Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Three questions were asked about life and afterlife in the voluntary sector , and the response produced a strikingly confused portrait . |
| 32 | The response followed a report by royal correspondent Simon McCoy . |
| 33 | The response showed a significant shift , with more people ending up opposing the death penalty , even for the specific offence of terrorist murder . |
| 34 | Thus , if in the year 1992/93 the income was £100 and the trustees paid the basic rate of tax because the income had a UK source of £25 and the additional rate of tax of £10 the amount of income available at the end of 1993 is £65 . |
| 35 | If they are not resident in the United Kingdom then they will be assessed only if the income has a UK source . |
| 36 | Perhaps this is merely to say that the pluralist has a theory of language , whereas the monist does not . |
| 37 | The Premier cancelled a trip to Spain at the last minute as the sick pound hit its lowest level since joining the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 38 | In strong winds , however , the sides of the tent had a tendency to cave in and flap about . |
| 39 | The tent had a damp patch where it sagged between the poles |
| 40 | The tent has a very large extended bellend which has plenty of room for cooking and storing equipment . |
| 41 | More wounding than the question is the inability to give a coherent answer . |
| 42 | Lack of communication and the inability to see a differing point of view are cited as being the main causes . |
| 43 | Even middle management might be frustrated by the restrictions on their authority , the impersonal nature of their organisation , the inability to earn a just reward for their special efforts ( owing to the standardisation of pay and promotion procedures ) and the lack of information about aspects of the organisation which should influence their work . |
| 44 | This is not surprising , since other studies with natural DNAs have shown footprints around GC and GT sites , but confirms that the inability to produce a DNase I footprint in ( AT ) n is not merely due to the close proximity of the overlapping bleomycin cleavage sites . |
| 45 | The arrangement of the oceans in relation to the continents plays a decisive role in creating and sustaining life on Earth . |
| 46 | The Pacific Plate , for instance , underlies almost the whole Pacific Ocean whereas a number of minor plates within the continents have an area of less than 1x106km 2 . |
| 47 | I used to be able to go to a park and swim , or check out a ball to play with , because they had a part-time supervisor there , then they take that away and the park becomes a land mass , then it becomes a turf , you see ? |
| 48 | Or if it stands near a town , the political planners swarm into the house , turn it into a rabbit-warren of black-hatted officers of This and That , and the park becomes a site for some ‘ overspill ’ — a word as beastly as the thing it describes . |
| 49 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
| 50 | In general many beeches , particularly those on the western edge of the Park show a general lack of vitality … |
| 51 | Where the park straddles a county boundary , two joint-planning boards were established , and these have operated successfully in both the Peak and Lake District regions . |
| 52 | To answer the understandable need to touch and be involved with animals , the park has a Children 's Farmyard . |
| 53 | The park has a small number of wild rabbits , but Mr Weston said these were certainly not from that population . |
| 54 | ‘ The addition creates a new strength for us in American nineteenth-century genre painting ’ , says Ms Neill . |
| 55 | It provides the opportunity to exploit a ‘ home market ’ comparable in scale to that of the USA . |
| 56 | These advantages may relate to factor supplies , technology spillovers from domestic firms that can only be captured by locating there , the need to jump over trade barriers , or simply the opportunity to exploit a potential monopoly position . |
| 57 | You may also have the opportunity to attend a course . |
| 58 | While the power of dismissal may be of limited use , where the government has been able to appoint a new rail chairman , it has the opportunity to shape a management team more in tune with its thinking . |
| 59 | The British note gave Acheson and other officials the opportunity to force a decision . |
| 60 | In any case the resolution of the party conference of 1943 gave Hugh Dalton , who was on the side of the ‘ anti-Germans ’ , and was chairman of the party 's International Committee , the opportunity to draft a statement on the ‘ International Post-war Settlement ’ emphasising German responsibility for the war and the need for her to pay reparations to the Allies . |