Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts to establish a people 's diet at any time is very difficult without supporting documentary evidence , however , as vital evidence might he missing . |
| 2 | Banks may also provide buyer credits in foreign currencies to overseas importers to aid a country 's exports ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 3 | Spending her own money lavishly , she employed jewellers and fine craftsmen to build a doll 's house , magnificently decorated and well-displayed , and took it down to Neptune with her . |
| 4 | May I appeal to your readers to send a Valentine 's Day message to the Members of Parliament and urge them to ‘ Have a Heart for Wildlife ’ , to attend the debate and vote for the Bill . |
| 5 | I saw how Brian Basham of Broad Street Associates and the barrister , Royston Webb , helped venal journalists to turn a sow 's ear into a golden purse , and how that golden purse was well received everywhere that it opened . |
| 6 | This is a rare example of Thucydides adopting the criterion of physical erga or constructions to measure a king 's greatness , something Herodotus had done regularly ( cp. , for example , iii.60 on Samos ) . |
| 7 | Nothing that we have said detracts from counsel 's duty in ordinary circumstances to accept a judge 's order or ruling made in the course of trial . |
| 8 | Bremel says it takes 6,000 lactating mice to match a cow 's output . |
| 9 | In the past it was often hung from farmhouse ceilings to display a person 's wealth ( the more Gaperons the better ) and to indicate the size of the dowry of an eligible daughter . |
| 10 | ‘ Why does a woman work 10 years to change a man 's habits and then complain that he 's not the man she married ? ’ |
| 11 | To begin with the government wants private operators to cast a spider 's web of cable-TV over the country , It is n't obvious that this is the best way to go about it . |
| 12 | A particularly vexing category was the " turnover " : the apprentice who had served most of his time but was not yet a journeyman , and who was snapped up by employers to do a man 's work at a boy 's pay . |
| 13 | The occasion for the split in the National Union was a call from women involved in the International Women 's Suffrage Alliance for delegates to attend a Women 's Congress in The Hague in April 1915 , the first major international meeting of any kind since the outbreak of war . |
| 14 | We would make our way past The Three Crowns Inn where people sat on forms by wooden tables to enjoy a summer 's evening drink . |
| 15 | So-called biometric security devices such as finger scanners are considered safer ; they check finger prints to authenticate a person 's identity before it is possible to gain entry to the system ( Ernsberger , 1988 ) . |
| 16 | Are we about to embark on an information explosion that historians could never handle , or are we about to discover resources to make a historian 's vision of our world fuller than the vision historians have of any other period ? |
| 17 | In relation to the community charge , we have given authorities the powers to attach a defaulter 's earnings or to ask the Department of Social Security to make deductions from income support payments . |
| 18 | Quigly , Willis and Frome — it would have formed a sufficiently high-sounding trio of names to grace a solicitors ' firm . |
| 19 | The normal procedure is for one of the debentureholders , on behalf of himself and all other holders to commence a debentureholder 's action , the first step of which will be the appointment of a receiver . |
| 20 | Just as Inter-railers traditionally take overnight express trains to get a night 's sleep , so small teams of Germans are roaming North America , checking the schedules carefully for flights with catering or overnight trips which save on accommodation . |
| 21 | Sails to supplement a ship 's principal engines , not to replace them , could help us save energy where it is easiest to harness the wind , namely at sea . |
| 22 | On 18 May 1989 , in Standing Committee B , I moved an amendment to the Children Bill , supported by my hon. Friend the Member for Monklands , West ( Mr. Clarke ) , which would have required all local authorities to appoint a children 's rights officer . |
| 23 | The Court decided that shareholders of a company were neither entitled to be notified about an impending decision of The Stock Exchange committee on quotations to cancel a company 's listing nor to apply to the courts to challenge such a decision . |
| 24 | It takes at least five Americans to write a book erm they 're all multi- authored volumes erm for , for most of your purposes , for almost all your purposes er and certainly for basic reading for , for lectures and , and tutorials it really does n't matter which one you read erm there are , I mean there are in the library I think the last time I counted them about twenty five or thirty general textbooks on American politics , it does n't really matter er which one you read . |
| 25 | Unlike civilian frogmen , who use compressed air , Crabb was using the naval closed-circuit oxygen diving equipment which leaves no trail of tell-tale bubbles to disclose a diver 's presence . |
| 26 | Lawyers may find it helpful to employ communication techniques more commonly used by other child care professionals to ascertain a child 's degree of understanding . |
| 27 | Certain military commanders were , however , PKI sympathisers , including the air force chief , Air Vice-Marshal Omar Dhani , who visited Peking and negotiated the delivery of 100 000 small arms to equip a people 's militia or Fifth Force . |
| 28 | Measure a border 2cms in along all four sides to form a rectangle 12cms x 18cms . |
| 29 | Posi has the most womanish ability to choose the worst moments to disrupt a man 's thoughts — usually with something trivial . |
| 30 | The Lord Chancellor will be given power to make rules allowing magistrates to disallow a solicitor 's costs or order him to pay costs if he fails to act reasonably competently or expeditiously . |