Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb base] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
| 2 | Well , can everyone take on board the idea now , if there are new documents being prepared or we get to a major re-issue . |
| 3 | The clerk , realising from Mirsal 's uniform that I belong to the sacred official class , merely bows his head to the storm , pays up and looks pleasant . |
| 4 | He played with his children and then suggested that she go to the nearby Windmill Inn for some beer , as travelling had parched his throat . |
| 5 | However , we recommend that you keep to the usual recommended calorie intakes for weight loss , and reap the additional advantages in ease and speed , rather than try to eat even fewer calories than usually recommended in a diet . |
| 6 | The idea here is that you go to a domestic dispute to prevent a crime from being committed … |
| 7 | Included in the kit is a bell push that you attach to the front door frame , 9 metres of bell wire , complete with cable clips ( if you need more than around 8 metres , Smiths recommends a bell transformer is used , connected to the mains electricity ) , the door chime and securing screws for fixing to wood . |
| 8 | Please acknowledge receipt of this letter and confirm that you agree to the above conditions . |
| 9 | The operation itself is usually purely formal , and only just stirs up enough dust to make you cough a little , but it is a sign that you belong to the higher or fit-to-be-dusted classes . |
| 10 | ‘ So you return to a cold and empty hotel room instead , ’ Kelly snorted in disgust . |
| 11 | ‘ If you consider that out of the 1,800 listed companies the top 200 account for 85 per cent of the equity market by market capital , and that once you get to the next 100 companies like ourselves they already have comparatively few qualified people in the finance function , the addition of equally qualified internal audit people looks like overkill . ’ |
| 12 | This paradox about being able to predict one 's actions is closely related to the problem I mentioned earlier : Will the ultimate theory determine that we come to the right conclusions about the ultimate theory ? |
| 13 | It is only at this point that we come to the central theme , the reason why all those who wish to understand the problem of drugs in sport should read this book . |
| 14 | But this does not mean that we swing to the opposite extreme and say that because doubt is a result of the Fall , all doubts are necessarily destructive , negative , even sinful . |
| 15 | We have seen significant changes world wide and that means that we should reappraise the amount of money that we devote to the diplomatic corps and to our aid budget . |
| 16 | Wordsworth discovered and established those kinds of poetry which would best suit him ; it is in the German period that we travel to the furthest limits of the ‘ Wordsworthian ’ vision , in poems such as the ‘ Lucy ’ and ‘ Matthew ’ sequences , which are at one level blindingly clear , but in terms of prose exposition almost impossible to ‘ explain' . |
| 17 | My hon. Friend is right to emphasise the great importance that we attach to a successful GATT round . |
| 18 | The importance that we attach to the further education of adults will be clearly demonstrated through this debate . |
| 19 | It is an interesting curiousity that the nearest thing that we have to a minimum wage was introduced by Winston Churchill that one-time Conservative Prime Minister , in an earlier political guise . |
| 20 | After the victory at the sea the triumph song , but hardly have the last notes escaped Israel 's lips than we come to the second story of complaint ( 15.22–7 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ We export more to France than we do to the entire 50 countries of the Commonwealth . |
| 22 | Although they relate to the growing tendency to move computer applications from larger machines to smaller ones ( See ACCOUNTANCY , February , p 101 ) , reduction in the size of the boxes is not the most significant factor . |
| 23 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 24 | He ensures that they get to the best conferences and from time to time will organize his own , bringing in the best speakers . |
| 25 | Apart from errors and omissions these are defined in the National Accounts in such a way that they come to the same value . |
| 26 | The good new s is that they go to the Ranfurly Library . |
| 27 | The dates on the letters are quite clear , but a vague possibility is that they refer to the first actual parachute operation and that the dates are confused — by perhaps a month . |
| 28 | Most speakers would agree , I think , that Mary wore a red dress and Mary wore a blue dress were contraries ( assuming , of course , that they refer to the same occasion , and that Mary , as would be normal , wore only one dress at a time ) ; the colour terms refer to the predominant colour of the dress , and there can be only one predominant colour . |
| 29 | It may be shown ( using the criterion that they lead to the same set of equations ) that by adding the so-called leakage inductances to the ideal transformer the two representations ( Fig. 4.11 ) become equivalent . |
| 30 | The vital task facing trade unions at the present time is to sell trade unionism — to convince trade union members that they belong to a beneficial , positive and essential organisation . |