Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like it when someone spots that a record being reviewed has been played by me on Radio 1 |
| 2 | Social workers have a key role to play when someone suspects that a child is being abused . |
| 3 | ‘ A pound for me Mum , a pound for me digs and a pound for me . ’ |
| 4 | The period which elapses until a product at the limit of the release specification at the time of manufacture , changes until it has reached the limit of the check specification , is the minimum shelf-life ; the product which is close to the nominal value at the time of manufacture will continue to comply with the check specification for longer than this . |
| 5 | But it is not the tampons that cause the disease but the bacteria which develops when a tampon has been in too long . |
| 6 | In measuring visual acuity in this way , a figure which looks like a fraction is recorded . |
| 7 | ‘ Well Else read out this bit from a book by Billy Graham , The Secret of 'Appiness it 's called , where 'e says that a man told 'im 'e only took a bath once a week , and Billy Graham told 'im there was something wrong with 'is purity of heart . ’ |
| 8 | ( Case 199/82 ) [ 1985 ] 2 C.M.L.R. 658 , which establishes that a person who pays charges levied by a member state contrary to the rules of Community law is entitled to repayment of the charge , such right being regarded as a consequence of , and an adjunct to , the rights conferred on individuals by the Community provisions prohibiting the relevant charges : see paragraph 12 of the judgment of the court , at p. 688 . |
| 9 | This means that if , for example , the cooking cycle is programmed for two-and-a-half minutes at a required temperature the machine will adjust to compensate for the fall in temperature which occurs when a frozen or chilled food will have been cooked for two-and-a-half minutes at the correct temperature . |
| 10 | We thought it possible that we might get an auto-immune reaction otherwise — similar to that which occurs when a patient rejects a heart or kidney transplant . |
| 11 | Task analysis can be very expensive in skilled manpower , but in looking at cost/value it is important to include in value the increase in mutual understanding which occurs when a multi-disciplinary team conducts the analysis . |
| 12 | At this moment ( which occurs when a word 's recognition point is reached ) , the word can be identified , even if much more of the speech signal has yet to reach the word-recognition system . |
| 13 | There is , of course , a school of thought which says that a bit of straight thinking , a kind of conceptual analysis-cum-psychotherapy , will sweep this puzzlement away . |
| 14 | However Japan and Iceland have taken advantage of a loophole in the regulation which says that a certain number of whales can be killed for scientific purposes . |
| 15 | Mr. Whitaker relied upon the wording of section 6(1) of the Act of 1978 , which says that a party is liable in respect of any damage , and so potentially in the position of being able to claim or having to make contribution , ‘ whatever the legal basis of his liability , whether tort , breach of contract , breach of trust or otherwise . ’ |
| 16 | So what they decided to do , they would accept the clinical grading appeals which says that a panel can be up to six members , of three members of management and three members of trade unions . |
| 17 | Built around two , 200-metre-long concrete pontoons , it is linked at one end and has a floating gate at the other which closes when a submarine is inside . |
| 18 | Here is a passage which shows that a survey can benefit from being used with other books ( even though three of the sculptures mentioned are illustrated by Janson ) . |
| 19 | Some will give the personal aspects the highest priority because of accumulated experience which shows that a client who is not emotionally ready for the severe belt-tightening and discipline involved in emerging from serious debt , will not stay the course . |
| 20 | of women feel that it is unsafe to walk alone on the streets at night , which shows that a great public need is being ignored . |
| 21 | Hon. Members could easily have been misled by referring to a previous Hansard which shows that a substantial number of ships are on order but fails to reflect the Government 's commitment to naval shipbuilding . |
| 22 | That is the conclusion of a report commissioned by the Department of Transport , which shows that a government-recommended deep water route around the North-West coast of Scotland is being ignored by 80 per cent of loaded oil tankers . |
| 23 | Within Renaissance writing we can discover evidence which reveals that a text 's recognition that it circulates within a powerful institutional context need not be capitulation to context , but its own powerful representation of that context . |
| 24 | Contrast the situation which pertains when a group of men celebrate the eucharist together , as has often been the case for example in a monastic setting . |
| 25 | It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will . |
| 26 | SPAR uses a variant of Crain & Steedman 's ( 1985 ) ‘ principle of referential success ’ , which states that a reading that succeeds in referring to an entity already established in the hearer 's model of the domain of discourse is favoured over one that does not . |
| 27 | There is no express provision in the Code which states that a person who has already been charged must be cautioned before making a voluntary statement . |
| 28 | Einstein realized that this parallel is a principle of nature , the equivalence principle , which states that a region of uniform gravitational field and a uniformly accelerating frame are equivalent ( Section 2.1 ) . |
| 29 | On the face of it , that seems to be in breach of article 6(2) of the European convention on human rights , which states that a person is innocent until proven guilty . |
| 30 | However , I think it is Standing Order No. 62(b) which states that a Committee can amend a Bill and change the long title for that purpose . |