Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [vb -s] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political violence alone claims an average of 10 lives a day . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend also has an interest in the Light Infantry , which is relevant to Yorkshire . |
| 3 | Despite abandoning a planned £34m ( $66m ) European airline venture with Belgium 's carrier , Sabena , and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines , British Airways still wants an alliance with the troubled Sabena , but faces competition from other airlines pursuing the same goal . |
| 4 | The perfect infinitive thus presents an event — a result phase — not as something which is itself directly perceived but rather as something which is inferred from a comparison of what is directly observed — the present state of the doctor — with what was observed at some earlier moment . |
| 5 | The prognathous condition often involves an inclination of the occipital foramen or the latter may retain its transverse position owing to an elongation of the ventral region of the head . |
| 6 | In this way an ambitious secretary gradually becomes an assistant . |
| 7 | National culture clearly has an impact , but it remains one of the least researched areas of business . |
| 8 | Whilst the Civil Justice Review , as its recommendations are introduced , will produce considerable changes to the current High Court procedure in an effort to reduce delay , cost and complexity , the current procedure nevertheless provides an insight to what happens to civil actions prior to trial . |
| 9 | International trade thus involves an element of currency exchange risk . |
| 10 | Independently of any other verb , the bare infinitive here expresses an event as a possibility , a rejected possibility . |
| 11 | Our partnership with J. Rothschild Assurance as well as allowing us to extend our competitive advantage of service provision in a major way also provides an opportunity for us to extend our knowledge . |
| 12 | Furthermore , one country 's legal system often constitutes an impediment to another country 's attempts to gather information necessary to pursue a domestic case against a transnational corporation . |
| 13 | The ‘ poisoned chalice ’ of a fundamentally weak economy actually constitutes an inhibition on the sort of spontaneous recovery the government is looking for — William Keegan in the Observer |
| 14 | Full details of this process are given in chapters ST , MD and CF of the Guidelines : the following informal description simply gives an overview of the process . |
| 15 | If the frail or housebound are to eat properly , it is essential to see that they have help with their shopping , for carrying or pushing heavy baskets soon becomes an impossibility and very few shops now deliver goods . |
| 16 | Imaginative story-telling thus represents an alternative to information , but also to the realist novel which shares the media 's obsession with factual precision . |
| 17 | This evidence from the southern suburbs clearly indicates an arrangement of elongated properties end-on to the frontages housing a variety of activities , but apart from a more generous allocation of space , little differentiates the associated buildings from their counterparts in the central area . |
| 18 | However , such schemes rest on the assumption that the small businessman already has an idea he wishes to develop . |
| 19 | Northern Cyprus now has an occupier whose crime is to protect those rights and whose chief affront to the majority is to remain there passively . |
| 20 | g ) reference groups and opinion leaders : the life-style adopted by some of the single girls clearly indicates an orientation towards a particular type of reference group and opinion leader associated with encouraging " the use of natural products " , personal grooming and beauty ( etc ) . |
| 21 | At its purest , Indian English also preserves an elegance that many Britons have forgotten . |
| 22 | It is also time to worry , for such a strong consensus generally has an over-reaction on its coat-tails , one that could do more damage than the action to which it is a response . |
| 23 | Mainstream psychology often attributes an agency to working-class , gay and black women that it does not allow to men in these groups . |
| 24 | His casual treatment of this missive is not entirely surprising , since its external appearance hardly conveys an idea of its august addresser . |
| 25 | The final dividend also includes an element of compensation to shareholders for the UK government 's decision to reduce tax credits from 25% to 20% , announced at the 1993 Budget . |
| 26 | The followers a a are obliged to believe it and so the faith , the creed of the Catholic Church then becomes an article of membership and if you do n't subscribe to the creed , then this has implications for your standing in the group and you can for example be persecuted and Catholics not believing , whereas in a group like this , I do n't think we need a creed , we certainly would n't persecute anybody because we did n't believe a particular thing , because we can all negotiate our personal relations face- to-face . |
| 27 | A vote-maximizing political party therefore has an incentive to propose redistribution from the richer segment to the poorer majority . |
| 28 | Even close up the Mad Axe still has an air of quality about it and the finish is one of the best I 've seen on a Korean guitar . |
| 29 | Indeed , it has been argued ( Fairburn , Kay and Sharpe 1986 ) that the authorities , having found an abuse , have then adopted the device of contriving to define the market in such a way that the discovered abuse then becomes an abuse of a dominant position . |
| 30 | A fuller understanding of the international economic order and modern migratory pressures also requires an analysis , inevitably a very brief one in the present context , of the British impact on the Indian states that came to form one of the centrepieces of the British Empire and the so-called ‘ jewel in the crown ’ . |