Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently Chairman of the Central Council of Physical Recreation 's Movement and Dance Division and a member of CCPR 's Executive Committee . |
| 2 | For men there is a stylish slip stitch shawl collared jumper and a black on black sideways knitted jacket in wool and chenille that will quickly find its way into a girlfriend 's wardrobe . |
| 3 | The purchase of the motor car is a prime example , for its ownership offers freedom and an escape from the regimentation ( and sometimes squalor ) of public transport . |
| 4 | Absent actual evidence of motive , therefore , the court will be unable to establish whether expansion was a means to profit maximisation or an end in itself . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Often they fear ridicule or a rebuttal . |
| 7 | Desire , as a mental element which in a way relates to a physical force , is a powerful and potentially — energetic state which produces action when a state of coherence occurs . |
| 8 | It concluded that a small but " significant number of LAPD officers … repetitively misuse force " and that the record of communication between patrol cars demonstrated racism and a glorification of brutality by some officers . |
| 9 | He was accompanied by his navigator Ralph Bryant , an older man , with greying hair and a stoop . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 138 ( 1 ) This section has effect where a lessor is proceeding by action in a county court to enforce against a lessee a right of re-entry or forfeiture in respect of any land for non-payment of rent . |
| 12 | You can try to obtain maintenance and/or a lump sum payment for your children and yourself . |
| 13 | It 's very rare when I 'm practising at home that I 'll need feedback or a lot of ambience . |
| 14 | Fixing my eyes on them , I could n't help cursing Aisha , wishing she was dead , swearing by the Prophet Muhammad that I would have my revenge because it was she who was stopping me walking those streets and riding in those red buses to find work and a flat or a room of my own . |
| 15 | ‘ I was asked to supervise canoeing when a scout leader , so I went off to master the sport and was a senior instructor after a couple of years . |
| 16 | With a brief sound of tearing wood and a squeal of tortured metal , the enormous pump slipped , sank slightly , and stood upright beside the river . |
| 17 | I left the woman 's house as soon as I found work and a room to rent . |
| 18 | These included suspicion that a person 's actions could result in armed robbery or ethnic conflict or could deprive a community of the " essentials of life " . |
| 19 | If outdoors , use a proprietary potting compost and a container at least 30cm ( 12in ) diameter . |
| 20 | you do n't need imagination or a calculator to work out that Cresta are still the top Paris specialists . |
| 21 | I 'd asked that he should n't be bottle fed with my expressed milk as it can be more difficult to establish breastfeeding if a baby is confused by a teat . |
| 22 | Afterwards Martha provided ham and a salad with hard-boiled eggs like gleaming bald heads sticking out from limp lettuce leaves for the few people who turned up . |
| 23 | Worse still , he implies that both the Needleman study and the more recent one by Bill Yule and Richard Lansdown provide evidence that a child 's lead content has more influences on intelligence and behaviour than do social and other factors . |
| 24 | The 12 year old who started an account of a woodwork project by writing " When I made it I used glue and a tenon saw " failed to appreciate that it had not been established textually . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , whether the parties want compromise or a contest , their legal advisers can not satisfy them without a thorough knowledge of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ( " UCTA " ) , and of the underlying principles contained in the Sale of Goods Act 1979 ( " SGA " ) , and the Supply of Goods And Services Act 1982 ( " SGSA " ) . |
| 26 | 3151 Can not update manager while a DC is active for package : |
| 27 | Congratulations from Councillor H.D.G. Fraser on the above mentioned appointment and a list of local contacts who could help to forward her aims . |
| 28 | Congratulations from Councillor H.D.G. Fraser on the above mentioned appointment and a list of local contacts who could help to forward her aims . |
| 29 | Such an insider 's account will therefore hopefully achieve the ‘ finer grain and detail ’ MacDonald ( 1987 ) demanded of postmodern ‘ anthropology at home ’ , while ‘ practical mastery ’ of the ethnographic field should reduce the problems faced by McCabe and Sutcliffe ( 1978 ) , who set out to pursue participant observation on the police and found that ‘ it would be necessary for anyone wishing to fully understand the process of policing to take into account the difficulties in gaining access and an understanding of just what was going on ’ . |
| 30 | Higher pay is not , therefore , only about an increase in living standards , although this is crucially important , but in gaining respect and an idea of one 's worth from the rest of the community . |