Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To catch a frisky horse or a young colt in a field the horseman placed a little of the mixture of oil of origanum , oil of rosemary , oil of cinnamon , and oil of fennel about his person . |
| 2 | From the outset , Nigeria and Iran sought quota improvements and in the late 1980s there arose some aggrieved discussion of the UAE 's insistence on setting its own unilateral quota ( 1.5 million as against the 0.948 set by the Vienna conference in 1987 ) and vehement debate with both Iraq and Iran , neither of which was willing to accept a lower quota than the other 's . |
| 3 | to establish a Benevolent Fund and a Medical Benefits Provident Fund and other such Funds either contributory or non-contributory , to be administered by the Executive Committee in accordance with bye-laws made for that purpose ; |
| 4 | In 1439 a further attempt was made to secure a diplomatic settlement when the French , the English , and the Burgundians ( but not the representatives of the Church , excluded by the English for their alleged partiality at Arras ) met near Calais in the summer of that year . |
| 5 | It was this inability to up the run rate that coach Jim Love blamed for the defeat , though it has to be said that Storie had done well to repair a bad start when the Scots lost both openers , Bruce Patterson and Iain Philip , on 17 . |
| 6 | The writer is aware of an agreement for lease granted in 1965 purporting to grant a 21-year lease where the landlord was still not in a position to grant the lease by the expiration of the agreed term in 1986 . |
| 7 | The principal effect of referring to rules of private international law to extend the scope of a Convention would seem to be to displace a possible presumption that the parties , in choosing the law of a Contracting State , intended only its domestic law to apply ( that is , without the Convention ) and to impose on them the onus of displacing the Convention . |
| 8 | In August 1985 the Supreme Council of the Afghan mujahidin Alliance , based in Peshawar , reiterated that its goal was the establishment of an independent Islamic state and declared that no power had the right to impose a political solution or a leadership on Afghanistan that did not satisfy the resistance fronts . |
| 9 | If approval is not granted , Stewart Gallimore , principal officer at North Yorkshire SSD , fears that magistrates may be tempted to impose a tougher sentence than the offence warrants — so young women will lost out yet again . |
| 10 | To provide a polite reminder that the country was started by Englishmen they took the Queen to a hostel called Raffles Hall and Westin Stamfords , another hotel . |
| 11 | If the intent was to provide a lengthy editorial and a persuasive argument for abandoning the Unix System , it was a credible effort . |
| 12 | In general , all that is needed to provide a given attenuation and an input resistance equal to the load resistance is a resistive network with two independently selectable resistances . |
| 13 | I 'm banking on Howarth — and Estabs come to that — concluding that it 's easier to find a forensic biologist than a Document Examiner . " |
| 14 | I have yet to find a random cat or a one-dimensional flock of 30 ducks. ) ( 6 ) Ducks feel more at ease when with other ducks . |
| 15 | But well you know , it seems , that one such attempt has been ruined and rejected by the council , and it may take us a weary while to find a fair agreement and a council sobered enough and sensible enough to abide by it . |
| 16 | I arrived breathless , to find a large crowd and a respectable covering of snow on the summit . |
| 17 | Just by stepping out of your hotel , you are more than likely to find a tree-lined road and a hand-made mosaic stone footpath . |
| 18 | For example , the history seminar had to struggle to find a two-hour block and the language class could never achieve the desired continuity by organizing its contact time over three , let alone four days of the week . |
| 19 | It is not surprising , therefore , to find a widespread feeling that an ageing population is already a burden and threatens to be an even greater one in the future . |
| 20 | Athelstan was about to snarl a further retort when the coroner 's words suddenly quickened his own memories . |
| 21 | There are certain requirements to be complied with in order for a purchaser to obtain a better title than the seller : |
| 22 | It is sometimes possible to obtain a coercive order if a defendant deliberately refuses to comply with a declaration , but this is exceptional and does not invalidate the general argument . |
| 23 | A large lexicon system demands a huge corpus to obtain a satisfactory model and a large amount of storage for the resultant transition matrices . |
| 24 | SPORT 'S role as a major employer and contributor to government coffers has helped it to discover a latent power and a voice of its own , discarding its traditionally apolitical posture in the process . |
| 25 | Normally we have three or four months between the decision to launch a new product and the actual launch date . |
| 26 | Help me to know a new start and a new strength as I seek to repair the wrong I 've done . |
| 27 | This is surprising since the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) has ruled in that the refusal to engage a pregnant woman and a dismissal on grounds of pregnancy are a form of direct discrimination covered by Council Directive 76/207/ EEC without the necessity to resort to comparisons with the treatment which would be meted out to a man in a comparable situation . |
| 28 | If ULEAC decided to set a higher fee than the other boards , the discount might be worthless , he said . |
| 29 | The 1982 Local Government Finance Act abolished the right of authorities to set a supplementary rate and the 1984 Rates Act empowered the government to limit the spending and rates of centrally defined overspending authorities . |
| 30 | The mission , said to reflect a growing realization that the Afghan resistance had failed to achieve the US administration 's objective of overthrowing the Kabul government , was in anticipation of a meeting later in the year between US Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and also came amid accelerating efforts by the UN to secure Soviet support for its own peace initiative . |