Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | WIDNES allrounder Richard Hignett plays as a batsman when Cheshire open their Minor Counties championship programme against Cornwall at Stalybridge today . |
2 | As opposed to that special big-time type of failure who looks like a success until the last reel and then turns yellow and |
3 | She plays the elderly Dame Lettie Colston , a committee lady and general busybody who starts what develops into a witchhunt when she finds herself the telephone caller 's first target . |
4 | It 's no good trying to remember every word that starts with a C cos there are lots of them . |
5 | Training starts with a horse as soon as a rider is introduced onto his back . |
6 | This , the first of a series of articles into the existence of an underlying geometrical pattern which governs our countryside , starts with an investigation as to whether the Circles of Churches discovered by Messrs David Wood ( Genisis ) and Henry Lincoln ( with Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh in The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail ) have a basis in fact . |
7 | Their walk is accompanied by the strident tones of jazz-style music which dissolves into a calypso as Peter enters the section of the school in which he teaches , leaving Kathie to walk on to her class . |
8 | Before the house it widens into a mere where hundreds of Canada geese gather . |
9 | Notice that the determination of such rates presupposes an understanding of what counts in a culture as ‘ deliberate ’ , and that a high rate need not necessarily be viewed as a bad thing by the culture concerned . |
10 | But such an explanation is surely ridiculous to the modern reader forced to realize how far he stands from an age when mythological explanations were permissible . |
11 | ‘ He lives in a field as he is allergic to everything like straw and paper in the stables , ’ explained owner-trainer John Upson . |
12 | On the tragedy and the hilarity of being in an uncomfortable place : Yasser Arafat jokes that he lives in an aeroplane because being made homeless , he might as well live in the air . |
13 | When the dielectric loss factor is measured at a characteristic frequency ο max and a given temperature , it passes through a maximum when a relaxation occurs , and the dipole relaxation time , can be obtained . |
14 | Interest quickens after a mile when Turbary Pot appears by the side of the track . |
15 | ‘ He told me that you ca n't tell what happens in a battle because there 's too much smoke and noise . |
16 | Well I think you should join up because something 's put in the middle but depends in a game If I was playing against a level player you might just have a very hard crack together , but just to join up gently in the middle . |
17 | Tub-sizing occurs in a vat after the paper has been formed and dried . |
18 | Intrapersonal conflict occurs in an individual where there are several equally attractive options but only one may be chosen . |
19 | Delegation of authority occurs in an organisation where a superior gives to a subordinate the discretion to make decisions within a certain sphere of influence . |
20 | The Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 re-enacts the earlier legislation and specifically defines insider dealing which is when an individual knowingly transacts in a security whilst in possession of unpublished price sensitive information relating to that security . |
21 | The same thing often happens to a manufacturer when he believes he can buy the public 's good opinion of him . |
22 | Like an artist adding pencil strokes to a sketch until the likeness is obscured by the graphite in which it is rendered , the harder Hughes tries to clarify his argument , the more impenetrable it becomes . |
23 | No-one would believe they had a recession on in Japan when they have time and resources to devote to dreaming up and creating things like this : Toshiba Corp has just launched a line of word processors with sound effects — ‘ to introduce an element of fun in the workplace ’ according to Reuter — they bark when you write ‘ dog ’ , moo when you write ‘ cow ’ and make the sound of pouring when you write ‘ beer ’ , and if you recall a text file word-by-word at reading speed , they repeat these and 26 other pre-programmed noises , from sleigh bells to sirens , as the words come up — and it no doubt laughs like a drain when your boss sends it an electronic message telling you you 're fired for being a disruptive influence . |
24 | In cases involving the supply of goods ( which is the only case where consumer status makes a difference to the effect of a term in a standard term contract ) the definition is , of course , restricted by the third limb of the definition of " consumer " : the buyer only deals as a consumer if the goods are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
25 | For instance : If the Buyer deals as a consumer as defined in s12 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 the following provisions shall not apply and the Buyer 's statutory rights under the Sale of Goods Act will be unaffected . |
26 | It acts as a mouthwash as well . |
27 | The top copy acts as a receipt if the customer pays cash , or as a charging source on the tabular ledger for its residents or account customers . |
28 | The house acts as a cemetery as well as a communal living and working space ; it is built near a river for bathing , travel and food , and often in a cassava garden with Guilelma gasipaes palms and other fruit trees . |
29 | In the human breast it acts as an antioestrogen whereas oestrogenic effects have been reported on human vaginal epithelium and endometrium . |
30 | It has antiseptic properties to help fight pimples , acts like a cleanser because it draws dirt out of pores , yet at the same time it moisturises and softens too . |