Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Professor R. T. McKenzie was right to argue that the common purpose of winning elections and of maintaining a government in power imposes or produces an almost identical power structure in the parties , it is wrong to infer from this that the atmosphere within the parties is the same . |
| 2 | Such a strategy recognises a clear role for school health education but emphasises that achieving an impact on the minority of young people who choose to smoke will require more substantial and comprehensive interventions . |
| 3 | What is more , Kylie herself profits rather than suffers from her not specially glamorous girl-next-door looks and produces an unstudied and effective portrait of a young , underage provincial girl who falls for Charlie Schlatter 's equally youthful sailor and gets dubbed a deliquent . |
| 4 | If you 've ever wondered what Joan Didion shouts while having an orgasm , she can tell — the names of Herman Melville novels . |
| 5 | The uniform group of objects that the programmer has when using an object-oriented model , also reduces the sting of the ‘ elegance and simplicity ’ argument used against the proponents of semantic data modelling . |
| 6 | What an observer sees , that is , the visual experience that an observer has when viewing an object , depends in part on his past experience , his knowledge and his expectations . |
| 7 | Anyone who kills or traps an animal after being warned away by a Brown Man will become very dizzy and lose all sense of direction . |
| 8 | Laser beams consist of photons which , though small by atomic standards , have a cumulative inertial effect , Dr Carl Wieman of the University of Colorado , who heads one research group , says that cooling an atom with a laser beam is like trying to slow down movement of a heavy object by bombarding it with ping-pong balls . |
| 9 | Over a loudspeaker came a voice speaking Latvian , but Harvey handed me earphones that carried an English translation . |
| 10 | Redundancies were made ; the magazine was reduced in size ; the number of colour pages were cut back and eventually eliminated altogether — measures that lent an impression of panic and fast-reducing circumstances to the operation . |
| 11 | On page 16 ANDY PARKES accommodates and buys an extraordinary number of Oddball fish for just over £250 . |
| 12 | Before it the system quails and adopts an easier but illogical alternative . |
| 13 | Damien Robb was in superb form from placed balls , converting five frees and making an immense contribution to his side 's victory . |
| 14 | the prison system has a tendency to create more problems than it receives and has an equal tendency to fail inmates because , out of its survival fear , it tends to respond to corporate threats , real or imaginary , rather than the real problems of inmates . |
| 15 | If the claim is for less , then leave of either the county court judge or of the Court of Appeal is required , unless the decision includes or preserves an injunction ( County Courts Act 1984 , s.77 ; County Courts Appeal Order 1981 , SI 1981 : No. 1749 ) . |
| 16 | If what Pascal , Butler , Newman and Browning say is true , then there will always be a degree of uncertainty about whether God exists that reflects an absence of proof . |
| 17 | It constructs and defends an image of national culture — homogeneous in its whiteness yet precarious and perpetually vulnerable to attack from enemies within and without . |
| 18 | It will only cause a problem where none exists and provide an excuse for delaying payments on existing debts . |
| 19 | International Seacontrol is designed to help ship operators in a recession-hit marine industry who are increasingly under pressure to reduce operating costs while sustaining an acceptable level of maintenance . |
| 20 | Brooks 's may not necessarily be much better , but Spitzer 's undoubtedly attributes a more prosaic kind of meaning to the text , which he sees as expressing an ( unreconciled ) opposition between the ‘ archaeological message ’ and the ‘ aesthetic message ’ of the urn . |
| 21 | Experimental studies and clinical observations suggest that the cause of abnormal repolarisation may lie within the heart itself , perhaps in the form of an abnormal channel protein that reduces or blocks an outward repolarising potassium current or increases an inward depolarising calcium or sodium current . |
| 22 | The New Ager certainly demonstrates some of these qualities in the way that he creates and refines an original artistic fiction . |
| 23 | The two programs tested were a basic frequent-update program ( EV1 ) , which takes and displays an unending sequence of images , and a rudimentary grey-scaling program ( GREY ) . |
| 24 | If a baby persistently pulls or rubs an ear . |
| 25 | All senior managers are professional caters and hold an MHCIMA , the industry 's highest management qualification . |
| 26 | All the time he is encouraged to dabble in this or that to no lasting effect and the relief that such an MP feels when given an actual job , a place to go from 9 a.m. onwards with a definite task to perform , something to do which stretches his capacity more than drinking tea , gossiping and writing letters , is enormous . |
| 27 | The centredness of the Hegelian dialectic Althusser presents as having an ‘ internal spiritual principle ’ which in its abstract simplicity can only realize itself as ideology ( Althusser 1969 : 103 ) . |
| 28 | It must be remembered that a clause which restricts or excludes an obligation or duty is not an exclusion clause for the purposes of s3 . |
| 29 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 30 | On the Bavarian country roads that followed , there were high marks for the suspension system , which in the V6 models has dampers which automatically adjust their stiffness with the driving conditions and air springs that maintain an even keel . |