Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hedgehogs have neither the speed nor the manoeuvrability to catch rabbits but I have known them to kill the young in a stop , gaining entrance during the times when the doe has left the stop unsealed just before the young rabbits are moved out . |
| 2 | The Chartists would liberate the Irish as a byproduct of their struggle for power in British . |
| 3 | Immobilise the joint for a while and keep the arm in a sling . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Bouterse asked the Dutch for a visitor 's visa in December . |
| 5 | He quoted many authorities , both in the USA and GB who made it clear that the viewing and the funeral ceremonies are extremely important in bringing the bereaved to a state of acceptance and eventual recovery . |
| 6 | But Conservatives question bringing the elderly into a noisy area . |
| 7 | Entomology became more fashionable once better killing bottles provided the squeamish with a less offensive method of collecting specimens . |
| 8 | In the very book of Malachi from which he derived the understanding of his own mission to prepare the way of the Lord , he would have read of fire both burning up evil-doers and also refining and purifying the faithful like a refiner 's fire ( Mal. 4 : If , 3:1–4 ) . |
| 9 | Prominent racing historian Reg Green said urgent action was needed to prevent the National that never was becoming the National without a future . |
| 10 | In relation to , for example , technological systems , design posits a means of overcoming control problems since it posits a means of knowing-practice which incorporates the technical as a moment and which can itself thus internally incorporate social requirements ( no other mode of knowledge practice can do this ) . |
| 11 | In general the move towards wage supplementation in the rural South and East enabled the old Poor Law just about to cope with the problem of subsisting the poor in a period of unprecedentedly high bread prices , during which some years can only be described as desperate . |
| 12 | It is , however , plausible to view criminal laws as the outcomes of clashes between groups with structurally generated conflicting interests , and to argue that the legislators ' intention , or if that is too conspiratorial , then the law 's latent function , is to provide the powerful with a resource to reduce further the ability of some groups to resist domination . |
| 13 | Well one of the things we did do immediately after the er youth consultation is that we erm , we erected a paid for a skate board ramp at erm one of the youth centres in , in Harlow , so you know , we we creating that facility , but erm , what , you , so you your question was more directed at providing more of those kind of facilities . |
| 14 | ‘ I want a patch-through on a secure line to Vice-President Odell , ’ he said , ‘ and I want it now . ’ |
| 15 | In addition to gold , Mitchell has presented the Metropolitan with a number of Graeco-Roman and Etruscan artworks . |
| 16 | And in thinking of replacing the reverend with a ‘ thrusting businessman ’ , which Waddington believe ‘ is more than suitable for the 1990s ’ , they have shown themselves to be even more out of tune with modern times . |
| 17 | A police spokesman in Soisy-sous-Montmorency , northern France , said : ‘ Someone swapped the blank for a real bullet . |
| 18 | A few days earlier , the 40,000 miners of the Jiu Valley towns of Lupeni , Vulcan and Petrosani , in the foothills of the Carpathians two hundred and fifty miles to the north-west of Bucharest , had done the unimaginable in a communist state : they had gone on strike . |
| 19 | Botham delayed the inevitable with a fifty , but Holding finished with 5 for 43 and England were all out for 202 . |
| 20 | 2 Heat the oil in a small frying pan and fry the turmeric for a few seconds . |
| 21 | ‘ I believe I put the above into a memo addressed to Donald Wilson whom I had appointed as my Head of Serials . |
| 22 | There is also a tendency to state the obvious in a way that stops it from being obvious . |
| 23 | Since it enabled employers to replace the two-shift with a three-shift system in the mines , it produced little real improvement in miners ' living standards . |
| 24 | Li Shai Tung drew closer , operating the remote from a distance of almost three hundred thousand li , adjusting the camera image with the most delicate of touches , the slight delay in response making him cautious . |
| 25 | Erm have you ever seen a moped with a plate on it ? |
| 26 | Recently , the TIMI 2B study compared an invasive with a conservative strategy following thrombolytic therapy after acute myocardial infarction.5 All the patients received t-PA thrombolysis at a relatively early time of 2.6 ±0.2 hours ( Table 4a and 4b ) . |
| 27 | He accepted uncritically the simplistic concept of a worsening dependency ratio that had been popularized in Enid Charles 's alarmist warnings , for repeatedly he portrayed the elderly as a social burden and welcomed any suggestion that would limit the future cost of pensions . |
| 28 | Social perceptions of what is or is not obscene or indecent may change but the legislation may remain to trap the unwary in a much more liberal climate ; and just because the legislation has not been used in many years that does not mean it will not be applied again . |
| 29 | Or view the wretched with a melting Eye , |
| 30 | My mother 's Spontaneous memories are more amenable : she can remember the trivial in a way I find exciting : ‘ The ginger-haired Dent twins running about naked in the back-alley to get dry after their bath . ’ |