Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [to-vb] [adv prt] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Messrs. Gould and Gunn set off to-day to the head of the [ Recherche ] Bay to a plain , which appears to run up many miles into the country the hill called South Cape , which presents towards the bay a steep and particularly denuded surface … |
| 2 | The first ( firm A ) is a levered firm and the second ( firm B ) is an unlevered firm which decides to take on some leverage by issuing a bond . |
| 3 | ‘ Anybody who wants to help out that way can come along and see the kids for themselves . |
| 4 | ‘ For love is something so positive , so strong , so real , ’ he wrote exultantly to Theo , ‘ that it is as impossible for one who loves to take back that feeling as it is to take his own life . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ One has to lay down some ground rules for any work of art . |
| 6 | One of the stores targeted by FoE , the B&Q chain , has announced it intends to phase out all imports of unsustainably-produced tropical timber by 1995 — the target date set by the World Wide Fund for Nature . |
| 7 | The sheer volume of the many assessments externally required by the Act and now under design by SEAC runs the danger of forcing the less confident teachers — indeed all of them in the first instance , as they ascend the steep learning curve — into ‘ rote teaching ’ , a much more dangerous activity than rote learning because it tends to shut down that sense of intellectual curiosity without which children are not really being taught . |
| 8 | They had ‘ got into the way of singing this song ’ , he explained , and it was ‘ by degrees that he hopes to break down this habit ’ . |
| 9 | It helps to carry out this activity in a group but individuals can use the method with equal success . |
| 10 | If , as its Members will , it seeks to bring about such change , it must rely upon other agencies if it is to shift the location of so much as a single molecule . |
| 11 | If a planner thinks his plan is weak at some point he attempts to design out that weakness . |