Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Mr Yeltsin is still far from winning the two-thirds majority he needs to get a new constitution adopted . |
| 2 | But Susan hit back saying : ‘ She made me out to be some ditsy small-town mum who wanted to meet a star . |
| 3 | Secret To do this trick you need to choose a month with five Wednesdays in it . |
| 4 | ‘ Ethical ’ because fulfilling this function it seeks to follow a method which has the ethics of impartiality embodied in it , being the ultimate foundation of its bindingness : the ethical imperative of securing a morally justified indeed morally overriding goal in a morally acceptable manner . |
| 5 | With some difficulty I managed to get a permit to travel from Parma in a bus which went up into the hills to Lagrimone ; once there , I would walk to the house of a Signor Ugolotti , some distance from the village . |
| 6 | So in spite of it being a mid-turn switch , in this case we seem to have a different type of switch from the one in ( 6 ) , for the other parties to the conversation respond differently to it . |
| 7 | The diamond design shown in the opposite photograph is really an adaptation of the solid design ( see pp. 80–1 ) , although in this case you have to make a very definite outline with the leaves and then ensure that it is echoed in the shape that the flowers make in the centre of the design . |
| 8 | This afternoon we went to see a new workers ' housing estate and visited some homes . |
| 9 | His car was hit head-on by another vehicle which swerved to avoid a cow that had strayed onto the bush road . |
| 10 | This winter I hope to perform a major rebuild and , as part of this , I would like to modify the braking system . |
| 11 | At this point he decided to follow a mathematical career and soon he had added the senior mathematical scholarship to his list of honours . |
| 12 | He jerked his head slightly towards the other end of the bar where someone was describing to the lady in question some event which seemed to involve a great deal of grappling with her unresisting frame . |
| 13 | Early this morning she woke to find a masked gang standing in her bedroom . |
| 14 | But if you come on when it 's the British news you tend to get a , a more in-depth programme , it lasts longer |
| 15 | She was merely an old woman who wanted to spend a few minutes in nostalgic memory of long-ago visits to America . |
| 16 | In order to appreciate the various processes involved in electronic spectroscopy we need to have a reasonable picture of the levels , both occupied and unoccupied , available to electrons in molecules . |
| 17 | 8 ) , ever since the end of the eighteenth century most of the movements of social criticism have been based upon a theory of society ; and on the other side , every major social theory which attempts to provide a new intellectual framework for understanding political life embodies at the same time a particular orientation to the important political issues of the age , whether in the form of Marx 's allegiance to the working-class movement , Max Weber 's identification with the German bourgeoisie and nationalism , or Durkheim 's commitment to the ideas of the Third Republic in France . |
| 18 | He could do a deal with another investor who wishes to achieve a greater return , even if that means accepting a greater risk . |
| 19 | The store cleverly used some space it saved to install a display of blue jeans , highlighting the high cost of the store 's wool trousers . |
| 20 | He strode into the room and picking up the kettle with an old cloth he proceeded to make a pot of tea . |
| 21 | For example , suppose that for some reason you wish to remember a long list of dissociated objects such as aeroplane , alarm clock , carrot , television , etc . |
| 22 | If for some reason you have to miss a day 's exercises , be sure to return to the missed day before continuing with the programme . |
| 23 | On the other hand , if you were Andrus and for some reason you decided to start a campaign of your own , and you were , like him , a Copt , the first thing you would do would be to go to a bank and make proper financial arrangements . |
| 24 | On my way to the pay ‘ phone near the gents , I noticed the door to the back room was open , and for some reason I decided to have a look . |
| 25 | In this project we propose to develop a computer model to explore the semantics and pragmatics of modal and hypothetical questions and answers . |
| 26 | Our response to tender documents which state that this may be the case is to ask for the detailed information we need to make a liability assessment and that 's not always forthcoming . ’ |
| 27 | Each of these may make a daily or weekly contribution which interweave to form a family network . |
| 28 | POLICE hunting a bogus social worker who tried to snatch a child have arrested a woman . |
| 29 | ‘ She recognised me and had some idea I wanted to do a story about her on York station . |
| 30 | Films like Basil Dearden 's Sapphire ( 1959 ) , dealing with racial prejudice and mixed Marriages , and Victim ( 1961 ) , which cast Dirk Bogarde as a homosexual barrister who decides to take a stand against social hypocrisy , would not have been possible if television had not already put such issues on the agenda . |