Example sentences of "an [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B I wan na know say , this guy is an impen — independent guy who can do fings on is own , I ca n't find I ca n't find all that shi%%eries in a day ! |
| 2 | They also belong to an enjoying retirement group run by Network , a local community organisation , which arranges outings , debates , and lectures in response to members ' ideas . |
| 3 | First , if an error ( even of rounding-off only ) is made during the successive squaring process , it is multiplied by itself unc subsequently , an persists through the calculations ; in the second method , if an error is made in calculating ci , this only amounts to choosing a new arbitrary column , an at worst may prolong the calculations . |
| 4 | You then go an make a cup of tea whilst the computer reads through all the files until it comes to the one you want . |
| 5 | A sports model , with an andrew to pilot it . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're an andrew . ’ |
| 7 | But yes , I 'm an andrew . |
| 8 | He had the open face of an andrew and the reassuring strength she had sensed in Juliet . |
| 9 | Henrietta 's brow was high , and her hair was scraped back from it and secured by an intricate velvet ribbon in a smooth , elaborate chignon : a Bambi head , a skull head , a too , too thin head , an over-bred head , a painful head . |
| 10 | The second step is to obtain C. For this we select the underlined element in B an evaluate in succession unc and then unc Note that the zero elements in B have become nonzero in C ; however , unc is now 2.19132 ; compare unc above . |
| 11 | If an EAT is given , carry out the Standard Procedure , noting the time on each pattern , and then adjust final patter(s) to desired time . |
| 12 | If both of you came , I could get a woman photographer along , so we could actually have an err , a — you know , err , a nice evening … ha-ha-haa-ha ! |
| 13 | Yet we did detect an easing off in harassment of Republicans and of itinerants . |
| 14 | The idea that Athens actually remitted all tribute that year can be dismissed — there is no other good evidence for an easing up in the way the empire was run . |
| 15 | In consequence , there was always a scramble to spend in the last half of the financial year when the danger of an underspend was becoming apparent . |
| 16 | In the former , the DoI budgeted to spend £24 million in 1982–83 but the true figure will be about £ 14 million , an underspend of 40 per cent . |
| 17 | You 've used , er , er , an underspend from this year rolled over , but you have n't increased the base budget to pay for the projection costs which came from erm , this year 's budget . |
| 18 | Over the coming weeks councillors will attempt to cover the £200,000 loss by finding other areas in this year 's budget where there has been an underspend . |
| 19 | I mean , I do n't think Colin 's unhappy where he wants to do , then an offers an offer , like either they go in and make share , but if they work all day . |
| 20 | erm , and , and , it could arise in many different circumstances , erm one can imagine a situation which wrongly expel erm a name from the market , well whatever the motives , that clearly distorts competition cos there 's one rule , one less competitor in the market , erm it , it 's con , it , it 's conceivable that an article eighty five argument could arise and an expel name could raise a point , whether he succeeds is another matter , but at that point and , and in relation to that he may say well I can sue you because you 've excluded me you 've restricted competition or you 've excluded a group of names |
| 21 | Oh course I can Erm there was a game that we called er Tin Lurky You probably wo n't well you never hear that expression now and er we used to get this old t any tin can and er you somebody would kick it you see and er the one that was sort of one used to have to fur and fetch this tin an bring it back again and then was should all hide , sounds a daft silly game , I know , but this one had to find us and the first one he found it was his turn next to fetch the tin and then find us again . |
| 22 | We 've had er callers earlier on suggesting that there could be problems between Russians and Lithuanians if an goes there , which seems almost certain it will now . |
| 23 | Beside him stood his clerk , Ambrose Venner , a young man with thinning hair and the fat , cheerful face of an over-fed scholar . |
| 24 | Foucault is particularly critical of the appropriating structure of totalization , Marxist or otherwise , insofar as it implies the superiority of the theorist who produces the totalization of knowledge ; in the same way , he distrusts the use of history as an encompassing framework because it works as a power structure that enables the expropriation and control of the past according to the perspective and truth of the present . |
| 25 | Here , then , manufacture as technology involving materials with certain properties becomes an integral part of the emergence of culture incorporating the visual embodiment of the nature and legitimacy of a certain social order , which in turn forms part of an encompassing ontology ( Goldman 1975 : chapter nine ) . |
| 26 | The battle to rid the canal of mink is being organised by Mow Cop AC secretary Phil Carr who put out an appear for other clubs with a mink problem to contact him . |
| 27 | This contains copies of all figures , charts , drawings and diagrams used in the seminar ; each one illustrating a particular system , concept or term , in an easy-to-remember form . |
| 28 | Here the difficulty I found in talking about psychoanalytic criticism is compounded , not because I am an unbeliever , but because anything that the middle-aged male commentator says about feminism is liable to be wrong : to be approving may be condemned as patronizing , and to be critical is to be sexist . |
| 29 | On Europe , she was an agnostic rather than an unbeliever . |
| 30 | There is something puzzling here , since Mrs Moore , though an unbeliever , had been happy to have her own daughter confirmed , and there is a steady succession of references in Jack 's letters and diaries , during the years 1919–1931 , of attendance at church with Minto . |