Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [det] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it almost impossible to accept that such an injury … could have occurred without extensive bruising and swelling of the nose and probably fracture or disruption of structures within the nose and associated tissues . ’ |
| 2 | The police do not need to know that such an offence is involved . |
| 3 | It is gratifying to know that such an organisation supports us in our endeavours and appreciates the good that we do . |
| 4 | Further work is underway to confirm whether dietary vitamin C supplementation enhances this effect , and to discover if such an approach can reverse precancerous conditions in the gastric mucosa . |
| 5 | The use of propaganda to make this behaviour unfashionable again has been suggested ( Stanley 1969 ) , but no health education programme has ever been put forward to this purpose and it is difficult to know whether such an approach would be feasible . |
| 6 | Although Bouton and his collaborators have failed to establish context-specificity after simple conditioning , they would not want to claim that such an effect can never be seen — there is ample evidence from experiments using rather different training procedures that a change of context can produce a performance deficit . |
| 7 | Although I was less ready than before to agree that such an objective was desirable , I nevertheless found myself entering into his plans . |
| 8 | Faced with these immediate problems , few of them had time to reflect that such an exercise might logically be based on proper cost research . |
| 9 | It is naïve to imagine that such an ethic can be revived by exhortation alone , or by the use of in uplifting but empty phraseology . |
| 10 | It is wholly unreal for anyone to imagine that such an issue , which he merely describes as ‘ adjusting the democratic framework to suit new circumstances ’ can be so lightly put to one side . |
| 11 | But where there are irreversible or extensive neurological changes , the assessing practitioner may have to conclude that such an elder has lost the capacity to function independently . |
| 12 | Stafford Cripps continued to stress that such an alliance was made inevitable as much by the policy of the Labour Party as by the growing danger from Nazi Germany . |
| 13 | ‘ In the light of his report I will decide what further action needs to be taken to ensure that such an incident does not happen again . |
| 14 | The home has since taken action to ensure that such an accident does n't happen again . |
| 15 | In the letter it said , ‘ I still find it hard to believe that such an order could be processed at such rate and standard . |
| 16 | I sincerely hope that it has been picked up by accident and that I will be re-united with it soon , as I find it hard to believe that such an incident could lead to its deliberate theft . |
| 17 | Although it is sometimes difficult to decide how an objective can be measured , an obvious objective can be cited in terms of increased sales , although it is sometimes difficult to determine whether such an increase in sales was due to PR activity or to some other marketing activity . |
| 18 | One can not , in other words , argue from the premise that people may disagree as to whether a person was in fact placed in fear for their bodily safety , to the conclusion that a decision-maker can have untrammelled power to decide whether such an apprehension is indeed a constituent part of the offence at all . |
| 19 | The fact that review may occur relatively rarely for any one agency , the fact that the agency may still be subject to pressures of time and cost which incline it towards a narrow bounded rationality , the relative strength of different interest groups pressing upon the agency , and the competence of the court to assess whether such an authority has improperly excluded a particular policy option , can all combine to limit the effectiveness of this aspect of judicial scrutiny . |
| 20 | That is not to say that such an idea , or something like it , is not necessary in Italy . |
| 21 | ‘ I would n't like to say that such an idea has never occurred to him , but , if it has , I suspect he is having second thoughts . |
| 22 | Despite the increasing sophistication of photography , war artists , painters and , occasionally sculptors , have a unique contribution to make and such an appointment is an enviable one for an artist who feels that the contemporary peacetime art scene limits his or her breadth of vision . |
| 23 | Despite the increasing sophistication of photography , war artists , painters and , occasionally sculptors , have a unique contribution to make and such an appointment is an enviable one for an artist who feels that the contemporary peacetime art scene limits his or her breadth of vision . |