Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better practice would have been to discharge such a patient on a Monday and monitor her progress daily , to forestall a weekend crisis . |
| 2 | In addition , or on inland waters a dayglo orange flag is sufficient , which can be waved to indicate to onlookers that you are in difficulty . |
| 3 | That court had , in fact , subpoenaed a draft copy of the Royal College of Physicians ' report on allergy . |
| 4 | In Ashbridge Investments Ltd. v. Minister of Housing and Local Governments the Minister had power to modify a clearance order if he was of the opinion that land should not have been included in it . |
| 5 | The court decision means the pair , who are only in their twenties , could make a substantial fortune from the device , which enables the user to modify a computer game and get more use from it . |
| 6 | Wally received a Benefit at the end of 1953–54 and almost 4,000 admirers turned out to see the Palace beat a London XI by six goals to five ! |
| 7 | erm And then we go turn around and beat a league division side three side , or a league division four side with no problem whatsoever ; it 's just inconsistency . |
| 8 | Then the 19-year-old athlete scored a try as Wigan beat a Great Britain select side 37-36 . |
| 9 | Everyone loves a solo break , one person alone in front of the field . |
| 10 | I loves a prawn cocktail . |
| 11 | That 's all right they told her , everyone loves a sports car . |
| 12 | JOHN WOODCOCK , a Daily Mail reporter , was praised by police yesterday for tackling a shotgun raider single-handed . |
| 13 | TEN firemen were in hospital with a mystery illness last night — just two days after tackling a death blast at a chemical plant . |
| 14 | And just think of the calculations involved when a fielder runs to catch a cricket ball — he does n't necessarily realise he is doing it but he has to work out how high the ball is , how fast it is travelling , its precise direction and how quickly he has to run in order to catch it . |
| 15 | At the end of an outdoor games session Roger encouraged the pupils to risk themselves by attempting to catch a cricket ball he would throw into the air . |
| 16 | To catch a 2lb roach whilst actually fishing for roach is the pinnacle of success . |
| 17 | He should have been given a medal for trying to catch a car vandal . |
| 18 | ‘ One day I shall compose a Møn symphony ! ’ |
| 19 | For example , hire purchase will generally be fixed-sum , restricted-use , debtor-creditor-supplier ; credit card use will generally be running-account , restricted-use , debtor-creditor-supplier , and additionally involve a credit token . |
| 20 | One way around this particular problem would be to adapt the approach recommended by the Canadian Sentencing Commission ( 1997 ) , in which guide-lines are used in the first instance simply to indicate offences for which the presumptive sentence would ( or would normally ) involve a community sanction , and those which would ( or would normally ) involve a custodial penalty . |
| 21 | Between 1969 and 1973 it was to cost approximately £100 million , and involve a design team of up to a hundred people known as the New Range Planning Organisation ( NPRO ) . |
| 22 | ‘ The referee at the time said Southall was denying a goalscoring opportunity . |
| 23 | The fine roots of trees are damaged by the toxicity of aluminium , which , together with nutrient deficiency , causes a stress condition of crown dieback ( leaves or needles at the tree-top turn yellow , then brown , and eventually drop off ) and the eventual death of the tree . |
| 24 | For example , two casualties on a unit of five models causes a panic test and the chances of passing that with a basic leadership value of 5 are remote to say the least . |
| 25 | However , since a task causes a state transition there can only be one task allocated to a state . |
| 26 | Given that an increase in general prices of 10% causes a 20% rise in the price of kryptonite futures and only a 5% rise in the price of phlogiston futures , the spread ratio which ensures that Lois is unaffected by the differential response of kryptonite and phlogiston futures prices to changes in the general level of prices is ( F 1 β 1 ) / ( F s β s ) = ( 50 × 2 ) / ( 10 × 0.5 ) = 20 . |
| 27 | Note that the lower interest rate causes a capital account deficit on the balance of payments as people buy foreign assets . |
| 28 | Dr Les Atkinson , vice-president of the chamber and chairman of BP Shipping , forecast : ‘ Any shipowner who disregards this guidance and causes a pollution incident is going to have an impossible task establishing in the courts that he was operating his vessels in a prudent and competent manner . ’ |
| 29 | The bombs of the Nebelwerfer are fitted with a device that causes a moaning sound as the bomb descends , similar to the sound created by a German dive bomber . |
| 30 | But pollution causes a production externality which makes the marginal social cost MSC exceed the marginal private cost . |