Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two moles of CO2 have a mass of 88 grams and n moles a mass of n X 44 grams . |
| 2 | Routine monitoring represents a compromise between surveillance focused on the potentially troublesome and the need to be prepared for rule-breaking from an unexpected quarter . |
| 3 | Two scrutinies , in particular , were crucially important : the first in 1979 led to the decision to implement a management information system for ministers ( MINIS ) in the Department of the Environment ( DOE ) . |
| 4 | DAREDEVIL blind pensioner Joe Collier ( 74 ) is making plans to perform a charity bungee jump at a secret location outside his home area to beat local councils which blocked his spectacular leap . |
| 5 | DAREDEVIL blind pensioner Joe Collier ( 74 ) is making plans to perform a charity bungee jump at a secret location outside his home area to beat local councils which blocked his spectacular leap . |
| 6 | So it may be that IgE-mediated allergy plays a role in more than 20 per cent of cases , when other types of allergen , besides food , are taken into account . |
| 7 | While this story represents a departure from tradition , it already exists , in fact , to a greater or lesser extent in every well-run American and Japanese corporation . |
| 8 | That could reinstate plans to include a centrifuge . |
| 9 | For example , O supplies a car to P on hire purchase terms and P , before he has finished paying off his instalments , sells the car to a bona fide private purchaser , Q , who is unaware of the hire purchase agreement . |
| 10 | The total is slightly up on 1991 when DEC sold a total of 5,225 workstations in the UK worth £47.9m — 3,855 of which were VAX/VMS workstations worth £33.1m , against just 1,470 Unix systems valued at £47.9m . |
| 11 | On 8 October , the Swedish government seems to have side- stepped its own strict wolf protection laws by pressuring the National Environmental Protection Board to issue a licence for her to be taken into captivity . |
| 12 | The television series Twin Peaks produced a rash of books that will be read in true page-turner style by legions of devotees . |
| 13 | SIX youngsters got £50 rewards from a judge yesterday for an Enid Blyton-style operation to trap a gang raiding a warehouse . |
| 14 | However , such an interpretation would emasculate the section : for instance , it seems clear that the section was intended to apply to terms such as those commonly found in holiday contracts allowing a tour operator unilaterally to change accommodation and so on . |
| 15 | ECSOFT LAUNCHES A DOWNSIZING AND RIGHTSIZING SERVICE PACKAGE |
| 16 | Information retrieval ( IR ) systems attempt to allow the user to input a query and extract the relevant text from a corpus of documents . |
| 17 | And my mum thinks a home she wants to take me to a psychiatrist or something . |
| 18 | During World War II ICI operated a factory making anti-knock additives for aviation fuel and Gibson was in charge of the process work . |
| 19 | The gardener bowerbird , for example , constructs the most remarkably complicated , hut-like bower , while the golden bowerbird builds a maypole bower up to 3 m ( 10 ft ) high , gluing the sticks together with fungus and then decorating the whole structure with fruit , flowers and moss . |
| 20 | Canopies : These respond well to the spray-wipe technique using a solvent degreaser often without any further action . |
| 21 | This story involves a youth hostel in the town of Ramsey in the Isle of Man whose narrow-gauge railway has brought pleasure and fascination to many people either as holiday makers or railway enthusiasts since the 1870s . |
| 22 | Had that been so , it would not have been necessary for his contract to include a statement that , ‘ the Company will bear the entire cost of servicing , repairing , maintaining , taxing and insuring the said motor car ’ . |
| 23 | His classification into personal and projected play represents a hierarchy of abstraction ; dramatic activities using oneself as the medium of expression standing at a lower level on the table of abstraction than dramatic activities using media other than oneself . |
| 24 | The ideal management of any case of RSI involves a doctor well acquainted with the subject , and a good physiotherapist . |
| 25 | On March 12 Hawke announced a package of market-liberalization measures designed to make the economy more competitive and to reduce the current account deficit . |
| 26 | In its first full financial year , RBIC made a profit of more than £4 million but even better results are promised . |
| 27 | One Friday , I drove out to Cardiff to attend a luncheon , and the Royal Welsh Polo Classic , at Pontcanna Fields in the grounds of Cardiff Castle , for many years the home of the Marquesses of Bute . |
| 28 | A CAR salesman sold a vehicle under a false description , a court heard yesterday . |
| 29 | The only judgments concerned a feeling of ‘ warmth ’ in which there was a clear discrimination between the ‘ frame ’ and the ‘ interior ’ ; ‘ bright-dull ’ , ‘ makes use of colour ’ and ‘ made by flicks of the brush ’ . |
| 30 | Management therefore need information that helps them determine the cost and effectiveness of alternative programmes given a variety of resource constraints ( typically the imposition of cash limits and target staffing levels ) . |