Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [prep] [det] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 My definition of harmful treatment would embrace not just treatment that exposed me to risk without any hope of compensating benefit but treatment of unproved efficacy that diverted me from having other treatments that were of proved value .
2 " He has never asked me to go at this time of night before , " she whispered .
3 For a start you do n't expect me to behave like some sort of stud .
4 The University Welfare Services make special provision to assist students with special needs to find accommodation , to enable them to participate in all aspects of university life , and to give expert advice on career opportunities after graduation .
5 Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels .
6 The argument developed in this chapter is that teachers can ill afford to take this blinkered attitude towards LMS , even if in doing so they appear to be adopting a coping strategy that enables them to focus on those aspects of their work that they see as most important .
7 ( People are now inviting me to play in all manner of matches to boost the takings which is one way of getting a game as wicky ) .
8 Equally , how easy is it for you to conceive of another subject of experience , one who is not you ?
9 This will help you to work in any type of authority following your admission as a solicitor .
10 Normally organisers will allow you to re-weigh on another set of scales if you believe that a particular set is reading heavy .
11 We wish to congratulate and encourage you for this humanitarian act , so praiseworthy , and urge you to persevere in this work of salvation .
12 Erm his brain when you 're talking about human endeavour and craft skill you know , to enable you to get to that stage of , of er er fine working , erm takes a lot of intensive you know , er er attitude .
13 Options 4 and 5 allow you to drop on either side of the lateral water hazard , not nearer the hole and within two club lengths of the point marked B , where the ball first entered the hazard .
14 But there 's no need for you to think about that sort of thing , ’ Mr Hellyer said .
15 For here is trance dance grooving at its highest level , a silver drug for the senses that allows you to enter into another dimension of sex and sorcery .
16 The Republic blitzed us , but it will be difficult for them to put on that type of performance in Italy . ’
17 If , for instance , the dream associated an exam with er with , with some peripheral aspect of taking examinations which erm had nothing to do with any kind of test .
18 The distinction between Spence and Litster is that in Spence the dismissals had nothing to do with any transfer of a business .
19 Robert Smith , who published Lady Colin 's book on Di , said : ‘ I had nothing to do with any sort of forgery .
20 Something to do with this side of the water .
21 Yet there is no cultural measure which allows one to distinguish between these types of programmes ; similar criticisms can be levelled against both Minder and Dallas and this makes it difficult to accept Kumar 's position in its entirety .
22 Apart from the fairly depressing conclusion that it is very difficult to study neural mechanisms of behaviour , what else is there to learn from this summary of methodology ?
23 The strict mother can be very effective in getting what she needs if the man 's early experience helps him to relate to that kind of woman .
24 After two years he moved to Border Television in Carlisle where being part of a small team allowed him to dabble in all areas of production .
25 It conjured up too many graphic images for her to reply with any semblance of iciness .
26 I have nothing to add on that aspect of the case .
27 The third teenager nodded , with nothing to add to this statement of self-evident wisdom .
28 I did n't want anyone to go to that sort of trouble , but … well , I know Steve 's worried , and I want him to enjoy this trip . ’
29 She had not known what to expect from this side of marriage since there was no literature available to her on the subject and her mother had told her nothing .
30 Prokofiev , in the final piece of the evening , showed what to do with that kind of thing : his Overture on Hebrew themes , written in 1919 for a group pretending to raise funds for a conservatory in Jerusalem but in fact trying to feed themselves , just sets the tunes in a concise sonata form , and preserves all their humour and charm with hardly a suspicion of the composer intruding .
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