Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bit tactless to remind them of home , surely , ’ said Nicholas , sitting down next to Sara and putting his arm round her shoulders . |
| 2 | Kurt Nielsen , who died in Aalborg , Denmark on March 26 at the age of 79 , was responsible for giving cricket in Denmark the injection necessary to raise it from mediocrity to a worthy associate member of the International Cricket Council . |
| 3 | And there was nothing in his present circumstances likely to ensnare him in sensuality . |
| 4 | Whether the commitment from present enrolled nurses exists to make such approaches feasible , and whether there is sufficient financial help available to put them into practice , remains to be seen . |
| 5 | The plight of Ian X , a 23-year-old Ayrshire man who has a mental age of six , surfaced when he appeared in court after getting into trouble for the first time with the police , and was sent to Barlinnie in the absence of any hospital or social work establishment willing to take him into care . |
| 6 | Throughout this , the Independent/Private sector has continued , with few governments willing to bring it into line or abolish it . |
| 7 | ‘ A bit late to have it in hand . |
| 8 | ‘ which was not attended ’ Means there is no person able to keep it under observation and reach it in time to prevent anything untoward ( Starfire Diamond Rings Ltd v Angel ( 1962 ) 106 SJ 854 and Ingleton of Ilford Ltd v General Accident & Co [ 1967 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 179 ) . |
| 9 | People likely to provide him with ammunition for his little campaigns would n't appreciate an audience any more than they 'd want to be seen tripping up the steps of the council offices to some bloody committee room . ’ |
| 10 | If you 're saying auditors unlikely to make it in practice then the idea 's doomed anyway ’ ) was pointed to in a comment from . |
| 11 | If D set out to trick V into having sex , realising that she probably would not consent otherwise , are not his intention and his method sufficient to condemn him for rape , as they would be for obtaining property by deception ? |
| 12 | WHENEVER a long spell of unusual weather occurs , there are always people ready to blame it on carbon dioxide , a storm on the sun or the latest volcanic eruption . |
| 13 | We lack the information necessary to relate it with confidence to specific plate tectonic events , as is possible for the Cretaceous , but the Cambrian sea-level rise might well have been a consequence of opening of the Iapetus Ocean , with the growth of a spreading ridge ( Anderton , 1980 , 1982 ) . |
| 14 | Addressing the final Tory news conference later , Mr Major reaffirmed he was confident of winning a majority sufficient to keep him in power for another five years . |
| 15 | The kinds of worlds that can be created are limited only by the multimedia software designed to generate them and the computer processing power available to bring them to life . |
| 16 | The jury believed that they used the tools necessary to keep him under control . |
| 17 | He never married , but lived with his housekeeper Lee , and his illegitimate children were major beneficiaries , Richard Napoleon Lee inheriting £400,000 , and three daughters sufficient to maintain them in gentility . |