Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chramn 's actions are best interpreted as those of a prince determined to have some share in the Merovingian kingdom : effectively he was creating a new kingdom in his father 's lifetime . |
| 2 | If a maintenance agreement includes a provision purporting to restrict any right to apply to a court for an order containing financial arrangements , then — |
| 3 | At the moment , the establishment of a branch tends to require less documentation , formality and cost , while a subsidiary has the advantage of being a separate legal personality , with the result that disclosure requirements may not apply to the parent , and the subsidiary 's debts will not necessarily become obligations of its parent in the event of insolvency . |
| 4 | Destroying the connections in a computer tends to isolate these colonies and leave them vulnerable to stimulation by spurious signals . |
| 5 | If such a creditor wishes to appoint another person to attend a meeting on his behalf , he too must give the person attending his proxy . |
| 6 | A correspondent learned to do that , even if he no longer needed to practise his profession — the best-selling book he had written years ago had given blessed financial independence . |
| 7 | If a user wants to read all the news stories on say , Lloyd 's insurance , he or she simply types in the name on a computer keyboard and a complete list of stories appears on the screen in seconds . |
| 8 | The Third World as a term needs to retrieve this lost positive sense — even if today the political order has changed so that to some extent the various forms of Islamic fundamentalism have taken over the role of providing a direct alternative to First and Second World ideologies . |
| 9 | Such a term tries to encompass all the elements but with danger that the different responsibilities are then blurred . |
| 10 | ( Not that it 's anybody 's business , but even a dybbuk needs to have some downtime . |
| 11 | That a commercial ‘ body of persons ’ has a ‘ trading character , ’ and can sue in respect of a publication tending to injure that trading character , is now clearly established … |
| 12 | A member of a council ceases to hold that office in the following circumstances : |
| 13 | ‘ When we played my school a bloke managed to wangle some dry ice from work and he dropped it into a bucketful of warm water . |
| 14 | The 1959 obscenity test is one of effect , which directs the jury 's attention to the extent to which a work tends to encourage such feelings of aversion or revulsion rather than of corruption or depravity . |
| 15 | If we had a Chancellor prepared to do that , then I believe we could achieve it , ’ said Mr Brown . |
| 16 | It 's a shame having to go that , that time of year every year |
| 17 | It 's a shame to have to write that sort of thing into a contract , but you ca n't trust the buggers . ’ |
| 18 | A record guaranteed to make any soulboy puke , it 's a dance compilation as nutters ' paradise : anyone not technological had better turn away now . |
| 19 | Tell you what Mark , that must be a hell of a job trying to collate all this information you know , must be a hell of a job trying to collate all this information they 're gon na have to get , I mean how many people are they gon na get to do this ? |
| 20 | Tell you what Mark , that must be a hell of a job trying to collate all this information you know , must be a hell of a job trying to collate all this information they 're gon na have to get , I mean how many people are they gon na get to do this ? |
| 21 | Produced by the winemaker acclaimed for " 1989 Wine Magazine/Good Wine Guide , White Wine of the Year " , this is a superb example of a product vinified to retain all the characteristics of a fruity well balanced wine . |
| 22 | Each genuine ‘ Sun ’ record is worth about three hundred pounds to a collector aiming to acquire all of Elvis 's records . |
| 23 | Ada Leverson was small but of striking appearance , with bright golden hair and a profile said to resemble that of Sarah Bernhardt . |
| 24 | If certiorari only declares what is the case anyway , why would a person bother to seek such an order ? |
| 25 | All of us , whatever our walk of life , are frequently in situations where we want to persuade someone or , in other words , influence someone to do what we want them to do ( eg a salesperson trying to persuade a buyer or a negotiator trying to persuade another negotiator ) . |
| 26 | But for the sisters it meant a chance to get to see more of each other . |
| 27 | The rest of us said that it was different , exciting and a chance to get to know each other better . |
| 28 | They were fascinated by the entrails of the ‘ Chuffa-chuffa-clang-clang ’ train strewn over the hearthrug as Malc and a screwdriver attempted to revive this sole survivor of Christmas . |
| 29 | A choreographer inspired to create any one of the three kinds of ballet described above would be wise to consider Aristotle 's dictum . |
| 30 | It then becomes rather a chore having to re-apply those etch-resist transfers all over again . |