Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] and [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chairman of the education committee said â If boys are to be turned into fairies and girls into butch young maids , it should be for the parent to decide and not the education authorities â ( TES 13.10.78 ) . |
| 2 | However , it will be noted that the above depends upon the propensity to save and not the propensity to unproductive consumption . |
| 3 | The first clinical signs are dullness , reluctance to eat and usually a temperature rise to 103Fâ105F together with a runny nose which starts watery but soon becomes a very thick yellowy discharge down both nostrils . |
| 4 | But according to Mary White from the Emigrant Advice Unit in Hamill Street , Belfast a worrying percentage still leave here with no job , no contacts , no place to stay and absolutely no idea of just how hard life in the big city can be . |
| 5 | The fault lay with other clubs who responded to the devastating effectiveness of Arsenal 's attack merely by turning their centre-halves into stoppers , while failing to grasp that a sound defence was only the springboard to attack and not an end in itself . |
| 6 | Er , a notice to complete is a , is a notice to complete and not a notice to withdraw . |
| 7 | Essentially , until the 1980s , central government had no final sanction over an individual local authority 's decision to spend and therefore no way , except persuasion or financial penalties , of achieving its objective . |
| 8 | 15 It causes the muscle to contract and hence the hand is pulled away from the pin . |