Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The magazine yesterday launched an appeal , which it called ‘ Lemon Fund ’ to raise money for an eventual settlement or to finance an appeal . |
| 2 | When you tell a story or describe an experience the children should illustrate , you must be careful to give a suitable subject . |
| 3 | That you do n't take it upon yourself to plead my case or to point an accusing finger at Sandra . ’ |
| 4 | Instead of all the problems of finding or developing an appropriate sampling frame , and of drawing the sample randomly from the list , the quota sample is usually drawn by the interviewer . |
| 5 | This often results in delay — postponing the choice by finding an excuse or setting an unnecessarily long timescale . |
| 6 | Students dreaded being assigned to these small towns where there were few opportunities to develop their talents or lead an interesting life . |
| 7 | If you can not do everything at once , or want to start making staged improvements , either concentrate on your first priorities ( leaving space for the next stages ) or your worst problems-depending on whether you are planning a first-time kitchen or updating an existing one . |
| 8 | However his second Service is marked by a peculiarly English innovation : the introduction of passages for solo voice and organ , which plays not a continuo role but polyphony to which the voice doubles a part or supplies an otherwise missing one : |
| 9 | There is no truth that er ministers intend to withdraw from the I L O or to seek an opportunity to do so and despite T U C criticism , as I said earlier , we believe that our policies comply with all the I L O conventions which we 've ratified and as my honourable friends have pointed out , our overriding objective is to ensure the maintenance of continuous operations at G C H Q which is vital to the protection of national security . |
| 10 | ‘ This is to ignore the fact that in the administration of justice in this country , the authority of any judicial pronouncement depends not upon the personal authority of the judge concerned , but upon the capacity in which he gives a decision or expresses an opinion . |
| 11 | Propagation velocity had to be neither more than 8.3 cm/s nor less than 1 cm/s ; ( 8 ) non-propagated contractions ( No/24 h ) , defined as contraction waves that are not associated with a proximal contraction wave or have an apparent propagation velocity >8.3 cm/s . |
| 12 | A classic example of the latter category is a decision not to appoint or not to promote an employee or office holder or to fail an examinee . |
| 13 | Where there is a slight risk in the event of a swing , a pilot may be said to have made a simple error of judgement or taken an unnecessary risk . |
| 14 | Where drug actions are known , they have been found to exert an effect on the body 's metabolic processes — that is , our inner chemical workings — inhibiting or stimulating enzyme function or having an effect on their control mechanisms . |
| 15 | 17032 married white women aged 25–39 years at entry during 1968–74 who were taking oral contraceptives or using an intrauterine device or diaphragm . |
| 16 | They were : ( a ) murders in the course or furtherance of theft , ( b ) murders by shooting or causing an explosion , ( c ) murders in the course or for the purpose of resisting lawful arrest or of escaping from legal custody , ( d ) murders of police officers in the execution of their duty and persons assisting them , and ( e ) murders by prisoners of prison officers in the execution of their duty and persons assisting them . |
| 17 | The system should assume that the top-rated candidates are correct unless the user chooses another of the existing candidates or enters an alternative word . |
| 18 | At home it may in some cases be the parents who notice something ‘ odd ’ about their baby 's eyes or feel an unease about the baby 's visual behaviour . |
| 19 | In his letter of Aug. 14 Saddam had underlined his determination " not to keep any of Iraq 's potential outside the arena of the great duel " and it was widely believed that this implied either an intention to consolidate Iraqi gains in Kuwait or launch an attack against Saudi Arabia . |
| 20 | It is therefore unlikely that a woman could either infect a lavatory seat or bring an infectable part of her anatomy in contact with such a seat . |
| 21 | If you have to compromise , change your mind or adapt an idea , make a new list , date it and file it so that you end up with a master check list that is a complete record of the whole procedure . |
| 22 | The arbitrator will be able , with the consent of the parties , to get in an expert witness or procure an expert report . |
| 23 | You must pass the package to the package manager for entry or obtain an active DC referencing the package . |
| 24 | The skill in producing ‘ machine ’ music requires far less effort or commitment than that of someone who chooses to learn to play a musical instrument or make an artistic statement — however lowly . |
| 25 | These questions are not in themselves new and may be familiar to anyone who has had to design a catalogue , prepare a report , give a talk or write an essay . |
| 26 | There must also , normally , be a procedure for making the new rule or amending an old one . |
| 27 | So be on your guard if you are offered a new way to cure gout see in the dark or watch an eclipse of the Sun . |
| 28 | If he does not declare an intention to defend the action or make an offer , the second date , known as the calling date , is the date on which the claimant can ask for a Decree from the court declaring that the debtor owes him the sum sued for . |
| 29 | The Peak Park Board can either take enforcement action or establish an effective management system . |
| 30 | The Committee further proposed that the Attorney-General should be able to act on his or her own initiative and apply to intervene in an action or to pursue an appeal even where the parties had settled their differences . |