Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The word ended in a wail , and Angelina ran to her to try to forestall a further attack of hysteria . |
| 2 | Insects that fly in at the sides encounter a vertical baffle of netting that divides the trap along its axis , and tend to fly or clamber to the highest point of the baffle where the only way out is into a collecting jar . |
| 3 | Charles found the Stage Doorman , who was already regaling a little circle of cast with what he had seen . |
| 4 | The blacks had just seen a film , ‘ Mississippi Burning ’ , in which Klansmen beat a black child to death . |
| 5 | Most trips involve a certain amount of walking and most people can walk , with 97 per cent of the population able to go out on foot . |
| 6 | On the other hand , a corporation can own property ; it can acquire rights and make itself liable under a contract ; it can be a trustee ; it can incur civil liability for wrongful acts , and even for those which involve a definite state of mind like fraud or malice . |
| 7 | As to judicial lawmaking , the practice of prospective overruling has attracted my attention as a hard case for those theories of judicial process which involve a strong commitment to coherence , consistency and institutional fit . |
| 8 | ] Though firms in the real world , like markets involve a subtle mixture of control mechanisms , this chapter assumes that the essence of firm-type organization is the use made of authority to direct and coordinate resources . |
| 9 | Recent work has drawn attention to the ways in which Western representations of other peoples — whether by , say , academics or developers — are acts of superior agency and involve a subtle form of hegemony . |
| 10 | Discussions of academic topics typically involve a great deal of thought and the production of novel utterances , rather than a series of well-practised utterances like ‘ Hello ’ and ‘ How are you ? ’ . |
| 11 | Again , some wrongs , such as fraud , in their essence involve a guilty state of mind , and in such cases the extreme youth of the wrongdoer may be inconsistent with the existence of such a state of mind . |
| 12 | Meanwhile Bleek 's relationships involve a large number of bedroom scenes which for too much of the time seem to present the women as carnal accessories passively accepting his attentions . |
| 13 | As such , they involve a high degree of trust , good will , confidence and faith in all parties ' ability to do the job in hand . |
| 14 | The upshot of all this is that takeovers involve a significant degree of risk for offerors . |
| 15 | All projects involve a significant element of software development . |
| 16 | In other words , events are perceived as quick , slow , etc. , and these properties involve a direct reference to time . |
| 17 | She had been trying to marshal a persuasive line of argument in her mind . |
| 18 | On shrinkable soils , such as clay , this continual extraction of water , followed by the absorption of further supplies from rainfalls , causes a certain amount of movement in the surrounding ground . |
| 19 | This causes a sharp change in leaf orientation from mainly horizontal to mainly vertical . |
| 20 | When that disk is in a drive the drive head to read the disk which causes a small fire inside disk drive ha ha ha ha , let the fuckhead try and fix that . |
| 21 | This causes a second type of problem — an almost impossible demand for nipples and milk supply . |
| 22 | We now come to a question that causes a great deal of difficulty , particularly to foreign learners ( who can not simply dismiss it as an academic question ) : how can one select the correct syllable or syllables to stress in an English word ? |
| 23 | Spiritual and organisational precursors are also fully dealt with , though some may find the inclusions and conclusions rather fanciful — indeed , this subject causes a great deal of disagreement even in official circles . |
| 24 | This causes a great deal of anxiety for the parents of a girl child , for they start immediately after her puberty to worry about her marriage if she is not already married . |
| 25 | They have become impotent — a fact which naturally causes a great deal of anxiety to them and to their wives . |
| 26 | Like a chariot , the Pump Wagon causes a great deal of damage as it charges but the effect is even more extreme due to the destructive power of the crunching roller at the front . |
| 27 | These procedures should be manag you know part of management consultation , not part of the Dave writes it , if he like says , well that 's what we 'll do for B E S , and then , and then I 'm told , oh , that 's what we do for B E S , I tell staff , and that causes a great deal of unrest in staff . |
| 28 | Thus , using decimal numbers causes a steep drop in success rates in all three attainment bands relative to questions with whole numbers only . |
| 29 | This remains unknown in man , but we have investigated the effects of commonly used anaesthetic agents on tissue protein synthesis in the rat and found that although halothane causes a significant depression of liver protein synthesis , isoflurance did not have such an effect . |
| 30 | The unleashing of the anger against the self causes a catastrophic fall in self-esteem . |