Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When transcribing a passage from piano score in which the two hands are spaced far apart , fill in the gap in your arrangement . |
| 2 | Other queries involve a spot of detective work , such as trying to identify a particular type of fibreboard needed for refurbishment work . |
| 3 | Much concern has been expressed that acid precipitation causes a reduction in forest productivity . |
| 4 | The black economy causes a shortfall in government revenue , and understates estimates of economic growth . |
| 5 | Now the architect , Halsey Ricardo , had designed a station in redbrick gigantism , providing a dramatic contrast with the syncretic graces of Bombay 's Victoria Terminus . |
| 6 | The Proposal goes on to require that a public company with 1,000 or more employees ( including employees of subsidiaries ) within the Community must install a system of employee participation . |
| 7 | And then while I was there she was eating a bit of chocolate cake , I mean she 's right in the kitchen , she come back in and said oh my god , I said what , she said I 've never seen anybody pinch a bit of chocolate cake , on a plate as fast in all my life , Ben did n't want it so she whipped his an' all like . |
| 8 | walking a household of furniture quarter of a mile up the road ? |
| 9 | For more than two weeks prior to Oct. 29 , the Central Bank had been selling an estimated US$50,000,000 in gold each day , in efforts to keep down the gold price ( and thereby to hold down the black-market dollar rate , whose divergence from the official rate provided a barometer of business confidence ) . |
| 10 | Two touring laboratories , part of an education programme called Launching a Dream by space agency NASA , are protected with paint supplied by the Courtaulds Aerospace Application Support Centre in Philadelphia . |
| 11 | Launching a business with redundancy pay carried considerable financial risks , while training would only be of lasting value if there was a real job at the end of it . |
| 12 | On the face of it , such high commissions suggest a lack of price competitiveness , but as noted above , large institutional buyers are able to force distributors to share all or part of the selling concession , and prices may thus be lower than they appear . |
| 13 | The same objections might also be applied to models which suggest a role for government policy arising out of asymmetries of information between groups in the private sector . |
| 14 | HMG 1 and 2 themselves have features that suggest a role in DNA processing involving shape selective recognition of structural distortions to DNA such as B-Z junctions and cruciforms ( 46 , 47 ) , and the bent , unwound structures created by binding of cisplatin ( 20 ) . |
| 15 | You 'll also need a quantity of bitumen emulsion for use as a tack coat over the existing surface . |
| 16 | Party strategists acknowledge that the overwhelming weight of opinion polls has been against them — and that for Mr Major to win tomorrow he would need a movement in public opinion greater than that achieved in nine of the past 10 election campaigns . |
| 17 | Both provide a measure of chain stiffness in dilute solution . |
| 18 | These budgets provide a basis for responsibility accounting . |
| 19 | By making written work ( of all kinds — including Maths , Science and Artwork for example ) a part of their drama we provide a sort of safety net , a " No Penalty Zone " in which they can pretend to be someone other than themselves writing their letter , wording their advertisement or drawing up their menu … |
| 20 | In experiments of this sort , which provide a sort of population index of learning , about two thirds of the normal ( what geneticists call ‘ wild-type ’ ) flies avoid the shock-associated odour , and only one third avoid the control odour . |
| 21 | Ten years ago , suffering from Parkinson 's Disease , Roberts entered a home at Grove Park in London which was run by Moya Mackay , a Roman Catholic missionary nurse from South India . |
| 22 | Willie Carson , who takes over on Glasgow , may initiate a double with Tiger Claw in the Town Purse Handicap ( 2.30 ) . |
| 23 | He worked at St Mary 's Hospital as assistant physician and lecturer in pathology and in 1866 graduated MD before returning to University College as professor of pathological anatomy in 1867 , becoming a physician to University College Hospital in 1878 . |
| 24 | At the February 1990 meeting Ordóñez and Douglas Hurd , by then UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs , also agreed to co-operate in preventing Gibraltar from becoming a base for drug trafficking and its burgeoning offshore finance companies from becoming a centre for money laundering . |
| 25 | At the February 1990 meeting Ordóñez and Douglas Hurd , by then UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs , also agreed to co-operate in preventing Gibraltar from becoming a base for drug trafficking and its burgeoning offshore finance companies from becoming a centre for money laundering . |
| 26 | It followed pleas for enough cash to prevent the new council tax becoming a disaster of poll tax proportions . |
| 27 | Some offences under section 24(2) already attracted a power of summary arrest under individual statutes . |
| 28 | They bordered a path of vegetable garden — freshly dug up — . |
| 29 | Emily drew a sheet of writing paper towards her and picking up the pen began to write … |
| 30 | It drew a parallel between broadcast advertising and the advertising columns of the press , which did not ( or need not ) affect editorial independence . |