Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate felt inordinately pleased at his offer , even though she was astute enough to know that it came from a desire for any company , rather than hers specifically . |
| 2 | I never took a meal with him , but I should be surprised to find that he ate with a good appetite . |
| 3 | Theda came to herself to find that she lay in a large four-poster bed , with the curtains drawn back , and the weak autumn sun coming in at the windows . |
| 4 | this effect however , tends to minimize as one continues with a high-fibre diet . |
| 5 | When confronted with Plymouth Brethren or other sects at the door , my major defence ploy was to claim that I lived in a ‘ Quaker house ’ . |
| 6 | The truth is that it is in a dreadful state of disrepair and would have been difficult to sell unless it went to a builder who would demolish it and redevelop the site . |
| 7 | Here are some easy rules to remember before you embark on a major scheme : |
| 8 | I think the way we behave tells the other residents how we react when someone dies ; and so it 's almost like they 're watching us to see if we behave in a way they would want us to . ’ |
| 9 | When I was sure he was alone , I followed him into the bank and while he queued I read a leaflet to see if I qualified for a home mortgage . |
| 10 | this is not to suggest that I function like a computer ( which would be anathema to me ) , for there is always something to react to , something new to learn , or to improve . |
| 11 | It 's chip resistant , it 's easy to apply and it comes in a choice of twelve brilliant shades . |
| 12 | It was impossible to hurry but they moved at a steady pace , pausing seldom . |
| 13 | The thought gave her a pain , yet she forced herself to smile as she said in a steady voice , ‘ I hope you 'll both be very happy . ’ |
| 14 | The headmistress had tried to insist that she go on a racial awareness course , she who had taught children of different races for over twenty years . |
| 15 | The whole dictionary is processed in this way , a frequency count for each gram is collected , and each gram has a flag which is set to true if it occurs as a separate word ( i.e. dictionary entry length equals required gram length ) . |
| 16 | So we can distinguish then a third state in w which we can call an inactivated state and which will leave the channel closed , but also unable to respond as it would be able to do if it resided in a simple closed in a simple closed state which were responsive to gating . |
| 17 | Where business executives are concerned , though , management has in most cases considerable discretion in deciding whom to retain and whom to release in a redundancy exercise . |
| 18 | of cases , rape is by someone known to the victim , so women are not at risk from every man they happen to encounter when they go for a walk on a dark night . |
| 19 | But , increasingly , with the availability of easy credit , it 's possible to shop till you drop on a shoestring salary . |
| 20 | I 'm sure nature did n't mean us to have to wait till we get into a bed ! |
| 21 | And to ensure that we act as a group and not just a collection of separate offices . |
| 22 | In particular to ensure that land that is restored to agriculture , forestry or amenity uses can be managed in a suitable way for a period after the restoration itself is complete to ensure that it returns to a proper level of productivity by an ‘ after-care ’ condition . |
| 23 | By this , structuralists ( Miliband and Poulantzas alike ) mean that short-term concessions might be given to , or seized by , interests antithetical to capitalism , but once these interests pushed their demands beyond what was safe for the continuity of the capitalist mode of production and accumulation , then economic crisis would arise to constrain choice and force policy-makers to recognise that they operated within a capitalist world economic system . |
| 24 | Encouraging authors to recognise that they live in a complex , multicultural society is one thing . |
| 25 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 26 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 27 | It was hard to know where to start but we went for a private sale and a Mazda 323 on the basis that Dave Baker ( our friend in Christchurch ) has a Mazda 323 and what 's good for Dave is good for us ! |
| 28 | Back in the living-room Helen settled down to read while he dabbled with a crossword . |
| 29 | Late in 1949 , it was decided that Thornton Heath depôt with its narrow entrance and awkward shape , would be quite unsuitable to convert as it stood to a bus garage . |
| 30 | I was hungry but had to wait while he fiddled with a saucepan and then made me endure the smell of the meat coming from it . |