Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who is interested in becoming a sitter should call the hospice on Darlington . |
| 2 | The tests may indeed produce something of a learning-for-the-test mentality , and the extent to which the tests pose a problem will depend a lot on the kinds of pupils : how well the values implicit in the school ethos match and are supported by those of their home , and how far advanced is their disaffection with school . |
| 3 | Increased value without increased subscriptions Many members pointed out that conversion to direct debit and signing a covenant would increase the value of subscriptions without costing members anything ! |
| 4 | Repeated attempts to provoke an attack may cause the symptoms to disappear altogether . |
| 5 | In addition , the Cabinet in approving a proposal may give a higher or lower degree of priority to it . |
| 6 | The children who had suffered a trauma would survive the experience , scarred by it and a little flawed by it . |
| 7 | Every Partnership developing a Compact will design a management structure servicing its particular needs . |
| 8 | Candidates who are granted a referral will re-sit the referred component in December 1994 . |
| 9 | In the event of a share issue a bank may handle the advertisement , application and allotment of shares . |
| 10 | She is alleged to have accepted a bribe used to finance an election campaign for the minister . |
| 11 | This followed assurances that no authority seeking a redetermination should suffer a reduced spending level , fear of which had prevented any of the selected authorities from appealing in the first year of operation . |
| 12 | To remember a year would take a year . |
| 13 | To remember a day would take a day . |
| 14 | Churches wanting a speaker should contact the West London offices on 081 840 7879 . |
| 15 | To give a second example , pied flycatchers which have never seen a shrike will mob a model shrike ; the mobbing is best elicited , or ‘ released ’ , by a model of the right size and orientation , with a horizontal black eye stripe on the appropriate background colour . |
| 16 | ( Just how soon after writing a user should sees the recognised text is open to debate . |
| 17 | I would n't have thought a wilderness would warrant a hostess . ’ |
| 18 | Is our society sick when an apparently minor happening which merely merited a caution can destroy a man 's career , indeed his life , for many years to come ? |
| 19 | Ca n't anyone understand a man can love the countryside ? |
| 20 | ( b ) Where an order is subject to a negative resolution it must be laid before Parliament ( usually for 40 days ) during which time a member can move a prayer to annul it . |
| 21 | A sample in the middle of the house valuation banding on which the council tax is based , Band D , shows a couple would pay a combined council tax , including water rate , of £504 . |
| 22 | But , although in its twisting and turning a line may circumscribe an area and even a volume , it is not a description or an experience of them . |
| 23 | On the other hand , it was sometimes difficult to be certain of this , for there were some lairds who took a very unfavourable view of such officers , and there was a danger that a politician who desired to win a friend might make a mortal enemy . |
| 24 | To win a team must reach the final play square for the chance to win . |
| 25 | There is an old saying that whipping a donkey will do no good if it 's running as fast as it can . |
| 26 | Callers phoning a chatline need have no fear of rebuff ; the people they speak to want to talk as much as they do . |
| 27 | More than two negative reasons for accepting a job can take a heavy toll on your resources of enthusiasm , particularly if you had the added disappointment of being turned down for the post you 'd really hoped for at the time . |
| 28 | Accordingly , it is best if the hive-up is deferred until , say , the end of the month in which the acquisition occurred at the earliest ( using a month-end will make the accounting treatment easier ) . |
| 29 | Officially , any youngster willing to wield a gun can join a police team for 30 rupees ( $1.70 ) a day . |
| 30 | Mechanically , it works almost as well on land as it does in water , so that providing a creature can find a way of breathing , there is little to prevent it walking straight out of the sea and up the beach . |