Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general rule is that a battery is committed where a person touches or strikes another , grabs hold of their sleeve or lapels and so on , without implied or express permission . |
| 2 | The Committee therefore proposes the enactment of a statutory provision which will clearly state that rape is committed where a woman consents to sexual intercourse as a result of threats of force , explicit or implicit , against the woman herself or any other person , ‘ but that it should not be rape if , taking a reasonable view , the threats were not capable of being carried out immediately . ’ |
| 3 | In Hughes v Hall ( unreported ) it was held that an offence under the order was committed where a car dealer gave the buyer a document which stated that the car was " bought as seen and inspected " . |
| 4 | Looks like a hand loom really does n't it ? |
| 5 | The critics ' favourite accusation that Neverland looks like a theme park is fair , though hardly a criticism — most children and adults enjoy Disneyland , and the movie is no more garish than The Wizard of Oz , a great children 's film which has been rendered critically respectable by age . |
| 6 | What looks like a zero sum confrontation can , with a little goodwill , be transformed into a mutually beneficial nonzero sum game . |
| 7 | After doing an audit to see which modules of your existing machine you can keep you will not only know if a motherboard upgrade is worthwhile , you will also know exactly what your shopping list is ! |
| 8 | The use of an experienced Patent Agent is highly recommended if a patent application is being considered . |
| 9 | The water authority must be contacted to establish if a mains water supply is available and that it is of an adequate size and pressure to serve the development . |
| 10 | Police said other stations had not been evacuated because a warning call from the terrorists had been too vague . |
| 11 | This allows for the fact that a coupon security will pay interest before it matures whereas a discount security will not . |
| 12 | Former trainee priest Ronald Page , 50 , has been unable to work since a car crash turned his mild condition into a chronic illness , the High Court heard . |
| 13 | ( 4 ) Rigby Electronics ( Harvard OTC ) " They 've just brought out a device for checking whether a credit card belongs to a particular person or not . |
| 14 | A BEER garden was evacuated after a pet goat unearthed a dummy hand grenade as it gnawed a thicket at the Exeter Inn , Honiton . |
| 15 | You must give the exact critical values , right , if those critical values that you are using to compare with the regressionally significant whether you have serial correlation or not erm so they 're very very important and they ought to be included erm because otherwise we do n't know whether a test statistic is er statistically significant or not . |
| 16 | His hopes of victory rose after a health authority QC appeared to concede , in answer to the judges ' questions , that regulations requiring consultations to take place had not been properly complied with . |
| 17 | When the band have achieved considerable chart success ( when they have sold approximately a million copies of their albums ) , they should consider whether a royalty examination should be done . |
| 18 | If the parties are in any doubt they should consult the Panel to establish whether a concert party exists . |
| 19 | Soldiers of the Special Presidential Division were flirting with a barmaid and objected when a security guard , a karate instructor identified only as Ekofo , offered her a drink . |
| 20 | A list follows of all the possible errors reported when a Transaction Failure occurs , along with the necessary steps to be taken to recover . |
| 21 | AFAILURE of the signalling system — which occurred when a signal box wire that should have been removed was not , thus preventing the signal from turning to red — caused the Clapham rail disaster in which 35 people died last December 12 , according to the report of the inquiry chaired by Sir Anthony Hidden , QC . |
| 22 | When it comes to the most sensitive and important areas of journalism , like Northern Ireland or official secrecy , British broadcasters are less free to report than a camera team arriving from Perugia or Poughkeepsie . |
| 23 | This endorsement should be applied where a coin collection is insured as a specified item under the policy . |
| 24 | This endorsement should be applied where a stamp collection is insured as a specified item under the policy . |
| 25 | Edwards agreed last month to sell his stake of 51 per cent of the company 's shares to Knighton for £10m , but that deal would be scuppered if a court rules in favour of Edwards . |
| 26 | The Hon. Members for Cunninghame , North ( Mr. Wilson ) , for Aberdeen , North ( Mr. Hughes ) and for Glasgow , Maryhill ( Mrs. Fyfe ) raised the question of the procedures to be adopted if a bus service is withdrawn . |
| 27 | What do you do if a waste pipe freezes ? |
| 28 | Fire claimed more than six hundred lives in Britain last year , many may have been saved if a smoke alarm had been fitted . |
| 29 | A patent is also infringed if a person supplies or offers to supply some other person with any of the means , relating to an essential element of the invention , for putting the invention into effect . |
| 30 | It had been learnt that progress could not be made if a member state objected strenuously to a particular part of a programme . |