Example sentences of "[verb] a situation [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An appropriately localised unilateral lesion of the left hemisphere represents a situation intermediate between the normal state of affairs and disconnection of one hemisphere from the other by commissurotomy or hemispherectomy . |
| 2 | The Council for National Parks would like to see a situation similar to that in America , where the onus is on the developer to prove that his proposal is in the interest of the park , that it is necessary and also appropriate . |
| 3 | The former Pakistani Foreign Minister , Agha Shahi , suggested similarly in December 1984 that the strict non-alignment of the countries spanning the Persian Gulf and South Asian regions , together with American willingness to concede the Soviet Union a role in a comprehensive Middle East settlement , might create a situation congenial to the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan . |
| 4 | He also announced that Manoon and Chalerm had escaped from Bangkok , but when located would be arrested and charged with creating a situation detrimental to national security . |
| 5 | This implies a situation similar to that of the perception of Kana and Kanji script in Japanese subjects , and also to that of the perception of English words and pictures . |
| 6 | The Belfast and general Hiberno-English system seems to display a situation similar to EModE , and they cast considerable doubt on the principle of irreversibility of merger . |
| 7 | This suggests a situation similar to that of make and cause , involving two different ways of conceiving permission in English . |