Example sentences of "[det] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be rash to conclude that all that represents a rejection of radicalism ; better , perhaps , to say that it is the sense of radicalism itself that changed . |
| 2 | Robbins ( 1963 ) presented dual-subject courses ( joint honours , combined studies , etc. ) as a variant on the single-subject pattern for those students who do not want such a specialized higher education , but that represents a university view , and a dated one at that . |
| 3 | That represents a growth rate of 1,000% ! |
| 4 | That represents a growth of expenditure in those sectors of roughly 80 per cent . |
| 5 | As well as being the sort of motion that brings local government into disrepute , I also believe that this is the sort of motion that , that displays a lack of tolerance that should concern us all . |
| 6 | That made a total of six people trying to sell me something . |
| 7 | Now , I wonder if that made a difference . |
| 8 | That made a difference . |
| 9 | They maybe should have been booked for continuing to put the ball in the net … aswell as Lukic maybe not trying to save ( as if that made a difference ; - ) The Wallace incident at maine rd however is a different story . |
| 10 | The conventional method of recording orchestras was to place microphones throughout the ensemble ; Fine contended that given a hall with excellent acoustic properties , a single ultra-sensitive microphone should be capable of capturing the sound of a symphony orchestra with unprecedented clarity , balance and definition . |
| 11 | Well I think that when I said that I think that given a man and a woman of equal qualifications I was assuming that that had been taken into account . |
| 12 | My aim in this article is to show that given a relevance theoretic approach to utterance interpretation , it is possible to develop a better understanding of what some of these so-called apposition markers indicate . |
| 13 | There must be an iterative movement between effects of each of the two axes , and a set of matrices , each reflecting a stage of this process , will be necessary to analyse this process . |
| 14 | She adds : ‘ That encourages a woman to be hopeful things will improve but , unfortunately , there is no way of knowing how he will react to anything . ’ |
| 15 | If one were to do something that is statistically nonsensical — and when has that stopped a security analyst in his tracks ? — and make a sum of the percentage changes since the start , bookish securities have outperformed the UK market by 64% . |
| 16 | Apparently that drives a couple of bones into the brain . |
| 17 | Mark Kleiman , of Harvard University , argues that Mr Bush 's policies , put in place soon after the peak in cocaine 's popularity , did little to affect a decline already under way . |
| 18 | Each slung a tin collecting box over his shoulder and an attendant of the Company carried a receptacle for larger discoveries . |
| 19 | If an individual works longer hours than he or she would wish to do in the absence of taxation , that involves a loss of welfare . |
| 20 | The years were long , the company was colourful , and if the air was raw , well , did n't that lend a zest of danger to the enterprise ? |
| 21 | We are looking for a reason of justice we all share for rejecting the checkerboard strategy in advance even if we would each prefer a checkerboard solution on some occasions to the one that will be imposed if the strategy is rejected . |
| 22 | Every person each plays a part in the familial deterioration , but no one can , ‘ help the things life has done to us . |
| 23 | Letting all her breath out on an achingly shaky sigh , and telling herself firmly to pull herself together , that seeing a bride always made her feel weepy and was nothing whatever to do with Feargal , she walked along the landing to stare from the end window . |
| 24 | That got a bit hard to take . |
| 25 | With that goes a rejection of the corrupted language and thought of the old politics . |
| 26 | That goes a bit haywire then . |
| 27 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 28 | These are flying lanes , arranged more or less like the lanes of a superhighway , each given a name and a number , all clearly designated on maps , and designed by the International Civil Aviation Organization 's Air Navigation Commission to allow civil aircraft to fly in relative safety when far from land . |
| 29 | When the children were between four and seven years old , they were each given a task — a video-type game — and were assessed on their levels of cooperation and concentration . |
| 30 | With our wives we were each given a flat in blocks opposite each other . |