Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] a " in BNC.

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1 The extension at the end of the volume name is incremented each time a new volume in the set is opened , for example : STDMAN.002 , STDMAN.003 and so on .
2 In other words , you met each other a lot , and w we know you had the kind of situations that
3 Bring each search a little lower .
4 On the one hand , he may include individual parking spaces within each demise ; on the other , he may grant each tenant a general right to park cars , either limited to a specified number of cars per tenant or on a daily " first come first served " basis .
5 Where the demised property consists of part only of a building the draftsman may either include sanitary facilities in each demise or he may grant each tenant a right to use communal facilities .
6 Harvey split the words into syllables and made each syllable a step in his dance , then he changed the accents round and danced the same remark again .
7 Taking a share of the profits : Prior to s. 2(3) of the Partnership Act 1890 , the courts had decided that if a person took any share in the profits of a business this made that person a partner .
8 Too many couples do n't make each other a priority ; work , kids , everything else comes first .
9 He adds : ‘ We trust each other an awful lot .
10 Each evening the menu reflects the theme with waiters wearing uniforms to suit the occasion and make each dinner a special experience .
11 And each four-unit block stood on a quarter-acre plot , allowing each family a seventy-five-by-thirty-foot vegetable patch .
12 The standard book on crime in non-Western countries , published in 1973 , asserts that social changes in developing countries in the mid-twentieth century are similar to those which ‘ suddenly produced extensive crime a century or more ago in Europe . ’
13 The explosive development in the 1980s of the international financial markets made complete liberalisation a necessity , and this was achieved , following the Single European Act , by a 1988 Directive ( known as ‘ the Article 67 Directive ’ ) .
14 The girl asked that man a thing that he .
15 Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount .
16 Yes there 's been many cases where lesbian and gay couples have left a gay bar , have given each other a goodnight kiss at a bus stop or at a tube station or in the street and they 've been arrested under public decency laws and dragged through the courts and fined up to £200 .
17 But Mr Stratton saw Mr Aldrich ; and so in an odd sort of way , even if we had no proof of Stratton being in Didcot , the pair of them quite unwittingly perhaps had given each other an utterly unshakeable alibi .
18 They have given each guest a limited-edition Disney sweatshirt and insisted that they wear it to gain entry to the gala performance .
19 The foundation of Scotland 's success was laid in the loose by the captain , David Sole , and the No.8 , Derek White , whose pace often confounded the Romanian back row , as well as bringing each man a second-half try .
20 In Owen v Grimsby Cleethorpes Transport [ 1992 ] PIQR Q27 the Court of Appeal stated that it is not always necessary for the pleadings in personal injury cases to be amended each time a fresh medical report leads to developments in the case .
21 ‘ And here lies Aldhelm , who could have given that brother a face and a name , beyond any question .
22 I 'd of seriously given that thing a good kicking
23 ‘ I am surprised the judge did not think this matter a great deal more serious than the sentence appears to suggest . ’
24 Of course he would not think this encounter a dream .
25 THE World Indoor Championship heroics of Yvonne Murray and Tom McKean in Toronto at the weekend have given Scottish athletics a ‘ year or two 's breathing space , ’ according to coach Tommy Boyle .
26 Another hospital near Worcester became another home a year later .
27 It 's one I first came across in one of the handy little circular walk leaflets published by the National Parks and , though I generally like to devise my own routes , it 's a cracking walk and at ten miles of easy walking a good stroll for hot high summer day or days when low cloud and drizzle make high fell-walking a grey punishment .
28 The very statist nature of the constitutive elements of German bourgeois identity made German nationalism a substantially different phenomenon than nationalism in other countries .
29 The Rossi calculation on the basis that I have described produces this year an uprating index of 7 per cent .
30 We 'll make another pass a little closer inshore . ’
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