Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a patient is detained under the MHA 1983 , but the physical disorder is not caused by or is not itself the cause of a mental disorder , a restrictive interpretation of this proposal could lead to the ridiculous scenario of doctors having to wait for such a patient to deteriorate or become unconscious before medical treatment could be initiated under the protection of common law duty of care and the doctrine of necessity . |
| 2 | Living by himself , he had stopped taking milk : he never got through half a bottle before it went sour , since he drank coffee black and seldom ate cereals . |
| 3 | Visuals are very important in terms of information recall I modelled for this a couple of years ago . |
| 4 | It is like those cases where women were , perhaps are , discriminated against because they were not ‘ strong ’ enough for a job or part of a job ; but most people would prefer for such a task a strapping wench to a seven-stone male weakling , who gets the sand kicked into his eyes by the beach bully , courtesy of the Charles Atlas advert . |
| 5 | But at the time they thought that was all they could get , and they decided to go for half a loaf rather than the whole . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly , the pattern of reasons given for such a selection tends to be highly personal and particular , with emphasis being placed mainly on the objectification of personal relations , for example , with deceased friends and relatives . |
| 7 | Conditions could be imposed on the planning permission which would overrule the general permission given for such a change in use by the Use Classes Order ( Class 11 is ‘ use as an office for any purpose ’ ) . |
| 8 | In these circumstances it will be important for organizations to plan for such a future , so as to ensure that : |
| 9 | It is easy enough to see how someone , especially someone who has suffered a childhood of poverty , can be led to a fear of emptiness , of not getting enough to eat , of starvation itself , and so in later life to stave off or compensate for such a fear . |
| 10 | In the middle of the night he rose and , after eating about half a jar of honey , felt a lot better . |
| 11 | This Secretary of State does not feel the need to go through such a consultation process . |
| 12 | she must think about that a lot . |
| 13 | But now , my dear fellows , let's just think about this a moment , shall we ? |
| 14 | Payment is at the discretion of your Manager who will tell you whether or not you qualify for such a payment . |
| 15 | They are all welcome but my right hon. and hon. Friends — together with responsible interests outside the House , such as the British Medical Association and other medical authorities — have pressed for such a policy for some years . |
| 16 | Working with a series of transparent resin models in polarized light , Marsh was able to show that a step was just as bad a stress concentrator as the equivalent crack , in fact it might be regarded as half a crack . |
| 17 | Also , SHe did n't think Parmedes ' handiwork was exactly designed for such a pummelling . |
| 18 | Eversley has stressed that too much should not be claimed for such a class . |
| 19 | In other words , the investigating authorities should know everything there is to know about such a family , both from inside that family , and from contacts outside . |
| 20 | They can hardly have come as such a surprise to Daum . |
| 21 | Which is very light so to compensate for this a ply line is used this is a rubber line which is quite thick and the rod is flicked backwards and forwards to let line out . |
| 22 | Advice and assistance in making a will can only be given to a client who is over 70 , or disabled or suffering from a mental disorder ( or a parent or guardian wishing to provide for such a person ) , or a single parent wishing to appoint a testamentary guardian . |
| 23 | Within the Rowdies group , there was some confusion as to who was and who was not an aggro leader and also with regard to the characteristic behaviours expected of such a person . |
| 24 | ‘ I was reminded of this a year ago when I was spending some time with one of my sisters . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I happen to know of such a drug . |
| 26 | All the voting members must approve of such a resolution . |
| 27 | When you look at the moon half of it will be in light half of it will be in dark you will see a moon which looks like half a moon . |
| 28 | The Salvadorean people are giving a lesson to the whole world , and especially to the North Americans , because even after almost three years of finding ourselves beset by the guerrilla , a total misgovernment by the PDC and a catastrophic foreign intervention , we still have the moral integrity " to continue protecting against such a calamity " , financed and encouraged in part by the leftist sectors which have infiltrated the North American government … |
| 29 | The only persons who may appeal against such a decision are the applicant and the licence-holder . |
| 30 | Is it desirable that the finest and most sensitive part of a woman — that which God gave her , should on the one hand be wounded with such a wound as no proud and gentle nature ever recovers from , or else should on the other hand be deadened so that the woman becomes only half herself , and this is what the tyranny of the medical profession has accomplished . |