Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were reports that two religious parties , United Tora Judaism and the NRP , were pressing Labour to enter into a coalition with them to the exclusion of Meretz . |
| 2 | Will my right hon. Friend explain to a simple fellow like me why it is considered sensible to return to a system of socialist taxation based on the capital value of an asset that produces no income and that is unrelated to the services for which the occupant is paying and to the income of the occupant , this asset being normally called a home ? |
| 3 | Mick Toal rose high to head in a Ford cross , and Ford himself completed the scoring with a low shot . |
| 4 | I suppose I have agreed to run the grocery stall , she thought , and with annoyance , for she always ran the grocery stall and tonight she had come determined to ask for a change . |
| 5 | We voted against it on the ground that it seemed absurd to respond to a crisis in the beef sector simply by throwing yet more money into a system which has not been reformed . |
| 6 | Larne twice came close to stealing a second goal but seemed content to play for a draw . |
| 7 | Staff should always feel able to call upon a colleague if needed and there should be no sense of inadequacy or incompetence felt in doing so . |
| 8 | It appears that the case had been in progress before the Heliopolitan Divine Council for eighty years and the gods were understandably becoming impatient and short-tempered , yet they seemed unable to decide upon a judgement . |
| 9 | And though it seemed ridiculous to worry about a case like this , there was no doubt the thing had begun to prey on my mind . |
| 10 | There was no guarantee that it would lead to a new deal for the industry nor that , even as a compromise , it would hold against the tensions of a situation in which one side at least seemed determined to continue on a collision course . |
| 11 | With extra time looking certain to end in a second 1–1 stalemate and dog-tired players steeling themselves for the dreaded first Cup final penalty shoot-out , the 30-year-old soared to head a Paul Merson corner into and out of Chris Woods ' hands . |
| 12 | The man at the stage door seemed disinclined to argue with a pair of French uniforms , and indicated one of the larger dressing-rooms along an ill-lit corridor . |
| 13 | Rochester Telephone Co , Rochester , New York has called in Bell Communications Research Inc to help with a study into whether or not to deploy a broadband fibre optic network in its local service area . |
| 14 | Yet many librarians seem content to select from a supplier 's selection , and to surrender professional responsibility for their service to the suppliers , allowing speed and ease of supply to take precedence over comprehensiveness and depth . |
| 15 | Microsoft Corp is said to be reconsidering the floor-level pricing it considered for NT , and is thought unlikely to go with a $100 price . |
| 16 | In addition to vigilance we need education in the responsible uses of this new extension of man 's powers , otherwise we might be driven to a fruitless Luddite destruction of computers because they seem able to take on a life of their own . |
| 17 | In theory it may sound radical to interfere with a doctor 's right to prescribe , although it was not the drug that was being withdrawn , only the branded version . |
| 18 | BSDI is reportedly getting set to move from a beta to a gamma version of BSD/386 either this week or next . |
| 19 | He was involved in the most important questions of policy — negotiations for the marriage of royal children : Eleanor in 1170 and John in 1173 But in view of Eleanor of Aquitaine 's masterful political activity in later years it seems superfluous to look for a power behind the throne . |
| 20 | It seems inappropriate to refer to a man of his years as a father figure or , in the context of such a mundane matter as VAT , as inspirational , but both descriptions can be applied to Victor . |
| 21 | With the advent of the poll tax and higher interest rates , the squeeze on the customer 's pocket seems likely to act as a curb on the current trend towards trading-up to more expensive , quality wines . |
| 22 | THE MYTH that teenage girls become pregnant to qualify for a council house or flat , has finally been exploded . |
| 23 | She submits , not because she is threatened with or fears immediate violence , but because she feels helpless to resist in a situation in which he is all-powerful and she is powerless . |
| 24 | The market often anticipates interest changes likely to come as a result of changes in economic indicators such as the inflation rate or the exchange rate . |
| 25 | But Whitaker 's luck changed in the four rider Horsemaster final when he again looked likely to finish as a runner-up . |
| 26 | Few could have been less suited for the military life than the historian Edward Gibbon who , as he admitted in his Autobiography , ‘ never handled a gun … seldom mounted a horse ’ but , living with his father , a country gentleman , at Buriton , near Petersfield , he felt obliged to apply for a commission as a captain in the South battalion of the Hampshire militia , 476 strong , of which his father became major and a local nobleman , ‘ after a prolix and passionate contest ’ with the Lord Lieutenant , lieut. -colonel . |
| 27 | They had not been talking about the Dane , but she felt disinclined to revert to a discussion about the ease with which Vitor could persuade her to go to bed with him . |
| 28 | In places , where anything short of purposeful warning might be misinterpreted as either suspicious loitering or aberrant vacancy , the normal person feels obliged to put on a show , which tells anyone who might be watching that orderly motives are in hand . |
| 29 | It looked ready to collapse like a house of cards if Swire Sugden huffed and puffed hard enough . |
| 30 | In the meantime , however , until these directives are enforced , Britain 's corporate landscape will remain open to attack without a right to reply in kind . |