Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Events that occur out of sight are automatically blamed on the child , or the mother may anticipate problems and keep warning or threatening the child in order to forestall a problem . |
| 2 | Better practice would have been to discharge such a patient on a Monday and monitor her progress daily , to forestall a weekend crisis . |
| 3 | FARMERS on Tealham and Tadham moors on the Somerset Levels are rushing to drain their land in order to forestall a plan by the Nature Conservancy Council to declare the area a Site of Special Scientific Interest for its rare combination of waterfowl , meadow plants and aquatic flora and fauna , Tom King , secretary of state for the environment , has already granted the council 's request for an emergency order to stop deep drains being installed on 30 hectares belonging to one farmer . |
| 4 | The Norwegian parliament reassembles on Wednesday , and on Friday the Prime Minister , Gro Harlem Brundtland , and her cabinet will present their resignations , to forestall a vote of no confidence . |
| 5 | The German explanation for the invasion of Belgium and Holland on 10 May 1940 — that it had been necessary in order to forestall a breach of neutrality by the enemy — carried less conviction than it had done in the Scandinavian operation . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , when a stag mates with a hind , he first scrapes a hole in the ground Then he gets her head and shoulders down the hole , leaving her rear end sticking up in the air so he can sort of get at her easier like . ’ |
| 7 | An actor whose best roles are behind him , he scrapes a living from voice-overs , sometimes for advertisements and sometimes , more desperately , for tapes for dodgy language schools . |
| 8 | Scottish fish merchants and processors also united last night in condemning a campaign by English fishermen to secure a ban on the import of Russian cod . |
| 9 | The Ayatollah was teaching in Qom when he was arrested in 1963 after condemning a raid on the college by the Shah 's security forces . |
| 10 | In Wheeler it was held that while section 71 of the Race Relations Act 1976 allowed the council to consider the best interests of race relations when exercising its discretion in the management of a recreation ground , it could not , in the absence of any infringement of the law or improper conduct penalise a rugby club for failure to support the council 's policy of condemning a tour of South Africa . |
| 11 | Given that , as Tracey and Morrison point out , her stance on sin would also involve condemning a number of heterosexual practices — her position was not simply something that was specifically ‘ anti-homosexual ’ . |
| 12 | Nor should the West be excessively high-minded now in condemning a regime which once served its anti-Soviet purposes so well . |
| 13 | On one interpretation , Galileo was trying to protect his Church from condemning a theory that , by its evident truth , would prove an embarrassment if not embraced . |
| 14 | ‘ There is no question of us condemning a referee here . |
| 15 | What if Famlio sends up a ship t'make a sweep ? |
| 16 | In addition , or on inland waters a dayglo orange flag is sufficient , which can be waved to indicate to onlookers that you are in difficulty . |
| 17 | Millwall took the lead in the 40th minute , when Malcolm Allen converted a penalty after Mark Robson had mis-timed a tackle on Kenny Cunningham . |
| 18 | The effect was to suggest that what mattered most was the urgent need to communicate a message rather than the need to construct a polished work of musical art . |
| 19 | One of them , it contends , is the ability to communicate a sense of urgency to people who work for you without haranguing and without being unpleasant . |
| 20 | This barrier becomes intensely noticeable when a member of one species needs urgently to communicate a matter of life or death to a member of another . |
| 21 | This quite different context allowed some observers of the city to communicate a view about the squalor of the Victorian legacy . |
| 22 | It is easy to assume that with so limited a population and tourists numbering a fraction of those who head for the sun , protection of the countryside is straightforward . |
| 23 | That court had , in fact , subpoenaed a draft copy of the Royal College of Physicians ' report on allergy . |
| 24 | Preventive vaccines are introduced into an immunologically naive system , whereas therapeutic vaccines encounter a system already immunologically primed . |
| 25 | They encounter a presence which transfigures their lives and , provided that they are temperamentally suited to this type of spiritual activity and have the benefit of expert advice , they experience a satisfaction which is real but inexpressible . |
| 26 | Among the best remembered are Anchors Aweigh ( 1945 ) , in which Gene Kelly as a sailor on leave in LA , teaches Jerry Mouse to dance ; Kelly again in the ‘ Sinbad The Sailor ’ segment of Invitation to the Dance , with music from Rimsky-Korsakov 's symphonic suite , Scheherazade ; and Mary Poppins ( 1964 ) , in which Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke encounter a variety of Disneyfied animals . |
| 27 | On the other hand , if I encounter a text which deals with an unfamiliar content area and does so in accordance. with communicative or rhetorical conventions which are new to me , then I obviously have to look much more closely at the language itself as a source of information as to what might be meant . |
| 28 | WE encounter a difficulty at the beginning of this part of the book by directing our attention to the solution of ‘ legal ’ problems . |
| 29 | At once we encounter a problem , namely which legal theory do we contemplate ? |
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