Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He or she also needs to demonstrate commitment to curriculum and pastoral development .
2 I would hate to find myself part of any anti-Diana conspiracy , but it did cross my mind that some of her critics were right when they claimed that she deliberately sought to dominate family photographs .
3 When , on demobilisation , Freddie returned to Scotland , expecting to step into the role of country squire or glorified estate manager — despite the fact that he knew nothing about agriculture — it had been a shock to find himself coldly received by his in-laws and his wife , who informed him that she definitely intended to start divorce proceedings .
4 It means firmly conveying the message that you no longer want to create this reality , that you now choose to attract abundance rather than poverty .
5 It takes you bleeding ages to start up so you definitely got to have exercise with your legs .
6 She pointed out that they rarely seemed to express affection towards Pamela and that this might be making her feel insecure .
7 As in Gassendi and Locke , the ‘ new philosophy ’ was often anti-sceptical in intent , and its advocates were often not complete materialists , in that they genuinely thought to find room for religion , God , and the soul .
8 Honeywell says that the agreement is a long term one , and that it also plans to use Apple 's next generation Macintosh — the one that will use the PowerPC RISC processor , in future generations of the Electronic Library System .
9 If the Act does apply , the landlord must establish one of the grounds permitted by the Act if the tenant opposes the notice on the basis that it fully intends to resume occupation of the premises when they are reinstated .
10 So the Bank of England is in the situation that it usually wishes to sell government securities ; it invariably wishes to sustain long-run demand for such securities but it periodically has to take action which inflicts losses on the holders of such securities .
11 So stony that he even had to borrow money from Dad to get home .
12 Melanie was worried that this would upset Stan , but he was already giving clear signs that he just wanted to avoid conflict .
13 Burton 's approach can be seriously criticized on the grounds that he pays little attention to such problems as the globalization of capital , class struggle or ideology , and that he often appears to confuse society and system at both the descriptive and the conceptual levels .
14 He adored her and never once complained in my presence of the fact that he always had to attend shul on his own .
15 Bush emphasized that he still hoped to avert war , and that a meeting could still go ahead in Baghdad between US Secretary of State James Baker and President Saddam Hussein a few days after Jan. 3 .
16 He stressed that he never intended to have sex with her and said he never used force or inflicted injury on the girl .
17 And I just wanted to play guitar for whatever reason .
18 Still , it was the hangover of that piece of moral cowardice at Lochgair station , along with everything else , that led to me feeling so profoundly awful with myself that evening ( after the train finally did get into Queen Street and I walked back , soaked and somehow no longer hungry , in the rain to the empty flat in Grant Street ) , that mum had to call me there , because I had n't been able to bring myself to phone her and dad … and I still managed to feign sleep and a little shame and a smattering of sorrow and reassure her as best I could that really I was all right , yes of course , not to worry , I was fine , thanks for calling … and so of course after that felt even worse .
19 A couple of blobs landed on the canvas as a result and I then had to make use of this fact deliberately in order to get some sort of overall pattern .
20 We are humbled and brought low by them , but the spirit of man — and I now have to say woman — and the freedoms that we enjoy lie within our grasp as long as we hold this House .
21 But Carol and I never seem to get time to be able to do these things on each other , but we have had the treatment so we do know that massage really does help you to relax .
22 ‘ Dane and I hardly need to practise passion . ’
23 And she also hopes to spend time with Chester Zoo 's own black rhino baby Emma , mucking out and washing her to raise money .
24 and she also had to remove part of his bowel .
25 as anything , if she ever had to do reception
26 The hardware handshaking is always active , so if you only want to use software handshaking , you will need to wire a cable to set the handshaking lines high at all times .
27 Whenever one of the family is seen responding to their dog 's demands , he or she must pay 10p ( or 50p if you really want to see motivation at work ! ) into the other 's boxes .
28 The last set of ideas which I want to discuss , which is not which are only partly related as a matter of fact to the erm ideas of the punctuationists , are the ideas , which , as a matter of fact my colleagues here Brian Goodwin and Gerry Webster have been particularly clear and eloquent advocates , which say in effect that if you really want to understand evolution , merely thinking about the adaptation of organisms to some kind of environment is not really an adequate way of thinking about it , because when you look at organisms , look at vertebrates for example , you 'll find an astonishing range of kinds of ways of life .
29 So if you definitely want to combine spreadsheet ranges with charts and other graphics — arrows , annotations and so on — SuperCalc is not to be recommended but if you want a powerful DOS spreadsheet , which is capable of professional looking results and highly informative graphs , then SuperCalc 5.5 provides all the features you need and is a bargain at only £79 .
30 Such courses may be of interest to you as a returner but they are not the same as re-entry programmes , and would not be recognised for the same purpose if you ever had to provide evidence of an updating course to your National Board .
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