Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the two essential components for a policy of nuclear deterrence are that one possesses the capability and that a potential enemy does not doubt one 's willingness to use it in order to defend oneself ? |
| 2 | Undertaking an obligation to obey the law is an appropriate means of expressing identification with society , because it is a form of supporting social institutions , because it conveys a willingness to share in the common ways established in that society as expressed by its institutions , and because it expresses confidence in the reasonableness and good judgment of the government through one 's willingness to take it on trust , as it were , that the law is just and that it should be complied with . |
| 3 | Just as Elisha could answer the widow 's need because he had been in touch with his Lord , so the Holy Spirit is God 's agent to keep us in touch with Him , and to make us pure . |
| 4 | ‘ My poor wife 's attempt to scare her into flight must have been the final straw . |
| 5 | With sadly impaired health and frustrated by Rossetti 's reluctance to commit himself to marriage , and his too apt inclination to infidelity , she resorted to ever-increasing doses of laudanum . |
| 6 | He was soon associated with a group around Sir John Vaughan [ q.v. ] , also including Sir Thomas Littleton and Sir Richard Temple [ q.v. ] , who frequently voiced concern during the 1660s that the restored government 's need to secure itself in power , coupled with Parliament 's Royalist enthusiasm , might lead to the erosion of England 's laws and liberties . |
| 7 | And they 'd need to hold a gun to Piggott 's head to keep him in hospital a day — no an hour — longer than strictly necessary . |
| 8 | MILLWALL 's efforts to get themselves on television succeeded earlier this season when their game against Liverpool made The Match . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought , ’ she said , ignoring her father 's advice to treat him with kid gloves , ‘ not that it 's any business of yours , that I might potter into Nice for the day . ’ |
| 10 | It was something apparently irrelevant that had enough secret bearing on Albert 's situation to push him into action . |
| 11 | In the same year Darwin set sail on the Beagle taking with him Lyell 's " Principles " and read it so much that he had to ask the ship 's carpenter to rebind it in wood . |
| 12 | Cnut is also said to have had the relics of saints Botulf and Jurminus translated there , and a ditch dug round the abbey 's lands to protect it from interference . |
| 13 | Paneth and Peters knew about palladium 's ability to absorb lots of hydrogen and they wondered whether packing so much of it in between the palladium atoms might increase the chance of the hydrogen atoms bumping into one another , thereby fusing and producing helium . |
| 14 | Grant got the impression that Larsen must have been waiting for his signal , like a sprinter crouched in his blocks waiting for the starter 's gun to launch him into motion . |
| 15 | Belfast Action Team said agencies would answer queries and encourage the formation of residents ' groups to involve them in decision-making . |
| 16 | the music press is read avidly by A&R departments to find anything of interest . |