Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] in [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A struggle to realize what in some sense already exists . |
| 2 | Personally , I am rather too fond of my sanity to risk it in this way . |
| 3 | While Helen 's day was filled by the demands of her young charges and the vain attempts of Mrs Webb to train her in some orderliness in domestic affairs , Edward continued to tend her father 's grave . |
| 4 | They had to walk right past the tramp to enter the church and they made absolutely no attempt to help him in any way . |
| 5 | If there is any attempt to bypass me in this matter , you shall all know of it ! ’ |
| 6 | I 'd like to wish you well , Hazel , but there 's no good to wish you in this place . |
| 7 | Earlier , with just seconds remaining of normal time , Mark Hughes had been sent off for a second bookable offence and his team mates then produced a magnificent display of courageous football to keep themselves in this tie . |
| 8 | It would be tempting to assume that we have evidence here of some direct relationship with the Thynne family , Marquesses of Bath , at nearby Longleat ; that may be the case , but an equally likely explanation could be that the family was involved in nothing more than a slightly sycophantic attempt to ingratiate itself in some way with the local aristocracy . |
| 9 | They made no attempt to molest me in any way , and after having hugged the post for about five minutes they went over to see if any of the Museums were open . |
| 10 | It must be sad and hurtful for any parent to find themselves in this situation , because the vast majority of us have nothing but our children 's good at heart . |
| 11 | What is n't is A Winter Tan 's capacity to move us in another way , in particular with a riveting and lacerating piece of acting that underlines and illustrates its argument . |
| 12 | In response to Hashemi 's testimony the government of Iran issued a statement which neither confirmed nor denied that such a meeting had occurred : " The nature of the current controversies in the USA is absolutely domestic and the Islamic Republic of Iran sees no benefit to involve itself in this matter . " |
| 13 | You pay a forfeit to put him in that race . |
| 14 | It is often part of an author 's technique to leave us in some doubt as to what precisely is going on in the fictional world , as Katherine Mansfield does here . |
| 15 | ‘ All internment is selective , so it is nonsense to describe it in that way . |
| 16 | Ali himself has acknowledged this : ‘ I started boxing because I thought this was the fastest way for a black person to make it in this country ’ ( quoted by Torres , 1971 , p.83 ) . |
| 17 | In arguing this he not only collapses the specificity of consumption but also misrepresents the relationship between the ‘ individual ’ and the ‘ social ’ in Marx 's argument , for it is not for the individual consumer to recognize himself in another individual 's product anyway , but to recognize the socially-imprinted character and meaning of the product … and so to find in it the satisfaction of ‘ need ’ ( ibid : 30 ) . |
| 18 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |
| 19 | It is up to the government to help itself in this respect by providing more judges or by limiting access to judicial review by legislation . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , there is n't space to illustrate it in this issue , but I will include a photograph of it next time . |
| 21 | This is when we started forming consumer groups and demanding watchdogs to protect us in this shopping jungle . |
| 22 | For one thing it is for the Holy Spirit to tell us in that hour what we are to say , and for another thing the people we prove to be in that hour will be determined , not by our thinking about that hour , but by our thinking and living in this hour . |
| 23 | It was amusing for Charles to see him in this state , his usual poise unbalanced by childlike curiosity . |
| 24 | The court was bound by the maximum aggregate of six months in section 133 in respect of these offences , and the jurisdiction to pass them in this form did not exist . |
| 25 | The kung fu practitioner uses his opponent 's strength to aid him in this task . |
| 26 | We will also provide pastoral support to help those already in mission to function more effectively and we hope to do some more pastoral training to help us in this area of work . |
| 27 | But it certainly suited the dominant landed gentry to interpret him in that way . |
| 28 | You do n't have to declare the storage account in use , you can make it anything you want it to be , and you can mix and match your own rows to present them in any order . ’ |
| 29 | There is a disturbing trend for younger children to involve themselves in that kind of crime . |
| 30 | We invite all other CSCE member states to join us in this commitment to non-aggression . " |