Example sentences of "to [noun] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would impute to Parliament an intention to import the convention into domestic law ‘ by the back door . ’ |
| 2 | It would impute to Parliament an intention to import the convention into domestic law ‘ by the back door . ’ |
| 3 | The problem of planning a display in a carpeted room with no piano presented many difficulties — however the visit itself proved to ben an occasion to remember . |
| 4 | He took the second , whose number he had memorized three weeks earlier and dictated to Zack an hour before . |
| 5 | And they say a decision to route an ambulance carrying a fatally wounded Catholic man through heavy morning traffic on the Queen 's Bridge was the correct one in the circumstances . |
| 6 | Culver City , California-based Quality Software Products Inc is to debut an X-Windows version of its project management software , Masterplan 1.1X , which starts at $700 . |
| 7 | What has certainly decreased over the years is the proportion of analyses made by qualified statisticians ; the computer has brought to researchers an era of ‘ do-it-yourself ’ . |
| 8 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 9 | There are other exceptions besides consent : lawful chastisement of a child , force used to effect an arrest , reasonable force in self-defence or to prevent crime . |
| 10 | There are 3 indirection operators : The examples that follow assume that a DIM statement has been used to reserves an area of memory and store the address of the first byte of the memory in a variable called " mem " . |
| 11 | Your Big Mac index , and William Burke 's letter in the same issue about the yen-dollar exchange rate , brought to mind an explanation , which may be apocryphal , of how the exchange rate of ¥360 to $1 was arrived at during the occupation of Japan . |
| 12 | Prices range from £3 to £5 an hour for fairly basic digging , gardening , trimming work . |
| 13 | He leaned back often for a rest and once he got up to type an envelope on an old typewriter in the window . |
| 14 | As early as 1910 , Mercereau had sent to Russia an exhibition of works by Gleizes , Metzinger and Le Fauconnier , and a few artists whose aims he felt to be similar . |
| 15 | It was not just the veto which caused a crisis of confidence : every member had the right to blackball an applicant . |
| 16 | The next best compromise is a scanner which allows you to pre-scan an image and then select the part you want and its size . |
| 17 | While travelling from Kano to Lagos an officer of the French army recounts to a British member of the Nigerian Civil Service the mysterious circumstances in which , going to the relief of a desert fort manned by legionnaires , surrounded by rebel Tuaregs , he reaches his objective only to find no sign of a battle or siege , but a fort defended by corpses . |
| 18 | On Jan. 11 the APL newspaper Zëri i Popullit claimed that the " slanders " were the work of Albanian emigrés seeking to foment an uprising in order to restore the monarchy . |
| 19 | The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August pushed prices up to $413 an ounce although peace initiatives at the end of August [ see p. 37695 ] caused them to fall again to around $382 an ounce . |
| 20 | While one takes into account the concern of Calvin and the reformers for the balance between the light of scripture and the inner light and direction given to individuals an experience vouchsafe for countless times in both the Old and New Testaments also remembering our lord 's own use of silence in prayer and I believe the increasing use of silence in modern worship and may I also say how very impressed I was by Dr 's prayer at the opening of this assembly in which he asked for the guidance of God and indeed your own equally eloquent prayer on Sunday evening Moderator open to the prompting and leading and guiding of God 's spirit . |
| 21 | Home help charges can range from nothing to £5.50 an hour . |
| 22 | For all these reasons the composite figure of Fróda/Fróthi became to Tolkien an image of the sad truth behind heroic illusions , a kind of ember glowing in the dark sorrow of heathen ages . |
| 23 | The president of Prodigy Services Co says the viewdata system is considering a move away from its flat-fee monthly pricing and may start charging by usage for some features , including its bulletin boards : according to Communications Daily , Ross Glatzer said the company 's management is concerned about ‘ rapidly rising telecommunications costs , driven by soaring growth in members ’ use of a handful of features that are most expensive for Prodigy to provide — stock quotes and company news , bulletin boards and airline schedules ; ’ Glatzer said details still are being worked out , but ‘ it 's become clear we must introduce some timed charges for some features in the second half of this year , ’ adding that the problem is one of trying to use flat-rate pricing for some features for which others charge $6 to $18 an hour . |
| 24 | Reviewing the Salon d'Automne , Allard grouped together the work of Metzinger , Le Fauconnier and Gleizes , and , using one of the paintings shown by Metzinger an example , stated : ‘ there is thus being born in opposition to Impressionism an art which instead of copying natural phenomena , offers to the mind of the spectator , in their pictorial entirety , elements that as a result of synthesis are fundamental and timeless ’ . |
| 25 | That could mean that , like America 's Federal Reserve , he will later be trying to jump-start an economy already in slump . |
| 26 | And he once passed on to BitC an invitation he had received requesting him and the Princess to open the conference of a Brent Women 's Association , with a note saying , ‘ Do you think I should do it ? |
| 27 | Raw-material prices reflected concern about Russia , with platinum jumping almost $6 to $356 an ounce after a statement by the official Russian export agency threatening to restrict exports because of recent weak demand . |
| 28 | Political uncertainties in the Soviet Union and South Africa , which between them accounted for 55 per cent of the world 's gold supplies , helped bring the price of gold in February 1990 to $425 an ounce . |
| 29 | Rinelde Steeghs said that that move ’ would so infuriate Serbia and the Yugoslav army as to spell an end to the EC peace conference chaired by Lord Carrington . ’ |
| 30 | It was here that Aenarion 's sacred armour was forged , along with enough swords and suits of armour to outfit an army . |