Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tania 's mother , Jackie May , said her daughter had been due to attend a court hearing in Gloucester the day after her disappearance last Wednesday . |
| 2 | Each slung a tin collecting box over his shoulder and an attendant of the Company carried a receptacle for larger discoveries . |
| 3 | Joshua , did Mr Justice Garland explain why it would n't be possible to instruct a jury to ignore the publicity and concentrate on the specific charges . |
| 4 | In the opening section of the pageant , Mahmud , lying underneath the stage , was due to poke a flag decorated with a crescent moon up through a crack in the stage . |
| 5 | I WONDER whether Commonwealth students find it at all odd to attend an institution called ‘ Imperial College ’ . |
| 6 | Gifts were part of the occasion too : 3,500 children gathered in the Town Hall on the morning of 1 August , 3,000 of them from the Baptist Sunday schools and the rest from the Lancasterian and Infant Sunday schools , and were each given a booklet commemorating the end of apprenticeship . |
| 7 | Moreover , it is a criminal offence under s47(1) Financial Services Act 1986 to induce a person to buy or sell shares by a fraudulent statement or the concealment of material facts . |
| 8 | It is usual to find a progression indicating significant transition probabilities to many vibrational levels of the modes concerned . |
| 9 | Thus although it is possible to establish a stoplist covering a number of standard terms not suitable for indexing , this normally needs to be modified to reflect the circumstances of each system . |
| 10 | Only a bit , that wants a wash do n't it , you can have a bath |
| 11 | Indeed , at no election since 1935 has a party obtained more than 50% of the votes cast , yet at only one election since that time has a government been returned without a majority of seats . |
| 12 | That helped a bit did it ? |
| 13 | Each has a lot to offer to the other . |
| 14 | ‘ That has a lot to do with my state of mind at the time . |
| 15 | For the current purpose , demonstrating that they were different is sufficient to illustrate two main points : that understanding a place involves uncovering the multivariate and inter-related nature of its culture , for which the three components of the schema in chapter 3 provide a valuable framework ; and that without understanding the nature of a place in all its complexity , it is difficult to appreciate what happens there during particular events — simple , monocausal explanations ( often located in the sphere of production ) are usually insufficient . |
| 16 | The answer , of course , is to drill a hole , but it is not always possible to find a drill to suit the nails you are using . |
| 17 | As this joint is usually close to the bearing of the truss , it may be possible to repair a truss comprising small timber members with plywood gusset plates ( Fig 34 ) . |
| 18 | This involves a willingness to acknowledge that co-operation can be difficult and that mistakes will occur , and a commitment to making the solving of problems a priority , rather than allowing them to fester . |
| 19 | A reason why a pattern of vertical stripes might have been selected as a social bonding device is that attachment takes place most strongly during periods of grooming ( right ) and this involves a zebra bending its neck creating vertical folds in the skin ( below ) ; the bold stripes could have evolved to augment and elaborate these dark lines . |
| 20 | This involves a bailiff going to your debtor 's home or workplace and seizing and selling sufficient of his goods to pay your debt and costs . |
| 21 | A body corporate is defined in s 740 , CA 1985 to include a company incorporated elsewhere than in Great Britain . |
| 22 | The attempted coup of December 1989 against President Corazon Aquino [ see pp. 37120-21 ] had wider support than initially acknowledged , with an estimated 70 per cent of the armed forces willing to support a regime installed by the coup plotters , according to intelligence sources . |
| 23 | Far from being a romantic reaction against science , this represents an effort to make people recognize that the scientific concepts which permeate our society have implications far beyond the immediate domain of their technical application , and that they are rooted in seemingly more primitive modes of thought such as story-telling . |
| 24 | This represents an attempt to assess a level of income below which it is impossible to ensure survival . |
| 25 | Rob Brasington uses four ‘ stand-off ’ struts on the Jester , this offers a flat topped cone in the sail . |
| 26 | This produces a desire to eat sweet snack foods . |
| 27 | This produces a strain oscillating with the same frequency as , but out of phase with , the stress . |
| 28 | Horne moved there in September 1903 to promote a mission modelled on Wesleyan central halls . |
| 29 | I would be most interested to see a copy given our substantial interests in the effects of reorganisation . |
| 30 | This was partly because it is easier to train a bird to come back to you if it 's hungry — not starving , you understand , but a bit peckish and more interested in food than it might otherwise be . |