Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few years , most Boards felt that the Consultative Councils helped to defuse individual complaints and to present a favourable image to the public , and were willing to defer to them on some matters of general policy of an essentially political or presentational nature , such as priorities in rural electrification or aspects of domestic charging . |
| 2 | We hope that Pat Kennedy will be able to work with us on this and intend to invite the student teachers to participate . |
| 3 | The idea was that , by raising the standards of these deprived areas , the children in them would be brought up to the levels of those in more privileged communities , and would then be able to compete with them on equal terms later in their educational careers . |
| 4 | The latter items , of course , like meanings , are subject to identity ; i.e. a non-meaning qua topic of discourse is necessarily such that it must be possible to refer to it on different occasions with the phrase " the same A " , where A is a descriptive expression of some sort . |
| 5 | He knows that many of those now present will be eager to go with him on this adventure , but first of all he would like to present them with a challenge . |