Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Larson , Head of Inorganic and Sculpture Conservation at the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside , who is also pioneering the laser scanner , has been using a type of laser developed by Loughborough University in a trial run to clean the limestone sculptures at Lincoln Cathedral . |
| 2 | I remember saying this was a bit leisurely , was n't it , but there was some apparently reasonable explanation , like no one gave any notice that they were going to die and the partnership could be a bit pushed to produce the cash if it was the wrong time of year . |
| 3 | I had to react in a split second , so I was a bit hurt to see the papers on Tuesday morning suggesting that my actions in that one second cost England the Test match . |
| 4 | In August 1988 both sides had agreed in principle to a UN peace plan calling for a ceasefire and exchange of prisoners and to a referendum designed to give the inhabitants of the territory ( administered as a Spanish colony until 1976 ) a choice between independence or integration into Morocco . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) A licensing board shall not make any arrangements under subsection ( 1 ) above for the discharge of any of the following functions : ( a ) making a decision on the application for the grant , including the provisional grant , of a new licence ; ( b ) making a decision on an application for the renewal of a licence where a competent objection has been lodged ; making a decision to refuse to grant the renewal of a licence ; making a decision on the permanent transfer of a licence ; ( c ) making a decision on an application for a regular extension of permitted hours ; ( d ) making a decision on the restriction of the terminal permitted hour ; making a decision on an application for restoration of restricted hours ; ( e ) making a decision on an application for Sunday opening under Part 1 of Schedule 4 to this Act other than an application and 13 of that Schedule where no objection is made in relation to the application ; ( f ) making a decision as regards a Sunday restriction order or the revocation of such an order under Part II of Schedule 4 to this Act ; making a decision on the suspension of a licence ; making a decision on a closure order . |
| 6 | But Mr Smith warned : ‘ This will be a budget designed to save the skin of the Chancellor , not a budget to rescue the British economy . ’ |
| 7 | In order to create distinct patterns the mind has to separate things sharply one from the other , just as a driver seeks to separate the road from its borders even in dim light . |
| 8 | A course designed to meet the needs of people in industry who have to communicate in English during their working lives . |
| 9 | This dual emphasis on the reader and on analysis of texts in units larger than a sentence seems to offer the beginnings at least of a new approach to text research , one which moves beyond a correlational approach to readability and starts instead to identify causal relationships between aspects of texts and difficulties in comprehension . |
| 10 | The result is a lyrical prose particularly effective when it serves to embody a singing climax at strategic points — a not unsurprising tactical manoeuvre on the part of a writer trying to intimate the reality of a mystical experience which he expresses as transposing everyday speech to song . |
| 11 | Significant budget measures included a 26 per cent increase in foreign exchange made available at auction , a measure expected to stabilize the naira ; the end of state funding for the two political parties ( the Social Democratic Party and the National Republican Convention ) ; and a doubling of the minimum wage ( from the level of N125 per month set in 1981 ) for public-sector employees . |
| 12 | And they collected so much they had to use a milk float to deliver the load . |
| 13 | The same thing happened in Holland and ATS gave the next three races a miss to try to fix the problems . |
| 14 | How did the man who found some buried treasure in a field come to own the treasure himself ? |
| 15 | Merely by having a contract designed to protect the interests of the business already prepared , your employer may seize the initiative in any negotiations . |
| 16 | The memory of this tragic story has been kept alive throughout the centuries and continues to be by the occasional appearance of The Green Lady — a ghost said to cross the road from Thorpe Hall only to disappear into the trees opposite . |
| 17 | This is a technique designed to teach the patient how to follow a movement , adapt to a change of posture and cope with different situations without producing spasticity through making too much effort . |
| 18 | As the wheels skidded on the edge of the precipice a storm tried to hurl the coach and her family down the mountainside . |
| 19 | In a formal statement on Nov. 8 , they condemned attacks by the Yugoslav National Army on Dubrovnik and other Croatian cities , but they added that recognition for seceding republics " can only be envisaged in the framework of an overall settlement " and that such a settlement had to guarantee the rights of " national or ethnic groups within the individual republics . " |
| 20 | Later , as the crew re-enacted a play meant to raise the spirits of the dead , they were blinded by a sandstorm which left almost all of them with conjunctivitis . |
| 21 | If a user continues to operate the computer after being struck off the list he will be guilty of a criminal offence and liable to an unlimited fine . |
| 22 | Erm a park tends to give the impression of being like a memorial park , erm equally it 's not just earmarked for football , which is it could be er seen as just that , the idea was that it would provide facilities for all types of sports and interests throughout the er throughout the area , particularly er girls , I know girls play football but there 's a lot of interest in er sport particularly hockey , and I personally would n't like to see it just dominated by football . |
| 23 | If the assault proved successful , Egypt would no longer be vulnerable to attack ( the Turks had already sent a force to attempt to seize the Suez Canal ) and Turkey 's traditional enemies in the Balkans might be won over to the Allies . |
| 24 | Thus Wittgenstein 's notion of a criterion seems to provide the sort of compromise we are looking for . |
| 25 | A photograph taken to accompany the release on the Tadchester Development Zone might show the Minister cutting the red tape with the various local officials looking on . |
| 26 | The figure that is used as a multiplier is not a figure intended to replicate the number of years that the dependency would have continued . |
| 27 | There is also the Prado oculto , a term coined to describe the paintings , sculptures and drawings that line the store-rooms beneath the gallery . |
| 28 | Such are the ochlospecies of White , a term coined to convey the annoyance such species cause taxonomists , and including some of the ebonies ( Diospyros spp. , Ebenaceae ) of Africa . |
| 29 | Holland 1983 ; Rescorla 1985 ) , a term used to describe the finding that subjects can come to respond appropriately to a CS that is sometimes reinforced and sometimes not according to whether some other event ( the occasion setter ) accompanies the target CS . |
| 30 | The ‘ new technology ’ — a term used to describe the computerization of the printing industry using word processors and computer-designed pages as well as the direct input of copy by the journalist into the computer ( Fig. 4.4 ) — would gravely affect employment in the industry as it did away with compositors and printers . |