Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll save a lot of wear and tear on your hands if you buy a stainless steel trowel , because nothing causes more blisters than using a rusty trowel . |
| 2 | Nothing can be more exasperating to the borrower of library books than to find a vital page or two missing from the denouement of his thriller . |
| 3 | Watson was a Wimpey pilot who had been press-ganged onto fighters while awaiting a replacement aircraft . |
| 4 | The user interface follows accepted Windows methods whilst retaining a strong individual identity , which is no bad thing , and shows that not all Windows applications need to be clones of each other . |
| 5 | It is not hard to portray the BR of the eighties Monty Python style with such stupidities as creating a semi-autonomous Cornish Railways with great enthusiasm one year only to abandon them the next as though that were equally great progress . |
| 6 | Mukerji focuses on the early modern period of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as marking a highly significant rise in material culture , so that peasants and ordinary town dwellers who had remarkably few personal possessions in late medieval periods ( Braudel 1981 : 283 ) were becoming familiar with many more products , and from a much wider area ( Burke 1978 : 246–8 ) . |
| 7 | There are five main steps when compiling a text : |
| 8 | That , however , was only half his story : in the course of his career he held so many ecclesiastical offices as to provoke a constant outcry prebends in Hereford and London , the chancellorship at Exeter , the archdeaconry of Worcester , and in the course of 1294 no fewer than fourteen churches ! |
| 9 | However , a more realistic approach is to see trips as forming a chain , linking activities through the day . |
| 10 | In the archipelago as a whole 11 of the 1394 endemics have these nectaries as do a number of indigenous non-endemics . |
| 11 | This was widely interpreted by opposition parties as indicating a switch to economic conservatism . |
| 12 | Similarly , children may seize on different suffixes or constructions as marking a contrast , but not necessarily hit on the conventional contrast used by adult speakers . |
| 13 | Look for these characteristics when choosing a board : |
| 14 | I solve the problem of long floats when knitting a motif , by weaving up the sides as normal and , in addition , I use several lengths of yarn ( the same colour as the motif ) to weave up on every fifth or sixth stitch . |
| 15 | If it will please you To show us so much gentry and goodwill As to expand your time with us awhile For the supply and profit of our hope , Your visitation shall receive such thanks As fits a king 's remembrance . |
| 16 | GUIL : And receive such thanks as fits a king 's remembrance . |
| 17 | Willis ' account , relying upon Marxist interpretation of the data , portrayed the lads as expressing a kind of rebellion , for in doing so they had developed an awareness of their class position . |
| 18 | They characterise the management of secondary schools as having a number of features — many of which may be attributed to the absence of effective staff management policies . |
| 19 | ‘ However , current Education Minister John Patten said he regarded Church schools as making a crucial contribution to education but he had n't actually consulted them about opting out . ’ |
| 20 | Equally , in this period , the chances of becoming a beneficed clergyman were greatly enhanced if political interest was exerted on the candidate 's behalf in the case of crown patronages , while no politician-nobleman , with his own ecclesiastical patronage available , would be likely to ignore political considerations when placing a minister . |
| 21 | However , the present study also sees industrial relations variables as having a certain ‘ functional autonomy ’ ( Shalev 1980 : 29 ) . |
| 22 | It is extremely easy to exceed these bounds when specifying a program , and so it is essential that a programmer experienced in the particular system or systems to be used is involved in the initial design discussions . |
| 23 | He must think in terms of thousand upon thousand of repetitions when practising a particular kata , for only through constant repetition will he be able to master the basic fighting movements and to achieve the physical and spiritual sensitivity that lies at the heart of the martial arts . |
| 24 | Carpenter and Just ( 1983 ) recorded the fixations made by readers when reading a syntactically ambiguous sentence ( ’ The pickpocket stood before the black-robed judge entered the courtroom to convene the jury . ’ ) |
| 25 | Crabs that live in areas where empty shells are scarce select relatively large shells when given a free choice , compared with crabs living where there is an abundance of empty shells . |
| 26 | In fact women are clearly already making this kind of calculation for themselves and many do decide they would rather run the gauntlet of contraceptive side effects than risk a pregnancy and cope with the consequences . |
| 27 | Consequently , it was felt appropriate , as a preparatory step , to reduce the numbers of non-executive Directors while retaining a sufficient number for proper non-executive representation . |
| 28 | The religious developments sketched in chapter 1 also in part expressed these tensions while providing a framework — without offering simply and divisively political answers — within which anxieties expressed through the issues of the slave trade and slavery could be handled . |
| 29 | Voting in the elections started in mid-May but was postponed after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi by Tamil separatists while addressing a rally in Tamil Nadu [ see p. 38175 ] . |
| 30 | ‘ We are continuing to move aggressively into these areas while maintaining a sharp focus on our unique ability to create value for our customers by integrating the industry 's widest and most competitive choices of services , products and technologies . |