Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only one woman had stopped oral contra-ceptives to await an operation . |
| 2 | Repeated attempts to provoke an attack may cause the symptoms to disappear altogether . |
| 3 | Military Forum was set up by more than 300 servicemen to demand an end to Communist control of and greater democracy within the armed forces . |
| 4 | But the advocates of radical community education bear part responsibility for this caesura between different attempts to develop an education which will inform and support effective social action . |
| 5 | These technical skills have to be allied , however , with social skills to enable an enforcement agent to predict the likely source of trouble . |
| 6 | Leave the instrument in a greenhouse containing well-watered plants on a sunny day for a few hours to get an idea of maximum deflection . |
| 7 | There is an example of the court interpreting express words to resolve an ambiguity in an expert clause in Langham House Developments v Brompton Securities Ltd ( 1980 ) 256 EG 719 . |
| 8 | In Victorian times there was a flourishing ‘ marble ’ works here , of which only the site remains ; it engaged in the cutting , dressing and polishing of dark grey limestone won from nearby quarries to produce an appearance of marble , but which was made even more attractive by the presence of fossil patterns in the stone . |
| 9 | But he has to wait 12 months to join an NHS waiting list and two more years before he can have the surgery . |
| 10 | Recently Thresher has also been involved in the development of a national vocational qualification at levels 1–4 through the retail Certificate and it has been one of the first of three British companies to offer an opportunity for staff to obtain NVQ recognition through all stages . |
| 11 | In particular , BGS is seeking permission from commercial companies to publish an index of data held , though ownership will still reside with the original company . |
| 12 | CORDLESS DRILLS TO MAKE AN IMPACT |
| 13 | Under the IAEA agreement , Korea had 30 days to present an inventory of its nuclear materials and 90 days to disclose construction details of its nuclear facilities . |
| 14 | HENRY WHARTON , the British and Commonwealth super-middleweight champion , is expected to enter hospital within the next few days to undergo an operation on his troublesome right hand . |
| 15 | Today police brought in mounted officers to search an estate in Nearby Christmas Common . |
| 16 | Such efforts to engage with discourses on quality by means of notions like " taste " and " style " may be understood in terms of challenges issuing from the peripheries of the discipline , as well as beyond its boundaries , which called upon the leaders of English studies to provide an account of " literary quality " of at least equal force to those being generated outside the Review 's pages . |
| 17 | It is not the case that social science theories , once their value-components or culture-boundedness have been revealed , are for that reason relegated to the local museum of the social sciences to become an object of quaint curiosity . |
| 18 | There are two different ways to voice an idea . |
| 19 | Has any consideration been given to allowing right hon. and hon. Members to express an opinion on that matter , either on the Floor of the House or in European Standing Committee B ? |
| 20 | Such denials of worth , whether they occur within the career structure of a particular school , or whether , through such things as pay erosion , they are seen to emanate more diffusely from society at large , lead some teachers to seek an exit from the profession . |
| 21 | It takes him less than 30 seconds to assemble an asbestos mat , a bunsen burner , a wire mat on the top of a tripod and a beaker full of water Full of bright blue supersaturated copper-sulphate solution . |
| 22 | The objections voiced by Lyell and Wallace were eventually overcome , allowing the majority of late-nineteenth-century thinkers to accept an ape ancestry . |
| 23 | Maybe Carmichael sent some guys to keep an eye on me . |
| 24 | His other forte is in Believe-It-Or-Not items of Russian paranoia : ‘ just as Soviet railroad tracks are a wider gauge than foreign ones to prevent an invasion by train , Soviet VCR 's took a larger tape to prevent an influx of foreign pornography . ’ |
| 25 | And during the years when Pound was most under Yeats 's influence , Pound too embraced this ideal — as when in 1912 he went with Yeats and some others to pay an act of homage to one of the last English representatives of the type , the Sussex squire Wilfred Scawen Blunt : |
| 26 | Although these ‘ informational building blocks ’ combine with a multiplicity of political and social factors to direct an individual 's action , they determine the limits of our knowledge and of our perceptions of events and their causes . |
| 27 | Nevertheless it does show considerable misjudgement to make films that had little to do with popular taste at a time when it was so difficult for British filmmakers to find an audience . |
| 28 | A similarity is that the measuring technique employs light rays to create an image on a sensor . |
| 29 | Pop used to go off some evenings to drive an ambulance , and then Christmas 1942 — when Rangoon was badly bombed . |
| 30 | Dr Barnardo , for example , required foster parents to sign an undertaking not to allow personal or written communication between a foster child and his or her relatives or friends except with the written authorization of the Director . |