Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] 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 | Soon he was hammering on the door , thud after thud , a noise fit to wake the dead . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the conventional view , data are collected by the sponsor of a study to attempt to answer the specific questions posed . |
| 11 | When a priest arrived to administer the last rites , Mansell sent him away . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At present , a council has to set the same standard charge for all unoccupied second homes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As Jenny wanted a conservatory and the fish needed a new home , a plan evolved to combine the two . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | There can be little doubt that when Richard led his army to Dax it was part of a campaign intended to counter the northward expansion of Aragon . |
| 20 | Western drug enforcement agents are trying to persuade the Bhutto government to enter , but such a move threatens to spill the first blood of Benazir 's fledgling democracy . |
| 21 | it was n't a move calculated to arrest the awful trend but , most people agree , it was a step in the right direction . |
| 22 | SHEEP farming in two Borders valleys could be wiped out by the end of the decade , with holdings covered in commercial forestry , a group campaigning to protect the open hills forecast yesterday . |
| 23 | The physical nature of her work needs only dimmed lighting and a place to sit to enable the full impression to take hold . |
| 24 | … exclusively to works written for the single purpose of corrupting the morals of youth and of a nature calculated to shock the common feelings of decency in a well-regulated mind . |
| 25 | That is , it is simply ( and yet , how far from simple ! ) an enabling mechanism , a device designed to give the fullest possible expression to its subject without unwarranted attempts at ‘ interpretation ’ . |
| 26 | Dickens denies it ever had a distribution deal to handle the X terminals promised by the troubled Athenix Corporation ( UX No 403 ) . |
| 27 | They went on to suggest that where complex insider activities are being carried out in a sub-language designed to exclude the uninformed , the best ethnography would probably be carried out by the insider/ethnographer . |
| 28 | A picture intended to show the pulling strength of the tractor will need to be quite different in composition from one designed to show the gradients which it is able to climb or the revolutionary design of a new gearbox . |
| 29 | On the other hand , an expert is a person appointed to fix the new rent . |
| 30 | Accordingly , Barth plays with multiple notions of plot : love intrigue ; a character trying to find the historical pattern in his family 's lives ; and textual ordering . |