Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evident surprise displayed by some Cabinet ministers about her reference to a referendum lent further weight to his criticisms of her style of leadership and unwillingness to consult Cabinet colleagues . |
| 2 | Thus , if a patient who is aware of the nature of his condition and competent to make a decision refuses further treatment from his doctor , then continued treatment is unlawful , as constituting a battery or a criminal assault . |
| 3 | Today Mr Mendiluce will go to the Bosnian capital , Sarajevo , to urge President Alija Izetbegovic to reverse a decision to refuse further aid to the city out of sympathy with the Muslims in the east . |
| 4 | The Enterprise Centre 's role is to act as a catalyst to encourage further development of live project work so that an increasing number of students get an opportunity to tackle this special combination of project work and contact with industry and to co-ordinate the evaluation of the ‘ Live Projects ’ scheme . |
| 5 | And seven out of ten declared a willingness to pay higher electricity bills if necessary . |
| 6 | A willingness to accept greater liability under a contract in return for payment of a higher price may make it more likely that an exclusion or limitation of liability will satisfy the test of reasonableness ( Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd ( 1981 ) , unreported ; see Lawson , Exclusion Clauses p174 ) ; however , the fact that the client has a second set of terms of business , containing less restrictive terms , may be taken as recognition that the more stringent terms are unreasonable . |
| 7 | Dr James Tiedje and Dr Stephen Boyd at Michigan State University , are awaiting final approval of a grant to support further research of a startling and previously unknown anaerobic organism , which they found in sludge from a Michigan sewage treatment plant and in lake sediments . |
| 8 | The meeting ended with coffee and a bookstall provided further information on the work of the SGA . |
| 9 | Wrap the person in a light layer of blankets or a duvet to avoid further loss of body heat . |
| 10 | Sixteen companies in the Grampian Region were visited by the fitness analysts as part of a programme to promote better health in the workplace . |
| 11 | I drafted a statement for the trade union , detailing the nature of their support for me and hinting at a readiness to take further action were the matter not resolved in days . |
| 12 | Demand for his services exceeded his capacity to meet the many requests and in the second year of the scheme he acquired a car to provide greater mobility . |
| 13 | TOWN residents are being asked to make a last-ditch appeal to the Government in a bid to avert further cash cutbacks . |
| 14 | Havel paid official visits to Japan and South Korea on April 21-28 in a bid to win further trade and investment support for Czechoslovakia . |
| 15 | SCOTTISH champion Emma Donaldson , who rose to her highest world ranking of 39 last week , has now set her sights on the Far East in a bid to make further progress , writes Elspeth Burnside . |
| 16 | A Santa Cruz Operation Inc port is due by the end of the calendar year and a revision adding further functionality is in the works . |
| 17 | If this is so , the solicitor may seek an extension from the Legal Aid Board , who , if satisfied that there is a need to spend further money , will authorize further expenditure . |
| 18 | Now it may well be that the whole balance of things is that we 're generally okay for the moment but it seems to me that as time goes on and there 's a need to review plans and there 's a need to make further provision that it would be very very difficult indeed against a blanket policy as opposed to individual justifications around ind er individual settlements . |
| 19 | This reflects a need to place greater weight on broadly based sales taxes , rather than on excise duties which bear on a comparatively narrow range of goods . |
| 20 | The likelihood that a person enters higher education continues to be strongly related to his or her family 's social class . |
| 21 | For many years the tax code has contained legislation to prevent a person avoiding higher rate income tax by making a settlement , while still retaining some rights to enjoy the income or capital of the settlement . |
| 22 | What I can say at this stage is that the Government is very keen to use BT3 as a chance to extend wider share ownership . |
| 23 | However , he found that mature students as a whole obtained better degree results than non mature students . |
| 24 | Reliability in supplies : It is likely that a firm has greater control over reliability of supplies if it makes a component rather than buying it in from another firm . |
| 25 | Holme Pierrepoint … which has a man made whitewater course … is the only place guaranteed to wash you away although there are rivers in Wales and Scotland which are being used when the water 's running high … |
| 26 | In keeping with the emerging philosophy of the NHS , there was a concern to obtain better value for money by encouraging a ‘ market ’ amongst management development suppliers . |
| 27 | On Dec. 5 the Senate approved , and royal assent was given to , a bill introducing tougher gun control measures . |
| 28 | It is perhaps significant that stretching of the vortex tubes in Fig. 21.11 could be produced by the structure in Fig. 21.10 as well as by the mean flow , but this is a matter requiring further investigation . |
| 29 | Among recent successes was a link with Sandon High School students who worked on a project to achieve greater accuracy in testing the texture of clay press cakes . |
| 30 | It is a matter of efficiency : the higher energetic cost of hunting a rabbit encourages a female to choose smaller prey , while the greater appetite of the large male is more efficiently met by a large item . |