Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will we have to wait for a Labour Government before positive action is taken ? |
| 2 | Erm I do look for opportunities to talk to people about God but I , I certainly think that you have to wait for the right opportunity because , if people are ill or very down , then it often is n't the right time when they 're vulnerable erm to try and erm talk to them about something . |
| 3 | The late Frank Howes showed an understanding of the problems racing a choreographer when he wrote : ‘ Every dance has its own rhythm , just as every dancer has an inborn sense of measuring time because each movement must be felt to flow through the whole body as well as the space in which it moves . |
| 4 | The kind of people who 'll order a guitar like this Manson will argue in reply that : ( a ) a production guitar will never have a handmade guitar 's combination of all the right bits with that extra edge of quality ; ( b ) it 's obviously better to go for a traditional design than some mutant battle-axe because you 're less likely to get sick of it and they 're a lot easier to customise further and there 's nothing better at fitting into virtually any style of music than an S-type or a T-type ; and ( c ) it 's their money , anyway . |
| 5 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 6 | Mayson was denied his hat-trick by good ‘ keeping and twice Smyth was through , only to go for the unselfish option when perhaps a shot would have been better . |
| 7 | To go for the lapidary effect as such is sterile ; one tries for the lapidary because , if achieved , it is a guarantee of the verity of one 's feeling — Christian or non-Christian , as the case may be . |
| 8 | I 've heard of farmers slipping the lads a few marks to drive through an old fence so they can get a new one free . ’ |
| 9 | Rolls Royce Motors was able to continue as a successful company when the parent company went bankrupt ( restructuring had to take place at this point with government help ) . |
| 10 | The county court , often in the person of the chief clerk , will arrange for the debtor to attend for an oral examination as to his means , The debtor 's answers are recorded and signed , becoming the basis of a realistic payment order by instalments in many cases . |
| 11 | It is , of course , desirable to check that nothing has been forgotten and to this end it is usual to ask an operator to go through the designed procedure while observing what he does and also observing that the system performs as expected . |
| 12 | While the Capital Guarantee Bond may be a fairly simple product it more or less requires us to go through the same process as all other new products . |
| 13 | We are unanimously of the opinion that the settlement was a sham on the facts in the sense that it was made to appear as a genuine gift when it was not . |
| 14 | Tranmere looked most likely to earn the draw their approach was designed to secure as a bottom line when defender Richard Smith put his first foot wrong of the afternoon in the 82nd minute . |
| 15 | This achieves much more in the long run than attempting to concentrate for a long time until fatigue sets in . |
| 16 | This mixing increases the tail rotor pitch to compensate for the increased torque when collective pitch is added , but in an autorotation landing there is no torque at all so the yaw effect is even more pronounced . |
| 17 | For example , a worker who is unaware that exposure to high levels of benzene , as happens in some chemical plants , might cause cancer will be willing to work for a lower wage than she would if this information were widely available . |
| 18 | We do not always have to work through the whole process though , because the patterns for two , three , four or more symmetry-related modes are reproducible from one molecule to another . |
| 19 | When this happens , however , opposing parties are usually willing to work towards a common view if they are brought together for joint discussions by a neutral . |
| 20 | She tended to jump like a nervous thoroughbred if he touched her arm or kissed her cheek . |
| 21 | I used to stagger off to work like a complete zombie until I decided to take a lesson from the Chinese . |
| 22 | These differences may reflect the influence of parental or pedagogic pressure to write with the right hand as compared with a natural predisposition to use the left hand . |
| 23 | We believe that no other group engaged in geomorphic research is as well qualified to grapple with the human factor as are geographers . |
| 24 | They were too eager for his hands , too ready to leap into a fierce throbbing as he groaned harshly in his throat with pleasure and delicately manipulated the rosy tips with his finger and thumb . |
| 25 | Two of them managed to leap into the empty office as Jekub bowled past . |
| 26 | Despite putting up Protestant Unionists against specific Unionists , Paisley was still willing to work with the Unionist Party provided the candidate was acceptable . |
| 27 | Most said that they had been surprised if not totally taken aback on the news of the merger ; but to various degrees said that they were prepared to work with the new ownership as long as the guarantees of openness and neutrality made by Novell regarding the development of System V.4 were maintained . |
| 28 | With out-of-sorts Tony Jones his first-round opponent over 19 frames on Monday , Wattana 's moment of truth is likely to come in the second round when he will almost certainly face favourite Stephen Hendry , the world No 1 , over 25 frames . |
| 29 | Branch manager Kevin Rainey says , ‘ I used to work in a multiple agency where we averaged one booking every 22 minutes . |
| 30 | Many early-music groups in England are required to work in a rapid manner because they do not enjoy the governmental or industrial sponsorship that allows some Continental ensembles to rehearse in a more leisurely ( and in a more experimental ) fashion . |