Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I gave it away I believe I was still playing well enough to continue for a few more years , but I had had enough , and it was time to consider the family . |
| 2 | ‘ Until we can get enough food through to stop people starving to death , you wo n't be able to stop those who are prepared to kill for the few precious supplies , ’ said Julian . |
| 3 | Unfortunately I ca n't imagine any chairman introducing measures that would make it harder for him to flog of a few prised assets in order to raise some hard cash . |
| 4 | Because the patient is trying to communicate in the fewest possible words , and a sentence missing its function words is easier to understand than a sentence missing its content words . |
| 5 | They are all , however , designed to work by the same physiological principles , and on this basis they have common components . |
| 6 | I always have to talk about the same damned things … |
| 7 | Do n't you contribute to this picture of Dudley Moore by continuing to talk about the same old things ? |
| 8 | With hindsight , it would have better still to lock in a few more gains . |
| 9 | Here the footpath ended so we had to walk for a few hundred yards along a stretch of country road . |
| 10 | He had turned her body to fire with a few practised touches out there and now he expected her to forget all that had happened , stand beside him and discuss the garden as if nothing in the world had just occurred . |
| 11 | Mourning helps us to escape from the many different kinds of self-imprisonment . |
| 12 | The principle is thus clear , though difficult to apply in the many practical situations which arise . |
| 13 | But here the descriptions play an important role , and serious students would do well to read them carefully ; for not only do they tell more than any photograph ever can , including technical details of construction , but , when studied with the photographs , or in front of the objects themselves , they are invaluable in helping to focus on the many significant details which might otherwise go unnoticed . |
| 14 | But the notion , once born , firmly took root , refusing to let her settle , and as she wandered aimlessly about the living-room she realised she 'd soon be in danger of going stir-crazy if she had to look at the same four walls much longer . |
| 15 | The kingdom of Italy , the second big new state to emerge from the wars of the mid-century , had only to deal with a few French-speaking communities and some Germans in Venetia ; it did not yet have to face a minorities problem . |
| 16 | The best way is to start with a few vegetarian meals a week and gradually increase the number . |
| 17 | I will not attempt to compete with the many existing ones , but use an indirect definition by listing the most important characteristics of innovative projects : |
| 18 | If we wanted an internal report er to go to a few selected clients that report would mainly be text . |
| 19 | If feeding and antibiotics continued to be administered Tony could be expected to live for a few more years . |
| 20 | The celebration of this World Communications Day underlines the need for the Church to respond to the many unprecedented changes brought about by the communications media and their effects on modern living . |
| 21 | The pale green mount was chosen to blend with the many different shades of leaves and flowers that I had in store , and is made from a linen textured mountboard which gives a more interesting effect than plain green card . |
| 22 | All this was to change in a few explosive years of expansion in the mid-twelfth century , shortly before Richard 's birth . |
| 23 | Some of them not as high as the non-metals but most of have got to get to a few hundred degrees C before they start . |
| 24 | It 's also somewhat perverse to complain about a few innocent posts when the top of Ben Nevis is a lofty scrapyard . |
| 25 | Auxiliary need tends to occur in the same syntactic environments as at all , ever and any , which are typically found in so-called non-assertive sentences . |
| 26 | Moreover , expeditions tend to congregate in a few favoured areas which provide rapid access to peaks as well as adequate water supplies and shelter from natural hazards like avalanches . |
| 27 | To speak in the same right tones , a causal circumstance can be said to comprise everything needed so as in a way to guarantee its effect . |
| 28 | You should n't have to remove the power supply unit or unplug any cables to slot in a few extra megabytes of RAM . |