Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise you would n't be able to carry on behind the Führer 's back . |
| 2 | This will involve tone as much as doctrine , but he would be as ill-advised to go on about the Government 's intention of building a classless society , which it ca n't build anyway , as to adopt the easy belief that the climate of opinion can be left to look after itself while ministers get on with the practical business of government . |
| 3 | ‘ I said you were crazy not to go along with the Corporation 's proposals , did n't I ? |
| 4 | They used to go down to the clogger 's shop , which was at the bottom of the road where they lived , and he used to make toast , make a drink , and they used to sit round by the light of a candle , eating toast and drinking . |
| 5 | Hitherto the older waist-band had tended to slip on to the horse 's neck and either throttle him or prevent him from pulling hard ; hence the slower and less efficient ox had been generally used . |
| 6 | Well you 'll have to come in on the way ho |
| 7 | Last autumn Mr Alton threatened to stand down after the party 's Harrogate conference endorsed a strong pro-abortion line . |
| 8 | Besides , sample results are not instantly available , but take at least two or three weeks , sometimes longer , to come through from the agency 's laboratories . |
| 9 | We need to know more about the reader 's understanding of still pictures , and more about the understanding of moving and animated pictures . |
| 10 | Even in a larger group , so long as a few actors stand to benefit disproportionately from the group 's success , then it may be worth their while to bear the costs of collective action , although less-involved people will free-ride . |
| 11 | Women would increasingly in the future be recruited into the new semi-skilled jobs , often at piece rates , so that employers were able to benefit both from the job 's lack of a craft tradition behind it , and from a work-force trained from childhood to regard anything they did as unskilled . |
| 12 | At the mention of this word , Miss Trunchbull 's face turned purple and her whole body seemed to swell up like a bullfrog 's . |
| 13 | Secondly , there is the regional flood defence committee , whose members will be expected to come up with the lion 's share of the cash . |
| 14 | This week Austin , Texas-based UniSQL Inc is supposed to come up with the world 's first heterogeneous database management system supporting both relational and object-oriented databases . |
| 15 | Archer describes this as " imaging " — the ability " to conjure up in the mind 's eye an image of something or system … rotate and transform it " … make shrewd judgements about its construction , practicability and worth " . |
| 16 | Leadership is the process of influencing others to work willingly towards an organisation 's goals , and to the best of their capabilities . |
| 17 | Racing to catch up with the industry 's evolution , Comdex ’ owner Interface Group is launching Enterprise Computing Exposition and Conference set for Chicago 's McCormick Place July 26–28 next year . |
| 18 | You want to stand out in the assessor 's mind but not as an insensitive bully trying to throw your weight around . |
| 19 | The unusual size was chosen to give more space to the visuals and to stand out from the standard A4 size so common in offices . |
| 20 | But obviously the heavier pieces of furniture , the more durable ones , are also the more expensive , and when it 's largely the money for them 's going to come out of the husband 's pocket they 're going to have more of a stake in erm in saying what they want . |
| 21 | And she was thrilled by that , for she found it hard to come back to a woman 's life in Egypt after tasting life in France . |
| 22 | A female was believed to come back after a night 's hunt and give her milk to whichever baby grabbed her teat first . |
| 23 | It is this incredible flexibility that allows us to juggle page layouts in just a few minutes and produce a fresh piece of artwork each time rather than wait hours , even days , for the re-worked page to come back from the artist 's studio . |
| 24 | Good heavens , man , do I pay you to stand about like a tailor 's dummy ? |
| 25 | Yet vestigial gestures towards value persist , usually at the end of an exposition , where the critic in a final flourish claims , or at least hopes , that something valuable has emerged from the analysis ; a revelation of the quality of the author 's imagination ; or of the inevitable tendency of all texts to be about their own processes of composition , or to come apart in the reader 's hand ; or of the aesthetic fascination of the patterns of imagery that have been revealed ; or , at the very least , and least interestingly , that something ‘ interesting ’ will have been said . |
| 26 | I want to comment briefly on the Government 's proposals and to support wholeheartedly the new clauses and amendments tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) . |
| 27 | Some estimates , however , suggest that vast areas would need to be planted to compensate adequately for the plant 's greenhouse gas emissions . |
| 28 | Nonindividualistic conceptions are likely to be among the expensive tastes since their realization depends on the cooperation of others , and they will take some convincing to come round to the agent 's point of view . |
| 29 | All the way through school , my mum used to go away for a fortnight 's rest during the summer and I would go and stay in one of the various holiday homes for disabled children . |
| 30 | Always be prepared to listen patiently to a guest 's chatter no matter how boring , but develop a technique of being able to detach , oneself politely from a conversation without giving offence , especially if there is work to be done or other people waiting for attention . |