Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be an advantage to seek out owners of major tracts of land and minerals such as the Crown Estate Commissioners , the Duchy of Cornwall , the Church Commissioners , the Forestry Commission , sporting estates , water authorities and , increasingly , pension funds and other financial institutions . |
| 2 | It is caused by an inability to break down trimethylamine , a by-product of food digestion that smells strongly of fish . |
| 3 | Although the courts do have wide powers to re-allocate property and can require an ex-husband to take out life assurance , such arrangements do not necessarily compensate for the loss of an index-linked widow 's pension in old age or a lump sum and widow 's pension payable on a husband 's death in service . |
| 4 | Trickstick is based on a novel electrical effect , it uses the human body as an aerial to pick up mains hum . |
| 5 | Prospective students seeking an award to carry out postgraduate work at the University may obtain application forms and further particulars for the following awards from the appropriate Faculty Administrative Officer ( see page 46 ) . |
| 6 | There is an opportunity to carry out research with a strong international content . |
| 7 | The objective of summarizing is to check on the level of understanding and give an opportunity to sort out misunderstandings . |
| 8 | It not only gives the inexperienced teacher an opportunity to build up confidence , it also gets children used to role play being taken seriously . |
| 9 | A meeting at the end of the Summer term provides an opportunity to sum up progress over the year and to talk parents through school reports particularly in terms of National Curriculum attainment levels and programmes of study . |
| 10 | ‘ The large number of non-farming visitors to the show gives an opportunity to show how research scientists are helping farmers protect the environment and avoid pollution as well as producing food as efficiently and economically as possible , ’ said WBPS spokeswoman Pat Twigg . |
| 11 | A population of women presenting for artificial donor insemination provides an opportunity to study prospectively determinants of fecundity while controlling for possible confounders . |
| 12 | A few sniffers may use solvents in an attempt to blot out problems that they already have . |
| 13 | He called for both prosecution and defence to declare their hands fully to each other before the start of a serious fraud case in an attempt to speed up proceedings . |
| 14 | It reported that the process of falling in love was being studied at the University of Leicester in an attempt to explain how men and women select their partners . |
| 15 | The acquisition theory of language development is an attempt to explain how children acquire the rules of grammar . |
| 16 | Outside the corridors the 15-year-old civil war between the government and the MNR continued with its accustomed brutality as the rebels mounted attacks in an attempt to take over positions previously controlled by the Zimbabwean army . |
| 17 | Typically , it consists in an attempt to ward off criticism or some other kind of attack on the part of an authority figure by means of exchanging subject for object and thus putting the recipient of the attack in the place of the attacker . |
| 18 | POLICE are examining security videos in an attempt to track down arsonists who set fire to a football ground and laid booby traps just hours before Middlesbrough played there . |
| 19 | Moxon 's first revised plan was to continue the first innings on 317 for seven but he then decided to declare in an attempt to bowl out Somerset twice . |
| 20 | Participant observation , then , is an attempt to put both observer and observed on the same side by making the former a member of the group so that he can experience what they experience and work within their frame of reference . |
| 21 | John Hoerner , who became Burton 's chief executive 12 months ago , plans to upgrade the group 's 1,700 high street stores and 88 Debenhams branches in an attempt to win back customers . |
| 22 | With VAT on fuel bills scheduled for 1994 and 1995 , the strategy is beginning to shape up as one aimed at allowing the Conservatives to go for a tax-cutting Budget in 1996 or 1997 in an attempt to win back ground in the run-up to the election . |
| 23 | Studies previous to the Sadler/Spencer survey have concentrated , for the most part , on attitudes to domestic energy conservation , in an attempt to discover why programmes aimed at promoting conservation have not been taken up as widely as expected and hoped . |
| 24 | Both Watanjar and Patkin were leading Khalqis , a detail that was stressed by the government in an attempt to play down divisions within the party . |
| 25 | It was reported on Oct. 14 , 1989 , that the first attempt to bring together COMECON and EC officials in Moscow was effectively boycotted by the EC in an attempt to play down links between the two organizations in favour of developing bilateral relations . |
| 26 | Surplus crops in wheat , cotton and wool were bought up by government-financed Stabilization Corporations , in an attempt to keep up prices in these commodities . |
| 27 | This is why this volume is concerned with an attempt to tie together policy , theory and practice . |
| 28 | On May 17 the Estonian Supreme Soviet banned political strikes in an attempt to head off stoppages threatened by the United Council of Work Collectives to start on May 21 . |
| 29 | This appeared to be an attempt to stake out territory in the run-up to Bosnia 's likely recognition by the EC as an independent state . |
| 30 | By ‘ unbundling ’ itself in an attempt to fight off Sir James , B.A.T seems to be agreeing . |