Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [det] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Davis felt constrained to accept that such a case might be within the purview of the legislation . |
| 2 | The whole House will be very relieved to know that such a matter is not entirely in a Minister 's hands . |
| 3 | Consistency with the argument presented earlier would seem to demand that such a couple should enjoy all rights and privileges available to a ‘ married ’ couple . |
| 4 | An unexpressed term can be implied if and only if the court finds that the parties must have intended that term to form part of their contract : it is not enough for the court to find that such a term would have been adopted by the parties as reasonable men if it had been suggested to them . |
| 5 | The 160 mineworkers , who formed a consortium to reopen the pit , each investing £10,000 in the venture , were surprised to find that half a month 's salary had gone into their bank accounts at the weekend . |
| 6 | My mother was the one that used to struggle and many a time she 's gone without herself you know . |
| 7 | With so much of interest to discover and such a wealth of magnificent coast and countryside to explore , within even an hour or two of home you could find yourself in a beautiful new world . |
| 8 | ‘ Although it 's always difficult to know whether such a survey is representative of all staff involved in National Certificate delivery , nevertheless the EIS survey does represent the views of a substantial number of lecturers , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The ghost of J. B. Watson , who cast ‘ consciousness ’ out of psychology because it was too difficult to handle , still walks and ethologists and psychologists alike often fail to see that such a borderline exists . |
| 10 | It is a remarkable feat of cultural self-assertion to claim that such a culture could be taken to , and disseminated among the " multitudes " , of a feat which only the buoyant sense of the well-evident value of imperial colonization could sustain . |
| 11 | It is important to remember that such a campaign would be conducted against the background of the economy moving back to full employment , and therefore of an increasing range of job opportunities for school-leavers . |
| 12 | Would it be heresy to suggest that such a committee need not be composed entirely of educationists and should not be composed entirely of specialists in curriculum development . |
| 13 | But it is quite another thing to go on to suggest that such a minority therefore possesses no political rights , or should be deprived of those which it holds equally with all other citizens . |
| 14 | The Women 's Industrial Council ( a group of primarily middle class women who devoted themselves to the investigation of working women 's problems ) went so far as to suggest that such a form of provision was inappropriate for women and merely intensified the ‘ regrettable tendency to consider the work of a wife and mother in her home of no money value ’ . |
| 15 | There is plenty of evidence to suggest that such a diet also helps reduce your risk of certain cancers , and it will certainly help you to keep to a sensible body weight too . |
| 16 | This has usually been rejected , on the grounds that other sources suggest that Hastings was executed rather than murdered-Armstrong going so far as to suggest that such a murder would be un-English and that Mancini has been led astray by Italian precedents . |
| 17 | This has usually been rejected , on the grounds that other sources suggest that Hastings was executed rather than murdered-Armstrong going so far as to suggest that such a murder would be un-English and that Mancini has been led astray by Italian precedents . |
| 18 | It seems most unlikely that the testator had any intention of this sort ; and it is pointless to assert that such a decision would have been impossible in a legacy , since the whole context — a disposition charged on a non-heir — is one in which a legacy could not have functioned . |
| 19 | It would be an oversimplification to reduce the complex ideology of the movement to the positions of a minority within it , or to assume that such a viewpoint will necessarily prevail . |
| 20 | An exchange between a finisher and members of the 1888 House of Lords Select Committee on Sweating showed the difficulties of politicians and policy makers in understanding the nature of homework and their tendency to assume that such a worker did her work by hand only because she was too inefficient to do otherwise : |
| 21 | Mr Gallie , who is sponsoring the Carrying of Knives etc ( Scotland ) Bill , to outlaw carrying knives in public , has asked Lord James Douglas Hamilton , the Scottish home affairs minister , for his comments and to inquire if such a television programme would contravene European law . |
| 22 | This is not to say that the overshadowing mechanism is not operating here or to deny that such a mechanism may be responsible in other cases for observed acquired distinctiveness effects . |
| 23 | But it was essential for the beneficiaries to insist that such a policy should not be stultified by plunder , wanton destruction , reckless deployment of military force and general contempt for the welfare of the provincials . |
| 24 | The standard was published complete with a dissenting view from one ASB member , as its chairman David Tweedie promised to do if such a situation ever arose . |
| 25 | Would not the best way to ensure that such a treaty would be accepted worldwide be for us to allow international inspection and verification of the numbers of our warheads ? |
| 26 | Although EA may cause some delay to a development proposal , we believe it is far more important to ensure that such a development avoids generating environmental impacts that may cost time and money to overcome ( if indeed they can be overcome ) , than avoid the process because of its apparent inconvenience . |
| 27 | The precautions needed to ensure that such a file performs satisfactorily are discussed in the main body of this chapter . |
| 28 | Matters should be taken further , and examples made , to ensure that such a fiasco never happens again . |
| 29 | Since then the sea defences have been built up to ensure that such a disaster will not strike again . |
| 30 | None of us , however , is naive enough to believe that such a buy-out will necessarily succeed in every case . |