Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baker met for talks with a three-member Palestinian delegation led by Faisal al-Husseini , director of the East Jerusalem Institute of Arab Studies , on July 21 . |
| 2 | The whole system of things and people which surrounds us coerces us to be conformist ; even if you want to be a social rebel you will still have to go about things in a conventional way if you are to gain recognition and not be rated as insane . |
| 3 | The Buid and Semai examples should also serve as a caution against theories about violence and aggression which treat them as typically involving a contest between two balanced opponents competing for access to a scarce resource . |
| 4 | There had been fears that the entry of SeaCat into the cross-Channel route would mean more companies competing for business in a static market . |
| 5 | Büchler reported that CRP showed an overall accuracy of 93% in the detection of pancreatic necrosis ; a serum CRP concentration of > or <100 mg/l distinguished between patients with a better or worse prognosis with 100% sensitivity and 86% specificity . |
| 6 | Above all , what needs to be explained is how we distinguish between places in a phenomenological space and places in an objective space . |
| 7 | I conceive that the promise would not be binding for want of a previous request by the testator . |
| 8 | This assumption may be relaxed to a certain extent by allowing for tenure over a specified number of ( exogenously chosen ) periods ( see NN ) or for random terminations ( see Lancaster and Chesher , 1983 ) . |
| 9 | Is the contract on " written standard terms " if the terms are held on a word processor and one term is altered for dealings with a particular customer ? ( b ) A business regularly contracts on terms prepared by its trade association : are those terms its " written standard terms " ? ( c ) A business makes individual contracts by telephone , or other instantaneous communication , but incorporates its normal terms of business into the contracts by express oral reference , or by a course of dealing ; are the terms then " written standard terms " ? ( d ) Are terms " standard " on the first occasion they are used ? ( e ) A business has negotiated a set of terms for use on all contracts with a particular customer . |
| 10 | More to the point , the passage has a rhythmic regularity which enables it to be written out and scanned as poetry in a quasi-blank-verse metre : He has learned an alphabet of arch and aisle : The language of dim stairs and moth-hung rafters . |
| 11 | During the second phase of the UGIX project a new interface ‘ shell ’ is being developed as part of a generic GIS-independent approach to GIS user interfaces ( Raper and Bundock 1991 ) . |
| 12 | His Pakistan team-mate , paceman Wasim Akram , re-signed for Lancashire in a five-year deal worth around £250,000 . |
| 13 | Nearby is Middleton Hall , whose gardens are freely open to the public and are currently being examined for development as a Welsh National Botanical site . |
| 14 | An additional power is given by section 8 which allows an application to be made to a magistrate for a warrant to search for evidence of a serious arrestable offence . |
| 15 | That is , instead of using the card catalogue , the pupils could use the microcomputer in the school library to search for information on a particular topic . |
| 16 | In the summers I rode for hours on a white pedal car with a hooter and real spark plugs . |
| 17 | The male ruff is a long-legged wading bird whose head and neck feathers are specially developed for use in a jumping display on a lek display ground . |
| 18 | Such searches may be undertaken as part of a comprehensive strategic review or in order to assist a client in implementing an agreed acquisition strategy . |
| 19 | Valuation problems are exacerbated when privatisation has been undertaken as part of a wider adjustment to outward-looking policies . |
| 20 | Most serious in parts of Catalonia , in Aragon and in neighbouring Rioja , the movement was eventually suppressed with military force ; the strength and resilience of Aragonese anarchism were nevertheless still evident in the spring of 1934 , when the regional capital , Zaragoza , was paralysed for weeks by a general strike . |
| 21 | Half a mile past this the path branches off to the right , and goes through plantations to a large open glade known as the dry loch . |
| 22 | The belief underlying such proposals is that many older people are only referred for treatment at a late stage of dependency when treatment is less effective and more expensive . |
| 23 | On the basis of these authorities , we would hold that both litigation costs and non-litigation costs can be referred for quantification to a taxing master to be taxed . |
| 24 | Then you have to divide them up into those which make slender trees and others which remain as bushes with a fountain-like outline . |
| 25 | Those are just three of the reasons I am pleased Alan Peaford has agreed to chair Editing for Industry for a fourth term . |
| 26 | Psychology is normally taught as part of a Biological Sciences degree programme , but there is also a joint degree with Artificial Intelligence . |
| 27 | In the forest here , as elsewhere , the wild cocoa trees reach their full natural height of 20 m or so ( under plantation conditions cocoa trees rarely exceed 10 m ) and develop as clusters of a dozen or more leaning trunks . |
| 28 | They asked for information in a general way about various obvious crimes that had taken place in south-east Antrim . |
| 29 | I did not exist for Jean-Claude as a separate human being with needs of my own . |
| 30 | Sid Vicious — a simple-minded soul with no ideology save revenge , careering through life like a bad accident looking for somewhere to happen . |