Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're well-disposed enough , all the Percy tribe , because their own holdings are in the north , and they have nothing to lose here on the Welsh border . |
| 2 | My conclusion makes it unnecessary for me to proceed further upon the natural justice argument . |
| 3 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 4 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 5 | ‘ Grimm , ’ he said , ‘ I want you to go deep into the ruptured entrails of Vasilariov to search for another hydra . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't ask you to come here in the first place , and I certainly did n't ask for your help out here . |
| 7 | That is why I want you to listen carefully to the dreaded DOs and DON'Ts I am about to give you . |
| 8 | I hope that this series of articles may have encouraged you to look again at the various stitch patterns which your machine can produce . |
| 9 | What I 'd like you to do just for the last ten minutes is to think of a member of staff you have who has a training need and think about how you will go about training them and the methods that you will use . |
| 10 | ‘ I want you to deal personally with the Potrovsky widow . |
| 11 | However , in practice this was only achieved as a result of the very public support of Kibaki and of Charles Njonjo the influential Attorney General ( working against the interests of the founders of GEMA ) , a triumvirate which was itself to break apart with the public humiliation of Njonjo at judicial hearings in 1984 . |
| 12 | IMAGINE my surprise on getting through the post an appeal on behalf of the very rich a personalised letter from Chris Patten MP exhorting me to give generously to the Conservative Party or else I might ‘ wake up on the morning after polling day to find Neil Kinnock and the Labour Party are in power ’ . |
| 13 | Surprisingly perhaps , two of those working closest to that tradition , seem to me to do so with the utmost integrity : the small densely-stitched bird and animal embroideries of Jane Poulton and the tiny appliqued images of Janet Bolton reveal immense pleasure in their use of thread , textile and colour . |
| 14 | A learner is usually searching for some property which fulfils criteria which have nothing to do directly with the observed data . |
| 15 | No wonder the ‘ troops on the ground ’ are cynical , for they know ‘ real work ’ is for young officers and is something to leave behind at the first opportunity ! |
| 16 | It must have something to do also with the close shave that Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Malcolm Bruce was given in Gordon , where his majority was trimmed by 9,000 . |
| 17 | Rather it is an opportunity for them to contribute positively to the educational , social and personal support which many pupils do need but often do not receive . |
| 18 | Once she allowed herself to stray away from the main concourse , lured by the strains of a string quartet , to find herself in a large square dominated by a giant plane tree . |
| 19 | Fran felt her heart turn over , her stomach knot , but she forced herself to stand there under the cold stare . |
| 20 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 21 | The group , headed by Stanley Kalms , said his resignation would ‘ enable him to concentrate fully on the financial management and control of the group 's retail businesses . ’ |
| 22 | Of course I asked him to look carefully at the locked room , but we did n't find anything important . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Trippier , who was said to be expressing the views of his constituents , wrote to Mr Kenneth Clarke on November 24 asking him to look again at the original 6.5 per cent pay offer , saying it was not fair . |
| 24 | Such poems ‘ need not be stimulated by real-life events ’ such as the plight of the Marseilles dock-workers , which has effaced the sight — darkly limned in Jaromil 's juvenilia — of Magda in her bath ; and if the poet who displays his ignorant , indifferent self-portrait is hoping for applause , there is a chance for him to do well in the new world of revolution , which rings with applause , and with blame . |
| 25 | A curt note arrived shortly afterwards from Mauve , telling him to stay away for the next two months . |
| 26 | She wanted him to stop yet at the same time wanted him to go on in the hope that the lovely sensations would begin again . |
| 27 | The net emissions of Germany 's power stations were reduced from 1.6 million tonnes to 0.5 million tonnes within five years , enabling it to go far beyond the 30 per cent Club target . |
| 28 | The thin plastic flange in the centre of the connectors must be removed with a pair of pliers , to enable it to slide completely over the new , smaller piece of pipe , which should be cut 10 to 20mm shorter than the measured gap . |
| 29 | There is no question that there is an increasing need for a complex organization in today 's world to change its shape to accommodate changing demands ; an organization faces a heavy responsibility in attempting to determine the shape , in terms of both size and complexity , that will allow it to function effectively in the dynamic world in which it operates . |
| 30 | The restructuring will enable it to focus better on the two areas of its expertise in both wide area and local networks . |