Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1922 , he made The Man Without Desire , an imaginative account of a man who wakes from a sleep of several hundred years only to find he suffers from a lack of emotion . |
| 2 | The use of an outsider to observe what happens in a school has a long history in Britain through the process of formal school inspection . |
| 3 | In fact , to study the sealpoint Siamese coat pattern is to observe what amounts to a temperature map of the animal 's body surface . |
| 4 | Their natural capacity to achieve self-knowledge ( hence the stress on recognising the image of sin in Scale 1 ) enables them to receive what feels like a gift of freedom from the pressures of the destructive impulses in the self , and a personal inner experience of the God . |
| 5 | 1.1 Modern judicial views on the ambit of the doctrine In Petrofina ( Great Britain ) Ltd v Martin [ 1966 ] Ch 146 two members of the Court of Appeal attempted to define what amounts to a restraint of trade . |
| 6 | Ndembu explain that the mukula here represents the wish of the tribal elders that the circumcision wounds should heal quickly and cleanly for , as they observe , the mukula gum coagulates rapidly to form what looks like a scab . |
| 7 | Miss Pollard — also a TV fashion commentator at events like Royal Ascot — added : ‘ While the Sunday Express has no wish for a dispute with Buckingham Palace we do not believe it would be proper to publish what amounts to a correction . ’ |
| 8 | It is necessary , in my judgment , to look at the facts somewhat closely to see what amounts to a discharge and how far the reasoning can be applied to the case , not of joint and several debtors , but of several debtors alone , albeit all liable for the same debt . |
| 9 | Accordingly , to deal with this situation , the Act provides that an ‘ action lies in conversion for loss or destruction of goods which a bailee has allowed to happen in breach of his duty to his bailor ( that is to say it lies in a case which is not otherwise conversion , but would have been detinue before detinue was abolished ) . ’ |