Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kevin , from Lymington , also beached flounder to 1 lb 12 oz using ragworm on a size 2 hook to 15 lb line . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , we still have relatively little idea of how the child is able to move from a practical understanding of how , for example , objects change location as a result of actions performed by people , to the more abstract and general understanding of semantic categories such as agent , action and object , which provide the basis for early syntax ( Bowerman 1976 ) . |
| 3 | Likewise , a carpenter or joiner might be on a set day rate but who for a period might take on a separate contract to saw timber at a rate per 100 ft. , the figure depending upon the hardness of the wood . |
| 4 | In contrast , other metaphors make reference to an animacy which seems to threaten by its very absence . |
| 5 | While this form of reassurance was given to the residents , Michael Killeen of the IDA attacked the local community activists , claiming that the opposition to Raybestos and Schering Plough was causing ‘ incalculable damage ’ to the IDA 's attempts to promote Ireland as a location for industrial development abroad . |
| 6 | Even the old pagan religions placed laughter in a position of importance for in Greece there was a Goddess of Laughter . |
| 7 | On 3 February 1945 he wrote ‘ I have just bought the Moussorgsky records Pictures at an exhibition . |
| 8 | But it made the situation no easier because Churchill distrusted Temple as a sort of Socialist and as too outspoken a politician . |
| 9 | If discourses articulate concepts through a system or signs which signify by means or their relationship to each other rather than to entities in the world , and ir literature is a signifying practice , all it can reflect is the order inscribed in particular discourses , not the nature or the world . |
| 10 | Frightened people joined the party against Herakleophorbia and fought against the giants using weapons in an attempt to kill the result of this terrible creation . |
| 11 | The reported separation was the third blow to hit Tatum in a week . |
| 12 | It came to include the policy for polytechnics , that is — a measure of concentration — announced in the 1966 White Paper , and more or less finalized in a Parliamentary statement in April 1967 , when Crosland announced confirmation of a list of twenty-eight polytechnics in England and Wales , leaving open the possibility of two more . |
| 13 | The only options open to the courts to enforce compliance with a contact order is a fine or imprisonment . |
| 14 | In the autumn of 1330 Mortimer got wind of a plot being hatched in the king 's immediate circle and he interrogated Montague and others . |
| 15 | A detailed study by Nick Davies , of Cambridge University , has revealed that the private life of the dunnock involves rivalry on a scale unprecedented in birds . |
| 16 | Protein concentrations were determined by a modification of the method of Lowry using BSA as a standard . |
| 17 | Orem , Utah-based WordPerfect Corp used Comdex as a springboard to announce the formation of a Consumer Products Group to focus on developing consumer products for the home , small business and personal productivity markets , saying that it sees a $1,500m market in 1996 , up from just $430m or so in 1991 . |
| 18 | What is especially insulting about the decision to impose VAT on a purchase about which no family has a choice , is the flimsy pretence that this was all done in the name of greener government . |
| 19 | ‘ Ravenscraig has been described as one of the biggest environmental challenges in Europe but we also see it as an opportunity to establish Lanarkshire as a world leader in the field of environmental technology . |
| 20 | On Aug. 27-29 ministers from all OPEC member states except Iraq and Libya agreed in talks held in Vienna , the Austrian capital , to suspend production ceilings and to permit Saudi Arabia , the UAE and Venezuela to increase output by a total of 3,000,000 bpd . |
| 21 | The years in Lubyanka prison in Moscow transformed Wallenberg into a hostage of the Cold War , and then into one of the many errors of the Stalinist period whose truth became too ghastly to reveal . |
| 22 | In the late 19th century , Henri Poincaré and Jacques-Solomon Hadamard wrote on mathematical creation , and more recently George Pólya and Gabör Szego used problems as a teaching method and Polya produced his famous How To Solve It ( Princeton UP , 1971 ) . |
| 23 | The availability of this defence causes problems for a plaintiff especially where the defendant has carried out works specified in an abatement notice , without success , or where the odour problem is so complex that it is difficult to ascertain just what are the best practicable means . |
| 24 | At Taï , the chimpanzees make use of many other tools , such as long sticks to extract ants from a nest , and bunches of leaves to soak up water from pools in trees . |
| 25 | He seems to be on talking terms with the creator and is able to gain permission to tempt Job in a number of horrible ways . |
| 26 | a creditor has judgment for a debt , execution of which is unsatisfied ; ( c ) the court is satisfied that the company is unable to pay its debts as they fall due ; ( d ) the court is satisfied that the value of the company 's assets is less than the amount of its liabilities . |
| 27 | Although the Vatican has records of a physic garden in 1277 , it was not until the sixteenth century that centres of learning , first in Italy and then elsewhere , began to establish their gardens of medicinal plants . |
| 28 | Boswell , as he did frequently , used the works of one writer to provoke Johnson into an opinion of another , in this case Edmund Burke . |
| 29 | The terms and conditions also address such grey areas such as what happens if the buyer has possession of a work , but has not completely paid for it when it is stolen ( the liability is the buyer 's ) , and the duty of such a buyer who has partially paid for a work , to store the work separately from his own goods , not to export it , to retain the seller 's identifying marks , and to allow the seller or his agent access to the work . |
| 30 | If a buyer has access to a seller 's cost structure then he is in a powerful position to negotiate a cheaper price , or at least avoid paying too high a price . |