Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking specifically at the two areas in Hambledon , erm I would point out a Mr appears to make a distinction between the two areas , now I 'm not sure on what basis Mr does that , or whether he has undertaken some detailed landscape assessment , but I can say that Hambledon has commissioned a detailed landscape appraisal for its district wide local plan , which did n't show a distinction erm generally across that area . |
| 2 | Oh er telly 's got a buzz on it and I could n't get it off , I think I made it worse . |
| 3 | Oh dear , well I could say er work has got a lot easier for a start , a lot easier and they ai n't as , they ai n't as , there ai n't so much night work as there used to be . |
| 4 | That would be a little bit of a problem for Frank Clarke if er Cooper has got a problem with his shoulder you know if it 's if it 's serious because looking at his people on his bench you know Neil Webb and Crosby and looking at the make-up of his team he has n't really got anybody he could slot back in there unless he put er Rozario in there . |
| 5 | I mean , their loan periods are somewhere about twenty five years whereby you probably realise in this country if a young er person wants to start a firm and he 's go to the bank they 're not gon na give him much scope at all ! |
| 6 | But to get them , Midland 's board has put a price on its business , and is left with no defence against a bidder prepared to offer more . |
| 7 | If the husband 's shirt has lost a button , he says , ’ Mary , Mary , why is my shirt without a button ’ , to the Black ’ girl ’ not to his wife . |
| 8 | Where the defendant 's negligence has placed a person in danger and the plaintiff has attempted a rescue , the court will be slow to find the rescuer contributorily negligent . |
| 9 | A MYSTERY Santa 's honesty has saved a pensioner 's holiday of a lifetime . |
| 10 | But she s Marty 's got a tape of the woman that actually sung that anyroad who she bloody sounds like her . |
| 11 | * The ( US ) Chemical Manufacturer 's Association has published a survey claiming that the release of toxic pollutants to the environment from the chemical industry was reduced by 35 per cent in the four-year period ending 1990 . |
| 12 | The Lord Chancellor 's Department has produced a consultation paper proposing a new estate in land — commonhold — following a preliminary study of " condominium' legislation in other parts of the world . |
| 13 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 14 | Behaviourial evidence suggests that chickens feel long-term pain and depression after their amputations. * The Beijing Farmer 's Daily has reported an experiment in which Chinese scientists have fitted 140 hens with rose-tinted contact lenses . |
| 15 | ‘ The children 's home has made a mistake , ’ he said unhappily , ‘ and sent a girl , not a boy . ’ |
| 16 | Is it ‘ My Dad 's Thribbler Has Got A Puncture ’ ? |
| 17 | However influential , this feminist appropriation of some Hollywood women 's films has remained an area of controversy . |
| 18 | The borough 's team hopes to maximise a mother 's chances of continuing to care for her children by providing independent counselling and advocacy to help her survive the investigation intact . |
| 19 | Barker 's drama does deliver a message even simpler than his point about the importance of the national soul . |
| 20 | Unfortunately Ken 's recovery has suffered a setback after seeing us still in the title race with only fourteen-sixteenths of the season remaining . |
| 21 | My dad 's friend 's had a heart attack so he thinks he 's going to have one too . |
| 22 | An airman 's wife has told a jury how her husband told her he started a fire which caused nineteen million pounds damage to an airbase . |
| 23 | Girolamo Cavazzoni 's arrangement of Passereau 's well-known chanson Il est bel e bon ( track 8 ) and his father Marcantonio 's Madame vous avez ( track 11 ) contrast sharply with the same composer 's freely composed Recercare primo ( track 6 ) , in which Marshall draws the instrument 's ripieno stops to create a sound of impressive brilliance . |
| 24 | But we can not forget that in fabliau terms the wife of the Shipman 's Tale can be credited as a successful trickster ; in so far as the Shipman 's Tale does develop an antifeminist perspective in the ways suggested above , it enhances the antifeminist possibilities of a genre that is characteristically only playfully antifeminist . |
| 25 | The contemporary women 's movement has constructed a list of seven demands : |
| 26 | Mounting chaos in the state 's finances has threatened a collapse of the money economy and a retreat to 100% rationing . |
| 27 | Because of his success in Hollywood , Korngold 's music seems to breed a sense of unease among the musically established . |
| 28 | But he did not : the man 's life has become a fable of great imagination and his prowess as a winemaker has assumed almost mythical proportions . |
| 29 | ‘ Mark 's ma has got a livery stable — she 's a real leathery Jane . |
| 30 | That development entailed a recognition that the concentration upon language by the school of logical positivism , within which Ayer 's dismissal of religious belief emerged , might not so much show up the meaninglessness of theology as elicit its own particular logic Wittgenstein 's thought appears to show a progression from concentrating upon language in order to exclude certain forms of thought — as in Ayer 's exclusion of metaphysics — towards concentrating upon language in order to make sense of those different forms in a way that was sensitive to their particular nature . |