Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | If , on a sale of unregistered land , there is any personal obligation on the part of a seller-client to observe restrictions ( as , for example , where the seller is the original covenantor or has given a personal covenant to observe these ) , it is desirable to provide in the contract for a similar covenant indemnifying the seller against any future breach . |
2 | If the GP has asked for a drug to be dispensed in a special calendar pack , or has prescribed a small quantity of an unusual medicine that is only available from wholesalers in large quantities , the pharmacist will want to make sure that the pricing authority is aware of the extra costs . |
3 | By contrast , waking is more likely to occur if the body temperature rising or has reached a high level . |
4 | Given the generous relief against forfeiture provisions contained in s 146 of the Law of Property Act 1925 a tenant should have little to fear from a forfeiture clause unless it is seriously in financial difficulties or has committed a serious breach of covenant which can not be rectified . |
5 | If a woman , she knows her language better than most ladies do , or has had a classical education . |
6 | Now we will suppose that the author has lighted on important new material or has had a significant number of errors in the first edition pointed out to him . |
7 | He said : ‘ This is all beautifully rosy but he has not mentioned his plans to tax companies by half a per cent on the payroll for a training tax or plans to enforce a minimum wage on small and medium sized companies which will be particularly badly hit . ’ |
8 | A second view that a scientific theory is a complex structure of some kind is one that has received a great deal of attention in recent years . |
9 | However , the job itself , as we have already noted , is rarely the cause of disenchantment with agriculture — indeed , in a decade that has seen a renewed interest in the countryside among young people and a growing desire to escape from the urban rat-race , agriculture could have much to offer . |
10 | He hopes , as all prime ministers do , that the shake-up will put an end to the back-biting and snarling that has reached a nasty pitch since the Newbury by-election and local-council humiliations three weeks ago . |
11 | The recourse to respirators and cardiac pace-makers that has made a legal definition of death based upon the absence of breathing and heartbeat outmoded is a good example . |
12 | Its fossils have been investigated by cutting them into thin slices , a technique that has revealed a great deal about its anatomy , even down to the details of the structure of its blood vessels . |
13 | Violent headaches which may be from exposure to a dry cold wind that has stopped a nasal catarrh from flowing . |
14 | Select a strong healthy stem that has borne a good bloom , or is still carrying one that has gone over the top , and look at the stem lower down — to see if you can find nice plump axillary buds or eyes in the leaf axils — these are latent growth buds , and they are going to become your new roses ! |
15 | Will my right hon. Friend consider early-day motion 209 , which relates to a British company that has achieved a wonderful contract in Kenya ? |
16 | Once it meant political independence and freedom from commercial pressures , but given the increasingly prescriptive and bureaucratic nature of grant-aid that has become a dubious notion . |
17 | Then Protagoras went further in saying that ‘ man is the measure of things ’ , a saying that has become a secular creed for modern times . |
18 | If we follow Wimsatt and Beardsley this far , we arrive at a position that has had a great deal of attraction for literary critics , that the object of criticism must be the literary text itself . |
19 | The speech , one of the annual set-pieces of American politics , is billed as the grand overture to a presidency that has had a rocky start . |
20 | One of the major social phenomena in Latin America since the Second world war and one that has had a profound effect on the social transformation of the continent , is the urban explosion . |
21 | This system , which is discussed in detail by Montgomery and Wallace leads to a fairly high number of accesses required to retrieve records from a well-aged file , i.e. one that has had a large number of additions or deletions since it was last loaded . |
22 | Since that time , a major change has occurred with respect to social mobility that has had a direct bearing on the emergence of Britain 's underclass , and this is considered in this chapter . |
23 | In any case , Allison , who discovered the joys of off-licence products and credit card abuse before Norman Lamont was knee high to the Mace , has spilled most of the gravy that has come his way in a life that has brought a different kind of riches . |
24 | ‘ It is this type of censorship that has brought a dehumanising character to the proceedings , and communication has made this blatantly obvious . |
25 | In looking at him , Maria sees an aspect of herself , Pierre sees the outcome of the jealousy — a death — and the reader witnesses an internal struggle that has found a public stage . |
26 | Fortunately the means do exist for a PC to suspend the operation of one program and run another and it is the exploitation of this facility that has produced a veritable rash of Desktop Accessory software . |
27 | Is there any country in the world that has attempted a half-way house in this , or a quarter-way house ? … |
28 | Can I ask erm what 's happening to the Harlow Playhouse based Youth theatre cos obviously that has left a big gap in performances cos there 's nothing in this programme . |
29 | A horse that has spotted a possible predator arouses other horses ' attention in this way , and they all prepare for flight . |
30 | But Scudamore 's decision could see him start clear favourite in a race that has lacked a dominant performer since the death of Mighty Mogul . |