Example sentences of "and [vb -s] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both these versions of the expertise theory assure us that the special expertise of directors at once justifies conferring upon them the discretion to run the business and imposes a restraint on how they exercise that discretion . |
| 2 | Section 1 of the Education ( Scotland ) Act 1981 gives parents a right to select the school they wish their children to attend and imposes a duty on education authorities to comply with parental choice , unless one of a limited number of circumstances applies . |
| 3 | The relatively low slewing rate of the LM308A is responsible for this and imposes a limit on clock frequency of 15kHz if such an eventuality is at all likely . |
| 4 | 5.20 Keyholders To ensure that at all times the Landlord has [ and the local Police force has ] written notice of the name home address and home telephone number of at least [ 2 ] key holder[s] of the Premises While this is not necessarily objectionable it is a provision that is easily overlooked and imposes an obligation on the tenant which may not be appropriate in the circumstances . |
| 5 | He co-wrote a song with me on my new album and plays a bit of guitar . |
| 6 | He 's bowling with considerable pace there , did Lawrence , that wicket 's cheered him up and he was rushing in , he 's got his line right , round that off stump and plays a bit of a open face anyway , so those in the slip Gordon beware and the one that did get an edge , it flew through , both Ian Botham who 's at second and Graham Gooch , they both stand pretty close , they work on the theory that it 's better to drop them then to have them bouncing in front of you , but they could have been about five yards deeper in that , the one , that , that went flying through with the character . |
| 7 | Second , it could be argued that this system removes any incentive for sound financial control at local level and constitutes a divorce between management responsibility and financial accountability of the kind severely criticized by the 1976 Layfield Report on local government finance . |
| 8 | A manufacturer takes responsibility for his product 's compliance and signs a declaration of conformity to say that the equipment meets an appropriate European ‘ harmonised ’ standard . |
| 9 | Ideal for small gardens , the weeping cotoneaster hybridus Pendulus has a striking leaf and outline , and produces a mass of brilliant red fruit . |
| 10 | Sadat opens his airline holdall and produces a bottle of Moet-Chandon , deftly flips off the cork and pours a golden stream into two plastic toothmugs . |
| 11 | The human gene is approximately 200 kb , contains 27 exons , and produces a message of 4.7 kb in humans and 4.6 kb in mice . |
| 12 | The program then processes these selections and produces a shortlist of five machines for you to consider . |
| 13 | Analysts would dispute the ASB 's characterisation of their approach , but it is the unsophisticated user that Mr Bradfield is concerned about : ‘ FRS 3 gives the user a selection of information that lacks coherence and produces a number of meaningless headline figures … normally it will require translation . ’ |
| 14 | The region was established in Roman times , and produces a number of wines that are highly prized by the French . |
| 15 | If the subject contrast is very flat the dilution of Rodinal can be lowered to 1:25 or even less so that the increased developer activity boosts the exposed high-tone areas and produces a negative with an expanded tonal range . |
| 16 | A first pass program keeps a record of available head and tail strings of words already stored in the dawg , and produces a list of transitions between the nodes , or states of the dawg . |
| 17 | It is only through difference , by which the same becomes other and produces a tissue of differences , that history could ever take place : for if full presence were possible , then there would be no difference , and therefore no time , space — or history . |
| 18 | Transparent fuel pipe , as used on motorcycles and many cars , is easily obtained , economic and fulfils a variety of purposes as a spar joiner . |
| 19 | This Movement now exists in many countries and fulfils a need in elderly people . |
| 20 | Each city and settlement trains and equips a body of spearmen and archers in proportion to their population , the retinues of the High Elf nobles also contribute to the levy . |
| 21 | Set mostly in America , it follows the plight of a poor Irish girl who marries into New York society and inherits a host of hostile relations . |
| 22 | THE COMMITMENTS is Alan Parker 's new film and represents a change of direction for him which has been phenomenally successful . |
| 23 | Rather , it is a project which comes from the author 's biography and represents a return to an action-research exercise of the mid-1970s . |
| 24 | As the World Bank noted in its debt tables released this week : ‘ The large foreign debt burden , in conjunction with domestic fiscal crises , continues to feed uncertainties regarding long-term investment and represents a drain on resources . ’ |
| 25 | It would not be too misleading to say that it lives up to its name and represents a measure of the degree of " business " of the electron following that particular path . |
| 26 | In fact it was unfair and represents a furtherance of Hope 's ambition of a Gothic Foreign Office . |
| 27 | Although at first sight the Bull-Leaping Fresco found in the cellars of the Labyrinth 's East Wing seems in its present reconstruction to show , on the left , a bull-leaper waiting to be hoisted into the air , the figure is in fact a bull-grappler and represents a group of two , three or four grapplers whose job it was to pad the horns , keep the bull 's head low and the rest of its body still during the leap . |
| 28 | TFIIF , possibly along with TFIIE , might be involved in a change of DNA conformation around the initiation site that is induced by binding of RNA polymerase II to the preformed DAB complex and represents a transition from a closed to an open complex ( 30 ) . |
| 29 | As for resources , the hon. Lady will know that we spent about £3 billion on the health service in Scotland last year , which is more than £600 per head for every man , woman and child in the country and represents an increase of about 38 per cent . |
| 30 | A change in status may occur without a change of version ( since the text itself is unaltered ) , and represents an investment of editorial labour which should be recorded so that it is not needlessly repeated e.g. after database recovery due to media failure . |