Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [to-vb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABOVE The method of dating using tree-rings ( dendrochronology ) involves taking samples from timbers of different ages , and linking them together to provide an overall dating sequence . |
| 2 | He wished there was someone else he could trust , someone else to form an alliance with instead of this comic figure of a Russian policeman . |
| 3 | In the same way NEP was presented as a breathing space for the creation of socialist industry with which later to mount an economic offensive against the petty-bourgeois elements in the national economy . |
| 4 | Instead it collapses in on itself catastrophically to produce an object a few kilometres across , known as either a neutron star or a pulsar ; often this is accompanied by a stupendous explosion , a supernova . |
| 5 | You do n't have to have an abortion , there should n't be one there to have an abortion for should there . |
| 6 | There would need to be a reorganisation of share capital , so that management 's shares entitle them exclusively to receive an in specie distribution of the shares in Target , following which their shares in the holding company would become worthless deferred shares ( which could then be bought in by the holding company for a nominal price ) . |
| 7 | Public ownership of development land puts control of our scarcest resource in the hands of the community , and enables it thereby to take an overall perspective . |
| 8 | Is it best to fix an extractor in a ceiling ? |
| 9 | Again some policyholders have been underinsuring themselves , leaving everyone else to carry an unfair burden . |