Example sentences of "[vb base] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the best remembered are Anchors Aweigh ( 1945 ) , in which Gene Kelly as a sailor on leave in LA , teaches Jerry Mouse to dance ; Kelly again in the ‘ Sinbad The Sailor ’ segment of Invitation to the Dance , with music from Rimsky-Korsakov 's symphonic suite , Scheherazade ; and Mary Poppins ( 1964 ) , in which Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke encounter a variety of Disneyfied animals . |
| 2 | WE encounter a difficulty at the beginning of this part of the book by directing our attention to the solution of ‘ legal ’ problems . |
| 3 | During the first year , if you encounter a problem with your CompuAdd 200 , 300 , or 400 Series desktop or deskside system which ca n't be resolved by our Telephone Technical Support Staff , we provide On-Site Service in most parts of the country within the next business day . |
| 4 | Once we try to lift the imagination away from the idea of God as a person ( another unfortunate implication of the old man on a cloud motif ) into another form of personality , we encounter a number of interesting arguments . |
| 5 | We encounter a string of bawdy limericks , a dream-poem ( with woodcuts ) , a film-script , and the recording of a Kazakh singing duel , among others . |
| 6 | But the actual experience of all mystics is strikingly similar : all encounter a reality in the depths of the self , which is , paradoxically , Other and irrevocably separate from us . |
| 7 | Women are up well before dawn and may have only five or six hours sleep a night in the effort to make ends meet . |
| 8 | Many of our counselling cases involve a lack of biblical priorities . |
| 9 | Case studies involve a variety of methods : observation , participant observation , interviews , perusing documents . |
| 10 | They involve a variety of practical conservation activities — energy-saving , waste recycling and the greening of derelict land . |
| 11 | The above observations involve a variety of routes to chaos . |
| 12 | Such a reference can , your Lordships were told , involve a delay of as much as 18 months before an answer is received from the court , during which time there can be no final determination of the issue . |
| 13 | This will be a price worth paying only if the vital expressive quality of the work is sustained and enhanced ; that is to say , whether the carer be man or woman , the tasks to be performed involve a relationship with the old person and one in which the essential core of the response should be benign and experienced by the old person as loving . |
| 14 | Both involve a projection of the self vis-à-vis an interlocutor ( or audience ) , as Bell demonstrates . |
| 15 | Understand and use transactional language effectively in a variety of situations which involve a range of audiences . |
| 16 | These involve a Home of over 40 residents and a Home of 21 . |
| 17 | These records involve a total of about 120 individuals and the species is now much scarcer than the Slavonian Grebe , although des Forges and Harber recorded approximately equal numbers of each species . |
| 18 | Other types of switch involve a change of code from Creole to London English and back to Creole within a single turn . |
| 19 | Transitions that involve a change in overall spin are usually very weak indeed for species involving light elements . |
| 20 | The later scenes of The Terminator ( 1984 ) involve a metamorphosis of the title role , previously played by Arnold Schwarzenegger , into a huge metallic endoskeleton . |
| 21 | One accepts , of course , that the sheer volume and intractability of the subject matter render resort to delegated legislation to some degree inevitable ; but , by the same token , those very factors of volume and intractability almost necessarily involve a degree of perfunctoriness in parliamentary scrutiny . |
| 22 | They involve a life of self-denial and sacrifice . |
| 23 | The point I am trying to make is that both suicide of the schizoid type and anorexia nervosa involve a denial of reality which depends upon an acceptance of a split between self and body , and is only possible through paradox . |
| 24 | The interrelationships between these concepts involve a shift from the descriptive framework in which thoughts and memories can be described as conscious , preconscious or unconscious — and feelings as either conscious or unconscious , but not preconscious — to a more dynamic framework of the psychic life of human beings . |
| 25 | The phrasal appositions in , for example , [ 22 ] and [ 12 ] involve a violation of a syntactic pattern in much the same way as the epiphora in [ 24 ] , and would on these grounds be classified as a rhetorical device in a classical account . |
| 26 | My oil paintings often involve a lot of fine lines and small details , but when using fine brushes I find it very difficult to get the oil paint to flow from the brush very smoothly . |
| 27 | My oil paintings often involve a lot of fine lines and small details , but when using fine brushes I find it very difficult to get the oil paint to flow from the brush very smoothly . |
| 28 | These games involve a lot of reading . |
| 29 | Genetic algorithms involve a lot of computation . |
| 30 | The hon. Gentleman knows that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has just announced that our plans for defence expenditure involve a cut of 6 per cent . |