Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently Colin became friends with a bona fide shaman , Davide , who gave him a dose of ‘ ayahuasca ’ . |
| 2 | Customs can make a direction to treat persons as a ‘ single taxable person ’ for VAT registration purposes if Customs ( not necessarily any other person ) are satisfied that : |
| 3 | In the first two years , the post ‘ A ’ level language programmes introduce students to a wide range of social , political and economic registers , with an emphasis on oral as well as written skills . |
| 4 | It is a struggle to paint grasses in a true watercolour technique and the purist may well react against the use of white and acrylic here , but I have found a release from the restrictions of technique through this method and comfort myself with the knowledge that white has been in common use by artists throughout the history of watercolour painting . |
| 5 | If discourses articulate concepts through a system or signs which signify by means or their relationship to each other rather than to entities in the world , and ir literature is a signifying practice , all it can reflect is the order inscribed in particular discourses , not the nature or the world . |
| 6 | Wide crinolines brushed against the grass and men in fine suits made bids with a raised finger or a simple nod of the head . |
| 7 | The department store on the opposite corner was a giant , baroque box holding mass produced objects of a profound and miserable neutrality . |
| 8 | ‘ Mr Balchin is using grant maintained schools as a Conservative front organisation , and that is a very dangerous game to play , ’ he said . |
| 9 | A proposal was put forward to change the outing to a weekday because of the increasing problems of finding a course to accept ladies on a Sunday . |
| 10 | Of the attempts to provide writers with a PC-based style analyser , standard commercial channels proffer a few but their cost may be considered inordinate for such a duty and so one looks to shareware offerings because they are frequently better buys . |
| 11 | In the late 19th century , Henri Poincaré and Jacques-Solomon Hadamard wrote on mathematical creation , and more recently George Pólya and Gabör Szego used problems as a teaching method and Polya produced his famous How To Solve It ( Princeton UP , 1971 ) . |
| 12 | The availability of this defence causes problems for a plaintiff especially where the defendant has carried out works specified in an abatement notice , without success , or where the odour problem is so complex that it is difficult to ascertain just what are the best practicable means . |
| 13 | At Taï , the chimpanzees make use of many other tools , such as long sticks to extract ants from a nest , and bunches of leaves to soak up water from pools in trees . |
| 14 | The plans provide employees with a structured basis to help them evaluate their aspirations and capabilities and to identify needs and opportunities for training and for broadening of experience . |
| 15 | Although the Vatican has records of a physic garden in 1277 , it was not until the sixteenth century that centres of learning , first in Italy and then elsewhere , began to establish their gardens of medicinal plants . |
| 16 | Earlier Mr Yeltsin had appealed to the 1,000-odd deputies to accept amendments to a hardline resolution and save the power-sharing compromise struck at the last Congress in December . |
| 17 | Their attempts to impose conditions on a man like Henry VIII only show how far , in the initial stages , they were turning a blind eye to the implications of their policy . |
| 18 | The University accepts students from a wide range of access courses , and has special links with those offered by Stevenson and Telford Colleges as well as by its own Centre for Continuing Education and Faculty of Divinity . |
| 19 | It is a very happy occasion , and an opportunity to meet friends in a familiar location . |
| 20 | The cases come weeks after a 12-year-old boy , Gregory Kingsley , ‘ divorced ’ his parents in a court action in Florida . |
| 21 | Maurice Melloul 's guidelines for the success of the purchasing agent in Dow corning sum up the professionalism that lies behind the words : ‘ The agent must : exercise close cost control build long term relationships bring negotiations to a ‘ win-win ’ conclusion promote and sell the best image of his company be knowledgeable about the supplier 's market and end-use applications . ’ |
| 22 | Tesfaye Gebre Kidan ( Defence Minister in 1981-86 and appointed Vice-President on April 26 ) would " work in his place " and the government was taking steps through diplomatic channels to implement proposals for a ceasefire and a transitional government . |
| 23 | A few hasty notes in July show that he continued to visit 6 Patten Road , and occasionally to have dinner there , until their separation became a reality , when Helen took up a resident post as governess with the Wards , at 33 Bath Road , Bedford and Edward spent August with his father 's relations at 17 Woodville Street , Pontardulais , while his younger brothers became pupils at a small denominational school in Ammanford . |
| 24 | Erm and it 's sort of erm features that are expressed er like intelligent and then intelligent er it reveals to what extent subjects perceive speakers in a particular language as having desirable or undesirable traits with which they may or may not wish to identify . |
| 25 | Will my right hon. Friend refuse the invitation from the Opposition to treat pensioners as a political underclass ? |
| 26 | An official visit to Japan on Sept. 4-7 by Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze produced signs of a much-needed improvement in Japanese-Soviet relations . |
| 27 | The research involves interviews with a representative cross- section of the nation 's population and a more detailed survey of citizens and political leaders in six local communities . |
| 28 | Now that Phoenix has buildings without an owner , and Kuwait has owners without a building , a new link has been forged . |
| 29 | Edward approached his third attempt to pass Responsions in a confident and relaxed mood . |
| 30 | Empson was not a scholar , and hardly wished to be one , though he respected scholarship — especially the kind that had once produced the Oxford English Dictionary to provide others with a godsent place to start a critical argument . |