispering among themselves . |
| 29 | The event had just started when a woman screamed . |
| 30 | I 'm interested , thank you , I 'm interested to notice that this nineteenth century attitude is being repeated now by er , our friends over there in the Labour party , erm and I must say , that really confirm what I 've always thought that a lot of their attitudes and their mental furniture do in fact belong to that century . |