Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The indirect mechanism of action proposed to explain such an effect implicates the sequestration of bile acids or other acidic lipids , such as fatty acids . |
| 2 | Perhaps it 's mountain snobbery to wish to avoid such a crowd , and if so then I am a mountain snob . |
| 3 | Even before hunting began , his sons would have had cause to identify with him because each and every one of them was powerfully motivated by the drives of his id to wish to become such a primal father in his turn . |
| 4 | Indeed , manufacturing capability seems to have such a major impact on product development that it is worth examining in greater detail . |
| 5 | This made me lose track of his subsequent drift as I struggled to imagine how chess-playing came to have such a pejorative connotation for him . |
| 6 | From his papers discovered after the war it would appear that the Admiral began to plan such an attack in earnest about this time . |
| 7 | The young gentleman seemed to find this an amusing thought . |
| 8 | No other organisation needed to meet such a rapidly expanding demand for a single product that they had , in effect , to build one new factory every two months , as the BEA did during their first ten years . |
| 9 | If certiorari only declares what is the case anyway , why would a person bother to seek such an order ? |
| 10 | Mr. Newman also submitted that in the above circumstances the order for committal of the applicant was an abuse of the process of the court , and for that reason the court should exercise its discretion to refuse to make such an order . |
| 11 | Constructivism seems to make this a logical impossibility , which of course means that no data could ever disprove the constructivist claims about what develops in infancy : any evidence that object knowledge ( the ‘ object concept ’ or ‘ object permanence ’ ) exists without reaching behaviour will not be judged to be evidence for object permanence — as a point of logic . |
| 12 | Adorno seems to offer such a ‘ sticking point ’ , and for that reason it seems worth confronting his critique rather than burying it as myth . |
| 13 | It took Hazel some trouble to learn to grip half a carrot in his mouth and carry it , like a dog , across the field and back to the warren . |
| 14 | Why did every bloody argument have to follow such a pattern ? |
| 15 | Meanwhile back on the ward , Doctor Beri 's bleep goes again … this time it 's a call to casualty … and the weary house physician has to run half a mile from one end of the building to the other … along the new corridor linking the old part of the hospital with the new.By the end of the morning , he 's covered six miles … one day recently he covered eighteen miles : |
| 16 | Argument on each layer tends to have half an eye to what is at issue on the others . |
| 17 | He was two-thirds drunk but , there again , I suppose any man ordered to discharge such a duty would need some wine to gladden the heart and dull the brain . |
| 18 | It is difficult to miss the phallic connotations of the weapons the miller seems to make such a show of having about his person : — the diminution in scale to the " " joly poppere " " may already hint at the bawdy belittling the miller is to suffer . |
| 19 | We worked together as a Club on this project , but one by one the members dropped by the wayside , until the good lady decided it was n't worth wasting the petrol coming to collect such a few items . |
| 20 | ‘ Interesting place you 've got here , Mr Blufton , ’ commented the sergeant politely , awestruck by the amount of dosh the man had to afford such a place . |
| 21 | How then did this apolitical , academic subject come to play such an important part in the development of Marxism ? |
| 22 | Many people are reluctant to employ someone who has epilepsy and they might be very concerned if their daughter intended to marry such a person . |
| 23 | She continues : ‘ the category has now bee forced to cover such a heterogeneity that it is , itself , in danger of collapsing . |
| 24 | This project seeks to provide such an evaluation , assessing each of the major formalisms against two data problem-areas : |
| 25 | The general dictionary proved significant to the 99% confidence level across all three domains , which justifies the effort required to produce such a comprehensive general collocation dictionary . |
| 26 | In outlining an argument against multi-racial immigration , such new right authors might justify themselves in terms of so-called ‘ national feelings ’ but argumentative rhetoric and semantic history combine to leave such a phrase as ‘ national prejudices ’ to their opponents . |
| 27 | It is highly unusual for the Prime Minister to agree to meet such a group at Downing Street . |
| 28 | Mr Alec Jessel , the marketing officer , said : ‘ It is very sad that such an established company has to take such a step , but there was nothing more we could do . |
| 29 | This led to the development officer having to assume such a role herself , and occasionally this involved her in more work than she felt she could easily provide . |
| 30 | Is it not in fact much more extraordinary that our minister appears to find such a statement positively generous and reassuring and has no sense of its presumption ? |