Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [conj] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | When President Lech Walesa refused to accept the government 's resignation , preferring to suspend parliament and call an election , it looked more worrying still . |
| 2 | The awards are held at the Bains Douches club and provide an opportunity for the exhausted fashion business to get together , congratulate each other , slag each other off , and get appallingly drunk . |
| 3 | So we let them go on in their grubby little greedy ways while we looked at papers and account books and took an inventory of the wine-cellar and just watched how the system operated . ’ |
| 4 | One senior officer described policewomen as having an ‘ instinct for tidiness ’ which made them good administrators ( FN 30/11/87 , p. 33 ) ; frequently they were described as being suited to dealing with child and female offences because of their more compassionate natures compared to male colleagues . |
| 5 | She knows that if she had pointed this out to William , and expressed her own wish to take child , and papers , to the Common , William would obligingly have offered to stay at home and chop carrots and peel potatoes and keep an eye on the lamb in the oven . |
| 6 | St Clears Chamber of Trade and Commerce have been landscaping the approaches to the town in order to attract visitors and provide an amenity for local residents . |
| 7 | Keep it in the quarantine tank , cease medication and keep an eye on it for the next few months . |
| 8 | Symmetry thus has focus and possesses an internal force field . |
| 9 | That also contained rabbits and provided an escape route . |
| 10 | The WHO report says we do n't need sugar and sets an upper limit of 10 per cent of total calorie intake from added sugar . |
| 11 | Hearing the stranger 's voice become louder and angrier still , she raised one long booted leg and aimed an almighty kick at the door . |
| 12 | It is a measure of Minton 's professionalism that he continued to meet deadlines and to produce an abundance of work . |
| 13 | Less severely , the overseas government might unexpectedly introduce factors that render an overseas investment less attractive , e.g. the imposition of capital controls , additional taxes or transaction costs . |
| 14 | Bertrand Russell described mathematics as having an austere beauty like sculpture . |
| 15 | The whole-tone , or hexatonic , scale comprises only tones and no semitones , and so only two different scales are possible ( Example 80 ) : As the mixing of these two scales would introduce semitones and produce an effect of chromaticism , usually , in order to create the particular mood of whole-tone music , only one is used at a time . |
| 16 | Many people might think that a person who causes death whilst using an unlawfully held firearm or explosives ought to be convicted of murder because there is , generally speaking , no excuse for using such dangerous equipment . |
| 17 | For example , we would expect to find cells that give an excitatory response to long wavelength light shone on one part of the retina and an inhibitory response to long wavelength light shone on to an adjacent part . |
| 18 | Six months ago I moved house and acquired an 18′ × 9′ × 2′ pond . |
| 19 | Generally they must save or enhance lives and offer an advance on current therapy . |
| 20 | This tactic was an error for in the 1850s the S&DR made building and repairs an in-house operation so decimating Alfred 's business . |
| 21 | Active since 1987 , it has spent the intervening years seeking solutions that combine an adequate defence of the city against flooding with reestablishment and conservation of the environmental characteristics peculiar to the Lagoon and the safeguarding of economic interests on the surrounding hinterland . |
| 22 | He describes the individual interacting with the social world by filling roles that constitute an identity for her : |
| 23 | Thresher 's Operations Director for Wine Retailing , is a shining example of the value Whitbread places on its existing employees who show ambition and take an active role in furthering their careers . |
| 24 | I have always got up early and even now in my 75th year I can hunt , climb mountains and cover an 8 ‘ ft ‘ by 4 ‘ ft ‘ canvas in one day . |
| 25 | The new Converse leather hi top basketball shoes cost £69.95 and have an ankle support that pulls back to let the foot in . |
| 26 | In late June Ben Ali appointed as " first adviser to the President on human rights " Sadok Chaabane and announced an inquiry into the allegations in co-operation with the Tunisian League of Human Rights ( LTDH ) . |
| 27 | By road take the motorway N1 heading west from Bern , taking care in 12km ( 7 ½miles ) not to take the exit for Kerzers and Neuchatel but to continue on the motorway as it curves south and becomes an ordinary national road a short distance from Murten Murten lies beside the lake which bears its name , close to the linguistic frontier between French and German speech . |
| 28 | ‘ … the house roared approval and demanded an encore ’ THE LINCOLN STAR |
| 29 | Investigators from the British Parachute Association have already visited Eastnor and started an inquiry |
| 30 | Despite these outstandingly interesting and important findings , which support Galton and throw an entirely new light on the whole topic of intelligence , none of the contributors mentions the work of S. Lehrl and others in Germany , which demonstrates very high correlations between IQ tests and simple speed of naming of numbers and letters ; this too throws much doubt on the theories embraced in this book . |