Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robin adds that as a boy he saw both the Graf Zeppelin and R–101 , obviously an enthusiast from an early age . |
| 2 | He worries that as a result the net effect of propagating WABI will be damaging to the whole Unix business . |
| 3 | He worries that as a result of all these shortcomings , the net effect of Sun propagating Wabi will be to do damage to the whole Unix business . |
| 4 | The question of remoteness of damage arises where causation in fact is established , but the court holds that as a matter of law the damage is too remote . |
| 5 | Sometimes it happens that after a number of successive doses like this , the patient will have the beginnings of an aggravation : the medicine should be stopped for two to four days ( or a few hours in acute disease ) and in order to continue treatment you want to give the remedy now in a more diluted form : from the first cup ( not the bottle ) take one teaspoonful and dilute it in another cup , and one teaspoonful of this solution should be given to the patient . |
| 6 | Just as Goscelin claims to have listened to a monk who had known St Wulfsige of Sherborne ( d. 1002 ) , Osbern of Canterbury says that as a boy he heard an account of the translation of the relics of St Ælfheah in 1023 from a monk who was involved in it . |
| 7 | On February 24 , company borrowings under the credit agreement totalled $4.3m and the chip designer says that as a result of getting this new credit agreement , restructuring of key equipment leases , and the company 's return to profitability in the first fiscal quarter to December 31 , it believes substantial progress has been made toward killing doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern . |
| 8 | There is , of course , one simple critique , which says that in a religion which sees God as male , and where only men are allowed in the holiest places , there is clearly no place for women . |
| 9 | Mike Cuming , Senior Instructor , says that within a day or two , you forget that Gary is in a wheelchair . |
| 10 | The user documentation quotes that on a SUN 3/160 machine running Kyoto Common Lisp ( KCL ) , the time required to look up a large word ( excluding garbage collection ) is 11.8 seconds of CPU . |
| 11 | The personal computer storage market is evolving so fast that Conner Peripherals Inc , San Jose is having to adjust to changed circumstances and warns that as a result , first quarter profit will be down on that for the fourth quarter , on higher sales . |
| 12 | Liability of an effective supplier is envisaged under s2(3) as follows : ( 3 ) Subject , as aforesaid , where any damage is caused wholly or partly by a defect in a product , any person who supplied the product ( whether to the person who suffered the damage , to the producer of any product in which the product in question is comprised or to any other person ) shall be liable for the damage if ( a ) the person who suffered the damage requests the supplier to identify one or more of the persons ( whether still in existence or not ) to whom subsection ( 2 ) above applies in relation to the product ; ( b ) that request is made within a reasonable period after the damage occurs and at a time when it is not reasonably practicable for the person making the request to identify all those persons ; and ( c ) the supplier fails , within a reasonable period after receiving the request , either to comply with the request or to identify the person who supplied the product to him . |
| 13 | A CONDITIONED REFLEX occurs when as a result of experience an associated stimulus brings about the response , thus where the taste or smell of food brings about salivation ; and the ringing of a bell does not ; after a series of experiences where both stimuli are given simultaneously , the ringing of the bell by itself results in an animal salivating . |
| 14 | Sir , Your latest leader confirms that in a world of change some things never change . |
| 15 | The Trust regrets that after a year of negotiation it was n't possible to assemble a complete package which would have allowed for purchase price , future management and costs for the extended period necessary . |
| 16 | Willie Queen , Scottish regional secretary of the TGWU , said : ‘ This study shows that for a country like Scotland to function properly , an integrated and high-quality public transport system is not a luxury , it is a necessity . ’ |
| 17 | A little mathematics shows that with a monochrome 4:3 70cm CRT one could just resolve a 625 line black and white stationary picture consisting of 4MHz dots using today 's European standards at the normal viewing distance . |
| 18 | In longterm studies over several years he shows that with a wheat free diet these children are gaining weight and are reaching anormal growth pattern by comparison with age matched controls . |
| 19 | Figure 16–6 shows that with a zero tax rate the government would raise zero revenue . |
| 20 | This shows that after a freshening in the early 1970s , the salinity ( and temperature ) began to increase in the early 1980s , although not to the same level as in 1970 . |
| 21 | But the most important and interesting aspect of its role in the book is the way in which Proust 's narrative is shown to deviate from the model : Genette shows that in a number of ways A la recherche breaks and challenges the laws of narrative proposed by the abstract model but without undercutting their general validity . |
| 22 | But he reveals that at a crisis meeting at Balmoral a deal was discussed between Charles , Diana , the Queen and Prince Philip . |
| 23 | But ICI reckons that in a number of key areas it has the edge over the competition . |
| 24 | Many diets fail because they do not provide the variety of foods that the body craves and after a couple of enthusiastic days the willpower begins to weaken . |
| 25 | ‘ such a policy of insurance or security ’ The prosecution must show that the insurance , if any is produced , does not conform to the requirements of section 143 , Road Traffic Act 1988 , as section 147 ( 1 ) of that Act requires that for a policy to be effective , the insurers must deliver a certificate in the prescribed form to the assured . |
| 26 | More explicitly , PR in the present context requires that in a legislature the distribution of seats to political parties shall be proportionate to the number of votes given to those parties . |
| 27 | That para states that as a result of the decision in Re Duomatic Ltd ( 1969 ) 1 All ER 161 , if , on some occasion other than the annual general meeting , the shareholders agree to remunerate the directors with certain sums , then that agreement has the same force as a resolution passed in a general meeting . |
| 28 | The weak anthropic principle states that in a universe that is large or infinite in space and/or time , the conditions necessary for the development of intelligent life will be met only in certain regions that are limited in space and time . |
| 29 | He acknowledges that as a result , the consumer finance and investment markets are very competitive , not least in France where savers now have more faith in money , as distinct from assets , and the big banks are muscling in . |
| 30 | The Committee acknowledges that as a result of its proposal that only threats of immediate harm should suffice for rape , ‘ some prosecutions will be brought under section 2 in circumstances where there could now be a prosecution for rape . ’ |