Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 2 | He points out that such a provision bans any invasion of sovereign territory , air space and maritime zones , even where there might seem to be good grounds . |
| 3 | One does not have to be a statistician to discount these results . |
| 4 | Will there be a Swindon Branch some day ? |
| 5 | Over 400 patients have already been recruited into a trial to test this regimen . |
| 6 | INDIA 'S population is 844m and expanding by almost 18m a year , according to a census published this week . |
| 7 | The others are a bit sprawling those blackbirds I think . |
| 8 | ‘ He was always a bit twisted that way . |
| 9 | He was a bit subdued that day anyway ; the work was n't coming right . |
| 10 | The Post Office says it hopes the two sides can come to an agreement at a branch meeting this evening . |
| 11 | Making matters worse is that many companies have not hedged themselves against a rising yen this year , expecting the currency not to trade any higher than around the ¥120 level . |
| 12 | A more convincing sign of confidence would be a decision to let more soldiers come home from the front . |
| 13 | I would have thought that a decision to allocate more time to showing the event could have been taken , particularly in view of our previous successes . |
| 14 | unnamed that is not true and I do agree with Mr that when we make a decision to close some homes that they should be named to avoid the terrible indecision which exists at the moment . |
| 15 | There is a decision gap and then there is a fork Since there must presumably be a decision to take either fork there should be further decision gaps . |
| 16 | The Rueff plan , which was presented to de Gaulle in mid-November , had three main planks : a substantial devaluation of the franc ( accompanied by the creation of a new franc equivalent to 100 old francs ) ; action to control the budget deficit , both through increased taxes and cuts in governmental expenditure ; and a decision to remove many restrictions on foreign trade and to reduce tariffs on trade with the other five Common Market countries ( in line with a commitment that had been made by the Fourth Republic the year before ) . |
| 17 | It is hoped that a decision to develop these fields will be taken in 1993 . |
| 18 | It would be good practice never to accept a referral without the knowledge and consent of the client , but issues of risk and protection with vulnerable elderly people sometimes lead to a decision to override that principle . |
| 19 | With the creation of a new Yorkshire region came a decision to end this split except in London . |
| 20 | A significant number were aimed at positive prevention and these included altering the time allowed for lesson changeover to reduce crowd chaos , a decision to involve all staff in corridor supervision , a move to set up mutual support pairs amongst staff and the creation of a rewards system following the realization that for non-academic pupils the school offered little or no incentives . |
| 21 | With plans formulated , Kate is then allocated a budget to cover all aspects of the landscaping . |
| 22 | Expo '92 along with the Barcelona Olympics , is being used as a catalyst to accelerate this process with a host of infrastructure projects . |
| 23 | It would serve ‘ as a catalyst to produce another process , which will be the post-settlement arrangement ’ . |
| 24 | Herodotus ' History can be seen as a sermon on the text that Spartans and Persians , even in their great period of conflict , gradually came to value each other 's qualities:2 at first ( Hdt. i.153 ) Cyrus the Great scoffs at the Greeks who come together in a market-place to cheat each other ; by the end , the exiled Spartan king Demaratos is shown ( vii.104 ) lecturing a clearly impressed Xerxes on the subject of Spartan deference to law . |
| 25 | But getting dates locally is a problem : ‘ It 's a struggle to find any venues in the area to pay at , ’ says group spokesman Magnus Wilson-Webb . |
| 26 | This involves a willingness to acknowledge that co-operation can be difficult and that mistakes will occur , and a commitment to making the solving of problems a priority , rather than allowing them to fester . |
| 27 | What we would be looking for from you is a talk of some 15–20 minutes duration outlining what can be done for public transport by traffic management techniques and perhaps illustrated by some Lothian examples , together with a willingness to answer any questions which may be put to you . |
| 28 | It sometimes proves worth while to tack towards one side of a course to get more wind . |
| 29 | So important a part did this crisis play in determining the events which are the subject of this report that they can not be properly understood without an appreciation of the extent to which the crisis overshadowed everything else that was happening in the area at the time . |
| 30 | In the fourth condition they were asked to judge whether a sentence made any sense . |