Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not opening in Paris solely to take advantage of the end of trading restrictions within the EC in 1993 , but because the opportunity arose to obtain a suitable area of the Hotel Bristol with our own street window and entrance . |
| 2 | Here pockets of ancient semi-natural woodland , unafraid wildlife and a sense of history and heritage combine to offer a peaceful retreat from the coast . |
| 3 | His extravagant action , his grace , his poise and his enthusiasm combine to produce a perfect jumping machine , and people soon realise that they are watching something exceptional . |
| 4 | Because the Milk Marketing Board agrees to pay a fixed price regularly every month , most farmers keep a herd of dairy cows . |
| 5 | Actually if you 've a complete number of repeats , it does n't matter too much whether it a full repeat or a half repeat at the edges , as both can be mattress stitched to give a continuous unbroken pattern effect . |
| 6 | In university libraries the organization of staff for book provision has to resolve a major difficulty — the respective roles of university departments vis-à-vis the library staff . |
| 7 | The scientist has to remember a great deal of information before he can even begin to look for patterns in the data . |
| 8 | In order to breathe during this operation , the young waxbill has to adopt a particular posture ; young whydahs and indigo birds adopt this too . |
| 9 | THE CENTRAL Electricity Generating Board wants to build a giant nuclear dump to store spent fuel from its nuclear power stations . |
| 10 | Mica is an ionically bonded mineral in which , because of the arithmetic of the electrical charges in the molecule , every so often there is a layer of metal atoms in the crystal in which each atom has to share a single electron 's worth of charge with several near neighbours , so that this layer in the crystal is a weak one . |
| 11 | This is useful if the retailer wants to introduce a new product , or line of products . |
| 12 | ( b ) Taking instructions As noted above , the drafter needs to have a clear understanding of the nature of the client 's business , in order to ensure that the terms meet the needs of the client 's business , taking account of its products , customers and problems . |
| 13 | On the other hand there are those who would argue that even if the academic course has to have a vocational purpose — and most students themselves would agree with this — the variety of vocational destinations requires a degree of generality to achieve commonality of interests and this can not provide for the specific needs of future language teachers . |
| 14 | When selecting other census counts to profile a local market , it is important to choose the most useful of the 10,000 or so available counts . |
| 15 | IBM , Borland International , Gupta Technologies Inc , Novell Inc and WordPerfect Corp rallied to support a new database application programming interface , the Integrated Database API ( IDAPI ) . |
| 16 | Locke of course wants to argue a strong case to the contrary , he wants to argue that membership of a civil society is voluntary . |
| 17 | Sony Corporation 's Tape Recorder Division tried to redesign a small portable tape recorder so that it gave stereophonic sound . |
| 18 | The flash has to have a manual override to be useful , as it will serve only to tell the operator when a photograph has been taken . |
| 19 | The field needs to have a good supply of water . |
| 20 | NatWest Insurance Services , the insurance broking Company of NatWest Bank , are pleased to offer you this attractive savings opportunity designed to produce a substantial cash sum in the year 2001 . |
| 21 | Therefore , where the tread is below 1.6 mm depth in the middle of the tread and around the circumference of the tyre it is no good the defendant adding up the ‘ bits ’ on either side of the worn part to try to make a good three-quarters . |
| 22 | When Jakobson asserted that ‘ If the science of literature wants to become a real science it will have to recognize ‘ the device ’ as its sole ‘ hero ’ ’ ( O'Toole and Shukman 1977 : 37 ) , it was because he was concerned with the differential nature of literariness . |
| 23 | Leith Nautical College agreed to operate a pre-sea training scheme for Cadets and Deck Boys on board the ship and the vessel was handed over to the Dolphin Training Ship Society , the ship in turn being rented to the College . |
| 24 | An industrial relations expert , who has written a history of cotton unions , has remarked that whereas general historians of the labour movement report only sporadic trade unionism in that industry in the eigh-teenth century , historians of the district or of the industry tend to assume a continuous collective labour presence . |
| 25 | Third in preference order ( labelled 2 ) is the arms race , with each side competing to gain a theoretical advantage ; and the least preferred option ( 1 ) is an arms advantage to the other side . |
| 26 | X and the defendant agreed to create a limited company in order to run the defendant 's restaurant . |
| 27 | The 23-year-old failed to score a single goal last season but Brady adds : ‘ When I was at West Ham I saw he was going places . ’ |
| 28 | We will consult on our recently published draft planning policy guidance designed to provide a clear framework for decisions on developments to aid tourism . |
| 29 | A nasty dictatorship wants to grab a neighbouring country . |
| 30 | Essex County Council is currently carrying out a feasibility study to try to pinpoint a permanent arts complex for the northern part of the county . |