Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Mount Stewart in County Down Lady Londonderry let rip with an amazing ensemble of whimsical statues but they avoid seeming a jumble by the purposeful way in which they are related to the whole garden design . |
| 2 | Christopher Attwooll , prosecuting , said the cousins got some friends to help knock through an internal wall between the sitting room and kitchen of Crook 's flat . |
| 3 | And from the ‘ land of oranges ’ , the new exiles arrived in the West Bank and in Lebanon and in the Kingdom of Transjordan with an identity — as ‘ Palestinians ’ — that applied to a country that no longer existed , that indeed never did exist as an independent nation . |
| 4 | There were times during the long hours of dark when he did drop into an uneasy doze , but never for more than a few minutes together . |
| 5 | Many severely handicapped children do die at an early age through natural causes , but at least the parents can feel that they did everything they could for the child when it was alive . |
| 6 | When he did talk of an independent Scotland , he talked of bankers and making a new Switzerland . |
| 7 | What the murders did reflect in an odd way was the convulsing extremism — at both ends of a polarized spectrum — that existed between right and left , counter-culture and establishment , in 1969 , when Easy Rider was released . |
| 8 | Not that I mean to be cynical , but I do teach in an inner-city school ( where only Advanced Level pupils have textbooks — and they share — and where practical work involves half-a-dozen to a bunsen ) . |
| 9 | Those employed by the state do argue for an expanded state role in their sphere — doctors argue for more health spending as do teachers for more educational spending . |
| 10 | I 'm sorry , I just wanted to make a couple of points in response to erm things that people have said in relation to my opening statement , erm Mr Brook er mentioned the fact that er none of the employe none of the new settlement proposals of which he was aware , erm included an employment element , erm I just wanted to place on record the fact that our suggested reworking of policy H two does provide for an explicit land er amount of land for employment purposes , erm as part of the new settlement location , I wanted to say that because I , I 'm not invited to appear on your employment day , and I do feel that this is an important component of the the H two strategy , and clearly that employment component will be drawn from the Greater York allocation , the second point , Mr Sexton erm I believe said that in his view you could not find a site for a larger new settlement er within the or outside the Greater York er greenbelt , erm which would not result in physical coalescence with the existing villages in the area , now I 'm not sure whether he was referring to any particular size of larger new settlement , but I invite you to look at the er land range at one to fifty thousand er map of the area , and you will see that the area outside the greenbelt is characterized by erm a very rural area with sporadic villages , and my believe is that there are erm sites available within that area which could accommodate a larger new settlement , the planning point is of course the larger the new settlement becomes , I think the less that that the reduced number of sites you will have available to accommodate erm that proposal , because of its scale , and the third aspect I want to comment on Mr Cunnane and Mr Thomas erm said that Barton Willmore had not made a need argument for the new settlement , well if I 'm not mistaken that 's what we spent most of this morning discussing under policy H one , and I do n't erm I do n't wish , and I do n't suppose that I 'd be invited to repeat the comments made by Mr Grigson this morning , I do n't think there 's any need for that , but that establishes in our mind very clearly there is a need for a new settlement in the range of two thousand to two thousand five hundred dwellings , erm in the period up to two thousand and six , and I wo n't say anything more on that . |
| 11 | But is it possible to sharpen the trial procedure so that it does function as an effective arbiter of the truth value of the police case ? |
| 12 | Therefore , we now need to examine the explanatory factors which help determine on an inter-country basis each of the three major types of bargaining structure which have been identified . |
| 13 | One persistent analytical account of causal priority does seize upon an indubitable truth , that causal items stand to their effects as our means to our ends , while no effect is our means to its cause or causal circumstance . |
| 14 | I 'd get a brand new keyboard and Dad would have to make do with an old car — one that was always going wrong and making him embarrassed in front of his friends . |