Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I am standing on platform eleven at London 's Liverpool Street station , listening to a British Rail Tannoy announcement , delivered as dispassionately and routinely as an abattoir attendant 's delivering a bolt through the skull of yet another helpless , terrified , steer : ‘ British Rail would like to apologize for the late running of the six-thirty to Lowestoft . |
| 2 | Pensions are usually compared by converting the annual pension paid to an average earner into ecu , using ‘ purchasing power parity ’ to accommodate for the various costs of living in each country . |
| 3 | Khrushchev , who was preoccupied with trying to promote a policy of peaceful coexistence with the United States ( Khrushchev and Eisenhower met at Camp David in September 1959 ) whilst at the same time seeking to contain the emerging Sino-Soviet rift , had little thought to spare for the bearded revolutionaries in far-off Cuba . |
| 4 | In those places where there is a delay in substantiation , faith is prepared to wait for a long time at the bar of history . |
| 5 | Will he beef up the public consultation procedures which his Department are currently casting aside like autumn leaves shrivelling on the ground , or do we have to wait for a Labour Government in the full flush of a green spring and summer to bring sense back into our planning system ? |
| 6 | However , he went on to say that the acceptance of the existence of Communist China did not mean that Taiwan had abandoned its " one-China policy " and that the country was prepared to wait for a positive response to its proposals for unification on the basis of liberal democratic policies . |
| 7 | I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . |
| 8 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 9 | You can use this function to wait for a specified time for a key to be pressed . |
| 10 | The lifetime of the proton in a nucleus is predicted to be greater than 1025 years , so it is not feasible to wait for a sufficient number of transmuted atoms to accumulate . |
| 11 | The decision of whether to prescribe an antidepressant should be made on the basis of whether the patient shows ‘ biological ’ features of depression which predict a good response ( e.g. early morning wakening , diurnal mood variation , and weight loss due to impaired appetite ) ; whether , in the case of severe depression , one can afford to wait for the delayed response of an antidepressant ; and the extent to which environmental factors seem largely to explain the symptoms . |
| 12 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 13 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 14 | The contras ' new military commander , Israel Galeano ( who replaced Enrique Bermúdez , the organization 's nominal head , in early February ) , said , however , that the contras intended to wait for the formal handover of power before disbanding . |
| 15 | We were to wait for the oyster-fishing season in the Bay of Cancale without giving the boats notice and stop them as they sailed past Barfleur Head … |
| 16 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |
| 17 | I am just not prepared to wait for the green shoots of recovery . ’ |
| 18 | Mr Chirac seems to want to wait for the presidential election in 1995 . |
| 19 | He tried to empty his mind of all thoughts , preparing for what only the most naive would fail to see as the last meeting of the Academy . |
| 20 | A surprising contrast to what any anthropologist would have to report about the religious beliefs of modem Westerners is Turnbull 's authoritative and intimate account is of the lives of pygmies in the forests of the Congo — containing no references to dreaming at all , and very little evidence of pygmy mysticism . |
| 21 | The council decided not to appeal during a special meeting of its policy and resources committee . |
| 22 | He must have felt like Sir Norman Hartnell wondering what to wear for the Royal Enclosure at Ascot . |
| 23 | It was from this base that Marian was invited in 1976 to apply to sit as an Assistant Recorder on the North-Eastern Circuit . |
| 24 | Our redfaced friend , said the policeman , chose the wrong time in the wrong town to go for a drunken walkabout in the road . |
| 25 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 26 | Marsh was dismissed with three minutes to go for a late challenge on Dimitr Radchenko , scorer of Spartak 's first goal , in their 2–0 success which made it 6–2 on aggregate . |
| 27 | With VAT on fuel bills scheduled for 1994 and 1995 , the strategy is beginning to shape up as one aimed at allowing the Conservatives to go for a tax-cutting Budget in 1996 or 1997 in an attempt to win back ground in the run-up to the election . |
| 28 | Would not it be far better to seek an effective non-proliferation treaty than to go for a new generation of nuclear weapons ? |
| 29 | The princess , patron of the Northern Ballet , told stars of the company 's production they had been brave to go for a modern version of the Tchaikovsky classic . |
| 30 | Erm again I , I ca n't help but s er er getting slightly digressed but it is rather interesting that John Major this year decided to go for a general election before the local elections . |