Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 2 | Erm er changes in the central charges which always intrigues me I 'd like to know and erm if I may go back to erm paragraph seven where we 're saying you know allocated thirty five thousand in the committee development over and above the effects of inflation an and this subject six thousand seven hundred recycled savings is available for some revenue development or mortgage charges and then if we look at eight and shortfall in planning applications we are going to use that six thousand seven hundred to write off a shortfall in the planning applications . |
| 3 | However the different structure of the international legal system makes it dangerous to accept automatically a development in municipal law into international law . |
| 4 | The department is actively developing a programme of MSc degrees to provide both a grounding in research methodology and the opportunity to develop research competence in particular fields . |
| 5 | The trick is to use the person 's name to conjure up a picture in your mind . |
| 6 | It is best to work out a pattern in advance and draw it out on same graph paper . |
| 7 | It 's easier to guess why a reduction in market share is taking place than obtain the basic facts and make improvements . |
| 8 | Queenie , come up to my office right away will you , I want to go over a mistake in the takings . |
| 9 | The part-time firemen , part of a four-man crew from Mildenhall , had planned to use water from beneath the bridge to damp down a blaze in an isolated copse near Eriswell . |
| 10 | Once she had written , another decision would have been taken , and he would tell them in the office that they were having a stab at Italy this year , he 'd managed to track down a villa in Tuscany . |
| 11 | Emerson noticed this propensity of flags to make ordinary people ‘ poets and mystics ’ , to set off a tingle in the blood ; and flags were festooned round Iran-contra like bunting , exceedingly hard Brought to trial , the players could not believe that their love for their country had caused them to commit crimes ; and the light penalties handed down to all these men , with only Poindexter receiving a jail sentence , suggested that the judges , to some degree , accepted patriotism in mitigation . |
| 12 | The club have twice narrowly avoided relegation in the last three years , and survived last season only because of a bright start , but have yet to pick up a point in the present campaign after playing five league games . |
| 13 | I had been trying to pick up a barman in a pub in Hammersmith . |
| 14 | The fact that none of the lesbians I knew wanted to pick up a woman in a public toilet underpinned those very basic differences in the sexuality of gay women and men , at that time , which eventually led to the split . |
| 15 | The conference agreed to set up a base in Kurdistan , including a broadcasting station . |
| 16 | France and Italy have agreed to set up a sanctuary in which dolphins will be protected from drift-net fishing . |
| 17 | This entire case depends on the assumption that the trust to set up a building in the town will be enforced in specie , The plea that payment should be allowed instead is ignored : the town has a greater interest in acquiring a ready-made building than in constructing or commissioning one itself . |
| 18 | THE chairman of a committee which aims to set up a unit in Darlington for leukaemia sufferers has renewed her pledge that all money raised will be spent as originally intended . |
| 19 | Det Insp Gordon Williams has recently been involved with raising money to set up a suite in Darlington where child abuse and rape victims can be interviewed in pleasant surroundings . |
| 20 | Consequently , she was again in financial difficulties in 1617 , when she unsuccessfully attempted to set up a school in St Giles in the Fields for the education of children of the nobility . |
| 21 | In permitting the bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne to set up a mint in 864 , the king acknowledged difficulties in suppling the new currency . |
| 22 | They decided to set up a nursery in the house and objections by Renfrew District Council were overcome . |
| 23 | Mazda is to set up a centre in Belgium to train staff in sales and after-sales service . |
| 24 | Mm about to set up a factory in Sri Lanka to make Morris Minor parts . |
| 25 | Conversely , if a French broker were to set up a branch in London and was subject to those more relaxed French rules , the branch would equally be at a competitive advantage as against UK firms . |
| 26 | Mind workers are now planning to set up a marquee in the garden in Borough Road for the royal celebration . |
| 27 | An application to set up a pharmacy in the village , which would threaten the services offered by GPs in Four Marks and Ropley , had been turned down , but was due to go to appeal . |
| 28 | Bruce Armitage , Grampian Enterprise 's director of training , stressed that the £100,000 grant had been designed to set up a framework in which other agencies could work . |
| 29 | Labour wants to set up a Parliament in Scotland , where public spending is 23 per cent . |
| 30 | FUNDRAISERS have issued a cry for help in their efforts to set up a hospice in Darlington . |