Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It can also happen due to build-up of tolerance , when you need more and more of a drug to get the same effect .
2 There seems no reason why an express provision could not be included in a contract to achieve the same result ; for instance : It is agreed that if any of the goods included in the Buyer 's order have been delivered before the formation of this contract , the provisions of this agreement shall apply to those goods and govern the rights and liabilities of the parties in relation to those goods .
3 Meanwhile residents have begun a campaign to stop a former pit being turned into a waste recycling plant .
4 Now ask a friend to do the same analysis of your attitudes , preferences and prejudices .
5 Detective Inspector Frank Wilkinson of Skelmersdale CID said : ‘ We want to find this man before he has a chance to do the same thing again .
6 But erm we had a sort of a spectrum you know it covered such a wide well area if you like of er of engineering that one would n't have had a chance to have a any contact with in in any other works , you 'd be doing as one certain sphere you know a certain type of work , and there you are you that 's your lot eh ?
7 Now that two hundred pound will only pay one man for a for a week to do the same thing .
8 Among the peers identified by the parliamentary writer Andrew Roth as voting in favour of a measure which would oblige a labourer to pay the same amount of tax as a millionaire were the Duke of Buccleuch , the biggest landowner in Europe , the beef magnate Lord Vestey , another of the richest men in Britain , and the eighty-three-year-old Marquis of Bath , of the Longleat Estate .
9 Once we have achieved the result we want we can then decide whether laser printed output is suitable or use the services of a bureau to get the same file photoset on the higher resolution equipment .
10 To modify the standard where D is very young ( Camplin was 15 ) is understandable : it is not fair to expect a youth to show the same level of self-restraint as an adult .
11 Zenith had seen Acme 's program in use and decided to write a program to fulfil the same purpose , that is , to monitor drug dosages .
12 It follows that it is possible for a member to have the same problem raised by both bodies more or less at the same time .
13 While I accept that , I have to say that we expect those undertaking the review to have complete power to look into all areas and , specifically , to consider whether safety representatives who are not backed by a trade union are in a position to give the same kind of expert advice as would be expected from safety representatives appointed by a trade union .
14 A person without the use of his sense of sight would certainly not be in a position to make the same use of colour words as the rest of us .
15 SCARBOROUGH : Extensive work is underway to prepare for a big launch of a scheme to convert the former Odeon cinema into a theatre .
16 In fact , one would expect a public authority always to be inclined to search for a way to reach the same decision legally the second time round , if only to save face ; and the incentive to do so would be even greater if it were likely to be required to pay damages should it decide that its earlier loss-causing decision ought to be changed .
17 There was n't any reason why he 'd want her out of the way , but when you get to be big in his business , the only exit is usually from a prone position , and guys like him develop a tendency to think the same way about people playing the smaller parts .
18 It will have been noticed that it was common for more than one child in a family to enter the same trade , and our sample very strikingly demonstrates the importance of sisterhood .
19 Asking him to deliver is like expected a chameleon to stay the same colour whatever its environment .
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