Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | decorative mirror , with or without a frame , is the type you would normally hand on a bedroom or living room wall , or perhaps over a mantlepiece to reflect the room . |
| 2 | By comparison , socially created inequality ‘ consists of the different privileges which some men enjoy to the prejudice of others , such as that of being more rich , more honoured , more powerful , or even in a position to exact obedience ’ ( quoted in Bottomore , 1965 , pp. 15–16 ) . |
| 3 | yet such reasoning , whether poverty , self-expression , financial regard , national pride , political statement or simply as a means to shift the black man 's burden , exists to no less a degree in England to day . |
| 4 | Nearly all authorities — even the most decentralized — reserve some money under central control to purchase material which the zones do not want , or can not afford , or simply as a fund to cover emergencies . |
| 5 | And since he was in his late thirties and apparently without a cent to show for it , the conclusion was obvious . |
| 6 | He was always in a hurry to get where he was going and always in a hurry to leave it when he got there . |
| 7 | The decision not to simply take over the entire MoMA show was made partly on the grounds that the Pompidou has already mounted a major Matisse retrospective ( in 1971 ) , and partly through a desire to study in depth a period of the artist 's life now viewed as fundamental for the development of twentieth-century painting . |
| 8 | It is hardly correct , however , to suggest on the basis of this comment that it was partly from a sense of humility , and partly from a reluctance to accept all the credit for himself , that Gandhi acknowledged his indebtedness to Tolstoy 's ideas . |
| 9 | Nationalisation was not new to France — the railways had been put into State ownership in 1937 — but support for economic planning had grown during the war as a way towards national renewal , greater investment and improved working conditions , and also as a way to punish businessmen who had collaborated with the Nazis . |
| 10 | Stolen early on in the Revolution , the Regent diamond was recovered by the French Adjutant-General and pawned first to a German banker and then to a Dutchman to secure loans . |
| 11 | Their view is that this will lead to clinical resistance and ultimately to a failure to implement . |
| 12 | Certainly to respond to the gentleman who was suggesting that there 's no difference between us as adults and children , certainly there is the child in all adults erm that does respond , perhaps , in a childish way at times , but I would suggest that as adults we hopefully have gotten to a place in ourselves which we are not so much at the mercy of our immediate wishes and wants and feelings that we are able to be more measured in the way that we handle ourselves and our feelings , and therefore in a position to help our children to develop that capacity within themselves as they are growing up erm and erm I 've forgotten the other point I was going to make just following on from what Elizabeth there in the studio was saying . |
| 13 | More often than not , social disengagement will not have been intentional , and certainly not brought about simply by the process of ageing , but rather by a failure to maintain an adequate level of social life beyond that of being parents . |
| 14 | Authority was never given for the benefit of the person in authority , but only as a tool to serve those under that authority . |
| 15 | This places a critic in a privileged position , but also with a responsibility to make clear whether views expressed are those of the critic or those of the artist . |
| 16 | Since work to be undertaken in respective months in the kitchen , fruit and flower gardens was noted in the Dictionary , it might be thought that a Kalendar was superfluous , but Miller explains that at the request of particular friends he had produced a work not only portable , but also at a price to suit those who could not afford a larger book . |
| 17 | Maria jeered caustically , driven partly by masochism but also by a need to lash out as she realised that in addition to all the other contemptible things he believed of her , he was now also convinced that she was a liar . |