Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Supreme Court has effectively limited the power of the Endangered Species Act , by dismissing a case which sought to establish that federal bodies must comply with the Act when funding projects overseas . |
| 2 | Unless you want to make things difficult for yourself do n't buy a board which fails to satisfy all three of the above conditions . |
| 3 | A Roger Rabbit-style cartoon , Evil Toons , released on video this month , promotes itself like this : ‘ Innocently the four girls unleash a nymphomaniacal cartoon monster from the pages of a spell-book which intends to scare more than the girls ' pants off . ’ |
| 4 | Consider a salesman who has to visit each of n towns once , starting from and returning to town l . |
| 5 | Possibly you have been influenced by the examples of masochism in the book , a term I coined to define that particular perversion . |
| 6 | It 's a pity it had to happen that way . |
| 7 | all the system was closed there , as Howard said erm it er a bit of a nuisance they had to go all the way round the houses |
| 8 | But after a while he began to accept that what I told him must be true . |
| 9 | After a while I began to understand some of the noises that the people made to each other . |
| 10 | ‘ When I phone to speak to a person I like to hear that person at the other end . |
| 11 | Well , you 'll just have to tell them that it 's missing but when I 've paid for a newspaper I expect to get all the pieces that I 've paid for and I 've already paid for mine , so this I 'll take . |
| 12 | When Karen Stephens trained as a hairdresser she had to learn more than just the rudiments of cutting and blow-drying/ She also had to tackle the problems of learning how to lip-read in a mirror , as 20-year-old Karen has been deaf all her life . |
| 13 | This is legitimate if we are tracing the evolution of contemporary attitudes to religion , or studying the history of ideas ; but if we wish to regain an impression of eighteenth century people as a whole we need to recall that , even among educated men ( themselves a very small minority ) , intellects cast in the mould of David Hume and Tom Paine were exceedingly rare , however great their later influence may have been . |
| 14 | Yes , okay and we 're still coming round yet again and the last one cos she 's got quite a large fist , I 'll take it over the top , round the back and this one now I can tie , tie it off , sorry tie it off on the back of her hand now , I do n't want to tie it off on the front cos in a minute I want to put this into a sling not too tight ? |
| 15 | The duty of determining such questions is cast by law , not upon the courts after the event , but upon the police authorities at the time when the decision has to be taken ; and a court which attempted to review such a decision from the point of view of its wisdom or prudence would ( I think ) be exceeding its proper functions . |
| 16 | As a motor-cyclist you have to do all the jobs for everyone , deliver this , pick up that . ’ |
| 17 | It was a habit which helped to avoid any major personal quarrels between them until after the demise of the Government . |
| 18 | A man who wished to resist such turning could insist on keeping to the subject ; and forceful men who had the character of genial good nature could get away with open rebuttal of this kind ; but not all people who interrupted with open rebuttals acquired or maintained that character . |
| 19 | In Rosemary 's book , ‘ lecherous , cretinous , oversexed reptile ’ was too polite a term for a man who seemed to think any female working for his father was fair game . |
| 20 | Once you 've created the jobs for people it has given the economies an upturn and I feel it 's rather a shame that the erm the great problems of the of the Germans particularly have put that pressure for high interest rates through the er E R M , through those currencies and one , I think , good thing of Britain 's disaster last year , with with their position in the E R M , is that by lowering interest rates , if we only had a government who wanted to use that opportunity probably , we could train people for for work . |
| 21 | You see the thing is produce something like a pyon you have to create enough energy to make it , and in order to create enough energy the you have to produce particles colliding at very high speeds , and in order to produce these particles you have to accelerate them . |
| 22 | ‘ What 's the matter ? ’ asked Penry at last , breaking a silence which threatened to last all the way to Chastlecombe . |
| 23 | However , as far as Judaism is concerned , there must have been some indication of inherent righteousness within it which made it desirable to people who were not born Jews , and the arrival of a form which seemed to satisfy that inexorable need for a ‘ god ’ , and which was available to all , gave Christianity its initial impetus . |
| 24 | IN THE FIERCEST Soviet reaction yet to the East German refugee crisis , the Communist Party daily Pravda declared yesterday that Bonn 's ‘ open door ’ policy at its embassies in Warsaw and Prague was creating a situation which threatened to destabilise all of central Europe . |
| 25 | We , very seldom that we have boiled potatoes but if I wanted a potato I think to cover all the needs to keep , I would go for Desiree because that one will fit almost any bill at all , it 'll do everything , it 's the best all round potato , late potato that I have ever grown and eaten . |
| 26 | A system which learns to solve this problem consists of two parts : |
| 27 | If the hon. Gentleman goes to France — a country he seems to admire more than ours — he will find that it has introduced a price formula that is far less tough than ours on BT because it knows that its nationalised industry would find it difficult to match the performance of BT . |
| 28 | The definition eventually agreed for The Dartington Unit 's study of violence in residential care was ‘ the use of force in a social situation in a way that those in power define as illegitimate ’ , a perspective which sought to incorporate all the dimensions we have discussed . |
| 29 | The American sexologist , professor J L McCary , devised a pudding which seemed to have all the best attributes of an effective aphrodisiac . |