Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | An open mind and a willingness to share are essential if we wish to tackle the current problems affecting medical education . |
| 2 | Enthusiasm and a willingness to learn are far more important , because working with a portastudio and a mixing desk in the rehearsal room will teach a novice engineer a lot about sound mixing . |
| 3 | Two teenagers who were badly injured when a horse bolted are to begin a legal fight for compensation . |
| 4 | Accessibility and a readiness to listen are not , to be sure , incompatible with a fundamentally authoritarian structure of power and government . |
| 5 | Such a split in self-perception is , I think , more likely to occur in girls than in boys at the time of puberty because the physiological changes which a boy undergoes are likely to be treated as marks of manhood , whereas what happens to a girl is more likely not to be mentioned , although in many ways the signs of her having reached puberty are more obviously visible . |
| 6 | Choose the five that you as a group think are the most important . |
| 7 | The natural or foreseeable consequences of a dam bursting are , inter alia , the inundation of subjacent land , damage to buildings , roads and personal injuries . |
| 8 | The family of a five year old boy who was crushed when a wall collapsed are to sue their local council . |
| 9 | Regulation 15 : A vehicle shall not by regulation 12 be prevented from stopping on a zebra controlled are — |
| 10 | BIGGER , brighter premises and a service to match are what Halifax Property Services in Finaghy are offering . |
| 11 | The sociologist is interested in what members of a society feel are social problems , but this does not define , for him or her , the scope and limits of enquiry . |
| 12 | This confirms that although the junctions a subject recalls are the ones at which they reported subjective risk , they are also the busy ones and the ones the subject regards as likely to be the most dangerous in other conditions ; this means that actual feelings of risk may not be solely responsible for the effect . |
| 13 | Secondly , the epistemological problems that such a reformulation generates are confronted without creating a division between ‘ science ’ and ‘ ideology ’ or ‘ true ’ and ‘ false ’ consciousness . |
| 14 | However Di was said to be furious about the tapes , which a book says are of her voice . |
| 15 | ‘ Checks and balances guard against undue concentrations of power and make certain that all the interests which boards have a duty to consider are properly taken into account . ’ |
| 16 | Checks and balances guard against undue concentrations of power and make certain that all the interests which boards have a duty to consider are properly taken into account . ’ |
| 17 | A ra a lot going are they ? |
| 18 | However , aspiring unsigned acts with a reputation to make are n't likely to be in a position to sweeten up the hordes of sceptical scribes in the West End of London who spend their days loafing from one free lunch to the next . |
| 19 | It held that it was open to any aggrieved party to challenge before the European Court a decision by the Commission ordering production of documents which a party considers are privileged , and the Court has power to grant interim measures to prevent disclosure of those documents to the Commission until the dispute on privilege is resolved . |