Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The passage by the House of representatives of a civil rights bill by 381 votes to 38 on Nov. 7 , following Senate approval by 93 votes to 5 on Oct. 30 , brought to an end a two-year battle for enactment which had included Bush 's 1990 veto of a previous bill and months of inconclusive efforts in mid-1991 by Democratic and moderate Republican senators to work out a compromise with the administration [ see p. 38381 ] . |
| 2 | This meeting took place under the guise of the 1987 Technology and Change Agreement whereby the Banks are to meet twice a year with the IBOA to discuss their future plans . |
| 3 | I am also aware of another practitioner who is planning to set up a clinic with a treatment based on an electronic system in which ‘ free electrons are pumped into the body by the billions ’ — a claim that may sound impressive to members of the lay public . |
| 4 | ‘ He said he would be seeing Mr Moi in Bonn the following week , and asked if I would like him to set up a meeting with the president . |
| 5 | As for the religious communities themselves , they had long since sought the protection of local potentes to speak for them as advocates in legal disputes or to put in a word with the king . |
| 6 | Her family attempted to fix up a marriage with the US-settled tennis star from India , Ashok Amritraj . |
| 7 | ‘ It 'll not be the first man I 've seen after he 's tried to fill up a car with a lighted cigarette in his mouth — nor the last . |
| 8 | Sarah likes to build up a relationship with a woman before she has her baby , using acupuncture to relax her , to treat any pregnancy ailments and to help her recover after the birth . |
| 9 | In the most severe cases these children are taken into care and professional care-givers or foster-parents will start to build up a relationship with the child . |
| 10 | Try to build up a rapport with the judge . |
| 11 | ‘ I try to build up a rapport with the callers and being able to speak a little French helps , ’ she said . |
| 12 | In any case , if such a qualification is called for it is hard to see how a creature with no rationality at all could possess it . |
| 13 | To get off a train with a total stranger … |
| 14 | Be careful not to break up a sentence with a full stop : Although she was a mentally ill person who lived in her own mind and was allocated a limited number of mental processes . |
| 15 | ‘ We need a group of sports representatives to sit round a table with a group of doctors and sort out what 's good and what 's bad . ’ |
| 16 | You 're not going to brush aside a tradition with a few facts . |
| 17 | The beaten favourite in Braiswick 's race was Mamaluna , whose jockey , Greville Starkey , later announced he would be retiring at the end of the season to take up a post with the Newmarket trainer Michael Stoute . |
| 18 | Fletcher , who , as captain , guided Essex to their first eight trophies between 1979 and 1985 , is widely expected to replace Micky Stewart at the end of this season when he retires , probably to take up a role with the TCCB . |
| 19 | The election was precipitated by the resignation of William H. Gray in order to take up a job with the United Negro College Fund . |
| 20 | Employers are not as co-operative as they used to be and players ca n't afford to throw up a job with the employment market as it is ’ — GEORGE SPOTSWOOD ( Irish RFU technical officer ) . |
| 21 | Insp Cammish said : ‘ We went through the usual practice of trying to strike up a rapport with the person and gain a genuine sort of confidence . ’ |