Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 Immediately upon receipt of the Selling Notice , the Company shall give notice in writing ( a " Compulsory Sale Notice " ) to each of the members ( other than the Seller ) giving the details contained in the Selling Notice , requiring them each to sell to the Proposed Purchaser at Completion [ all of their holdings of [ " A " Ordinary Shares and Ordinary Shares ] / [ such proportion of their holdings of [ " A " Ordinary Shares and Ordinary Shares ] as is equal to the proportion which the Selling Shares bears to the total holding of [ shares in the Ordinary Share Capital/ " A " Ordinary Shares ] held by the Seller ( including the Selling Shares ) ] . |
| 2 | There was no heating in the room and an inadequacy of blankets , and I finally put on all my clothes again and tried my best to snuggle under the only blanket to snatch an hour of sleep . |
| 3 | For around £5 each , DIY shops sell locks to fit any kind of window which makes them impossible to open without the right key . |
| 4 | In this , Rodrigo once again displayed his judgement of what was best for Spain , for under this oath Alfonso gained the support of those who doubted his right to rule , as well as the support of El Cid himself , who now showed himself willing to stand by the new King . |
| 5 | The trams have had events of their own to celebrate during the hundred years , generally firsts , rather than lasts . |
| 6 | This need not be the case , since each level has information of its own to contribute to the overall picture , as well as selecting from the existing information . |
| 7 | Factionalism was rife , and the British Situationists — what there were of them — did their best to recruit amongst the underground-oriented malcontents despairing of the prospects of that movement . |
| 8 | The three others rose to leave and it was only at the very last moment that he added , almost casually : ‘ What message were you supposed to phone to the American Consulate ? ’ |
| 9 | Those coppers had been assembling , you see , so I lurked in the shadows and watched , and when the Top Cop turned up he told them all to get in the Black Maria . |
| 10 | The need was to reconcile the ‘ ecclesiastical ’ and the ‘ congregational ’ elements , and while he insisted that ‘ Nonconformist churches must , beyond all question , be built to see and hear in ’ he had nothing good to say about the vast preaching halls , such as the Metropolitan Tabernacle , with a bit of tracery and the proportions of a barn . |
| 11 | SD ACOUSTICS IS ANOTHER IN THAT RICH crop of small British manufacturers with something interesting to say to the discerning listener who is wiling to seek out a brand that is by no means as widely distributed in the shops as it deserves to be . |
| 12 | This is not to suggest that each of the sample antiracist statements does not have something pertinent to say about the particular instance of racism which it privileges as paradigmatic . |
| 13 | There is always something new to discover under the Italian sun , and the Citalia range of Two and Three Centre Holidays is no exception . |
| 14 | It would be a pity because these books have something special to say about the human condition , about being human beings , and about the power of words and images . |
| 15 | ‘ They have left me alone to prepare in the proper fashion , so it was quite emotional when we saw each other . |
| 16 | ‘ They have left me alone to prepare in the proper fashion , so it was quite emotional when we saw each other . |
| 17 | It was half way through , and she could not understand a word of the dialogue and was surprised and rather indignant that she could not understand , for she had genuinely looked forward , with half of herself , to seeing a picture : as it was , she found herself obliged to concentrate on the other aspects of the affair . |
| 18 | This leaves him free to concentrate on the creative side of cooking while maintaining effective management control . |
| 19 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 20 | These machines are rather expensive , but they make it possible to lift off the original sync sound from the video tape , combine it with additional sound ( held either on separate tracks or pre-mixed on the recorder via ‘ sound on sound ’ mixing ) , and then to lay it back onto the video tape still in perfect synchronisation . |
| 21 | I am sorry that the Minister has not found it possible to agree with the reasonable amendment . |
| 22 | The F-Plan calorie and fibre charts are the first charts to make it possible to keep to the correct number of calories and , at the same time , to choose the foods which will be of most help in making slimming both easier and speedier . |
| 23 | They needed a device able to scan lumps of rocks and pick out those worth processing at a rate that would make it possible to work on the huge scale required to make extraction from low-grade ores economical . |
| 24 | If science is based on experience , then by what means is it possible to get from the singular statements that result from observation to the universal statements that make up scientific knowledge ? |
| 25 | Is it right to see in the big reduction in disconnections signs of a different attitude on the part of the electricity companies to their customers and signs of better management since the companies were privatised , and is there scope for further improvement in this respect ? |
| 26 | Willis presents evidence to show that his competence is cumulative and so ‘ makes it sensible to speak of the working class not as an abstract group of those who share similar interests but as an organic whole with real and used inner connections ’ ( Willis , 1976 ) . |
| 27 | This can make it easier to arrive at the correct spot by varying the radius and steepness of the turn . |
| 28 | However , the audience this year was below its normal pitch of receptiveness and Nobby and company might have found it easier to perform at the old Glasgow Empire … ‘ . |
| 29 | Even the most conscientious writers did not find it easy to part with the picturesque view . |
| 30 | Then , too , the forger will not find it easy to come across the right paper . |