Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Letters requiring a personal reply must be accompanied by a stamped self-addressed envelop or a self addressed envelope and international reply coupons . |
| 2 | These authorities suggest that a promise to pay money , or to do any other act , in a certain event but without any express or implied request to the promisee to bring about , or to promise to bring about , that event , is made without consideration . |
| 3 | Less controversially , it soon becomes apparent to personnel involved in course and presenter evaluation that student respondents rarely assign very poor ratings , or make extremely negative comments , even when other indicators such as colleague judgement suggest that a course has been presented particularly poorly . |
| 4 | Consent of the shareholders by ordinary resolution is required , unless the articles permit the board to sanction payments without shareholder approval , or provide that a resolution passed by more than a simple majority of shareholders must be obtained . |
| 5 | SIR , — Dr Rose and colleagues ( May 8 , p 1179 ) report that a tetranucleotide repeat polymorphism , 5 to the myelin basic protein ( MBP ) gene , is not genetically linked with familial multiple sclerosis ( MS ) . |
| 6 | They realise that a servant has often very little choice in the matter . |
| 7 | When we say that a child enjoys the security of a familiar story structure , what tools have we for analysing that structure ? |
| 8 | Besides revealing that many of the collection 's frames were damaged when National Gallery conservators removed paintings for examination , the students say that a plan to store works not included on the tour in either the National Gallery or the Philadelphia Museum of Art would bring the foundation 's art classes to an end . |
| 9 | Zande say that a suicide takes his own life ‘ because he is bewitched ’ : ‘ witchcraft ’ killed him . |
| 10 | I say that a psychologist deals with the things normal people say and do , while a psychiatrist deals with the things dotty people say and do . |
| 11 | Will the right hon. Gentleman now acknowledge that a system based on the highest bid was always likely to undermine the quality and variety of British television ? |
| 12 | If the people sense that a vacuum has developed at the ‘ party centre ’ , and the troops are withdrawn , they will fill the same square with the same demand in a matter of hours . |
| 13 | It would act , for example , as a general mechanism to wipe out those that end up in the wrong place , say after a cut mixes cells between different layers of skin . |
| 14 | We cheer when a meerkat eats up a scorpion or a rattlesnake just for the hell of it . |
| 15 | The governors fear that a move to set up a panel to consider the introduction of grammar schools threatens their status and stability . |
| 16 | Taking both these factors into account , I conclude that a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence should be given the opportunity to make representations in writing to the Secretary of State about the length of his tariff period before it is set . |
| 17 | THE latest statistics show that a man retiring in Edinburgh is likely to live four years longer than his counterpart in Glasgow , it was stated yesterday . |
| 18 | The results show that a surface containing both differential vertical and differential horizontal perspective cues appropri- ate to viewing the surface at infinity was judged to have more peak-to-trough depth than the equivalent surface with perspective cues appropriate to viewing at 28cm . |
| 19 | By making the assumption that one orientation of a link in a chain relative to its neighbour is energetically preferred over all others they show that a temperature exists at which the configurational entropy vanishes , giving a true second-order transition at this point . |
| 20 | Imagine that a child has expressed some meaning with an innovative term , a , and that this meaning is identical to the one expressed by term b , the term conventionally used for that meaning by adults — e.g. , plant-man versus gardener . |
| 21 | Imagine that a razor supplied by manufacturer A in February 1989 is bought from a retailer in June 1991 and when used in July 1991 cuts the user 's face when slid sideways across it . |
| 22 | Imagine that a company buys a computer . |
| 23 | Perhaps this is the more important in the late twentieth century now that this means of image-making is so familiar that some people actually imagine that a photograph shows the world as it is . |
| 24 | Wait until a convoy comes creeping through the night . |
| 25 | Wait until a ferret fitted with a transmitter has taken up a fixed position down a burrow . |
| 26 | The same rule holds true when simple fillings no longer suffice and a tooth has to be crowned or a bridge has to be placed . |
| 27 | Funded by charity it offers relatives support and a place to stay while they 're children are being treated . |
| 28 | I mean if a garage leaves the sump plug loose or does n't erm put it back in , then obviously the whoever has done that work , if they are a legitimate erm service department would be more than happy to put that right and would apologise obviously , and the claim would obviously lie with them . |
| 29 | The celebrities ' example inspired many others to adopt a ‘ twin ’ on the day , which featured music by Fancy Footwork , Heaven West Eleven , Lord Eric , Jerry Lyseight , Bhai Mohan Sing Khali , Abraham Shiakani and Schooners Rig and a poetry reading by Alfredo Cordal , a Chilean poet . |
| 30 | They consider that it may be demeaning for a client to be ‘ helped ’ by a volunteer ; they consider that a person working for no pay is being exploited ; and they feel that volunteering confirms a sexist role model because it is mainly women supported by wage-earning husbands who volunteer . |