Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present tax system was too complicated ; people setting up in business on their own were more or less forced to employ an accountant . |
| 2 | They were waiting for them inside the restaurant , which turned out to be a smallish place that somehow managed to achieve an atmosphere of casualness and intimacy at the same time . |
| 3 | However , our own observations show that once invited to submit a proposal , a school 's case is subject to the same criteria as any other , and that these criteria are fairly rigorously applied . |
| 4 | I am therefore today asking you for her hand , for no one else is capable of making me happy nor more fitted to wear a crown . |
| 5 | And here we find that the term is widely rather than narrowly defined to include an offence which carries a sentence of three years or more on first conviction ; or involves the use of violence ; or results in substantial financial gain ; or involves conduct by a large number of people in pursuit of a common purpose . |
| 6 | I was supposed to have a meeting on with erm , a couple of guys from the British Coal Enterprise down in Middlesbrough with , but unfortunately again the weather caught all of them out and they decided not to come , but did n't occur to them to say they would n't come , so I sat down there for an hour , and eventually managed to find a phone number and get in contact and the guy was still there , and he said oh no I 'm not coming up . |
| 7 | Robert Norman McNevin ACA and David Carty FCA both of 234 Manchester Road , Warrington having been found to be in breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that they at Warrington between 10 June 1991 and 1 August 1991 passed clients ' monies through their firm 's office account were each reprimanded and jointly and severally ordered to pay a fine of £500 and £250 by way of costs . |
| 8 | John Leslie Bill FCA , Nigel John Collins ACA , David Scott Fisher FCA , Ralph Edgar Rowledge FCA , Michael Ross Hart FCA , Malcolm Philip Hemming FCA and Gerry Paul Harborne ACA all of Griffin House , 18–19 Ludgate Hill , Birmingham having been found to be in breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that they at Birmingham between 31 January 1991 and 23 August 1991 passed clients ' monies through their firm 's office account were each reprimanded and jointly and severally ordered to pay a fine of £500 and £250 by way of costs . |
| 9 | The remaining test utterances were not incorrectly identified ; the system simply generated too many partial interpretations and so failed to give a response within the resource limits of the trial . |
| 10 | He observed St-Germain-des Pres from a little distance , was distressed by its tendency towards abstraction , took his new mistress Francoise Gilot from its fringes , and so thought to teach a lesson in painting to both her and her contemporaries . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , Mrs Markham , ’ a Mrs Prothero and President of the Women 's Institute said one day , ‘ I happened to be passing and just wanted to extend a welcome on behalf of the whole village . ’ |
| 12 | The group had held a press conference two days earlier at which they called on the Fourth Communist Party Congress ( Cuarto Congreso del Partido Comunista ) to instigate radical political reforms and also attempted to distribute a statement to this effect to Congress delegates . |
| 13 | Some poems were conventional love poems ; others were historical , recounting well-known stories about the Zuwaya past ; still others were comments on contemporary events ( sometimes compared to the historical ) which informed , and also helped to create a consensus of opinion . |
| 14 | Representatives from 29 countries , the European Communities ( EC ) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) met in Geneva on April 30-May 1 to discuss ways of encouraging Vietnamese " boat people " to return to Vietnam , and also agreed to establish a committee to consider " alternative and additional measures " to deal with those unwilling to return . |
| 15 | It consists of a massive foundation , 1.8 m ( 6 ft ) deep and 9.7 by 10.3 m ( 32 by 34 ft ) , enclosing an irregular space about 4.3 by 4.9 m ( 14 by 16 ft ) , and clearly intended to support a superstructure of some weight . |
| 16 | ‘ Sterilising ’ sinks : These are heated sinks usually in combination with a washing sink and thermostatically controlled to maintain a temperature of at least 82°C . |
| 17 | When Margaret said , ‘ How about bed , darling ? ’ instead of his usual protests he obeyed immediately , and even agreed to have a bath . |
| 18 | I 'm quite an artistic person ; in retrospect , I think perhaps I should have risen to the challenge and maybe applied to do a language , because I really enjoy literature and languages in my spare time . |
| 19 | And sometimes used to get a bit of a a bad storm ahead so we used to especially if you went from here to er North of Scotland round Cape . |
| 20 | For example , given that streets must be dug up and completely reconstructed to create a Woonerf , there are the complexities of coordination with utilities which use the street as conduits for pipes and cables . |
| 21 | So Etak stopped making Navigators and instead opted to sell a software map which runs on hardware made by other firms . |
| 22 | He shook his head , but gamely decided to make a stab at it . |
| 23 | Again the British at first dragged their feet , but eventually decided to launch an operation , this time without any Free French participation whatsoever . |
| 24 | She reached for the back of Nina 's ripped jacket , but only managed to get a handful of hair . |
| 25 | Daniel took more persuading than she had expected , but finally agreed to spare an hour later in the morning . |
| 26 | Dowie had two chances to increase the lead after the interval , but just failed to reach a cross from Black and then saw a low shot kept out by the legs of goalkeeper Kapilarii . |
| 27 | WARRENDER 's Fraser Walker broke the British 100m medley record at yesterday 's Uncle Ben 's World Cup Meet in Sheffield , but just failed to collect a medal . |
| 28 | After operating in the Czech and Slovak republics for the past 18 months , Leeds accounting software supplier Coda Ltd has not only won its first contract in Hungary , but also decided to open an office in Budapest , which began trading on April 1 . |
| 29 | Add in Comet , Superdrug and B&Q , and that is Kingfisher , run with little of the flair which Dixons showed in its heyday but perfectly poised to withstand a downturn . |
| 30 | In Japan both Sony and Matsushita have worked on similar equalisation , but never bothered to market a system . |