Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primary teacher can draw upon many of these to provide a lead in to a topic , or to develop a theme or push forward an enquiry . |
| 2 | If it is your intention to set a cat among the pigeons or let loose an eagle in the dovecote , you do n't send a postcard in advance announcing your intentions . ’ |
| 3 | The year is full of changes on the home front , which can imply moving your base of operations or experiencing rather a lot of comings and goings within the family . |
| 4 | However , the court can also still remit or set aside an arbitration award , under s22 and s23 of the Arbitration Act 1950 , and this continues to be a relatively frequently exercised right . |
| 5 | Paragraph 610 of the Bar code provides , first : ’ Counsel must not make statements or ask questions which are merely scandalous or intended or calculated only to vilify insult or annoy either a witness or some other person ; counsel must if possible avoid the naming in open Court of third parties whose characters would thereby be impugned ; counsel must not suggest that a witness or other person is guilty of crime , fraud or misconduct or attribute to another person the crime or conduct of which his lay client is accused ’ |
| 6 | Since no outside authority — whether the employers , the journeymen or the union — ever gratified women 's skills with the respect accorded to men 's , women compositors must have found it hard if not impossible to think of themselves as skilled , or to have even a semblance of the mentality of the skilled journeyman and union member . |
| 7 | Politics is about communicating with and winning a person , not winning an argument or battering home a policy line . |
| 8 | One important question in this area awaits a final answer : if , on its proper construction , the statutory authority exempts the undertaker from Rylands v. Fletcher liability and imposes only an obligation to use due care , upon whom does the burden of proof lie ? |
| 9 | On abortion , the Committee accepted the medical view that any abortion entailed danger to life and health and recommended only a clarification of the law to allow therapeutic abortion on health grounds . |
| 10 | Er er but the second time the police came and asked quite a lot of questions about it . |
| 11 | Each kiln takes a ton and a half of wood … and produces about a quarter of that weight as charcoal . |
| 12 | Second , the greater profitability of restaurants and garages along an upgraded road should not be included , as this is simply a reflection of more journeys undertaken along this route and represents only a transfer of business from other establishments on less popular routes . |
| 13 | and make quite a bit of money |
| 14 | In this dialogue Masefield offers a brief recapitulation to steady his headlong narrative and offers also a facet of the lad 's character , linking the ebullience of youth to the enforced maturity of the adventure . |
| 15 | The restaurant is open to guests and non-guests for lunch and dinner and offers both a table d'hôte and à la carte menu . |
| 16 | Under these circumstances , it is not surprising that objective measurements are not commonplace in clinical practice and remain largely a research tool . |
| 17 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 18 | Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year . |
| 19 | Small centres of excellence are a good idea ; and bringing together a group of experts in a subject could produce some interesting research . |
| 20 | And behold , thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son , and shalt call his name Jesus . |
| 21 | ‘ Joy riding ’ is in fact nothing more than common theft and anyone who takes and drives away a car without the owner 's permission is simply a criminal . |
| 22 | Jenny Pitman 's Do Be Brief stepped onto a racecourse for the first time in the first division of the Christmas Pudding Novice Hurdle and made quite an impression in beating Sailor 's Luck , but not half as big as his stable-companion Egypt Mill , who looked something special in landing the second division by 10 lengths . |
| 23 | The gardener narrowed long , grey-blue eyes and made never a move . |
| 24 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 25 | There at Bruges negotiations , which had been initiated by the papacy in 1374 , foundered on the issue of sovereignty over Aquitaine and produced only a succession of fitful truces until April 1377 . |
| 26 | The tip slid through the tweed and penetrated about a quarter of an inch into the fleshy part of the leg . |
| 27 | 1 A group of words frequently found together and producing collectively a meaning not apparent from the meaning of each component part of the group ( Ridout and Clarke 1970 ) . |
| 28 | In 1969 he formed a committee to raise funds and got together a band of volunteers who transformed the churchyard . |
| 29 | She gets very down and depressed and rings here a lot . |
| 30 | An enquiry , chaired by Mrs Justice Butler Sloss , was set up in July 1987 and reported exactly a year later ( DOH , 1988 ) . |