Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its best role is the diplomatic and peacekeeping one — which is quite different from peace-enforcing , since that involves imposing an end to fighting . |
| 2 | WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France . |
| 3 | WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France . |
| 4 | But traditionally neither has had an organization capable of responding to commercial pressures . |
| 5 | Once each has had a turn , the group may spend a few minutes discussing possible methods of achieving any identified learning needs . |
| 6 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 7 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 8 | Where that has happened an order may be made under section 61(1) directing steps to be taken to remedy the contravention . |
| 9 | For Pearce , with his strong belief in personal contacts , that has meant a lot of travel to different parts of the world . |
| 10 | This goes to demonstrate a point that I have long argued businesses should not be hit in the pocket when a dispute arises through no fault of their own . |
| 11 | This goes to demonstrate a point that I have long argued businesses should not be hit in the pocket when a dispute arises through no fault of their own . |
| 12 | This involves generating a DC for the package , assessing the DC , activating the DC , updating the package to reference the selected approved version of the changed module , and then getting the package approved . |
| 13 | This involves taking a sample of households and classifying them according to their income groups . |
| 14 | This involves taking a risk : there may well be expression of anger or despair or criticism of the group or ( more commonly ) the church . |
| 15 | This involves using a filtration process which basically makes the solid content of the milk much higher allowing it to set better , making it smooth , thick and above all , consistent . |
| 16 | This involves creating a list of categories such as ‘ takes lead ’ or ‘ follows ’ , ‘ gives orders ’ or ‘ obeys orders ’ , ‘ works out of doors ’ or ‘ works indoors ’ , ‘ mends car ’ or ‘ does housework ’ , and counting up each occasion on which the characters in the book do these things . |
| 17 | This involves obtaining a training post as a trainee legal executive with a firm of solicitors or similar organisation , joining the Institute of Legal Executives and undertaking the Institute 's Part 1 and Part 11 examinations . |
| 18 | This involves spending a lot of time in the sun by the pool listening to girlish giggles as they frolic around . |
| 19 | This involves finding a language for the goal of contemplative life — " I vate wele desyres to here some special poynt of luf of Jhesu Criste , and of contemplatyf lyfe " [ vate wele : know well ; here : hear ] ( 6.102 – 3.214 – 2 ) — to bridge the gap between doctrine and reality . |
| 20 | However , it is one thing to scan a computer screen in the catering office : it 's quite another to do stocktaking — typically this involves carrying a notebook around the various larders and coldrooms . |
| 21 | This involves specifying a goal or target value for the objective function . |
| 22 | This involves gaining an idea of villagers ' senses of their past and future fates , their senses of history , and their identities with others sharing or differences from those not sharing their fates . |
| 23 | This has stimulated an awareness of the very different ways that women support each other , work around issues of parenthood and career and seek to redress an art market that continues to marginalise them . |
| 24 | We think that the er residents of a new settlement will still look to York as the natural centre for employment , for er provision of most employment , retailing and entertainment , and if you compare it with something like er Easingwold , erm which is of a similar size , erm this has achieved a degree a degree of self containment and balance , but this has occurred through erm a long period of development and a gradual growth of erm social linkages and economic linkages , however , even with such erm a gradual growth erm it 's not got a high degree of self containment , erm recent developments in er transport and changes in lifestyle have reduced this even further , and it 's difficult to believe that er a proposal , such as a new settlement er which is explicitly intended to cater for the development needs of York , located only ten miles from York can achieve the same level of self containment . |
| 25 | This has created a capital structure more suitable for a listed company . |
| 26 | This has created a vacancy for a full-time post in the Eastern Counties , for one year initially . |
| 27 | This has created a temptation to explain the passing of the radical reforms by pointing to the absence of the ‘ conservative ’ Kimon and his 4000 ‘ conservative ’ hoplites . |
| 28 | There has always been some concern over levels of public spending and taxation , and this has played a part in the arguments about the scope and direction of social policy that are described in Chapter 13 . |
| 29 | Clearly , this has played a role , but The Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Overseas Trade ( HMSO , 1985 , pp. 238–41 ) concluded that the responsibility for at least half of the increase in unemployment since 1979 is laid directly at the Government 's door . |
| 30 | This has necessitated a concern with the movement and transformation of energy in the atmospheric boundary layer , in the plant cover and in the soil so that progress could be made towards understanding the mechanism of energy and moisture exchange . |