Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At times it seemed a bit strange to have a university degree and be working so physically hard but in many ways those three years were a very good period . |
| 2 | It is sometimes argued that indirect taxes are , in welfare terms , preferable to direct taxes , as they leave the taxpayer free to make a choice . |
| 3 | Darlington Memorial Hospital should see increased income from GP fund-holders in the coming year with a North Yorkshire practice due to become a fund-holder from April 1 . |
| 4 | The pianist due to play a concerto in public spends many hours in practising the techniques of using his instrument that the piece requires . |
| 5 | On one occasion , ‘ action likely to cause a breach of the peace ’ was invoked by Kent police successfully to turn miners back at the Dartford tunnel , over 100 miles from their intended destination . |
| 6 | Neither is an overexcited horse likely to win a showjumping contest , because at every jump he is likely to get more and more excited and to concentrate less and less on what he is meant to be doing . |
| 7 | For this care I award forty thousand pounds per year and take as a multiplier the figure three to give a sum of one hundred and twenty thousand for the first period . |
| 8 | It seemed as if , after eighteen months of complete stalemate on the Western Front , with neither side able to make a breakthrough , the subordinate German commanders at Verdun had lost confidence to succeed where so many others had failed . |
| 9 | Under STV there are multimember constituencies , with each elector able to indicate a preference on the ballot paper , putting the number 1 beside the name of the candidate most preferred , number 2 against the name of the elector 's second choice , and so on . |
| 10 | Other provisions enable police officers to enter private property forcibly without a search warrant if they deem such action necessary to prevent a breach of the peace , reach someone who has committed an arrestable offence or search for evidence of an offence by someone they have already arrested . |
| 11 | As Gray and Isaacs ( 1979 ) note , taking an elder with brain failure to a pub can enable that elder to sustain the practical consciousness necessary to have a drink , sing or make a joke . |
| 12 | Again , in theory , this principle protects large practice firms from the ‘ inexperienced ’ practitioner anxious to obtain a slice of the client market . |
| 13 | Susie Novis of Castlegate , Scarborough , had the photos in a box in the car ready to make a presentation for her parents ' golden wedding anniversary today . |
| 14 | The book registers a new-found fascination with Ezra Pound , too , on whom Davie was soon to write two books , as opposed to T. S. Eliot — espousing a failed Modernist against the acknowledged leader of London literary opinion — and its tactic of saying-the-other-thing was soon to become the mark of a critic eager to clear a space for himself and for others of like mind . |
| 15 | WHEN it comes to getting a horse ready to win a race at his local track , they do n't come any better than Jeremy Maxwell . |
| 16 | No , you can have er can ha , it 's a bit early to have a drink . |
| 17 | The centrist Union pour la Democratie Francaise ( UDF ) and right-wing Rassemblement Pour la Republique ( RPR ) look set to win a landslide victory in the French legislative elections on 21 and 28 March , taking between 38 per cent and 44 per cent of the vote . |
| 18 | At a cost of two hundred and fifty pounds the one man boats admired by Julius Caesar look set to make a comeback . |
| 19 | Pluto wait : A Japanese freighter due to ship a cargo of highly radioactive plutonium from France is waiting for the material to be loaded . |
| 20 | Moreover , it is a criminal offence under s47(1) Financial Services Act 1986 to induce a person to buy or sell shares by a fraudulent statement or the concealment of material facts . |
| 21 | ( 10 ) To take action under s63(3) of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 to enforce a residence order ( s14 ) . |
| 22 | Officially , any youngster willing to wield a gun can join a police team for 30 rupees ( $1.70 ) a day . |
| 23 | Where a person is authorised by s 375 of the Companies Act 1985 to represent a corporation or company at any meeting of creditors , he must produce to the official receiver a copy of the resolution so authorising him . |
| 24 | In the Firthview cafe , apparently the location of some awful and localised ground subsidence since it was named , because it would have to be at least a storey taller to catch a view of the water , I had a cup of coffee and a game of Space Invaders . |
| 25 | Johnson ( [ 1979 ] AC 264 ) concerning the scope of the county court 's jurisdiction under the provisions of the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 to exclude a person from premises in which that person has a proprietary interest . |
| 26 | Each hospital admission is followed up by writing to the consultant concerned to obtain a copy of the discharge summary . |
| 27 | The Software Magazine should be the only publication able to focus a spotlight on support , an area where users really perceive value in an application . |
| 28 | For if the generally expected price level is P 2 the relevant aggregate supply curve will be the one labelled SS 1 which cuts the expected aggregate demand curve AD 1 to give a price level equal to the one that is expected , P 2 . |
| 29 | I write to her with my window open to catch a breeze which is coming from over the plains where the short rains are expected . |
| 30 | There are a great many different swings , but a child must be aware of the skill necessary to make a swing work , that is , transference of his own body weight , as he goes forwards , backwards , up , down and sideways . |