Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth class was tackling a problem to do with the Muslim Inheritance laws . |
| 2 | Grandma went to the station to catch a train to get to Birmingham . |
| 3 | Rather they involve a refusal to co-operate with or assist in evil policy , and an offer to co-operate on honourable and just terms … |
| 4 | What causes a cistern to overflow ? |
| 5 | It may be the loss of a partner or the onset of mental illness in a parent which first causes a nurse to give up a successful career in order to care full-time at home . |
| 6 | Whereas the essence of the previous law was that the threat was required to cause the breach of the peace , now it is enough if the conduct causes a person to believe that there will be violence , which might include continued violence if the scuffle is already in progress when the witness appears on the scene . |
| 7 | S 1(1) provides that ‘ a person is guilty of an offence if — ( a ) he causes a computer to perform any function to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ; ( b ) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised ; and ( c ) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case ’ . |
| 8 | The relevant words are ‘ he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ’ . |
| 9 | Held , that , in the opinion of the court , in section 1(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1990 the words ‘ causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer , ’ in their plain and ordinary meaning , were not confined to the use of one computer with intent to secure access into another computer ; so that section 1(1) was contravened where a person caused a computer to perform a function with intent to secure unauthorised access to any program or data held in the same computer ( post , pp. 437A–B , C–D , 438A , E–F ) . |
| 10 | ‘ A person is guilty of an offence if — ( a ) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ; ( b ) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised ; and ( c ) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case . |
| 11 | They are , ‘ he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer . ’ |
| 12 | We do not know yet what causes a cell to become cancerous but scientists believe that most causes are linked with our environments and how we live . |
| 13 | ‘ On the negative side , over involvement from parents or over protection causes a player to suffer in his game . |
| 14 | He is interested both in the future — how political changes might be brought about through information that stretches potential consciousness and causes a group to transform — and in the past . |
| 15 | I and others hesitate even to mention that a particular species is rare in case it causes a demand to develop , even among our colleagues . |
| 16 | A combination of vulnerable classes or groups living in vulnerable and ecologically marginal areas in many cases causes a failure to create sufficient income for food to feed themselves . |
| 17 | In an ideal world the political framework and the broad strategy should have come first ; then the military men would have designed a plan to fit them . |
| 18 | The fact , however , that they have designed a language to fulfil these functions does not necessarily mean that these functions could not be fulfilled in other ways , nor that their language is intrinsically connected with them , nor that the language has necessarily been proven to succeed in achieving these ideals . |
| 19 | Scientists and engineers at the conference , however , foresaw a major collaboration between academics and European financiers who would seek a permit to put up the estimated $130 million to design the garbage ships and capsules . |
| 20 | BOVIS CONSTRUCTION have won a contract to manage a £200 million demolition and rebuilding programme in association with Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust ( HAT ) in east London . |
| 21 | P&O DISTRIBUTION have won a contract to manage transport and distribution activities for the IDEM brand of Arjo Wiggins Appleton , producers of carbonless paper . |
| 22 | CAE Industries Ltd , Toronto reports that its CAE Electronics Ltd unit has won a contract to supply a Boeing 737-400 full flight simulator and a flight management systems trainer to Southwest Air Lines of Okinawa , Japan by Aprch 1995 ; terms of the contract were not disclosed . |
| 23 | Arianespace has won a contract to launch a communications satellite for Eutelsat : the contract , Arianespace 's sixth this year , will take its order book to 37 birds worth $3,000m ; Eutelsat II F5 will go up an Ariane 4 rocket from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana at the end of 1993 or early next year . |
| 24 | Russia 's space industry has won a contract to launch its first western satellite . |
| 25 | The Calibration Laboratory of Winfrith 's Measurement and Instrumentation Technology Services ( M&ITS ) Department recently won a contract to provide a major international measurement and control company , Rosemount , with essential calibration support . |
| 26 | Wootton Courtenay , a Somerset village of 90 households , three businesses ( a post office , a garage and a shop ) and a bus that comes twice a week , has recently won a battle to keep the heart of its community — the village shop — mostly thanks to the driving force of Stephen Parnell . |
| 27 | TRIUMPHANT villagers have won a battle to keep open an ancient public footpath . |
| 28 | A group of parents has won a battle to get a new primary school at Corse in Gloucestershire . |
| 29 | Telecom Australia , which trades off-shore as Telstra , says it has won a licence to build and operate a digital cellular telephone service in New Zealand ; Telecom Corp of New Zealand Ltd will also face competition in the cellular market from BellSouth Corp , expected to launch its network next month . |
| 30 | A factory worker with just two O Levels to his name has won a place to study at Oxford . |