Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doreen went on , ‘ Is there a porter or a steward to carry my bag from the car ? ’ |
| 2 | Scheme organiser Dawn Whitton said : ‘ Entries can include written reports or publications , tidying up campaigns , landscaping projects , studies of a species of wildlife , repairs to an historic building or a scheme to enhance a new development . |
| 3 | This concern could , however , be easily met if it were made clear that fines would only be recommended by the OFT as a matter of course where a company had evidently breached one of the prohibitions . |
| 4 | We should however be prepared to provide detailed drafting assistance on financial or similar aspects of a contract where a client requires expert' financial or accounting knowledge . |
| 5 | We should however be prepared to provide detailed drafting assistance on financial or similar aspects of a contract where a client requires ‘ expert ’ financial or accounting knowledge . |
| 6 | We should however be prepared to provide detailed drafting assistance on financial or similar aspects of a contract where a client requires ‘ expert ’ financial or accounting knowledge . |
| 7 | respect confidential information obtained in the course of professional practice and refrain from disclosing such information without the consent of the patient/client or a person entitled to act on his/her behalf except where disclosure is required by law or by order of a court , or is necessary in the public interest . |
| 8 | I 'm inclined to think that every dominant feeling in a story or a poem affects what is seen and needs to find its correspondences in events and objects outside , which in their turn make the feeling real to the reader . |
| 9 | The box was always somewhere on the floor by his bed , and was tied up with a bow , as if it was a precious parcel or a gift intended for a special person ; the bow was tied from a length of scarlet nylon ribbon which Boy had seen in the dustbin outside a florist 's , and had stolen , and taken home and ironed , having sensed at once that its splendid colour made it suitable for the tying up of this very special box . |
| 10 | She wanted someone to talk to , not just a squirrel or a dog snuffling at her feet . |
| 11 | Tony foretells difficulty or a journey followed by a successful issue in your |
| 12 | There are seven discussion lists on the network including RESPONSE where a child makes her or his first introductory contact , and KIDCAFE and KIDACT where the discussion and dialogue occur . |
| 13 | It might , therefore , be open to a court to find liability where a defendant committed a statutory offence as the vehicle for the deliberate infliction of harm upon the plaintiff . |
| 14 | Do n't you come across many teachers who say something along the lines ‘ I 'd love to try this experiment ’ , or ‘ I 'd like to try this in a different way , but I have C S E or O level or A level coming up for my children in a term or a year and I ca n't possibly afford to do other than cram them for these examinations ’ . |
| 15 | No case of this kind has ever been considered by the courts before , and I do not think the dicta in the previous cases should be read as excluding a case of this kind where a landlord seeks , by a course of intimidation , to " annul his own deed " , to contradict his own demise , by ousting the tenant from possession which the landlord has conferred upon her . |
| 16 | Children playing with toys , men putting up prefabricated house units , a family in a holiday resort or a woman using a knitting machine are all likely to enhance the original subject . |
| 17 | All of us , whatever our walk of life , are frequently in situations where we want to persuade someone or , in other words , influence someone to do what we want them to do ( eg a salesperson trying to persuade a buyer or a negotiator trying to persuade another negotiator ) . |
| 18 | In one case this had happened twice on the same land and was about to happen a third time for bulldozer had arrived to destroy a newly erected building where a woman stood in the way , she was one of the nuns helping in the area ; the defence was successful . |
| 19 | Henry Blake states that there are forty-seven basic verbal messages used by horses , although some seventeen of these are used in specific situations like a stallion courting a mare or a mare caring for her foal . |
| 20 | WE FAAK A park or a college closed for seemingly good reasons ; a city where one wishes one could live |
| 21 | However , no one except a Christian anarchist or a Tolstoyan has ever deduced from this that socialism is against revolutionary violence . |
| 22 | ARMED policeman were last night playing a waiting game outside a country cottage where a man armed with a shotgun was defying all attempts for a negotiated end to the siege . |
| 23 | Take a mountain climber , a Grand Prix racing-driver or a person conquering a devastating handicap . |
| 24 | Ring compounds of low molecular weight exist but we are here mainly concerned with the properties of long-chain polymers -ones in which there are hundreds or thousands of repeat units before the end of the chain , a branch or a cross-link occurs . |
| 25 | Consider using an object such as a bag or briefcase or a chair to fend off the attacker ( bear in mind the potential difference between fending off and striking with a weapon ) . |
| 26 | Each time a shop assistant or a clerk or a tradesman wrote down Dr E. Headleand , Harley Street , the same thrill of self-affirmation , of self-definition would be re-enacted . |
| 27 | Then you can start looking at at er at alternatives okay , and what you end up with is a is a way of analysing er a decision or a choice to behave in a certain way , okay ? |
| 28 | The triplet groove can be specifically written as triplets or a triplet feel can be implied . |
| 29 | Yet vagueness in stating the task or problem can often create resistance or a failure to accept the delegated task simply because the subordinate is not entirely clear what it is you want done . |
| 30 | In order to obtain such vital things as a ration card or a job , it was necessary to be able to provide evidence of loyalty to the regime , by means of an official certificate or a letter signed by a person who was , in turn , accredited as " approved " by the regime . |