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Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] an [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	The black population , thus , effectively constitutes an underclass , placed in a structurally different location from the white working class .
2	While with Hofmann he had so successfully completed an investigation for Allsopps & Sons of Burton-on-Trent that they offered him an appointment as chemist at the brewery .
3	The usual advice is to prepare the ground by digging two spits deep , but we are rarely given an explanation why , and for that very reason , therefore , we do not see the correct way to do it .
4	In the major eruption of Laki in Iceland in 1783 over 10 km 3 of lava was produced in just 50 days , and it spread to eventually cover an area of 370 km 2 .
5	he never took much part in college life and eventually became an object of derision among medical students , who called him ‘ Mummy Jones ’ .
6	Of these , two were corn mills , one eventually became an iron works and the other probably a corn mill , although there may have been a period when it was used as a fulling mill .
7	If the poetry of the early part of the eighteenth century is already grappling with the problems associated with a realistic treatment of agricultural labour , it is not surprising that an agricultural labourer should eventually make an impact as a poet .
8	Only when the means of production are communally owned will classes disappear , thereby bringing an end to the exploitation and oppression of some by others .
9	Outer London authorities were mostly likely to report a decrease in allocation of money : only Wales and Northern Ireland uniformly reported no decreases , while Northern Ireland authorities were the only group uniformly to report an increase in expenditure .
10	Aquino 's choice was criticized in some quarters for threatening the possibility of splitting her support — between those who would remain loyal to the LDP and those who would support Ramos — and thereby allowing an opposition candidate to win .
11	with him , I I sarcastically make an appointment
12	Sarcastically make an appointment , what does that mean ?
13	National Clamps said it had since sacked an operator .
14	It presumably represents an epoch of geomorphological maturity and plate stability .
15	The drama student , on successfully completing an acting or stage management training course at an NCDT accredited school registers with Equity , thereby becoming eligible for membership of the union if offered an engagement in any of the areas of work listed above .
16	Recently , nine members of Windscale Judo Club achieved a higher level in the sport after successfully completing an upgrading contest .
17	However , the diversity of the range of information and its potentially extensive scope do require consideration of the methods by which the data may be collected and thereby offers an opportunity for the development of more creative ways of defining and discussing with older people these various areas of their lives .
18	During those long and enjoyable hours I slowly became an ornithologist .
19	I dimly recall the first broadcast performance of this piece in the 1940s and rarely lose an opportunity of hearing any new recording of it .
20	Finally , after some ‘ agonizing ’ , he agreed ‘ on the grounds ’ , as he wrote in the introduction to the catalogue , ‘ that I have a passion for Italy , her people , her countryside and the way in which art quite naturally seems to invade every aspect of life , thereby producing an atmosphere that is totally irresistible ’ .
21	It would also have many applications in Third World countries since it uses rubber tyres in both modes and thereby has an incline capability of ⅙ This means that in Third World countries instead of flattening the mountains and filling the valleys to make them level to one could follow the contours of the countryside and enormously reduce civil engineering costs .
22	Through the Standing Committee on Library Materials on Africa , the library additionally has an obligation to maintain collections on Zambia and Malawi .
23	In fact , in the early Merovingian period it seems to have been held by the rulers of the eastern kingdom , but after Sigibert I 's murder in 575 half of it was handed over to Guntram , presumably to cement an alliance between the young Childebert II and his uncle .
24	Each passenger is a different face of white colonialism : the overt racist who can not bring himself to use a Black doctor to treat his sick wife ; the hypocritical racist who secretly has an affair with his Black housekeeper ; the white liberal who alternates between ’ slumming ’ it with the natives , and living with the whites , not quite willing or able to give up his white privilege .
25	I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices .
26	There should therefore be a significant and fluctuating gravitational red shift of the pulsar period P : which numerically has an amplitude of order .
27	If this happens , your job could still be just as much in jeopardy in the long run as that of an employee who has clearly and inexcusably committed an offence .
28	In abolishing the marital rape exemption , Parliament could presumably seek an undertaking that this be done from the Attorney General who has general superintendence over the discharge of the Director 's functions .
29	It will attempt to identify those policies which are likely to be most effective in this and other countries , and thereby to provide an input into technology and economic policy-making .
30	After a common two years , some students undertake industrial or professional placement in their third year , thereby gaining an awareness of current professional practices and emerging industrial and commercial developments .