Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 2 | I moved away from home to work in another town a year ago , and have met a man who , as far as I 'm concerned , is Mr Right . |
| 3 | In one instance a contract was made to sell to one purchaser a quantity of a given type of wine which exactly equalled the seller 's stock of it . |
| 4 | Er being on the dole and having friends who were long term on the dole , we tend to buy from each other a lot . |
| 5 | Volunteers are needed to give about one hour a month for a group meeting , plus fund-raising events , usually three or four times a year . |
| 6 | On horseback the long reach of the swordsman is supported by his horse , enabling him to use with great effect a weapon that might be cumbersome on foot . |
| 7 | to give under any enactment a notice under or by virtue of which requirements are imposed on a person : or ( b ) to make an order or direction under any enactment . |
| 8 | On the one hand , we must use all possible means to regain old markets , to , open new ones up , and to encourage international trade on the basis of the division of labour ; and on the other , we must endeavour to awaken in British industry a spirit of joint endeavour … . |
| 9 | This is parallel to the gradient of acceptability which emerged from Harris 's results , and Labov attempted to accommodate the tendency of speakers to avoid making absolute judgements by asking them to assign to each sentence a score on a four-point scale , as follows : |
| 10 | To qualify for corporate membership a person must : |
| 11 | It was quite common to read in either paper a feature article about another African country written by a journalist in London : on the day after Nkrumah 's death , both ran stories and obituaries written by European news agencies . |
| 12 | In the absence of anything comparable among the Greeks , I hesitate to attribute to royal initiative a translation so clearly born within the precincts of the synagogue . |
| 13 | If it could comply , it would be obliged to accord to this baby a priority over other patients to whom the health authority owes the same duties , but about whose interests the court is ignorant . |
| 14 | For its part the Italian government agreed to convene within one month a conference of aid donors to assemble a comprehensive assistance package for Mozambique . |
| 15 | The left 's failure to woo with social legislation a class many of whose members it also alienated by its anticlericalism handed them on a plate to its right-wing opponents . |
| 16 | Naturally , it is almost duty to bring with bad news a panacea , and his is bottled as ‘ knowhow ’ . |
| 17 | The effect is to instil in one group a feeling of almost God-like power ; in the other , a feeling of child-like dependence . ’ |
| 18 | It attempts to draw together information from several different fields and to construct from this information a theory of how homoeopathic remedies may work . |