Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adv] [vb base] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minimising — admitting that one or two staff members drink a bit or perhaps use a bit of cannabis or maybe occasionally get into trouble with the consequences of drinking too much but insisting that the Company has more important problems to deal with and that it is not the Company rule nor responsibility to deal with these problems . |
| 2 | It 's also ironic that the whole discussion could have taken place on radio , which would have enabled one to look for a dictionary or just take a walk round the room . |
| 3 | Can farmers cut spraying and still make a living ? |
| 4 | The desire to ingratiate a way into the listener 's consciousness and thus inveigle an all-important content is the reason all these groups draw inspiration from Sinatra , Bacharach and David , Sondheim , Steely Dan , early seventies ' soul , to produce slick , crafted , sophisticated pop . |
| 5 | The basic purpose of this filter is to smooth out the chopped waveform appearing from the switch and so provide a steady output voltage across a load resistance R L , though it does this job in an unconventional way . |
| 6 | Accordingly , their Lordships will humbly advise Her Majesty that the appeal should be allowed and the case remitted to the Court of Appeal with the direction that that court should quash the conviction of the defendant and either enter a verdict of acquittal or order a new trial , whichever course it considers proper in the interests of justice . |
| 7 | Some have therefore concluded that such a tax deduction system would increase the flow of revenue to charities by more than the tax loss and hence produce an increase in social service provision . |
| 8 | Will the Treasury guarantee the long term investment programme and not require an eight per cent return from Railtrack on such investment ? |
| 9 | Because I think there has been a trend , has there not , in recent years where people tend to take a main holiday perhaps on the continent and then have a second holiday in this country . |
| 10 | However , it is possible to lose weight and not suffer a large drop in metabolic rate . |
| 11 | How the hell did a man stop being an agent and suddenly become a civil servant ? |
| 12 | The analysis of these data together with the use of hitherto unused qualitative information will provide the first detailed and accurate account of bank behaviour with respect to lending practice and thus allow a proper assessment of the central issues . |
| 13 | We have recently altered this practice and now use a multiplex polymerase chain reaction that detects 98% of mutations , and we use Southern blotting analysis for confirmation . |
| 14 | Three triplet quavers appear fairly early in the piece and then become a frequent feature , but of course these can be regarded as a diminution of cell b in its three-note form . |
| 15 | For example , the man may travel to work each day by car and so carry an extra £20 with him just in case his vehicle breaks down and needs to be repaired at once . |
| 16 | Police said : ‘ This was a stupid prank and probably cost a young man his life . |
| 17 | He jumped from fence to fence and never put a foot wrong . ’ |
| 18 | I buy a packet of Silk Cut and carefully smoke a cigarette — making sure that I 'm actually enjoying it , not just doing it out of habit — while managing to fit in a couple of large and very refreshing G&Ts before the flight 's called and there 's just time for a single knocked-back whisky to provide a bit of nominal support for the Scottish export drive . |
| 19 | be working in appropriate concurrent full-time employment in the hospitality industry and normally hold a post involving section or departmental responsibilities |
| 20 | It is possible to cater for a sweet tooth and still have a healthy diet . |
| 21 | But even a Ministry Curriculum Development Centre can find itself in some sense isolated from the main machinery of educational planning and administration and thus acquire a certain sense of unreality . |
| 22 | Nothing Mr Landor could do could touch her any longer — she could endure rages , witness violence and not flicker an eyelid . |
| 23 | The main concern of the purchaser will be whether to rely on the sale and purchase contract as constituting the assignment between the purchaser and the vendor or whether to issue notices of assignment to each party to the contracts after completion and so achieve a statutory assignment rather than an equitable assignment . |
| 24 | So you 'd work a nine day stretch and then have a load of days off ? |
| 25 | Since the ITVA can , however , approve a script and then reject a film on the grounds that it does not conform to the script ( or the letter of the script ) , the agency and the production house have to be very careful how they interpret the outcome of discussions with the ITVA . |
| 26 | It was a neat line to end on and she used it to excuse herself and go upstream to wash , using the chilly water to freeze her blood and perhaps put a coat of ice about her heart . |
| 27 | I was instructed not to be too early — to wait quietly outside the entrance and not make a nuisance of myself . |
| 28 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 29 | They weave from side to side and usually havenm't a clue what they 're doing |
| 30 | It was the same sort of hysteria after the Hungerford massacre which persuaded a weak and inexperienced Home Secretary to give the police unfettered discretion to bully , terrorise and generally make a nuisance of themselves among law-abiding sportsmen . |