Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norman Tebbit , his blood pressure returned to near normal after the frustrations of debate , was exercising his somewhat malign charm over a group of columnists . |
| 2 | Tt and we 're obviously looking at a process of land reform which has , has undergone a number of changes and I think we , we 've begun to see some of the influences on those changes and particularly over the , the last week or so the this has . |
| 3 | We hope that you will then be able to travel around Wales to see some of the issues with which we are concerned over the following two days . |
| 4 | Cabinet members and other senior administrators were also obliged to attend indoctrination sessions where major figures , from the president down , lectured them on the virtues of teamwork and exhorted them to remain faithful to the principles of Reaganism . |
| 5 | They provide for the less committed who still wish to enjoy some of the fruits of the soccer culture . |
| 6 | In June similar skill is needed to strip some of the leaves from the vine to allow the sun to penetrate to the fruit to improve its richness . |
| 7 | It comes down to this : can the ERM be modified to preserve some of the benefits of exchange-rate stability , while allowing governments greater freedom to change monetary policy according to domestic economic circumstances ? |
| 8 | After independence the bureaucracy used its access to political power to acquire some of the characteristics of a social class . |
| 9 | Such combinations are generally difficult for natural language systems to process due to the changes in the syntactic and semantic properties of the constituent words ( and the acquisition of information about the compounds ) . |
| 10 | They are only suffered in such places in order to appear respectable in the eyes of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers ( AFBD ) . |
| 11 | Almost everyone will want to juggle some of the items between the two lists ; or add their own particular commitments or special enthusiasms , omitted by us . |
| 12 | What I want to suggest is that far from representing a glorification of a golden age , confident and stable in its social organisation , The Faerie Queene exemplifies a very uneasy social and cultural fabric and I want to indicate some of the reasons for that unease . |
| 13 | Series of interlinking metaphors of chaos and inhumanity are generated to maintain this dramatic mode and ensure that the agenda for control remains firmly with the system , and already I have used such metaphorical terms as ‘ animals ’ and ‘ enemies ’ to indicate some of the ways in which those in power make use of the rich imagination contained in everyday language . |
| 14 | John walked down the hill , on his way to meet some of the lads in the town . |
| 15 | I am hoping to meet some of the children before the Marathon and when the pain barrier hits me at around 20 miles I will only need to think of the courage and bravery of these young children to give me the extra incentive I need to finish the race . |
| 16 | But , they 're going to be made on , in fact , it 's going to be pushed rather heavily they change to this new system , and they 're going to have to meet some of the costs of development of the new system . |
| 17 | He nevertheless expressed the hope that Christian writers would be able to work free from the constraints of prejudice and censorship . |
| 18 | We gradually got to know some of the members of our Pathfinder Squadron , and to realise that they were in fact rather special . |
| 19 | BROTHER CADFAEL had made one journey to the hamlet of Preston in search of the young man Aldhelm , only to find that he was away in the riverside fields of the manor of Upton , busy with the lambing , for the season had been complicated by having to retrieve some of the ewes in haste from the rising water , and the shepherds were working all the hours of the day . |
| 20 | They provide a way for a testator to secure some of the dispositions in his will even if the will fails and intestate succession ensues . |
| 21 | MIND is now a large ‘ direct-care ’ organization , that is , it receives money in grants from NHS and local authorities to provide some of the elements of the total service described in Chapters 7 and 8 , and it employs a large number of staff to support and enhance the work of the volunteers . |
| 22 | Jacobus van Huysum ( c.1687–1740 ) brother of the famous Dutch flower painter , Jan ( 1682–1749 ) , lived at Chelsea from 1720 to 1740 and worked in the Physic Garden to provide some of the illustrations for John Martyn 's Historia Plantarum Rariorum ( 1728–37 ) . |
| 23 | Yet the statute authorizes interception on wider grounds than those previously acknowledged and fails to provide some of the safeguards against abuse which were claimed to operate under the old administrative regime . |
| 24 | Mr Drake said : ‘ We are seeking to redress some of the ills of our predecessors . |
| 25 | Labour members of Churchill 's coalition would be particularly , but not exclusively , concerned to redress some of the injustices of the Dark Ages and to earn a reputation as determined and competent reformers . |
| 26 | Several leading Democrats reacted to this by claiming that , were Thornburgh to remain in office , it would raise the appearance of a conflict of interest and would allow him to circumvent some of the restrictions on the raising of electoral funds . |
| 27 | Terry Porter visited John Ambrose in his workshop in Ely to discover some of the secrets of his success |
| 28 | contract with other services , and private and voluntary organisations to obtain some of the components of punishment in the community . |
| 29 | For one thing , they often feel that they must hide their condition in order not to appear foolish in the eyes of others . |
| 30 | You do n't even need to know much about the theories behind behaviour modification . |