Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An exploration and appraisal programme prepared for 1993/94 involves spudding a well in the JX satellite in November — the first exploration well in the area for some 20 years — and drilling two appraisal wells in the FS and WX satellites early next year . |
| 2 | Its best role is the diplomatic and peacekeeping one — which is quite different from peace-enforcing , since that involves imposing an end to fighting . |
| 3 | The insistence on the supremacy of the political has become a cliché of recent thinking . |
| 4 | WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France . |
| 5 | WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France . |
| 6 | But traditionally neither has had an organization capable of responding to commercial pressures . |
| 7 | Amazingly , 1986 has seen a reappearance of the singer-songwriter , with Peter Case , Stan Ridgway and Andy White receiving more than a smattering of applause . |
| 8 | Under this third prohibition , therefore , a marriage between a stepson and his stepmother was void , but the Marriage ( prohibited Degrees of Relationship ) Act 1986 has provided an exception . |
| 9 | They were all duly sentenced , those villagers of Snodland , were to walk bare foot after the procession on the following Sunday , each charged to carry a taper worth a halfpenny which they should offer up to the Holy Cross . |
| 10 | Apart from straightforward fountains , ornaments depicting cherubs , mermaids and similar characters can be purchased , each designed to take a pump outlet so that water can spout from its mouth ( Fig. 6 ) , or a shell , or any similar object that they might be holding . |
| 11 | Once each has had a turn , the group may spend a few minutes discussing possible methods of achieving any identified learning needs . |
| 12 | He criticised the backwardness of Islamic orthodoxy ; nevertheless he wrote on 17 October 1936 , ‘ a soul that was only superficially Islamic has become a soul convinced of Islam … a soul that daily rendered homage to HIM ’ . |
| 13 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 14 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 15 | Where that has happened an order may be made under section 61(1) directing steps to be taken to remedy the contravention . |
| 16 | For Pearce , with his strong belief in personal contacts , that has meant a lot of travel to different parts of the world . |
| 17 | Would that include taking a stake in the er , the Fairfax float when erm , that takes place later this year ? |
| 18 | " And does that include running a brothel and dealing in stolen goods ? " |
| 19 | Although Labour has made a commitment to buy back the national grid , Williams argues that its policy on British Coal 's future has been left largely unsaid . |
| 20 | Ibn Fayoud said that the stakes were too high to risk using an apprentice . ’ |
| 21 | This goes to demonstrate a point that I have long argued businesses should not be hit in the pocket when a dispute arises through no fault of their own . |
| 22 | This goes to demonstrate a point that I have long argued businesses should not be hit in the pocket when a dispute arises through no fault of their own . |
| 23 | The Chamber of the People of the Federal Assembly had on May 30 failed to endorse a resolution ( which had already been passed by the Chamber of Nations ) requesting that the names of all former StB agents be published . |
| 24 | This involves generating a DC for the package , assessing the DC , activating the DC , updating the package to reference the selected approved version of the changed module , and then getting the package approved . |
| 25 | This involves taking a sample of households and classifying them according to their income groups . |
| 26 | This involves taking a risk : there may well be expression of anger or despair or criticism of the group or ( more commonly ) the church . |
| 27 | This involves using a filtration process which basically makes the solid content of the milk much higher allowing it to set better , making it smooth , thick and above all , consistent . |
| 28 | This involves creating a list of categories such as ‘ takes lead ’ or ‘ follows ’ , ‘ gives orders ’ or ‘ obeys orders ’ , ‘ works out of doors ’ or ‘ works indoors ’ , ‘ mends car ’ or ‘ does housework ’ , and counting up each occasion on which the characters in the book do these things . |
| 29 | This involves obtaining a training post as a trainee legal executive with a firm of solicitors or similar organisation , joining the Institute of Legal Executives and undertaking the Institute 's Part 1 and Part 11 examinations . |
| 30 | This involves spending a lot of time in the sun by the pool listening to girlish giggles as they frolic around . |