Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can my hon. Friend confirm that when he announces new proposals for deregulation he will ensure that he and his officials have consulted the Minister for small businesses to see that every effort is made to take into account the needs of small businesses and that deregulation , wherever possible , is increased , so that small businesses can get special exemptions where possible from what can be very complicated regulations and procedures that the Government introduce ? |
| 2 | It was held that where an absolute owner brings an action for trespass he must prove title and an intention to regain possession . |
| 3 | If she could get there before the long closure for lunch-hour he would make her up a preparation , and Peony could get it back to her mother and possibly get back again to the harbour for the Swimming Gala . |
| 4 | Last November he refused to chair a conference on AIDS for fear it might cause panic . |
| 5 | And it even happens where the clays which overlie the chalk , the tertiary clays which you can see for example in the top of the cliffs at Newhaven , and if you look back at the cliff from the western breakwater for example you can see clay sitting on top of chalk . |
| 6 | I have looked at your planet Uulaa , and I know what sorts of fun you would seek there . |
| 7 | There are several sorts of truth I could tell about this decade of work . |
| 8 | He rightly argues that the best way to find out what part of the brain does is to start out with very general questions about the sorts of thing it might do and then work through to more specific questions . |
| 9 | I have some sympathy for the Home Secretary in these matters , he is not an Officer of State who over-occupies the position for whom I normally have a great deal of sympathy I must confess , er but on this occasion I do have some sympathy . |
| 10 | And I mean , there 's , you know , the people who smoke need a boost of nicotine they 'll go and get |
| 11 | When SAVE was launched in 1975 , good photographs of endangered buildings were very scarce , but with today 's improved methods of printing we can use any reasonable snapshot we are sent . |
| 12 | It seems likely that it involved the utilisation of the X-rays emitted by the fission bomb trigger to propagate the explosion throughout the charge of thermonuclear fuel ; travelling at the speed of light they could initiate the fusion reaction in all parts of the charge in a time much less than could be achieved by shock waves ( travelling at perhaps 104m/s ) , so that a substantial degree of reaction Could occur before the material was dispersed by the explosion ( New Scientist , 2 September , 1982 , p641 ) . |
| 13 | Without loss of generality we may take |
| 14 | Without any loss of generality we can take AOB to be in the equatorial plane of the parent star so that the acceleration is purely in the coordinate φ . |
| 15 | Through the study of line we can identify the characteristics which differentiate one School from another perhaps not the hands , but the Schools certainly . |
| 16 | The assumption that once women had freedom from fear of pregnancy they 'd like men and they 'd like sex , just like that , meant neither sex nor men nor the economics of women 's powerlessness had to change . |
| 17 | It was the only crumb of comfort he could salvage from the ordeal . |
| 18 | I think there 's sufficient weighting on the course in art for the child to make it work … if you kill the word ‘ exam ’ and just call it a ‘ set piece ’ , and say ‘ This is the final piece of work I 'd like you to do ’ , and see if there 's a climax of five terms ' work , as opposed to some sort of insurmountable hurdle that only 20 per cent of the pupils can get over … ‘ if you do n't make a particularly good job of it , it only carries 40 per cent of the marks and you 've got 60 per cent for the coursework ‘ . |
| 19 | We decide on which piece of equipment we will buy next . |
| 20 | However , if a Night Goblin shaman eats a piece of mushroom he can use magic even if there are no other Orcs or Goblins near . |
| 21 | Thomas had decided that in his piece of writing he would set out his speculations on the history of the piece of wood . |
| 22 | The list of fax cards and fax modems with which the software will work is extensive , and covers just about every piece of kit we can think of , which is reassuring . |
| 23 | The most probable source of this innovation , however , would seem to be the nomadic herdsman of Central Asia , who possessed both an abundance of rug-making material ( i.e. , wool provided by their sheep ) and the need to combat the harshness of climate and terrain ; it is likely that they discovered — possibly by accident — that by looping or knotting short lengths of wool through a flatwoven piece of material they could produce much more comfortable and durable rugs . |
| 24 | They have to be on the outside right , cos as soon as it goes through a piece of material you 'll lose all the high frequency to it . |
| 25 | We will begin by looking at intonation in the shortest piece of speech we can find — the single syllable . |
| 26 | If you are to finish any piece of woodwork you must learn to live with faults and find ways to disguise them . |
| 27 | Perhaps a double size piece of paper you can fold in your and then put the diagram in the middle , photocopy it , and stick it on , glue it on , the diagram . |
| 28 | James was always making drawings on every piece of paper he could lay hands on — even his father 's sermons were not safe . |
| 29 | " Relative prominence " implies that for us to have a rhythmic response to a piece of language we must perceive some of its constituents as strong and some as weak relative to each other . |
| 30 | One more piece of information you should possess before the tale unfolds is that Michael was encased in two leg callipers as a result of polio — contracted when one year old — and walked , or rather surges about with the aid of two crutches . |