Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a machine operating at 6000 stitches per minute , the needle thread has to accelerate to a speed close to 100 mph ( 160kph ) , stop , and accelerate backwards to the same speed , and all at a cycle rate of up to 100 times per second ! |
| 2 | But this is a misleading term , even when " myth " is understood in the technical sense of a " religious text designed to account for a custom , institution or other phenomenon " . |
| 3 | It all began in the early hours when it 's alleged the car failed to stop at a police check and sped off through the city centre and out along the Botley Road . |
| 4 | TSL Holdings reached pre-negotiated agreement in principle with some of its major creditors to restructure its debt in a deal expected to result in an exchange of existing debt for a combination of new equity and long-term debt , and the agreement was reached in recognition that it would make the Chapter 11 filing ; Europe accounts for some 80% of sales . |
| 5 | Commissioner of the Garda Siochana for little more than two years in the 1970s , he presided over a force struggling to cope with a surge in urban crime and the spillover violence of the IRA campaign in Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | A second method is through a contingency fee system whereby a lawyer agrees to act for a client on the basis that he or she will receive an agreed proportion of any damages recovered . |
| 7 | The work force want to return to a contract and yet do not want to return to a situation which takes away from their individual freedom and negotiating rights . |
| 8 | If a visitor or medical practitioner has to talk to a resident through you , make sure you consult them and do n't answer for them . |
| 9 | Its legs — if it had legs — were covered in what looked like a large brown sheet , and the light seemed to come from a kind of lamp attached to the back of what could , or could not , be its head . |
| 10 | Obviously one does n't believe everything one sees in the media , but this programme seemed to capture in a nutshell what is wrong with our economy . |
| 11 | Another was the ā gri , sitting beside a petal-shaped oil lamp which he replenished as soon as the flame began to dwindle from a bowl on the hearth . |
| 12 | So what can the college hope to gain from a Clinton Presidency ? |
| 13 | However , it is curious to find , looking at this series of photographs , that biography appears to progress in a manner which is not linear but cyclical . |
| 14 | Nebbins was Mr Cooper 's only horse who worked very hard , pulled the plough and the hay cart , and his , all the other jobs that a horse had to do on a farm . |
| 15 | Each episode had to end with a cliff-hanger and repeat this at the start of the next episode . |
| 16 | We may efface the intellect in our teaching or in our practice , but we can not escape the uneasy conscience of a good mind trying to adapt to a bid faith . |
| 17 | There was a time when a priest had to sneak like a thief through the back streets and alleyways of this city in order to say Mass in some garret or other . |
| 18 | Whether or not the subject of a mosaic was chosen by the client , the mosaicist had to rely on a number of aids and methodical practices when organising his work . |
| 19 | If an agent decides to invest in an act for the first year of its career , this band may not sign a record deal . |
| 20 | When they were still two miles away his headlights caught a half-naked figure trying to scramble through a hedge . |
| 21 | An ECOWAS mediation committee meeting in Banjul ( Gambia ) on Oct. 22-24 ended in failure when , of the three factions represented , only the NPFL delegation refused to agree to a ceasefire proposal . |
| 22 | It is sufficient for the prosecutor to prove that the defendant intended to participate in an act of fighting . |
| 23 | However , with the growth in emphasis on the importance of what is called " affective devotion " — that is , experienced , rather than intellectual , knowledge of the faith — meditation came to refer to an exercise not necessarily based directly on Scripture but designed to stir the will by an intense appeal to the emotions through meditations on the manhood of Christ . |
| 24 | Edouard came into her body with a feeling of shuddering release and the afternoon seemed to pass in a dream he had had , or she had had long before . |
| 25 | She is the sort of girl made to die in a motor accident ( with another woman 's husband ) , and the reader is not shocked when Dermot overturns a car with her and himself in it . |
| 26 | Our perception of the pub has to work at a number of levels — mostly obvious , but nonetheless worth clarifying . |
| 27 | One upper-class motherless boy moved to live with a great-uncle who ‘ treated me with the same affection which he would have given to a son . |
| 28 | More work has to go into a science degree than an arts degree … |
| 29 | An operator wishing to change his type of licence for another type needs to apply for a variation , again using the GV 81 . |
| 30 | And I 've no doubt at all that the answer to that question has to lie in an understanding of the mechanics of development . |