Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [v-ing] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | All students attend a computer familiarisation course offering an introduction to word processing . |
| 2 | The Olympic hurdles finalist Jon Ridgeon has joined Belgrave Harriers following a move to South London . |
| 3 | For example , every railway has complex safety regulations containing an injunction to the effect that ‘ every member of staff , whatever his rank , owes complete obedience to the signals ’ ( Fontgalland 1984 : 52 ) . |
| 4 | If a child has been made the subject of a supervision requirement following a referral to a children 's hearing on an offence ground , and that supervision requirement has been terminated and the child reappears before another children 's hearing , the main factors that the later hearing will need to consider to perform their statutory functions are why the child appeared before a children 's hearing , the reasons for that hearing 's disposal and , most particularly , the child 's response to the disposal ; in short , a children 's hearing would want to know the very things section 4 appears to prevent it ascertaining . |
| 5 | Twenty-third July — sitting under a tree a few yards from my slit trench writing a letter to my parents in Glasgow . |
| 6 | Peering into the dark dry shadows of the hut , reveals to my surprise , although God knows why , a spruce colour television running a soap to an empty room . |
| 7 | Confirmed secularists joked with Islamic fundamentalists at a high-security press conference called to mark the signing of a 12-point unity charter outlining a transition to democracy . |
| 8 | The , the point of the change in our constitution was actually to er move strictly away from all parish organizations having a right to representative here , and just a small number have elected . |
| 9 | She had barely skimmed over the last few paragraphs of information , used to Debbie 's ridiculous ideas about a person 's birth sign giving a clue to his character , but now the temptation to find out proved too great . |
| 10 | WITHIN hours of church leaders rejecting an invitation to talks with Sinn Fein , its president , Gerry Adams , refused to condemn the IRA outrage at Musgrave Park Hospital . |
| 11 | During sortal filtering , sorts are associated with variables by applying these constraints , any logical form structures containing a variable to which no consistent sort can be assigned are ruled out . |