Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it is clear that we do sometimes have alternative ways of determining guilt and innocence to our own satisfaction and it therefore makes sense to think of a fair trial as a trial designed to produce the correct verdict where correctness is assessable by some other objective standards , but in many cases this is not so and in practice the correct verdict is simply the one which is reached after a fair trial . |
| 2 | Brown , a black parent , was supported by the NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ) in a case designed to test the widespread practice of having separate schools for blacks and whites . |
| 3 | Derek Polson , a CCG storeman at KG Ethylene Offsite stores , showed he knows all there is to know about fork lift driving when he scored a perfect 100 per cent in his driving test — the first time a driver has achieved the maximum score at Hargreaves Training in Glasgow . |
| 4 | A field discovered following the controversial opening up of the Santa Maria basin off California could turn out to be the largest discovered since the Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska but the most stringent efforts will do no more than mitigate an inevitable production decline . |
| 5 | Soon he was hammering on the door , thud after thud , a noise fit to wake the dead . |
| 6 | In a short campaigning season curtailed by either seasonal or financial considerations , or by both , the advantage did not lie with the attacker who , if he began a siege , risked being caught between the place he was seeking to capture and ( a constant fear ) a force coming to relieve the besieged . |
| 7 | ‘ It is not every week a side gets to meet the reigning world champions and I would have thought Andy Roxburgh would have got more support from his clubs . |
| 8 | Previously , the Church had been usually defined as a ‘ society ’ ( even a juridically ‘ perfect society ’ ) , a term taken to imply the primary need for authority , and frequently used in relation to the state . |
| 9 | Let us note , too , that coming as Marx did to English economics after he had studied Hegel 's philosophy of history , he could come with a mind predisposed to fit the first into a grand dialectical scheme such as the second propounded . |
| 10 | Mike Burton , the former England rugby player , had accused the club of operating a cartel to try to dominate the secondary market in tickets for the two-week event . |
| 11 | Timoney ( 1987 ) reports on a study undertaken to examine the current control of infection practices in a community unit of management , and makes some recommendations regarding improved communication with hospital staff , use of protective clothing , wound care , practices related to the use of catheters and drainage systems , disposal of equipment and so on . |
| 12 | In the conventional view , data are collected by the sponsor of a study to attempt to answer the specific questions posed . |
| 13 | A study has linked the high rate of birth defects in a Hungarian village to pesticide use at a local fish farm . |
| 14 | When a priest arrived to administer the last rites , Mansell sent him away . |
| 15 | How the hell can I calm down when that fucking idiot of a chef has got the entire kitchen staff making canapés when they should be preparing the buffet ? |
| 16 | A SOLDIER has described the dramatic moment when he claimed a joyrider 's car sped past and struck him . |
| 17 | A witness had seen the retired steel worker in the middle of the road . |
| 18 | Certainly with regard to the accusations of the officers , he should have told the jury that such accusations , particularly those not supported by evidence , did not amount to evidence in the case and that where a defendant declined to reply the net result of the questions and answers was nil . |
| 19 | If a repeat does occur the immediate response should be a brief interview sufficient to make a satisfactory assessment , especially with regard to suicidal intent . |
| 20 | and she lives like in a warden controlled place the same as your gran and granddad |
| 21 | In August 1317 seven bishops were represented on the king 's mission to Lancaster , and a few months later ten bishops from the southern province attended a council meeting to resolve the political dispute ; one outcome of this was that in January 1318 the bishop of Norwich negotiated with Lancaster . |
| 22 | At present , a council has to set the same standard charge for all unoccupied second homes . |
| 23 | The Athenaeum saw the Birds of Europe as Gould 's first serious ornithological work , while the Analyst revelled in discovering a work fit to rival the foreign competition . |
| 24 | You may be lucky and find a router bit to reproduce the original moulded sections ; more likely you will have to resort to the scratch-stock . |
| 25 | As Jenny wanted a conservatory and the fish needed a new home , a plan evolved to combine the two . |
| 26 | He told NME : ‘ This is not a question of a lobby trying to dismantle the independent chart , it 's a matter of an established clique actively obstructing the creation of a chart . ’ |
| 27 | After a 16-hour closed meeting the pro-independence Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front ( Front de Libération Nationale Kanake Socialiste — FLNKS ) on March 24 , 1990 , elected as their new president Paul Néaoutyine , 39 , the leader of the Kanak Liberation Party ( Parti de liberation kanak — PALIKA ) , a radical component of the FLNKS . |
| 28 | Many people confronted with a crash have done the same thing . |
| 29 | Nor would a test ban drive the declared nuclear powers out of business . |
| 30 | I have never known a situation where a doe has used the same breeding stop twice . |