Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently Halifax Labour MP Alice Mahon has given backing for a code , and referred the matter to the parliamentary select health committee for consideration . |
| 2 | The Banking , Insurance and Finance Union has resolved to cooperate with a scheme for voluntary redundancies but says it could take industrial action if the job losses are made compulsory . |
| 3 | On the 27 January 1991 Siad Barré fled the country , and the clans embarked on the intractable conflict which has come to look like a nation intent on destroying itself . |
| 4 | The chapter has come to rest with a description of the currently established , liberal-democratic , constitutional theory — a theory which argues that the constitution provides for a system of Cabinet or prime ministerial government within a larger parliamentary democracy in which Parliament is legally sovereign and the people are politically sovereign . |
| 5 | Sayer has come to work as a laboratory assistant but he 's drawn to a group of patients scattered throughout the hospital . |
| 6 | Fundamentally , many regard the ‘ conflict ’ over housing as an extension of the major divisions in society and argue that the allocation of housing is determined largely by the power that each group has come to possess in a society with a long history of class conflict ( Haddon 1970 ; Duncan 1976 ; Mellor 1977 ) . |
| 7 | Jip tells of something he has seen written on a wall : ‘ If the human brain was simple enough for us to understand we 'd be so simple we could n't ’ ( 88 ) . |
| 8 | Mr William Purves , the bank 's chairman since 1987 , has decided to stick to a strategy developed in the late 1970s . |
| 9 | Imagine a millionaire who has decided to donate to a charity . |
| 10 | But on the basis of these latest extremely encouraging results , the joint venture has decided to apply for an exploitation licence in the Laurenzana permit area . |
| 11 | Glenn Ross has done wonders with a player like fly-half John Steele but the man who has put Northampton on the map almost single handed is unquestionably Wayne Shelford . |
| 12 | For a person insensitive to visual impressions the pattern on the wallpaper he is buying may seem not to deserve close scrutiny ; but if the room he has papered begins after a while to depress him , it has turned out that the pattern was relevant to the choice after all . |
| 13 | Now the group has helped pay for a bronze sculpture in memory of the navvies . |
| 14 | In the 15th century there is a dearth of Florentine musical examples of the laude , and Wilson has had to resort to a discussion of the music found in lauda sources from the Veneto . |
| 15 | However , Jeff , who has taken charge of over 1100 games in his career , had to go off injured at half time with a calf injury , the first time ever he has had retire during a game . |
| 16 | The time and dedication demanded do not seem to put people off : the course is so popular that it has had to shift from a country house to a conference centre on an industrial estate in the Midlands . |
| 17 | Sarah will no doubt be keen to take the part , but Lloyd Webber has revealed that Roger Moore is not the only actor he has had to talk into a role . |
| 18 | He says it 's meant his elderly mother has had to live in a house that 's dangerous , barely habitable and will cost eighty thousand pounds to repair . |
| 19 | Devin Scobie , a district councillor , has offered to act as an intermediary . |
| 20 | Devin Scobie , a district councillor , has offered to act as an intermediary . |
| 21 | While it is true that cause could be inserted in ( 134 ) , it is significant that the writer has used make with a subject ( " enzymes " ) which actively produces chemical reactions and is even described in the same sentence as an agent that speeds them up . |
| 22 | This stupid rivalry has got to come to an end . ’ |
| 23 | Well , this has got to come in a letter , I mean , this is what we want . |
| 24 | ‘ Has promised to return in a moment . ’ |
| 25 | But Strasbourg 's anti-nicotine brigade has won a consolation prize : the health and social-affairs commissioner , Mrs Vasso Papandreou , has promised to look at a ban in the future . |
| 26 | It may interest them that within the last few months the European parliament has agreed to press for a bill of rights for the citizens of Europe and for a written constitution for Europe . |
| 27 | Ironside , who joined Boro for £40,000 in the close season , has agreed to return on a month 's loan . |
| 28 | The good news is that we are still going to see something of as he has agreed to act as a consultant for us . |
| 29 | The Coroner who will hold the inquest into the deaths , has agreed to sit with a jury … which relatives and their lawyers claim is vital . |
| 30 | The Society , which has a very high response rate to its many postal questionnaires , has agreed to cooperate with a survey . |