Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For surely they could be forgiven for believing that a prince 's promise to pay later must be firmer than a pauper 's ? |
| 2 | You could be forgiven for thinking that a book entitled The Mind of God was a work of theology , but you would be wrong . |
| 3 | Same as sex , you got ta try that a few times and then find out if you like it ! |
| 4 | At a gig in Newcastle , I was reprimanded for saying that a condom smelt ‘ fishy ’ , as this was deemed to be implicitly degrading to women . |
| 5 | Katz suspected that an earlier Italian work lurked under its heavy black patination and his suspicions were justified during cleaning when a richer , brown surface was revealed . |
| 6 | However the public is influenced by the wider allegations and Kitcher expresses concern that ‘ Those who have been beguiled into thinking that a high school course in evolutionary biology is the gateway to a life of violence and depravity are not likely to ponder the scientific credentials . ’ |
| 7 | The treaty form can be used for both binding and non-binding agreements and the definition does not assist in determining whether a legally binding agreement has been concluded . |
| 8 | ‘ The new vehicle will assist in ensuring that a safe and efficient rigging service continues at the terminal to the end of the century and beyond . ’ |
| 9 | The King responded by asking whether a working arrangement with the Liberals might be possible , and Baldwin said that he would find out . |
| 10 | The theory proposed by Lubow and his collaborators ( e.g. Lubow , Schnur , and Rifkin 1976 ; Lubow , Weiner , and Schnur 1981 ) starts by assuming that a novel stimulus will evoke an ‘ attentional response ’ . |
| 11 | Social benefits are not solely restricted to cash returns but include any favourable effects that may affect members of the community at large ; for example , the time saved in travelling because a hospital is sited at a particular location . |
| 12 | He was , however , dissuaded from holding that a man 's belief in consent must be reasonable because of the wording of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 , s.1 , which provides that it is an offence for a man to rape a woman . |
| 13 | There is no suggestion that people directly involved with Kingfisher profited from knowing that a bid was imminent . |
| 14 | Yet what good came from knowing that a woman had killed herself ? |
| 15 | For instance , in the law of contract the question , ‘ What is the difference between void and voidable contracts ? ’ can be accurately answered by saying that a void contract is an apparent contract that is in truth no contract at all , while a voidable contract is a contract that is capable of being avoided at the option of one party . |
| 16 | At Ipoh , the capital of the state of Perak , an early station was replaced by a stuccoed structure , quite different from that of Kuala Lumpur , with prominent quoins , powerful arches , and three levels of verandas , surmounted by balustrading and a dome . |
| 17 | ( It is worth noting in passing that a similar kind of question comes up for dancers as well as singers . |
| 18 | His 1923 review of Ulysses ends by stating that a combination of psychology , ethnology , and Frazer 's Golden Bough has made possible a new method of artistic construction . |
| 19 | Yet observers of the department could easily be fooled into thinking that a party of radically different philosophy had taken over midway during this period . |
| 20 | But do n't be fooled into thinking that a three-inch elephant in a fuchsia tutu prancing across the blade of your tie is in any way the same thing . |
| 21 | Thereafter no court in the United Kingdom was called upon to consider whether a child could sue in negligence for injuries sustained while in its mother 's womb until last year . |
| 22 | Gorbachev began by stressing that a " yes " vote would " preserve the integrity of the state which is a thousand years old " . |
| 23 | The Spanish were sometimes justified in thinking that a pirate base was precisely what English companies had in mind ; in the 1630s the providence Island Company was set up by determined Protestants who thought that plundering Catholic ships would be rewarded in this world and the next , though other Englishmen , who settled informally on the east coast of central America , were concerned with felling trees and exporting logwood as a dye-stuff . |
| 24 | The form of the verb in one sentence can limit the choice of the verb form in the next , and we may be justified in saying that a verb form in one sentence is ‘ wrong ’ , or at least ‘ unlikely ’ , because it does not fit with the form in another . |
| 25 | The Court of Appeal laid down some rough guidelines in Froom v Butcher [ 1976 ] QB 286 when it decided that the defendant who succeeded in establishing that a plaintiff 's injuries could have been avoided by wearing a seat belt would have the benefit of a 25 per cent reduction in the plaintiff 's damages , even though the plaintiff was otherwise an innocent party . |
| 26 | Once again the question arises whether a man , who persists in believing that a woman consents despite an active demonstration by her that such consent is denied , should have a defence to rape . |
| 27 | We have identified difficulties which may be encountered in realising that a problem has a legal dimension and in connecting that problem to the sort of work with which lawyers are commonly understood to deal . |
| 28 | The constraint that word beginnings only occur at the point where a previous word ends , prevents leave being found in believe and a ring being found in measuring . |
| 29 | This will often amount to saying that a complex object , as opposed to a simple one , has many parts , these parts being of more than one kind . |
| 30 | If it seems that things could be finally settled by deciding whether a foetus is a person , this can only be because ‘ person ’ is used to ascribe a moral status rather than merely to describe . |