Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a machine operating at 6000 stitches per minute , the needle thread has to accelerate to a speed close to 100 mph ( 160kph ) , stop , and accelerate backwards to the same speed , and all at a cycle rate of up to 100 times per second ! |
| 2 | Leading Welsh players , too , are concerned about having to play important league fixtures between internationals and a meeting will take place this week between Welsh team manager Robert Norster and coach Alan Davies and representatives of the 48 Heineken League clubs to try to come to a compromise . |
| 3 | Virtually what it did it came out of the last parish council 's conference which I attended on your behalf and er the Director of Planning and Development , Colin promised to lay on a seminar for parish councillors because it seems to be the one service which always gets criticism at the parish council 's conference . |
| 4 | Many of the cases appear to turn upon a consideration of whether the payment was voluntary or involuntary . |
| 5 | Cut off from her , with his father and stepmother both dying while he was still a young man , John several times tried to live with a man he loved , but it always ended in disappointment . |
| 6 | Domestic problems do n't arise when the Rayners want to go to a game — the whole family go along for the ride . |
| 7 | But this is a misleading term , even when " myth " is understood in the technical sense of a " religious text designed to account for a custom , institution or other phenomenon " . |
| 8 | The agent has to fill in the financial returns has to send in a report of financial expenditure . |
| 9 | It all began in the early hours when it 's alleged the car failed to stop at a police check and sped off through the city centre and out along the Botley Road . |
| 10 | TSL Holdings reached pre-negotiated agreement in principle with some of its major creditors to restructure its debt in a deal expected to result in an exchange of existing debt for a combination of new equity and long-term debt , and the agreement was reached in recognition that it would make the Chapter 11 filing ; Europe accounts for some 80% of sales . |
| 11 | Commissioner of the Garda Siochana for little more than two years in the 1970s , he presided over a force struggling to cope with a surge in urban crime and the spillover violence of the IRA campaign in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | A second method is through a contingency fee system whereby a lawyer agrees to act for a client on the basis that he or she will receive an agreed proportion of any damages recovered . |
| 13 | Mr Paddy Ashdown issued his starkest warning yet that he would be prepared to force a second election if either of the two main parties sought to govern on a minority basis . |
| 14 | So , if the clients want to invest in a fund , they can do . |
| 15 | The work force want to return to a contract and yet do not want to return to a situation which takes away from their individual freedom and negotiating rights . |
| 16 | Being cradled against her mother 's soft warm body , Dot tried to feel like a baby , to remember what she had seen through the crack in the double doors as Gloria had cradled Baby against her while the nurses gathered round with protective outstretched arms . |
| 17 | My kids want to go for a visit and my daughter wants a picture of our home … |
| 18 | If a visitor or medical practitioner has to talk to a resident through you , make sure you consult them and do n't answer for them . |
| 19 | Alexei 's eyes seemed to stare for a moment into the middle distance . |
| 20 | These ratings seemed to vary in a way which was related to variables such as the amount of traffic present in the situation and estimated risk . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've come to find you ! ’ he cried , struggling back to his feet ; but the words seemed to blur into a shout that was almost meaningless . |
| 22 | He was deep in an armchair , naked from the shower , heels lofted to rest on a mahogany writing desk . |
| 23 | It is the basis for a range of ocean-going ferries and cargo vessels that Japanese shipbuilders hope to sell in a decade 's time . |
| 24 | Its legs — if it had legs — were covered in what looked like a large brown sheet , and the light seemed to come from a kind of lamp attached to the back of what could , or could not , be its head . |
| 25 | Obviously one does n't believe everything one sees in the media , but this programme seemed to capture in a nutshell what is wrong with our economy . |
| 26 | Erm , we called a lodge meeting before the annual leave , annual shutdown , and in that lodge meeting all three quarries agreed to go on a work to rule as from the resumption of work , which is second week of August . |
| 27 | When such a clear target has been voiced and accepted , ideas for units begin to flow at a rate which the technology and the programmer find difficult to cope with . |
| 28 | She smiled up at him valiantly , the smile fading as his eyes began to darken in a way she recognised . |
| 29 | Another was the ā gri , sitting beside a petal-shaped oil lamp which he replenished as soon as the flame began to dwindle from a bowl on the hearth . |
| 30 | Of particular interest were the methods employed to land in a crosswind approaching crabbed with the nose as far into-wind as possible while maintaining the centreline of the runway . |