Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a real pleasure to win something for a change but unfortunately I do n't like knitting . |
| 2 | The ‘ pure ’ entrepreneur observes the opportunity to sell something at a price higher than that at which he can buy it . |
| 3 | Geographers have discovered a recent tendency for rural areas to see something of a recovery in population and employment levels , no matter where they are ; conversely , conurbation ( metropolitan ) areas have suffered a loss of population and employment , whether in London , the West Midlands or the North ; while intervening areas lie along a statistical continuum . |
| 4 | Definitional overlap uses dictionary definitions as a source of semantic knowledge , and follows a sequential comparison algorithm to select one from a number of alternative word candidates as being the most ’ semantically plausible ’ within that sentential context . |
| 5 | This order compels a person to do something under a contract which he or she has refused to do . |
| 6 | My parish priest had always dreamed of building outstation churches and , with the luxury of two curates , here was his chance to convert one into a builders ' labourer ! |
| 7 | Clean , it was an absolute dream ; the EQ offered more than enough scope to produce anything from a cutting Telecaster to a rich acoustic tone , and with the help of a short delay and pitchshift I put a sound onto tape which I 'd defy anyone not to recognise as an acoustic guitar — and I 'd actually used the Patrick Eggle New York model reviewed elsewhere in this issue . |
| 8 | And if it was n't for Captain Eric , Sister Margaret and a few others , there would be precious little of a toehold for people like James , Carol and many others in their struggle to build something of a life in Easterhouse . |
| 9 | Your policy should draw a clear distinction between this sort of rule and a supportive policy to help someone with a drink problem . |
| 10 | " We would not allow a farmer to stick something in a cow and chase it three times around five fields before it died " , Gummer said . |
| 11 | But apart from that I mean we w I never knew any of our lot to put one through a letter box or anything like that , you know . |
| 12 | And I mean , if you set a list to do something for a day Yeah . |
| 13 | When making maps you might start simply by asking the children to draw something on a sheet of paper that they want represented on the map — a house , a shop , the well , the woods … |
| 14 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
| 15 | If you are not sure about the right way to connect something in a mains power supply circuit , do not resort to trial and error . |
| 16 | Choose one with a tape at least 3.5m ( 12ft ) long , marked with both metric and imperial measurements ; it 's a good idea to choose one with a lock so you can take long measurements without the tape coiling up . |
| 17 | ‘ If ever I went out of my way to learn something from a book the chances were that It 'd be hopelessly wrong — you know , inaccurate transcriptions of a song or solo — so I decided to try and develop my own ear by learning things from record . ’ |
| 18 | The programme described David 's condition and the sixty operations he had in order to have anything like a face — and there were still plenty to come . |
| 19 | The interpreter operates at high speed : in simultaneous translation ( strictly speaking , simultaneous interpreting ) , he keeps roughly a sentence behind the speaker ; in consecutive translation ( interpreting ) the speaker waits for the interpreter to translate anything from a morpheme to a whole paragraph at a time . |
| 20 | A third is transput instructions , requiring a field to specify one from a range of peripheral devices . |
| 21 | Section i concluded that the interest shown in trust wordings was a reflection of the demand that , although formless , a trust should be phrased in words which demonstrated an unequivocal intention on the part of the deceased to bind a trustee to do something for a beneficiary . |
| 22 | ‘ I thing it is my forte to take something like a relationship , and then examine it and mirror it in different songs , it 's actually the same relationship but looked at from a different way . |
| 23 | She argues that it often is still in the employers ' interest to recruit someone on a relative 's recommendation , since this gives employers more control over their workforce . |