Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German explanation for the invasion of Belgium and Holland on 10 May 1940 — that it had been necessary in order to forestall a breach of neutrality by the enemy — carried less conviction than it had done in the Scandinavian operation . |
| 2 | One of them , it contends , is the ability to communicate a sense of urgency to people who work for you without haranguing and without being unpleasant . |
| 3 | History is all around , and if you want to catch a spot of culture during your holiday try to see Knossos , Phaestos and Gortys , three of the most important archaeological sites in Europe . |
| 4 | Dozens of photographers and TV cameramen were waiting at Manchester airport to catch a glimpse of Laura on the final leg of her journey home . |
| 5 | Immediately on the right of the entrance , be sure to look through the small opening to catch a glimpse of part of the Romanesque façade which disappeared from view following work on the construction of Trivulzio 's mausoleum/chapel in the early sixteenth-century . |
| 6 | The above observations involve a variety of routes to chaos . |
| 7 | Other types of switch involve a change of code from Creole to London English and back to Creole within a single turn . |
| 8 | One accepts , of course , that the sheer volume and intractability of the subject matter render resort to delegated legislation to some degree inevitable ; but , by the same token , those very factors of volume and intractability almost necessarily involve a degree of perfunctoriness in parliamentary scrutiny . |
| 9 | Confusion and muddle resulting from mislaid books and materials involve a waste of time for any pupil , but are even more of a nuisance for one who sees poorly . |
| 10 | She was twisting a hank of hair between the fingers of her hands , her stained and torn crimson skirts hoiked up over her knees . |
| 11 | ‘ My mummy 's in hospital , ’ she whispered , twisting a lock of hair around her finger . |
| 12 | It was Friday and there would be enough people in Woolworth 's for him to be able to pinch a handful of sweets from the counter if he wanted to . |
| 13 | and he causes a lot of problems for the opposition . |
| 14 | If they 're not very careful , the family will lose out every time and that causes a lot of problems in our society . |
| 15 | She articulates a theory of compromise between fate and free will once more at least a millennium old : in the Solomon and Saturn poem Saturn asks which will be the stronger , wyrd óe warnung , ‘ fated events or foresight ’ , and Solomon tells him that ‘ Fate is hard to alter … |
| 16 | As with the 2D the manufacturer has designed a number of fittings for it . |
| 17 | Indeed for those insiders living in Cheater 's metaphorical front room — such as in the police — the need to obscure and seek a degree of anonymity from the analytic gaze can be described as a major principle in the preservation of power , ranking highly in the structures of significance . |
| 18 | In Estonia and Latvia , pro-independence candidates seem to have won a majority of seats in the republics ' parliaments even in the first round of the local elections on March 18th . |
| 19 | On Nov. 9 , FIS leaders threatened " to reject dialogue " with the government , accusing it of hindering the work of councils where the FIS had won a majority of seats in the June municipal elections [ see pp. 37549-50 ] . |
| 20 | And he 's won a legion of fans for his anti-establishment views and work with campaigning groups like Amnesty International . |
| 21 | England had lost fewer players than most countries to World Series Cricket and had won a number of rubbers as a result but , when the armistice was signed , England 's limitations were soon exposed . |
| 22 | AXA has recently won a number of awards for its unit trust performance . |
| 23 | The pair have won a host of awards for the Vic Reeves Big Night Out television show . |
| 24 | ( On Sept. 7 , at the end of a two-day debate for which the UK House of Commons had been recalled from its summer recess , the UK government had won a vote of confidence over its handling of the Gulf crisis , by 437 votes to 35 . ) |
| 25 | A new bank account that can be opened by completing the attached application form and depositing a minimum of £1 at any branch of The Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 26 | The results of Model Layout Ltd have been brought into account from 1st October 1990 and the company contributed a profit of £11m for the six months to 21st March 1991 . |
| 27 | He was an original member of the Philobiblon Society , founded in 1853 by his friend Richard Monckton Milnes ( later first Baron Houghton , q.v. ) , and for whose publications , the Miscellanies , he contributed a number of articles about original documents connected with Venetian painters of the sixteenth century . |
| 28 | He also contributed a number of papers to the Institute 's Transactions and to Loudon 's Architectural Magazine . |
| 29 | Mr. Lester presented us with what he termed a menu of choices in case we should be against his submission that the right to sue in malicious falsehood was a sufficient protection for the reputation of a corporate public authority . |
| 30 | Life in a tenement property was often very hard , although , as the following description from a black woman growing up in London during the 1950s and 1960s suggests , it frequently provided a degree of protection from the wider racist society : |