Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb -s] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Destroying the connections in a computer tends to isolate these colonies and leave them vulnerable to stimulation by spurious signals . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Such a term tries to encompass all the elements but with danger that the different responsibilities are then blurred . |
| 7 | ( Not that it 's anybody 's business , but even a dybbuk needs to have some downtime . |
| 8 | A member of a council ceases to hold that office in the following circumstances : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Quite how the party which has successfully brought us to economic misery and industrial impotence can make such a claim seems to suggest some very muddled thinking . |
| 11 | As I have suggested before , creating and enhancing beauty is a tricky business , for if a woman endeavours to obliterate all flaws , weathering and odd characteristics , she makes herself very vulnerable , for it is easy then to break the illusion . |
| 12 | But even now , a woman has to achieve much more than a man in order to gain respect or " promotion " . |
| 13 | If a composer remembers to keep this audience entertained , think what he can say to them all at the same time . |
| 14 | ‘ Ah , well , a man has to have some fun . ’ |
| 15 | A reporter has to present both sides of the picture and the developer may not be willing to speak to the press . |
| 16 | The critical reader of a poem needs to have some idea of what a poem is , which need not be a theoretically sophisticated idea , and some acquaintance with poetry already . |
| 17 | He divided the errors collected into three categories : substitution errors ( where an incorrect lexical item is produced instead of the target ) ; loss errors ( where a speaker fails to produce any lexical item ) ; and addition errors ( where a speaker produces more lexical items than intended ) . |
| 18 | From the loan 's spread a bank endeavours to make some return on its capital resources ( approximately 4 per cent ) used in funding each loan , provide for any subsequent bad debts and meet administrative costs of the lending department . |
| 19 | A profession tends to have few members , each member possessing esoteric knowledge which sets him or her apart from their peers . |
| 20 | Such a project continues to attract some philosophers . |
| 21 | I often have to time how long a program takes to complete some task . |
| 22 | In a dispassionate view , a century seems to have several advantages , as being more than a lifespan and being an evident but arbitrary division . |
| 23 | If a reader wants to change some properties , e.g. to make fonts bigger or to exploit colour more , he can make a copy of a hyperdocument and edit the context-specifications within the context-table . |
| 24 | Such a view tends to place less emphasis on the war between two countries and more on the internal conflict between the king of France and the duke of Aquitaine , a struggle between two blocks of territory and two rather different legal traditions : the ‘ Angevin empire ’ , once ruled by the English , representing the area of customary law and local independence , the other part of France the more centralising tradition based on Roman law . |
| 25 | If a deviant decides to produce more than the group norm , then all members of the group are threatened . |