Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | How or why the interchange of decorative elements was carried out is more difficult to understand ; the moulds for casting the brooches may have been made with models constituting separate elements of the decoration of the brooches , or entirely remodelled each time a brooch was made , with variations . |
| 32 | If one party does not wish to accept this valuation a second will be obtained . |
| 33 | And give us back the pride and the credibility that we once took for granted as trade unionists but we allowed to slip away from us , and make us a force to be reckoned with , and send this government a message , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to tell us how to run the G M B , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to prevent us from protecting our brothers and sisters and we 'll no never ever allow anyone at Westminster to defeat the trade union movement . |
| 34 | To provide further guidance a Definition Table was created . |
| 35 | I , I did two hundred and one pound a month or two hundred and fift okay it sounds cheap but I do n't know fourteen pound a month just for li thirty thousand pound life cover over suppose it 's the |
| 36 | So she 's on eighteen pound , they 'll owe say eighty pound a week rent . |
| 37 | Mr. C 's service contract will allow him to work one day a week on non — [ ] Plc/ABC business , provided he does not work in an employment in competition with [ ] Plc or ABC or their subsidiaries . |
| 38 | Though there was a lot to do , Clare , busy redecorating the shop and visiting wholesalers to buy stock , still managed to work one evening a week for the Movement . |
| 39 | Six ‘ pounders ’ were purchased , so that the able-bodied men in the workhouse could be employed in the bruising of bones for use in the glue factory ; each man was to process one hundredweight a day . |
| 40 | To help anyone who has sensory loss a nurse should try to imagine maintaining a safe environment with no awareness of heat , cold , pain and pressure . |
| 41 | Man has no property in man ; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow . |
| 42 | A defence of acting in her best medical interests fails : he could have tried to find a female gynaecologist , and , indeed , his female house officer had already examined the patient ; a pelvic mass could have been shown by ultrasonography ; if it was necessary to exclude pelvic disease a laparoscopy could have been performed before the appendicectomy ; it is doubtful whether the examination under anaesthesia served any purpose as tenderness could not be elicited ; and , finally , he could have asked the patient first whether an examination under anaesthesia was an acceptable compromise . |
| 43 | In fact , he says he needs written permission a week in advance before delivery lorries can get to his home . |
| 44 | Patten promised last year a paper that would set out Britain 's agenda for the environment to the end of the century . |
| 45 | MANUEL CLOUTHIER , last year 's presidential candidate for Mexico 's conservative National Action Party ( PAN ) , made civil disobedience a by-word of his short political career . |
| 46 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ It 's something that requires more work on the live side and I think that electronically we can manipulate that area a lot more . |
| 48 | You and a friend can give each other a call . |
| 49 | ‘ Let's give each other a chance . ’ |
| 50 | When I finished , Shadwell started to applaud with the tips of his fingers , as if scared his hands would give each other a disease . |
| 51 | An additional administrative charge of £5 per person will be made each time a booking is changed . |
| 52 | And there were photocopies of press coverage of the famous 1982 march on the Porton Down chemical defence establishment and on the activities of the Hunt Saboteurs Association , including the famous quote from one Master of Fox Hounds advocating that horse-whipping a saboteur was , like beating his wife , a private matter . |
| 53 | However , they may give another business a licence , or franchise , to sell that product or use the name , in return for a percentage of the takings ( a royalty ) . |
| 54 | ‘ And then charge some townie a couple of quid for it . ’ |
| 55 | Yes , can I bring this argument a bit closer to home and talk about the sexual division of labour within the family , which I think is one of the underlying causes of discrimination against women , and that 's really just a fancy term for the fact that when we talk about child care women do most of the work and men do very little , and really I do n't think we can look at the position of women without looking at how , in fact , child care and caring is organized within the family . |
| 56 | And the middle one , force is mass times acceleration erm I 'm going to give this a push , I 'll give this pen a push , accelerate . |
| 57 | In fact , ’ he said , getting quite excited , ‘ let's give this idea a name . |
| 58 | Maclean 's mother Peggy , his estranged second wife , also Peggy , and his daughter Temora , would no more have volunteered for an Oprah Winfrey panel than they would give this man a bottle of cask-strength whisky for his birthday . |
| 59 | ‘ Would you give this man a job as chairman of a bank ? |
| 60 | Yet we felt we should give this fellow a chance , so my wife put it in a box and set it on top of the Aga . |