Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , threatened for his alleged failings as the king 's minister , the archbishop skilfully sought to lay a minefield of principles — clerical liberties and rights of peerage — before the king and his agents . |
| 2 | Dropping litter might also be linked with the kind of ceremonial spitting and pee-ing that is a demonstration of claim of territory ( old men sitting on bench at village square or park etc. seem to spit a lot/ the marvellous wide-astride attitude of the countryside pee-er claiming that bit of ground as his for that glorious moment — I am aware it 's different for ladies , but maybe the same mentally , given that fright of discovering be removed ! ) . |
| 3 | The stillness , the cool , the quiet of the building all combined to produce an effect that was overwhelming and gave rise to a feeling of expectation . |
| 4 | Through a system of ‘ Citizen Schools ’ Highlander slowly helped establish a methodology of non-formal adult education in which the students were able to relate to the subject which they needed to learn — in this case the desire to learn to read for the purpose of being able to vote . |
| 5 | In this case , the agent only needs to see a ticket manifest ( a government-stamped document showing how many tickets are printed for the venue ) and a box office statement from the hall ( stating how many tickets were sold ) when checking the promoter 's expenses . |
| 6 | Still , no-one I spoke to in any organisation could name any cases where environmental opposition alone has stopped a course being built . |
| 7 | The critic necessarily has to take a manifesto into account . |
| 8 | Ireland prepared to face Cuba today ( 11.00 BST ) with the unenviable record of being the only side not to have scored a goal in the 12-team tournament . |
| 9 | We are one of the few companies in the pet food industry not to have seen a decline in sales during this period as wholesalers and retailers reduce stocks to compensate for the high interest rates . |
| 10 | So to enter 11-Sep ( into a cell already formatted to display a date in this way which A7 in our example is ) you have to type in : @DATE(92,9,11) |
| 11 | The wind still managed to find a way through the hairline crack , whistling eerily around the interior of the freight car . |
| 12 | The president still has to make a host of key decisions : how generous to make the benefits ; how to pay for the changes ; how much freedom to give the states and , above all , how to sell the package . |
| 13 | Bremner once tried to rile an opponent by drawing attention to his pock-marked face by shouting ‘ Go and get it filled in with polyfilla ’ , but the crunch came when he was sent off in 1967 for fouling the Nottingham Forest keeper Grummitt . |
| 14 | The Interim Committee 's programme also envisaged making a levy on oil-producing countries which benefited from the crisis through higher prices , to help other IMF members pay interest on their borrowings from the fund . |
| 15 | To help with its endowment fund , the London college also plans to sell a Constable and Gainsborough from the remaining 76 works decorating its walls . |
| 16 | Although warning signs shout at you not to cross these fragile constructions , as you 're bound to fall off and die and do n't say they did n't tell you so , you 'd have to be a boring old git not to want to do a balancing act over them for thrills . |
| 17 | In 1905 a diploma was created , and in 1907 the university finally decided to establish a chair of engineering science . |
| 18 | Anyway , that meant I could have a decent drink and trust to luck not to have to need a lift back . |
| 19 | For instance , should a screening decision not to re-investigate become a focus of attention and criticism at the trial ? |
| 20 | The mill still manages to retain an air of tranquillity about it and , despite its continuing commercial use , the area around the mill plays host to many wild birds and animals . |
| 21 | Plans were lodged with Arfon Borough Council in April but the council still has to make a decision . |
| 22 | How that princess ever managed to kiss a frog is beyond me . |
| 23 | The judge also had to consider a submission made by the mother that the return of the children ( if ordered ) would expose them to a ‘ grave risk of physical or psychological harm or place them in an intolerable situation ’ within the terms of paragraph ( b ) of article 13 . |
| 24 | The national park committee also agreed to support a timetable for all public transport within the park and to help with British Rail 's Esk Valley line . |
| 25 | The girl clearly missed having a woman around who was closer to her age than the rather stiff-faced servants who ran the great hacienda . |
| 26 | The Act then defines ‘ offensive conduct ’ to mean ‘ conduct the constable reasonably suspects to constitute an offence under this section . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ A constable may arrest a person without warrant if — ( a ) he engages in offensive conduct which the constable warns him to stop , and ( b ) he engages in further offensive conduct immediately or shortly after the warning ( 5 ) In subsection ( 4 ) , ‘ offensive conduct ’ means conduct the constable reasonably suspects to constitute an offence under this section , and the conduct mentioned in paragraph ( a ) and the further conduct need not be of the same nature . ’ |
| 28 | Right-handed males who are very susceptible to hypnosis also seem to show a preference for using the right hemisphere of the brain — the side associated with imaginative rather than analytical skills . |
| 29 | Moreover where the issue really does raise a question of esoteric university ‘ lore ’ the courts are unlikely to override the decision of the visitor , informed as he will be by the university authorities . |
| 30 | Strathclyde regional council even decided to hold an auction because the ruthless Government have allowed it to deteriorate . |