Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For the first time in my life , I accelerated to catch a red light at the intersection with Brompton Road , steering Armstrong right down the middle of the two lanes , blocking both . |
| 32 | G. L. Jessop magically comes into the picture to catch a top edge from All-Time XI teammate Allan Lamb |
| 33 | Like the ornithologist who has to reach an impossibly remote island by a certain day in the rainy season only to find it overflowing with ornithologists from all over the world choking the woodland tracks with cameras and tripods , trying to catch a fleeting glimpse of a small bird as it hops about in the dripping undergrowth . |
| 34 | He managed to catch a brief glimpse of him talking to a man at the end of the platform . |
| 35 | It has brought outstanding success on waters where anglers were quite happy to catch a single fish in the course of a whole season 's fishing . |
| 36 | When she recently appeared at a New York department store to promote a scent , over 5,000 people turned up to catch a precious glimpse of her in the flesh . |
| 37 | As soon hope to catch a particular fish by jumping at random into an ocean . |
| 38 | ‘ And before I go tomorrow we 'll compose a joint letter to the two of them , pointing out how well we get on without them and urging them not to hurry back . |
| 39 | Most trips involve a certain amount of walking and most people can walk , with 97 per cent of the population able to go out on foot . |
| 40 | On the other hand , a corporation can own property ; it can acquire rights and make itself liable under a contract ; it can be a trustee ; it can incur civil liability for wrongful acts , and even for those which involve a definite state of mind like fraud or malice . |
| 41 | As to judicial lawmaking , the practice of prospective overruling has attracted my attention as a hard case for those theories of judicial process which involve a strong commitment to coherence , consistency and institutional fit . |
| 42 | But a few awards , and the Companion of Honour is one , involve a personal interview with Her Majesty by special appointment . |
| 43 | The formats of the championships — which usually involve a complex system of stages and phases and bonus points — are too complicated and badly written causing endless confusion , critics say . |
| 44 | While the younger generation will all know and use London English and the older generation will have knowledge of a Creole variety , the actual patterns of use involve a complex interplay between these varieties and others . |
| 45 | Experiments involve a spurious association between the novel food and the illness which is usually induced chemically or by X-rays . |
| 46 | They involve a 79-year-old resident at a nursing home in Leicestershire and a 15-year-old Cambridgeshire boy . |
| 47 | Multiple residential schemes work well only when they involve a total plan for the grounds and setting of a house , and provide for their continued upkeep . |
| 48 | These measures do not , however , involve a general ban on the use of metal detectors and detectorists who follow their hobby in a responsible manner have no cause for concern as far as the Government 's proposals are concerned . |
| 49 | Texas Instruments Inc executive vice-president of the Semiconductor Group , Wally Rhines , is currently in Tokyo as part of the company 's ‘ Globalisation of management ’ efforts which involve a three-month rotation of executives through major markets to increase awareness of customer needs . |
| 50 | ] Though firms in the real world , like markets involve a subtle mixture of control mechanisms , this chapter assumes that the essence of firm-type organization is the use made of authority to direct and coordinate resources . |
| 51 | Recent work has drawn attention to the ways in which Western representations of other peoples — whether by , say , academics or developers — are acts of superior agency and involve a subtle form of hegemony . |
| 52 | A good game of tennis , badminton , hockey , netball , or football , for instance , all involve a great deal of running over a prolonged period of time . |
| 53 | Discussions of academic topics typically involve a great deal of thought and the production of novel utterances , rather than a series of well-practised utterances like ‘ Hello ’ and ‘ How are you ? ’ . |
| 54 | Again , some wrongs , such as fraud , in their essence involve a guilty state of mind , and in such cases the extreme youth of the wrongdoer may be inconsistent with the existence of such a state of mind . |
| 55 | Such claims involve a large pinch of special pleading , especially by the property-casualty firms which are lobbying hard for concessions before their rules are released in June . |
| 56 | Meanwhile Bleek 's relationships involve a large number of bedroom scenes which for too much of the time seem to present the women as carnal accessories passively accepting his attentions . |
| 57 | Buying decisions often involve a large number of people , particularly in the case of a public authority where a purchasing committee may be involved in a major purchase . |
| 58 | As such , they involve a high degree of trust , good will , confidence and faith in all parties ' ability to do the job in hand . |
| 59 | Brodkey 's relations with his adoptive mother Doris , a Jewish Clytemnestra to his haunted Orestes , involve a bizarre attempt at incestuous symbiosis ( 'The feeling of obliteration or castration or whatever it was was unsettling as hell' ) and a deathbed reconciliation with a nervous breakdown as a postlude . |
| 60 | The contribution principles should be insurance ones , involving the employee , the employer and the state as before , but the coverage of the scheme should be universal and therefore involve a national pooling of risks . |