Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My proposal asks a great deal of many of you : time , energy , commitment , a willingness to go along with a plan which there is not time to discuss at length , and with ideas which I do n't imagine will win universal approval . |
| 2 | The Bible is quite clear that it is always a mistake for a Christian to go out with a non-Christian . |
| 3 | If the subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group are released into the private sector , with all the rhetoric about freedom and competition , one of the rights that will be established is the right of a buyer to sell on to a new owner Whatever safeguards the Minister may tell us , to salve his conscience , are built into the legislation , the truth is that they will disappear immediately further sales take place . |
| 4 | As the mourners left the Church , there had been plans for a Spitfire to fly over in a final tribute . |
| 5 | On a pre-war state visit to India , he outraged officialdom by cutting a banquet to slip away to a pretty Burmese princess he had met at the Middlesex Regiment Ball . |
| 6 | Well , now , when you see the doctor , if he decides to mend you with one or two stitches , you tell him I said , could he please give you a stitch to take home in a matchbox ? |
| 7 | Further ( 2 ) it is reasonable for a fire-engine to proceed quickly to a fire , for life and property may be in danger . |
| 8 | Recently , car manufacturers have been offering big discounts in a bid to sell more in a depressed market . |
| 9 | In most cases asking a child to sit out for a while is sufficient " discipline " providing the drama is interesting enough to draw them back in . |
| 10 | I think erm certainly for a child to rely entirely on a calculator for all mathematical operations would be a disastrous thing . |
| 11 | The Boards preferred the wholesale development of rural districts ( rather than piecemeal individual connections ) since this reduced their costs , and they were generally able to use public meetings and written publicity to bring collective pressure on all potential consumers in a village to sign up for a supply , thus making comprehensive zoned development possible . |
| 12 | The same was true of cattle in much of Europe at the time , and probably reflected neglected animal husbandry and a failure to breed selectively in a period when crop-growing was far more important than livestock . |
| 13 | There is a clear contrast here between cases of the use of serious force in self-defence , where there may be a need to act instantaneously on a hastily formed view of the situation , and sexual intercourse with another , where consent or non-consent is the essence of the crime and can be ascertained by asking a plain question of the victim . |
| 14 | The advent of war was not seen by Unionists as a need to turn back to a conventional patriotism , for Unionists had never doubted the patriotism of their previous stance . |
| 15 | There is the added irritation of having the picture interfered with and the screen takes a moment to settle down after a restart . |
| 16 | Embyronic development is far too elaborate a process to simulate realistically on a small computer . |
| 17 | Now this may be a desire to get back to a sexy woman but the tone was all wrong . |
| 18 | Oxfordshire have wanted it back as a site to open up to a much wider public , it 's not very suitable for a prison anyway , certainly since local government reorganisation in 1974 and they have plans for making use of it if and when it comes back to the county |
| 19 | I 've got a chance to go in with a women 's group up Manchester way . |
| 20 | Kylie admits that the tour of the chic boutiques in Paris , London and New York gave the sisters a chance to catch up on a lot of the times they had missed when the demands of television companies just had to take priority over family . |
| 21 | The use of a problem-orientated approach assists a therapist to get away from a purely medical or diagnostic approach because problems of a personal , social , medical , and psychiatric nature should all be included . |
| 22 | Eva said it had taken to wait a month to get in for a Saturday night . |
| 23 | The change involved no religious problems because the larger colony had been launched for much the same reasons : a number of Puritans , of whom the largest single group came from East Anglia , had formed the Massachusetts Bay Company and obtained a charter to settle there in a firm determination to cut themselves off from England and the elements of Roman Catholicism they detected in the Church of England . |
| 24 | So you get away with that way but percentages is a phrase to avoid very in a will shares |
| 25 | When asked how he had enjoyed his stay at Castaic , he said , ‘ It was a relief to get away for a while . |
| 26 | If , it appears , you tell a subject to watch out for a certain item in a series of random sights the subject will seldom be able to recall whatever immediately preceded the watched-for item . |
| 27 | You may think it is a rum thing that a chap like Tim should pay an arm and a leg to come here for a year and then teach us a thing or two but then I am perfectly happy to admit that we do n't know everything . |
| 28 | ‘ There must have been a reason to come here for a day . ’ |
| 29 | The competition brief called for a tower to act primarily as a landmark . |
| 30 | George Foulkes ( Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley ) told the Deputy Speaker , Michael Morris that for a minister to speak twice in a debate he needed the permission of the Commons . |