Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means that money to pay for your current fuel consumption , and towards the arrears you owe , is taken from your benefit each week and paid direct to your fuel account . |
| 2 | To me , they are highly underrated — they are a band who write tuneful songs and have a very good line-up , despite what Ian Cheek thinks of ‘ Scott Reynolds ' hapless inability to sing in anything other than a monotone shout ’ . |
| 3 | To me , they are highly underrated — they are a band who write tuneful songs and have a very good line-up , despite what Ian Cheek thinks of ‘ Scott Reynolds ' hapless inability to sing in anything other than a monotone shout ’ . |
| 4 | There were also rapid developments in military techniques , which Barbaross had ample opportunity to employ during his many campaigns . |
| 5 | And that 's truer than ever today , when even an ordinary family saloon is powered by a highly sophisticated engine that depends on the right lubrication to perform at its best . |
| 6 | How about the BMA really setting the government an example by ( a ) encouraging all its disabled staff to register as disabled with guarantees of no discrimination , and ( b ) taking prompt action to move from its current level of 1.5% of workforce disabled , towards the 3% target as laid out in the 1944 Disabled Persons Employment Act ? |
| 7 | She was glad of this opportunity to look at him unobserved . |
| 8 | Bursting from the stalls , The Fernhill Flyer was soon clear , and should provide another excuse to celebrate for her first-time owners , a syndicate of drinking companions from the Fernhill public house at Preesall , near Blackpool . |
| 9 | President , congress in the few minutes available to me this afternoon to speak to my written report I want to touch on three issues . |
| 10 | Quite apart from her reluctance to give her family any more ammunition to treat her like a witless child , Guy Sterne 's arrogant interference had merely burdened Charles and her father with yet another worry to add to their depressing catalogue of troubles . |
| 11 | Some owners of compound eyes have another bonus to compensate for their poor resolution , and that is the rate at which they can perceive images . |
| 12 | The government of President Luis Alberto Lacalle claimed a clear mandate to proceed with its controversial programme to sell off state assets [ see pp. 38286 ; 38528 ] , when a special poll on July 5 failed to raise sufficient public support for a referendum . |
| 13 | Others who have done so have argued that elderly people are often faced with a choice between an unpleasant battle to survive in their own homes and an equally unpleasant enforced dependence in the institution ( Wilkin and Hughes , 1987 ) . |
| 14 | Richard Baxter was deeply saddened by this failure to return to his beloved people of Kidderminster . |
| 15 | Native peoples from the US state of Alaska have formed a coalition aimed at persuading the scientific establishment to draw on their traditional methods of observing and understanding nature . |
| 16 | He wanted a noisy , breezy curate to get at his rough teenagers . |
| 17 | By contrast , English anxiety to forget about Scotland — and to persuade their Scottish king to forget about his northern kingdom — produced a much less ambivalent reaction . |
| 18 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 19 | For some liberal historians , it is the idealism of the young rebels , their commitment to liberty or even an altruistic wish to atone for their own privileges by improving the lot of the wretched peasants and workers , which lies at the heart of the matter . |
| 20 | He decided he would make this into an interesting tale to tell amongst his fellow drunks . |
| 21 | Which is quite an interesting comparison to make with our own out migration figures . |
| 22 | The church leaders ' letters aim to encourage the British Government to return to its former policy of supporting the nuclear non-proliferation treaty by calling a moratorium on weapons testing , as the French , US and Russian governments have done . |
| 23 | The church leaders ' letters aim to encourage the British government to return to its former policy of supporting the nuclear non-proliferation treaty , as the French , US and Russian governments have done . |
| 24 | The chances of playing for England are remote … yet for Eire in goal is good , so he 'll get some international/world experience ( maybe in the World Cup … give us another reason to cheer on you Irish ; - ) |
| 25 | d ) Culture : mothers are under massive social and cultural pressure to succeed in their maternal role . |
| 26 | " We recognised the importance of bringing the wages of foreign seamen on an equality with our own , as that would be a direct encouragement for the foreign sailor to remain on his own country 's ships . |
| 27 | He tries to commit suicide and is tortured by Goneril hence he is very much the victim of his family but in some way to blame in his wrong treatment of Edmund for something which was really his own fault . |
| 28 | He switched this ability to concentrate to his own recovery and eventually began to make progress . |
| 29 | It was n't at all what Luce had expected , and , seeing her puzzled frown , he said hastily , apologetically , ‘ I hope you do not mind using the rear entrance , but I needed to go this way to get to my next appointment . ’ |
| 30 | The organisation invited Iceland 's Foreign Minister to speak at its fourth annual conference , held in Colorado . |