Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rates on domestic property are essentially a regressive tax : the value of the house or other property occupied by a taxpayer tends to decline in relation to increased income . |
| 2 | Even if this appears to have occurred , a deconstructive account will show how such a text had to dissimulate in order to cover over its own openings , or , to put it the other way round , it will show how history must always be organized by an attempted occlusion of its own conditions of historicity . |
| 3 | A mule began to bray in alarm and a Myrcan struck it at once with his staff until it fell silent , blood oozing from its nose . |
| 4 | With a heart fit to burst through tension , at last , a noise . |
| 5 | There have always been a minority of wealthy older people and a majority struggling to survive in poverty . |
| 6 | Thus , any attempt to analyse the former land use around a settlement needs to take into account more than just the present physical nature of the land : changes may have taken place in any period under the influence of the technical abilities , and social and economic conditions prevailing at any time . |
| 7 | A translator has to bear in mind the additional meanings that these forms can assume in a Japanese text . |
| 8 | ( a ) Powers of a single justice A single justice may exercise the jurisdiction of the family proceedings court : ( 1 ) To make the following orders on an ex parte application : ( i ) a prohibited steps or specific issue order ( s10 ) ; ( ii ) an emergency protection order ( s44(1) ) ; ( iii ) a warrant for police assistance in the execution of an emergency protection order ( s48(9) ) ; ( iv ) a recovery order ( s50(1) ) ; ( v ) cancellation of registration or variation of requirement imposed on person providing day care ( s75(1) ) ; ( vi ) a warrant for police assistance to search for children or inspect premises in circumstances specified in s102(6). ( 2 ) To grant leave to commence proceedings : ( i ) to a child wishing to apply for the discharge of a parental responsibility order ( s4(3) ( b ) ) ; ( ii ) to a person not otherwise entitled to apply for contact with a child in care ( s34(1) ( b ) ) ; ( iii ) to anyone wishing to apply for a child assessment order , the substitution of supervision order for a care order or the discharge of a care order , supervision order , or education supervision order within six months of a previous application ( s91(15) ) ; ( iv ) to anyone wishing to make a further application for a contact order under s34 ( contact with a child in care ) within six months of refusal of a previous application ( s91(17) ) ; ( v ) to a child wishing to apply for discharge of an existing custody or access order under the transitional provisions ( Sched 4 , para 11(4) ) . |
| 9 | A child learns to talk by imitation . |
| 10 | ‘ A child learns to speak by imitation , you see , Miss Quinn . |
| 11 | In the process whereby a child comes to act in accordance with the rules and values of society , becoming eventually a reasonably self-controlled , inner-directed member of the community , one of the first steps is the development of self-restraint . |
| 12 | Before turning to the work of Sayre , Dennett and Sloman , I should at least mention one major question that has been left unasked in this paper , and intentionally so : namely , what properties would a machine have to have in order to be sufficient for us to deem it conscious ? |
| 13 | You would have to be a fool to kick to touch from defence unless there is a gale blowing . |
| 14 | In a move designed to save on court time , the Scottish Office yesterday confirmed that from 1 April motorists will be offered the chance to accept a fixed penalty notice requiring the payment of a fine within 28 days . |
| 15 | Since all the females in a group tend to come into oestrus at around the same time , the male goat will have a busy two or three days . |
| 16 | If a group claiming to speak on behalf of elderly people had failed to deliver because its own interests were at variance with those of its wider public , the absence of any promotional or representative body during the following decade rendered the pensioners ' position still more hazardous . |
| 17 | But unsatisfactory in what respect : as representatives of a body established to negotiate on behalf of employees with management acting on behalf of owners ; or as representatives of the union but charged , along with representatives of the owners , with the corporate responsibility for the performance of the enterprise ? |
| 18 | Last night , as a tug prepared to remain on standby overnight , with a fresh refloating attempt planned for this morning , an environmental row erupted . |
| 19 | Imagine for a moment attempting to describe in detail the difference in shape between a milk bottle and a sherry bottle , or the taste of cod as against haddock , or the design of some wallpaper . |
| 20 | A multi-millionairess with a fortune estimated at more than £10 million , a property tycoon in Australia where she was spending a fortune renovating her latest acquisition , a mammoth Victorian town house in the Melbourne suburbs , a singer poised to come of age with a backing band of her own and a world tour — the hologramic face of high technology in Japan , how could she ever again have been expected to have slipped into oily dungarees to tinker with the engine of a Land Rover ? |
| 21 | Lucy Snowe comes as a stranger to the school , but after a while starts to settle into place . |
| 22 | When a person purports to act on behalf of another , but without his authority , the latter may subsequently ratify the act of the former , and thereby draw to himself both the benefit of , and the liability for , the act . |
| 23 | ( 3 ) For purposes of subsection ( 1 ) ( b ) a person induced to take in payment a cheque or other security for money by way of conditional satisfaction of a pre-existing liability is to be treated not as being paid but as being induced to wait for payment . |
| 24 | Very often this aspect of rehabilitation is overlooked because once a person starts to walk without discomfort or restrictions the strengthening programme is stopped . |
| 25 | All in all , Bobby Robson must have found it about as fruitful as a day trying to get in touch with Brian Clough . |
| 26 | In making his decisions about gifts or patronage , a king had to bear in mind that his nobles too had clients , and obligations of their own . |
| 27 | If the population as a whole fails to adapt under pressure , the species will be wiped out by a rival . |
| 28 | Whatever occupational gesture ( mime ) a choreographer chooses to use in ballet , it must be envisaged in terms of dance without the use of props . |
| 29 | This is the very first idea to be taken into consideration when a choreographer starts to work with music . |
| 30 | In an interview with Central News he says he wants his lawyer to seek a court hearing to apply for bail granting him his release before the Appeal takes place . |