Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [verb] [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 | ‘ There has been a lot of pressure and the mere fact that there has been a parting does give both sides a buffer period . |
| 5 | Destroying the connections in a computer tends to isolate these colonies and leave them vulnerable to stimulation by spurious signals . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Recruitment personnel agreed that there was a need for an attitudinal change in this area of business and suggested that educational establishments had a responsibility to help achieve this . |
| 9 | It 's been a privilege to have done this and I 'm overwhelmed by the enthusiasm I 've encountered . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For myself , I can see no relevant distinction between a case where a statute has conferred such final and conclusive jurisdiction and the case where the common law has for 300 years recognised that the visitor 's decision on questions of fact and law are final and conclusive and are not to be reviewed by the courts . |
| 12 | The evolution of integrated circuit technology has been such that you 've been progressively able to put more and more transistors down on a single integrated circuit , and so a microprocessor has got more and more powerful with the passage of time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Such a term tries to encompass all the elements but with danger that the different responsibilities are then blurred . |
| 15 | ( Not that it 's anybody 's business , but even a dybbuk needs to have some downtime . |
| 16 | In addition the IPG has recently assessed the benefits of desk-top publishing within the information system and as a result has purchased such a system . |
| 17 | At Level Three the student will identify personal and social development goals in relation to community involvement and arrange a programme to help achieve these goals , working independently . |
| 18 | On the authority of the President , the letter was distributed to immigration adjudicators , with a copy of the decision and a briefing to counsel defending such applications for judicial review . |
| 19 | Likening God to a shepherd has made many people assume that the point of the metaphor was to emphasize the sheep-like quality of people — that they have no mind of their own , that they are there to be told what to do and treated like sheep . |
| 20 | a lady 's bid this time at thirty pounds . |
| 21 | In his Commentaries on the Laws of England published over half a century before the 1870 Education Act , Blackstone wrote that ‘ it is not easy to imagine or allow that a parent has conferred any considerable benefit on his child by bringing him into the world , if he afterwards entirely neglects his culture and education , and suffers him to grow up like a mere beast , to lead a life useless to others and shameful to himself ’ . |
| 22 | 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 … |
| 23 | Until a child has achieved that understanding , a numeral is just a shape with no real meaning . |
| 24 | Imagine that a child has expressed some meaning with an innovative term , a , and that this meaning is identical to the one expressed by term b , the term conventionally used for that meaning by adults — e.g. , plant-man versus gardener . |
| 25 | A mill has occupied this site since the 16th century , initially for cloth manufacture and later for flock and shoddy production . |
| 26 | A member of a council ceases to hold that office in the following circumstances : |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If we had a Chancellor prepared to do that , then I believe we could achieve it , ’ said Mr Brown . |
| 30 | Your next step is to become familiar with all the foods in the second column , Suspect foods , and to make a plan to avoid consuming these for the next few months . |