Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb base] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But such organizations generally prefer to keep a low profile as they peddle Third World prostitution — hoping to attract the attention only of potential customers . |
| 2 | Because of these difficulties and the commercial desire that once a company is to be sold its sale should be completed as soon as possible , the parties usually try to have a simultaneous signing and completion . |
| 3 | Candidates also have to choose a paper in one of these two areas : the Philosophy , Nature and Practice of Geography or the United Kingdom and France . |
| 4 | Games tend to be inherently object-oriented , says Hinsley ( all those sprites moving about and interacting ) and games authors often have to cram a lot into a tiny amount of memory while stretching hardware to its limits . |
| 5 | Games tend to be inherently object-oriented , says Hinsley ( all those sprites moving about and interacting ) and games authors often have to cram a lot into a tiny amount of memory while stretching hardware to its limits . |
| 6 | Clients often expect to make a mixture of appointments , some internally and some from outside their organisation . |
| 7 | Again , such subjects typically have to develop a more ‘ scholarly ’ , conceptual or abstract side in order to gain admittance to and status within the academic fold , although to some extent they can isolate themselves from other faculties and departments — art and design in the polytechnics and colleges often seem to be states within a state , enjoying an autonomy underpinned by their separate location on inherited art college sites . |
| 8 | Glider designers sometimes choose to fit a tail-skid rather than a wheel for simplicity and cheapness , saying quite rightly that they offer a little less drag . |
| 9 | Research is showing that many animals actually do possess a sixth sense but this is a natural " supersense " , rather than anything supernatural . |
| 10 | Institutions thus have to make a judgement as to what liquidity ratio is best — one that is neither too high nor too low . |
| 11 | Some parents only want to adopt a child of two black parents , that is of African , Afro-Caribbean or Asian origin . |
| 12 | Most parents though tend to avoid a secret pirates cave where only members of the Pirates Club are allowed . |
| 13 | Parsers frequently fail to parse a sentence , either because the words in the sentence are not stored in the lexicon or because the grammar available to the program is unable to handle a particular grammatical construction . |
| 14 | Yet these movements undoubtedly have had a profound influence on Western political culture , especially in Germany and southern Europe where cold war attitudes are less deeply embedded and political processes have been more decentralised . |
| 15 | If the Church Commissioners subsequently agree to seal a Declaration of Redundancy , advice is sought on the future of the building from the Advisory Board for Redundant Churches , a national body which was set up under the Pastoral Measure . |
| 16 | The workers merely wish to clear a backlog of clients before the afternoon session begins . |
| 17 | An increasing number of Italians now want to adopt a British first-past-the-post system so that there can be a periodic clean sweep , of the kind Britain experienced in 1964 and 1979 . |
| 18 | Police searching for the remains of a woman who went missing twenty years ago have recovered a body . |
| 19 | ‘ Drug barons frequently seem to have a sixth sense where the police are concerned . |
| 20 | On their own terms , successive governments here have done a respectable job of housing the African population . |
| 21 | The negative consequence , however , is that Christians there have developed a ghetto mentality that can no longer think in terms of mission , but only survival . |
| 22 | Few dogs actively appear to enjoy a visit to the vet , but conversely , even fewer normally become aggressive on routine visits if they are not in pain . |
| 23 | Banks therefore require to hold a lower liquidity ratio , and can create more credit . |
| 24 | The planes therefore seem to have a real application to the teaching of woodwork in schools — always assuming the survival of a traditional craft approach under today 's educational policies . |
| 25 | Now these adjectives clearly do retain a restrictive quality even in predicative position . |
| 26 | Mind you , the court-going officers still have to spend a fair amount of time attending trials . |
| 27 | Youth concerts always have to include a major work written in the current ‘ Cantata ’ fashion . |
| 28 | Such structures also seem to provide a kind of elementary momentum in periods where a discipline is in the doldrums , and not a great deal is happening at the research level . |
| 29 | Such constitutions also tend to have a higher status than ordinary laws thus creating the need for a supreme body such as a supreme court with the power to declare laws passed in contravention of the constitution , invalid . |
| 30 | ‘ All Europe stands on a threshold — and we Europeans now have to make a choice . |