Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one of his speeches , the right hon. Gentleman spoke of a council that met once a year to put out contracts , had a good lunch and then went home . |
| 2 | So that 's that sounds quite a lot to ask the political party |
| 3 | One important question in this area awaits a final answer : if , on its proper construction , the statutory authority exempts the undertaker from Rylands v. Fletcher liability and imposes only an obligation to use due care , upon whom does the burden of proof lie ? |
| 4 | If a magazine is entirely devoted to Software Editorial and Reviews then the need to focus on the detail increases with it . |
| 5 | The bag struck the paving , bounced , and now the boy caught it and peeled away the bag to reveal a football which he struck in a high , curling shot which ricocheted off the wall slightly to the left of a priest who had emerged from the large church which dosed off one end of the piazza . |
| 6 | It is we , after all , who have to pick up the pieces and begin again the struggle to live our lives with dignity , and in freedom from arbitrary and authoritarian policing . |
| 7 | Yet others rebel against this marginalization and demand both the right to perform the full range of police work ( from which follows the wish to carry guns ) and that men should become more involved in dealing with child and female offences . |
| 8 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |
| 9 | Smith was a slow reader and took about an hour to read and ponder the document , after which he approved it and asked me to take it to Harold Wilson . |
| 10 | Rescuers found the red Datsun embedded in the tree and took almost an hour to free the men using hydraulic lifting and cutting gear . |
| 11 | France had not been a party to the negotiations , had not enjoyed the same privileged access to US nuclear technology , and possessed neither the submarines to launch Polaris nor the warheads to arm them . |
| 12 | Harry felt his way backwards to the wall , out of range of the searching eyes , and leaned there a moment to breathe more easily . |
| 13 | And stretched forth the knife to slay his son . |
| 14 | ‘ I lifted it out onto the pathway and had quite a job to prise the frog from the seemingly lifeless fish . ’ |
| 15 | She was through all the ordeals now , and had only the journey to accomplish . |
| 16 | It was his way of saying at once that he knew the worst of what was to come , and had only the details to learn . |
| 17 | But he says that when his grandfather and his grandfather 's brother were starting the Store and stayed late every night to do the office work , they used to hear sounds in the walls and they used to tell each other there were little Store people . |
| 18 | He was due to go in June but brought forward the date to join Adidas , which was finally sold off yesterday by the controversial French tycoon Bernard Tapie to a group of international investors for $371 million . |
| 19 | To the masses which the French Revolution had made politically aware and on which the Industrial Revolution was imposing new and appalling burdens while increasing exponentially the capacity to create wealth , Owen 's new view was of a society which had realised their aspirations . |
| 20 | This chapter develops and defends the conception of the nature of practical authority outlined in the previous chapter , i.e. authority as involving essentially THE power to require action . |