Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fashion for opera , its current potency to promote anything from a fast car to a pension scheme , does not venture beyond Puccini . |
| 2 | This provided the opportunity for the members of the committee to see something of the rural development problems and programmes in Lewis and Harris , and discuss them with some of those working on them . |
| 3 | Redken would recommend a new permanent wave called TRUST which combines both acid and alkaline ingredients to create anything from a soft body wave to springy , resilient curls . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is too much to hope that this concert finally dragged the Petersfield Musical Festival into the 20th century , but with a promised appearance by the acclaimed National Youth Jazz Orchestra next year , as well as The Dream of Gerontius , it remains only for the committee to do something about the slow start to the week for the festival to regain some of its former splendour . |
| 5 | Stone is utterly convincing in his argument that the 1857 Divorce Act had nothing to do with perceived changes in the economic conditions of the labouring poor during early industrialization and everything to do with lawyers ' determination to do something about the chaotic state of the law . |
| 6 | The main barriers to growth have been the complexity of using the systems , their inability to handle anything but the simplest graphics , the high cost of connect-time charging and poor publishing decisions about which databases to offer online . |
| 7 | Afterwards McEnroe finally agreed to hold a press conference — thereby avoiding a $10,000 fine following his refusal to attend one after the first round . |
| 8 | He will liaise with the medical rehabilitation teams and with the ERCs to know something of the overall picture of the person 's employment problem . |
| 9 | As far as I understand there is not real move to do anything about the current trend for teams to kick the ball from 22 to 22 . |
| 10 | Or you could ask the author to supply one for a modest £7.50 . |
| 11 | He refused an invitation from the EC 's energy authority to investigate the possibilities of translating electricity , generated within green plants , into a new source of fuel : he did not care for the clause giving the EC the right to suppress anything in the eventual reports . |
| 12 | It was against her nature to tell anything but the whitest of white lies , but she was of necessity getting better at it , though it would never sit comfortably with her conscience and her sense of fairness and justice . |
| 13 | The result is that riders who want to avoid heatstroke have to wear as little as possible under their jackets and most of us men have n't got used to innocently looking round to see someone undoing her jacket to reveal nothing but a clingy bra underneath ! |
| 14 | Most of us men have n't got used to innocently looking round to see someone undoing her jacket to reveal nothing but a clingy bra underneath . |
| 15 | Celtic3 St Johnstone1 CELTIC overpowered St Johnstone and remain on course to salvage something from an indifferent season . |
| 16 | If your trust deed gives the grandchildren certain rights and does not allow the trustees to favour one over the other then only the basic rate of 25 p.c. should apply . |
| 17 | It costs the taxpayer £130-£165 a week to keep someone in a residential or nursing home , he says . |
| 18 | The Imams do not have the authority to change anything in the divine revelation of the Koran , but they are able to interpret it , through the divine guidance with which they are endowed . |
| 19 | But now , after he has commanded Abraham to leave everything behind a second time , he waits until Abraham has passed the test . |
| 20 | It is inside in the sense of geography , its supposedly stable working-class past implying the moral obligation of society to do something about the fundamental causes of the problems . |
| 21 | compared with the Minister 's adjusted figure , and that even the Association of Yorkshire and Humberside Chambers of Commerce is now calling on the Government to do something about a sinking economy ? |
| 22 | In a libertarian world there is no reason for the government to do anything about the poor ; the matter is conveniently left to private charity . |
| 23 | We must not accept an ‘ equilibrium of stagnation ’ — an inability of government or institutions to deliver anything but an unsatisfactory re-hashing of what already inadequately exists . |
| 24 | The contributions of speaker B cease to be attempts to add anything to the conversational topic . |
| 25 | An attempt has been made by the present writer to convey something of the lawless nature and the rough , tough frontierland conditions of post-Speranskii Siberia in his later chapter comparing Siberia to the American ‘ Wild West ’ and analysing the relationship between exile , vagrancy and crime in the region . |
| 26 | Forest Mere , which is owned and run most luxuriously by the Savoy Group , really is the most wonderful place in the world to revive one after a tiring period , and remove any aches and pains . |
| 27 | In the second the ‘ stage of conventional morality ’ , the child judges people by their intentions in carrying out something , and then moves on to believe it is a persons duty to do something in a particular way . |
| 28 | Erm in the eighteen fifties , in the years immediately preceding the American civil war , the er then American president er was placed under great pressure to do something about the increasing tensions and increasing conflicts between north and south but er he declined to do so . |
| 29 | Their aspiration to hold everyone at the ethical level of the enlightened bourgeoisie encountered the strong disapproval of Friedrich Nietzsche , who wrote under the heading : G. Eliot — |
| 30 | Or Natural Selection ? , but is introduced in the next short chapter where we take a brief diversion to present something of the vast integrated cycles by which life is maintained upon our planet . |