Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That could reinstate plans to include a centrifuge . |
| 4 | The television series Twin Peaks produced a rash of books that will be read in true page-turner style by legions of devotees . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The Town and Country Planning Association has been in the forefront of plans to promote a change in government policy on the North-South Divide . |
| 9 | ‘ Not long after , the Athenians made a peace with the Spartans and their allies for thirty years , giving up Nisaia , Pegai , Troizen and Achaia , their possessions in the Peloponnese ’ ( Thuc. i.115.1 ) . |
| 10 | After 4 to 6 weeks , cytofluorometry was done with the bulk cultures using a FACScan ( Becton and Dickinson ) . |
| 11 | The focal point is the Rathaus ( town hall ) , with a fine sixteenth-century tower that dominates the many charming houses in the vicinity , and one of its most striking houses offers a reminder that the Swiss have been at the business of looking after travellers for a long time . |
| 12 | POLLY PECK is selling its barely profitable textile subsidiary , Polly Peck Far East , to a Hong Kong-controlled British Virgin Islands registered company in preference to the privatisation proposals announced a month ago , writes Robin Stoddart . |
| 13 | On the basis of US experience , Edwards ( 1979 ) identified a progression of employer strategies from ‘ simple ’ ( direct ) control in small firms , whereby arbitrary power to issue instructions and discipline employees is accorded to foremen and supervisors , 8 through ‘ technical ’ control in which machines set the pace of work , especially in mass-production industries , to a ‘ bureaucratic ’ stage where work becomes highly stratified and employers develop a system of impersonal rules to control workers . |
| 14 | Beyond the woods lay a valley and in the valley a lake , where the ruins of a fine Georgian house were reflected on a clear day . |
| 15 | On Nov. 4 , however , FKgP parliamentary deputies passed a vote of confidence in the expelled ministers and state secretaries and suspended the faction membership of Jozsef Torgyan , FKgP chair and leader of the parliamentary group . |
| 16 | This did cut the losses for a while until the Germans devised a method of counteracting it . |
| 17 | Yet ants have yet to develop writing , and their major artefacts — their nests — can be demolished in minutes using a spade . |
| 18 | Or it could be part of the training sessions , let's have what we were doing yesterday , skill drills , but you 've got to practice it and practice it , until eventually from those forty contacts using a ratio of ten to one , we get four appointments . |
| 19 | Despite the lack of international judicial uniformity on several important issues , the Hague Rules made a signal contribution to international trade . |
| 20 | TWO alert cops made a drug bust — and seized cannabis plants growing at the POLICE STATION . |
| 21 | Some authorities made a point of saying that they did not have a training programme because they depended on courses that presented themselves , e.g. : ‘ We always hope to send staff on courses as they are advertised ’ . |
| 22 | That night , I read again their separate accounts of Raasay , to see what I had missed : the streams of which Johnson wrote , ‘ one of the brooks turns a cornmill , and at least one produces trouts ’ ; , the garden , described by Boswell , ‘ plentifully stocked with vegetables , and strawberries , raspberries , currants , etc. ’ ; and a swift passing observation in one of Johnson 's letters to Hester Thrale , a reference he does not include in his official text . |
| 23 | Whilst such systems are powerful tools for marketing analysis and direct marketing campaigns ( indeed , such profile codings have been shown to be highly predictive when incorporated into credit scorecards ) , the credit marketer should never lose sight of the fact that these are likely profiles and there will inevitably be a small proportion of targeted customers whose actual profiles display a disparity from the system profile . |
| 24 | Between 1973 and 1979 all but one of the five most highly paid occupational groups experienced a fall in their real incomes : members of the most highly paid occupational group of all ( professional , management , administration ) saw their incomes fall by 5 per cent in real terms . |
| 25 | Two other defenders made a grab for Okoye but missed . |
| 26 | His office bulletins became a fount of Fleet Street lore ( ‘ Always , always , tell the news through people , ’ for example ) . |
| 27 | They wore over their sagging , wrinkled breasts flimsy , lace-up bodices with nothing underneath , and from those cleavages arose a fume of mingled sweat , baby powder and cheap scent . |
| 28 | The environmental groups cite a number of examples of inappropriate use of the funds . |
| 29 | According to a Pakistani commentary , Shahi appeared to be suggesting that once the neutrality of the area was ensured by the regional states pursuing a policy of strict non-alignment , the superpowers could perhaps be persuaded to work towards some sort of mutual accommodation . |
| 30 | But , in the main , westerners fear a spell in the east will mean a kink in their careers , or that life will be too grey ( ‘ not even a decent pub ’ , groaned one civil servant back from an eastern town he decided not to work in ) . |