Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It concerned a contract to provide a made-to-measure set of teeth and it arose because they did not fit . |
| 32 | It is a special effect used in thousands of films and TV dramas — the charges trigger a flash to create a realistic gun shot effect . |
| 33 | Then , as always , various ‘ catchphrases ’ were strung together like shells on a necklace to form a complete view that was repeated over and again and formed men 's attitudes . |
| 34 | This did not originally have the plunging action of today 's routers , and was really only a fixed motor with a collet to take a limited number of cutters . |
| 35 | Sir Anthony Hopkins says it 's a privilege to play a romantic hero at 55 . |
| 36 | It is truly a privilege to follow a maiden speech , and I am sure that I express the view of right hon. and hon. Members in all parts of the House in extending a warm welcome to the hon. Member for Hemsworth ( Mr. Enright ) and complimenting him on his words . |
| 37 | Update Baseline allows a user to incorporate a specified list of approved modules into a hierarchical package structure , thereby allowing a new approved baseline to be automatically defined . |
| 38 | The Commission did , however , recognise a diversity of practice , a freedom to adopt a broad reading of the phrase , and a ‘ historical evolution ’ which treated the Convention as applicable to at least some of the topics in the grey area between public and private law : bankruptcy , insurance and employment but not tax matters . |
| 39 | The president can use his influence to channel campaign contributions in the direction of favoured legislators ; by working through party leaders , he may help a congressman to achieve a desirable committee post . |
| 40 | Unix International has kicked off a workgroup to define a future System V release with greater up-time . |
| 41 | This part is then laminated , with a photograph to become a multi-purpose ID card ( for use in the library ; presented when collecting LEA award cheques ; deposited against software loans at computer centre reception ; displayed on candidates ' desks during examinations , used to activate overnight access locks , etc . ) . |
| 42 | Two hundred new jobs are to be created at a bakery to meet a big increase in demand for its cakes and confectionery . |
| 43 | ‘ But he has a system now whereby he selects a side to suit a particular game . |
| 44 | Ministers won a vote to give a private company , Scallop Kings , exclusive rights to farm shellfish over an area of seabed along the shore south- west of Fort William . |
| 45 | Occasionally , like adults , children may coin a term to fill a momentary gap — e.g. , the construction of cutter when scissors was difficult to retrieve from memory ( Clark , 1983a ) . |
| 46 | On the one hand , a half-promise to save a new-born country , and to show that one lot of people may not dispossess another lot merely by virtue of being better armed ; on the other hand , a growing realisation that this could not be achieved without a fight in which an unknown number of young Europeans and Americans would be asked to die in the name of misty-sounding things like compassion and principle . |
| 47 | Like Ira Dilworth I have sometimes used the words of a poet to express a specific sentiment and I would therefore like to quote Ira in his Foreword to Emily 's autobiography ‘ Growing Pains ’ : |
| 48 | He liked a steady business , moving up rather than down , operating in not too competitive a climate , and able as a result to maintain a paternal relationship with the workpeople . |
| 49 | Harbottle , by allowing a shareholder to bring a derivative action for alleged insider dealing . |
| 50 | It 's not a crime to watch a rival soap . |
| 51 | Vic Williams has said that he left his regiment only after concluding that he had no other option remaining ( at no time prior to his decision to leave was he made aware of his rights as a soldier to register a conscientious objection to military service ) . |
| 52 | A deal to avert a possible collapse of the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) has been discussed at a secret meeting in Madrid . |
| 53 | A factory in China has signed a deal to produce a British car under licence . |
| 54 | A factory in China has signed a deal to produce a British car under licence . |
| 55 | Secure the bridle adjustment with a half-hitch to form a small loop . |
| 56 | His own practice , as recorded in one of a series of articles which appeared in the Manchester Guardian in October and November 1930 * by one of the pupils who attended the evening classes he held there once a week between 1925 and 1927 , was from a drawing to make a careful sketch in various hades of one colour , obtaining in this way the construction of the picture and the suggestion for various tonal values . |
| 57 | For example , I can train a chick to avoid a bitter chrome bead , then a bitter red bead , then a bitter blue bead . |
| 58 | I was in another world by this time , inhabited by see-through creatures resembling owls and parrots ; it was a sweltering hot day and I was turning into a pond to support a dying race of transparent tadpoles . |
| 59 | Accordingly , social policy need not be interpreted in terms either of the continuous evolution of a welfare state inspired by humanitarian ideals or of a conspiracy to manipulate a powerless proletariat . |
| 60 | A BID to open a mobile snack bar in a Darlington lorry park will be considered by borough councillors on Monday . |