Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Harry said he was due to meet someone in the boathouse , so we went over there . ’
2 However , it is possible to discover something about the relationship between clause structure and the processing of written language by using a subject-paced reading task .
3 I had needed to break our journey north int he capital to see someone in the tourist board 's head office .
4 UK airlines are not sponsoring pilots at the present time , but the school is attracting an increasing number of young people , both from this country and abroad , who are prepared to invest something in the order of £50,000 to train as professional pilots …
5 It will be interesting to know something of the history too .
6 And you 'll find it 's so much easier to try everything in the comfort of your own home .
7 I 'm afraid to put one in the kitchen
8 Oh well it 's always protection of the family and yet they 're not prepared to put anything to the family .
9 So it 's wrong to read anything into the failure of Peter Mandelson to be given a room — although the fact that he is dossing down in Tony Blair 's office is surely evidence of his continuing influence with the Bright Young Things of the shadow cabinet .
10 In some cultures , scribes do not record texts with word-for-word fidelity , while in others one is not free to alter anything in the process of re-recording .
11 This , ICL claims , ‘ allows you to keep all choices a la carte ’ , but it also provides the user with support — each user is free to take anything from the range he requires , and although they can have a personalised user interface , the products are integrated and conform to uniform design .
12 Americans are scrupulously careful to say nothing on the record about enlargement of the Community : that , they say , is a matter for the Europeans .
13 They 've so inculcated this passion for absolute secrecy into the senior officers of all four services that no one is prepared to reveal anything without the permission of the commanding officer of the Air Force base or ship or whatever .
14 Each of these secondary attacks should be treated as having WS 25 and S 3 ; it is impossible to destroy everything in the room which is capable of delivering these attacks , and the only way to stop them is to destroy the clock .
15 It is not easy to imagine anything in the behaviour of natural flowers for which evolution could conceivably have needed to program bees to anticipate regular changes in distance .
16 ‘ I 'm ordered to give you these things , ’ Harvey said , as though he did n't want to really , but I do n't think he meant that — he was just over-keen to do everything by the book .
17 Last night , when the Canadians , Americans and Australians were just arriving , it was still impossible to learn anything about the knockout format on Saturday .
18 Having decided on the capacity of the venue and the ticket price , it is simple to multiply one by the other to ‘ gross the hall ’ .
19 Y you know it 's it does n't take much to push someone into the situation where they 're prepared to take a big loan from a money lender , to try and clear all their other debts .
20 In contrast with my wishful thinking of the day before , I now found it impossible to visualize anything after the moment when the lights would go out and the window of the block would be thrown open .
21 He ordered a second bottle ; ‘ It 's almost impossible to prove anything in the spying world .
22 An entry can be made by any part of the accused 's body or by an instrument held by the accused to intimidate someone in the building or to remove goods from the building .
23 Are we likely to see anything on the scale of the Coventry commission again ?
24 By now , of course , it was dark and hard to see anything on the water .
25 But then , you 're too conventional to know anything about the sort of relationships that a literary man can have . ’
26 12.45:IT is hard to envisage anything but the front two in the market winning this Grade Two contest .
27 In order to reassure the House and the public , perhaps the Minister can explain what is the procedure when a police officer uses the powers given in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to stop someone in the street or someone driving a car .
28 But , as we have just said , it usually does n't seem possible to do anything about the job .
29 In fact there was no paradox , for it was the theoretical assumption that speech and writing were fulfilling the same functions and the inability to recognise their separate characters that made it possible to use one as the model for the other .
30 The general principle is shown in the photograph , and with a little ingenuity it should be possible to devise something of the sort .
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