Example sentences of "[vb base] a [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules . |
| 2 | There are specialist commercial organisations who will , in exchange for an annual subscription , provide a service listing all planning applications and decisions made by the majority of local planning authorities . |
| 3 | Notebooks provide a way to organize many spreadsheets together in the same file . |
| 4 | The TVX system is effectively a camera-on-a-chip : camera and lens are integrated onto one chip about the size of a postage stamp , and it is designed to provide visual verification of the cause of an alarm at the time of an incident , and provide a method to distinguish actual emergencies from false alarms . |
| 5 | Mrs Burke 's daughter , Mrs Doreen Leverton , 63 , said : ‘ You always expect a parent to die sometime but not in this way . |
| 6 | However , Labour councillors want a review to begin next year . |
| 7 | The Anfield club want a tournament featuring top English and Scottish clubs plus two from Ireland . |
| 8 | Well you see then er say a man owned two stallions here , and he 'd two grooms travelling . |
| 9 | Police say a car containing three men drew up outside the house in Hudson Street . |
| 10 | In January 1916 , six months before he met O'Keeffe , 3 Stieglitz saw examples of the charcoal drawings she had made the previous autumn and exclaimed : ‘ Why they 're genuinely fine things — You say a woman did these — She 's an unusual woman — She 's broad-minded , she 's bigger than most women , but she 's got the sensitive emotion — I 'd know she was a woman — Look at that line . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ They say a soul feels lighter for getting rid of its burden of sin . ’ |
| 12 | The first database produced in a school library may be deliberately small in size , and provide an opportunity to examine all angles of creation and use before tackling a much larger subject . |
| 13 | True , public figures voluntarily step into a fish-tank which entails close public scrutiny of their every move , and they ordinarily enjoy greater access to channels of communication which provide an opportunity to counter false statements . |
| 14 | Zenawi told a press conference in London on the afternoon of May 28 that a temporary administration would before July 1 organize a conference to enable all groups to participate in forming a broad-based provisional government . |
| 15 | ‘ How you feel is how you feel and how you climax is how you climax , and so long as you let a man know those things , there should n't be a problem , ’ David said . |
| 16 | ‘ I could never agree to that , ’ he said : he smiled no more and let a silence grow uncomfortable . |
| 17 | Indeed there is now an incentive to hold on to the assets because if such assets are retained until death they receive a capital gains tax-free uplift ( TCGA 1992 , s62(1) ) . |
| 18 | Dial a Saint equals cheap man-made grace , say the objectors . |
| 19 | If you catch a guest doing this , do not invite him any more , unless it be to allow him to apologise . |
| 20 | The reader might wonder what factors cause a country to experience economic growth . |
| 21 | On one concert bandstand a quintet played classical music , on another a small jazz band enlivened the air , to the delight of the small groups of people who stood listening . |
| 22 | Wait a bit to make sure . |
| 23 | Some welcome a chance to see more work by lesser known European artists . |
| 24 | The three novels chart an attempt to develop linguistic techniques which represent the current state of affairs and at the same time challenge it by enlisting subversive laughter as a tool to destabilize fixed systems and tear away their protective layers of discursive convention . |
| 25 | There is also little evidence to show that farmers welcome an opportunity to become glorified park wardens or landscape gardeners — nor , indeed , have they the necessary skills to do so . |
| 26 | In general we consider a decision-maker having m actions available . |
| 27 | Both criminal law and contract exhibit a tendency to convert such presumptions into irrebuttable rules of law . |
| 28 | We sit up here and we watch a game like that and we can see the game probably just drifting away from United a little bit ; you can feel that things are changing out there . |
| 29 | Even if nothing is said specifically , there is an implied term in your employment contract that you owe a duty to exercise reasonable care and skill in carrying out your job . |
| 30 | Now we begin a Part called Pre-trial Procedure and it may appear that we are progressing inexorably towards the courtroom . |