Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chramn 's actions are best interpreted as those of a prince determined to have some share in the Merovingian kingdom : effectively he was creating a new kingdom in his father 's lifetime . |
| 2 | The exemption from the selective scheme of authorities spending less than GREA or 10m — a provision intended to reduce political opposition from the Conservative-dominated shire districts removed an estimated 309 of the 333 English and Welsh non-metropolitan district councils from the scheme at the outset . |
| 3 | If a maintenance agreement includes a provision purporting to restrict any right to apply to a court for an order containing financial arrangements , then — |
| 4 | At the moment , the establishment of a branch tends to require less documentation , formality and cost , while a subsidiary has the advantage of being a separate legal personality , with the result that disclosure requirements may not apply to the parent , and the subsidiary 's debts will not necessarily become obligations of its parent in the event of insolvency . |
| 5 | ‘ There has been a lot of pressure and the mere fact that there has been a parting does give both sides a buffer period . |
| 6 | Academics who are planning or revising a curriculum have to address three kinds of questions . |
| 7 | A course to help develop artistic qualities in photography , concentrating on layout , balance , lighting and self-expression , rather than on technical aspects . |
| 8 | THE Academy of Wine Service has introduced a course designed to update senior managers , sommeliers and waiters on recent developments , innovations and service skills in wine . |
| 9 | Membership may be given if a writer has had three works recorded for sale to the public which have been released by a recognized recording label lone which is registered in the Music Master catalogue ) . |
| 10 | The cession of the south was not so much payment for help already given , but a concession designed to ensure future support and give Edward III a vested interest in the endurance of Balliol 's rule . |
| 11 | Back home , Clark found , to his delight , that by injecting malaria-infected mice with alloxan , a drug known to produce free oxygen radicals , he could reduce the level of parasitaemia dramatically . |
| 12 | the amount of memory a computer needs to describe one character of text , data or a program . |
| 13 | Destroying the connections in a computer tends to isolate these colonies and leave them vulnerable to stimulation by spurious signals . |
| 14 | If such a creditor wishes to appoint another person to attend a meeting on his behalf , he too must give the person attending his proxy . |
| 15 | If , however , a creditor has taken reasonable steps , such as advising the surety to take independent advice , or , if the surety declines to do so , offering a fair explanation of the security document before the surety signs it , I can see no reason why equity should intervene . |
| 16 | A conman has stolen antique rings and savings from a ninety year old woman just an hour after she was discharged from hospital . |
| 17 | When acting for a buyer remember to make spare copies of the conveyance and any mortgage for use as certified copies on registration , as mentioned above . |
| 18 | Suppose a blacksmith does develop big muscles . |
| 19 | A vet has borrowed medical technology normally seen in maternity hospitals and is using it on farms to bring more certainty to lambing . |
| 20 | Front Page Story ( 1953 ) is set in a newspaper office , where a harassed editor played by Jack Hawkins deals with homeless children , a scientist wanting to spill atomic secrets , a journalist 's crisis of conscience and a wife who plans to walk out on him . |
| 21 | If the drugs do not appear in the stool as planned , or if symptoms of intoxication develop , the smuggler may present to a casualty department , fearing a package has burst , fabricating a story to try to avoid criminal proceedings . |
| 22 | on a single carriageway where a lane has got four lanes |
| 23 | A responsibility emerges to divulge certain facts . |
| 24 | For myself , I can see no relevant distinction between a case where a statute has conferred such final and conclusive jurisdiction and the case where the common law has for 300 years recognised that the visitor 's decision on questions of fact and law are final and conclusive and are not to be reviewed by the courts . |
| 25 | In fact being a carrier helps to boost natural immunity . |
| 26 | ‘ A boat did arrive last night , after Hector Luath had gone to his bed . |
| 27 | ( Roa , however , was hardly a figure calculated to please Soviet officials . |
| 28 | M Roland Castro , who was head of a department trying to improve rundown suburbs , quit his post after describing M Tapie as ‘ a predator ’ . |
| 29 | Conversely , there is a negative correlation between Dupuytren 's disease and rheumatoid arthritis , a condition known to have strong association with HLA-DR4 . |
| 30 | Approaching the fabliaux with a mind prepared to find moral instruction in the texts , however unpromising they might superficially seem to be for such interpretation , is something that we can reconstruct as an authentic medieval mode of reading — " " All that is written is written for our doctrine " " as St Paul has it — although there is little direct evidence for the application of such literary theory to vernacular literature as well as the classics before the fourteenth century , and even then the extent of such application is difficult to assess . |