Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Diplock laid down a presumptions approach to the question : One starts with the presumption … that where an Act creates an obligation , and enforces the performance in a specified manner … that performance can not be enforced in any other manner … |
| 2 | The agency say they broke new ground by bringing together a drinks company and an existing client , the DoE , to sponsor a major anti-drinking and driving campaign . |
| 3 | At the start of the filming we bring in a students ' orchestra and we rehearse for three days , six sessions in all . |
| 4 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 5 | But the Pilkington dispute could not have been anticipated ( although there were issues that precipitated it — pay levels were perceived to be low and the initial walkout occurred over a wages error ) . |
| 6 | After tea he dozed through an old Peter Sellers film at the King 's Road Classic , dined off a biriani , dozed through an old Tati film at the Baker Street Classic , and crept upstairs to his flat just in time to meet Mounce coming downstairs from his den . |
| 7 | We quickly drew up a children 's broadcasting legend hitlist . |
| 8 | In the hunt DOUBLE Echo , easy winner of the Crawley Warren Handicap at York on Saturday , will make a quick reappearance in the Royal Hunt Cup next week , for which the gelding has picked up a 7lbs penalty . |
| 9 | It might be able to make a valuable contribution , as is suggested by the part played by the organisation of dayschools and weekend conferences during the political fund campaign in enabling unions to hold close discussions with active members , provide clear and detailed information , and build up a grassroots movement . |
| 10 | Tramp nightclub owner Johnny Gold lives out a housewives ' fantasy in the arms of the exotic Chippendale hunks on his camp Christmas card . |
| 11 | If in doubt do not mention a timetable in the transmittal letter — send out an offers deadline once you have established sufficient interest |
| 12 | Neutrality on a subject like male prostitution ( Masculinity NI 175 ) and child absue ‘ men bring their 12-year old sons to try out a travesti ’ is a political cop-out . |
| 13 | The Government still has to work out a points system whereby a cross-section of Hong Kong residents , whose skills are needed , will be given full British citizenship rights between 1992 and 1997 . |
| 14 | The fishhouse ( an early dream ) went up in 1977 , and most of my pennies went on the building , so that staging was designed around a 48″ tank size . |
| 15 | WORLD heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe has turned down an Pounds 8 million offer to defend his title against Lennox Lewis . |
| 16 | The tracking and following of the youths , through rush-hour traffic , took Tom through most of Edinburgh New Town , and culminated , almost an hour later , with his flagging down a Police motor cyclist who stopped and questioned them at Mackenzie Place/India Place . |
| 17 | The news came only a weeks after another major Abingdon employer , Abingdon Carpets , announced a hundred and fifty jobs would go with the transfer of its distribution centre from the town to Bradford . |
| 18 | It meanwhile was still being printed letterpress and seemed more an arts magazine than a product of any new movement , and put together by amateurs with leather arm-patches on their tweed jackets . |
| 19 | His family believed he was going to pick up a bankers draft , but he never showed there and he never reported to hospital . |
| 20 | Dolly had stirred up a hornets ' nest when she pinched the wallet , and he had n't made it any better by steaming the letter open . |
| 21 | but of course , it had kind of stirred up a hornets ' nest ! |
| 22 | Q I have decided to set up a 48″ x 18″ x 15″ fish only aquarium , with a view to changing a mixed fish/invert set-up and I am now contemplating which fish to buy . |
| 23 | Q. I am planning to set up a 48″ x 15″ x 12″ marine tank and two wet/dry trickle filters , with hopefully a home-made filter , using syphons and valves . |
| 24 | It called on ministers to set up a firearms control board which would vet all applicants before issuing a guns licence . |
| 25 | So far David 's letters from a couple of children who understand his fascination but what he really wants is enough other fans to set up a collectors club for cone crazies . |
| 26 | Although unfortunately details of the projects are tantalizingly hard to ascertain , at least two attempts were made after 1888 by the Edinburgh Typographical Society to set up a women 's union , The first , in the late 1880s , is referred to only in the retrospective " statement on the Female Question " , published in 1904 ; Miss Black of London [ who must have been Clementina Black ] a lady who was well-known for her efforts to improve the social condition of her sex , offered to make an endeavour to organise the female compositors in Edinburgh , with a view to remedying the evils complained of by the journeymen . |
| 27 | Hesitantly at first , and in the face of some opposition , the male union leadership , in consultation with the women , decided to set up a women 's section of the ETS instead of pursuing the strategy of recruiting the remaining women compositors into the Warehousemen and Cutters " Union . |
| 28 | I would like to set up a 42″ × 20″ × 15″ tank in my lounge to house small specimens of our native freshwater fish . |
| 29 | In southern India The Body Shop has provided the means to set up a boys ' town for destitute youngsters . |
| 30 | Speedway fans meet at the Oxford Stadium tonight , to set up a Cheetahs lifeline . |