Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " 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 | The exemption from the selective scheme of authorities spending less than GREA or 10m — a provision intended to reduce political opposition from the Conservative-dominated shire districts removed an estimated 309 of the 333 English and Welsh non-metropolitan district councils from the scheme at the outset . |
| 3 | If a maintenance agreement includes a provision purporting to restrict any right to apply to a court for an order containing financial arrangements , then — |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A year after a referendum failed to endorse proposed sweeping restrictions on hunting [ see ED no. 35/36 ] , the Italian Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill cutting the hunting season by three months , restricting hunters to designated reserves and limiting the number of species which can be killed . |
| 6 | Academics who are planning or revising a curriculum have to address three kinds of questions . |
| 7 | THE Academy of Wine Service has introduced a course designed to update senior managers , sommeliers and waiters on recent developments , innovations and service skills in wine . |
| 8 | The cession of the south was not so much payment for help already given , but a concession designed to ensure future support and give Edward III a vested interest in the endurance of Balliol 's rule . |
| 9 | 60 min later , almitrine ( Lab Euthérapie , Neuilly/Seine , France ) , a drug known to potentiate hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction , was given intravenously at 16 g/kg per min ( patient 1 ) or 12 g/kg per min ( patient 2 ) . |
| 10 | Back home , Clark found , to his delight , that by injecting malaria-infected mice with alloxan , a drug known to produce free oxygen radicals , he could reduce the level of parasitaemia dramatically . |
| 11 | the amount of memory a computer needs to describe one character of text , data or a program . |
| 12 | Destroying the connections in a computer tends to isolate these colonies and leave them vulnerable to stimulation by spurious signals . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Basically , the man was a parchment-seller trying to raise good hard silver or gold to finance the export of parchment to Nantes and the import of wine . |
| 15 | Darren Kerry bought his house for sixty three thousand pounds with two brothers but after losing his job he fell behind with his mortage payments … he begged Citibank , with whom he had the loan to reduce the payment … he even found a buyer prepared to pay sixty three thousand pounds … but with interest he then owed sixty five thousand pounds … and Citibank apparently refused to allow him to sell it … |
| 16 | When acting for a buyer remember to make spare copies of the conveyance and any mortgage for use as certified copies on registration , as mentioned above . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Front Page Story ( 1953 ) is set in a newspaper office , where a harassed editor played by Jack Hawkins deals with homeless children , a scientist wanting to spill atomic secrets , a journalist 's crisis of conscience and a wife who plans to walk out on him . |
| 19 | If the drugs do not appear in the stool as planned , or if symptoms of intoxication develop , the smuggler may present to a casualty department , fearing a package has burst , fabricating a story to try to avoid criminal proceedings . |
| 20 | A responsibility emerges to divulge certain facts . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In fact being a carrier helps to boost natural immunity . |
| 23 | Sometimes bothies are locked , particularly during the stalking season , and very often you open the door to find there are 75 people crammed into a shack built to accommodate 15 . |
| 24 | ( Roa , however , was hardly a figure calculated to please Soviet officials . |
| 25 | M Roland Castro , who was head of a department trying to improve rundown suburbs , quit his post after describing M Tapie as ‘ a predator ’ . |
| 26 | Conversely , there is a negative correlation between Dupuytren 's disease and rheumatoid arthritis , a condition known to have strong association with HLA-DR4 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Such a term tries to encompass all the elements but with danger that the different responsibilities are then blurred . |
| 29 | Approaching the fabliaux with a mind prepared to find moral instruction in the texts , however unpromising they might superficially seem to be for such interpretation , is something that we can reconstruct as an authentic medieval mode of reading — " " All that is written is written for our doctrine " " as St Paul has it — although there is little direct evidence for the application of such literary theory to vernacular literature as well as the classics before the fourteenth century , and even then the extent of such application is difficult to assess . |
| 30 | ( Not that it 's anybody 's business , but even a dybbuk needs to have some downtime . |