Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trial to show a clear difference in death rates between men on the old and new dietary patterns would have needed somewhere between 25 000 and 115000 volunteers and would have cost between $0.5 and 1 billion , even at 1971 prices . |
| 2 | Pembrey 's findings were that the role model was important in helping a sister to develop a good management style . |
| 3 | A function converting a real number to the lower integer . |
| 4 | A rating gives a numerical value to some kind of judgement usually assuming equal intervals in the rating scale . |
| 5 | ( But see Murphy v Culhane [ 1977 ] QB 94 for a case involving a criminal affray where the plaintiff got more than he bargained for and it was stated that the defence could apply . ) |
| 6 | Ex parte Handscomb was a case involving a discretionary life sentence , and on 23 July 1987 the Secretary of State made a further policy statement explaining some modifications to the procedure . |
| 7 | Similarly in a case involving a French corporation , an order for depositions and document production at the offices of New York attorneys was not regarded as in conflict with the Convention ; all that was to happen on French soil was ‘ certain acts preparatory to the giving of evidence ’ , the selection of appropriate employees to travel to New York and of relevant documents to be disclosed in New York . |
| 8 | I felt a bit like a Circassian slave being taken to Constantinople . |
| 9 | Before I go on a DV I feel a bit like a private eye . |
| 10 | Feeling a bit like a mechanical doll that could n't function without a key , Hilary meekly stood to one side . |
| 11 | ‘ Borrowers can pay more when rates move up , but they must come to a branch to make a specific request to do so . ’ |
| 12 | When a Masai killed a European farmer in the Sanya corridor — from which the Masai had been evicted — in 1955 , it was the shame and distress of all the other Masai which were emphasized by the administration . |
| 13 | However , Sukenick has been equally consistent in rejecting the view that such a direction marks a narcissistic introversion of fiction , arguing instead that he has engaged more directly with his culture . |
| 14 | To emulate him , they proclaimed , ‘ a runner needs a unique constitution and a unique personality ’ . |
| 15 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 16 | A crucial breaking-point came in 1983 , when the Labour councillors first took a decision to support a small steel firm and save around sixty jobs , but later withdrew their support leaving the firm to collapse . |
| 17 | One of these was in 1905 — a decision to purchase a new set of wheels and axles from Gwynnes for £60 . |
| 18 | One of the judges , Lord Chief Justice Lawton , then inquired whether this meant that the Attorney General was entitled to consider the political trouble which would be caused by a decision to enforce a particular law . |
| 19 | Talk of a summit was not popular in Washington , but Soviet–American exchanges finally resulted in a decision to hold a four-power conference in Paris in May 1960 . |
| 20 | The founding instrument may be a royal charter ( BBC or the research councils ) ; a Treasury Minute ( University Grants Committee ) ; the articles of a non-profit company ( National Consumer Council ) ; or , more humbly , but apparently almost as effectively , a mere Answer in the House , a memorandum from the Minister to himself , a wave of the hand , or whatever else may signify a decision to establish a new body ( Schools Council , Technician and Business Education Councils and that unusual ‘ central–local government voluntary ’ body , the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service ) . |
| 21 | We see we see this forum as very much the right sort of forum for either making or breaking the case for a new settlement , the one thing I do have to say , however , is that the Department wants to see this particular issue settled in the context of the alteration , and full significance of that is n't immediately apparent , it , what we do n't want to see is what was envisaged in the H B F statement , where they thought that we might end up with a decision to have a new settlement in principle and then leave it open to the local plans , all four of them around the city , to then explore the possible alternative locations . |
| 22 | A decision to contest a parliamentary seat ‘ if a favourable opportunity should occur ’ and to grant £250 as expenses was taken in October , but it came too late ( SCS Quarterly report 28 October 18 ) . |
| 23 | A decision to make a marginal increase in the school 's contact ratio , in order , say , to purchase administrative and clerical assistance in the recording of assessments ( probably a sensible response to the demands of the new curriculum ) will affect the conditions of service of every teacher . |
| 24 | A decision to veto a Single Currency must therefore be accompanied by one permanently to leave the ERM . |
| 25 | Once a decision to adopt a stratified sampling scheme is made it becomes necessary to decide how the n units in the sample should be allocated to strata . |
| 26 | They are usually " top down " decisions taken by nurses at district or unit level which , in terms of the workforce , may be about deciding how many nurses it is possible to " squeeze out of a budget or how to negotiate around a budget to obtain a particular number of nurses . |
| 27 | A catalyst facilitates a chemical process without being used up or changed itself . |
| 28 | A gastroscopy showed a severe inflammation of the stomach and proximal duodenum . |
| 29 | ‘ In the same way as a working person and a taxpayer makes a specific contribution to the upkeep of the national health system , so could a specific premium or tax be levied to support publicly funded legal services , ’ he said . |
| 30 | A DRIVER sparked a major alert when he refused to stop for police because he thought patrol cars still used bells . |