Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Master of Magdalene asked him whether he found it uncomfortable to wear the received garments of a bishop . |
| 2 | Likewise in 1711 Jonathan Swift complained that " we have been fighting … to enrich usurers and stockjobbers ; and to cultivate the pernicious designs of a faction , by destroying the landed interest " . |
| 3 | THE DART VALLEY Light Railway Plc has become the latest steam railway to hit the financial skids with a plunge in passengers , income and overall profitability recorded in the 1991 accounts . |
| 4 | Nowadays record collectors have accepted this process , and only complain if they hear an imperfect edit , while record producers exercise their skills in an attempt to preserve the spontaneous qualities of a performance as well as the note-perfect quality . |
| 5 | The English were in fact trying to claim the authentic characteristics of a nation irrespective of how it was defined , including an attempt to cover English claims over Scotland and Ireland , despite the absence of any ‘ habit of unity ’ in the former case or of a shared language in the latter . |
| 6 | We can also begin to see the broad outlines of a much longer connected history of respectable fears surrounding the demoralising influences of popular amusements . |
| 7 | I woke to see the dim outlines of a mountain towards the southeast . |
| 8 | No sketcher nor painter nor artist wanted to see the elastic weals on a model 's shoulders and chest and hips and thighs , every model left her underwear off for as many hours as possible before posing . |
| 9 | Molly wondered how far the language tapes borrowed from the Fulham Public Library had allowed her father to penetrate the political opinions of a Tuscan cleric . |
| 10 | According to Campaigns Director Andrew Lees , : " Given the potentially broad scope of such " areas " , the obstructive official has ample opportunity to rebuff requests by anyone whose request is not specific enough to penetrate the bureaucratic defences of a body which does not want to release the information . " |
| 11 | Christian deputies have been trying to obtain some form of timetable for a Syrian military withdrawal before accepting political reforms , but at their fifth meeting yesterday , the 62 MPs — half of them Christians — were persuaded to debate the future powers of a Christian Maronite president . |
| 12 | John Veltri , a Canadian priest , struggling with the idea of a retreat which would reach more people , devised a form of prayer week which would allow people to enjoy the spiritual benefits of a retreat whilst still going about their normal daily lives . |
| 13 | It 's always interesting to compare the individual members of a range of basses . |
| 14 | Those who argue for a ‘ carer 's benefit ’ need to ponder this point and consider ways in which such allowances could be used to support the existing arrangements in a household in which carers are in employment and wish to continue . |
| 15 | It is relatively easy , therefore , to arrange the financial affairs of a non-UK domiciled resident so that little or no UK tax is suffered . |
| 16 | Caro began to arrange the sweet peas in a vase . |
| 17 | The problem with trial trenches is that if they are very small it is easy to miss the main features of a site , yet the larger the trenches used , the nearer the process becomes to full-scale excavation . |
| 18 | I would like to thank er for the use of his er workshop and his power tools facilitated to acquire the raw materials at a very low cost . |
| 19 | Western and Pakistani diplomatic sources said the UN secretariat hoped to bring together the six countries directly involved in the conflict — the US , the Soviet Union , China , Pakistan , Iran and Saudi Arabia — to accept the broad terms for a dialogue among the rival Afghan groups . |
| 20 | The University of Edinburgh has a long and distinguished history and at a time of difficulty for the institutions of higher education throughout the country , Edinburgh is in a process of constantly reappraising and improving standards to meet the growing demands of a changing world . |
| 21 | Figure 5.3 demonstrates the ability of the school librarian and teacher to discuss different layouts of information to meet the special needs of a specific group of pupils . |
| 22 | More serious was the way in which , in one or two capitals , foreign envoys used their rights of immunity not merely to shelter criminals in the embassy or legation but also to exclude the local police from a considerable area around it . |
| 23 | Each imploring applicant wants to draw the line behind them : the Hungarians to exclude the Orthodox countries from a recreated Western Christendom , the Serbs to exclude Muslim Albania , the Turks to include all secular and modernising countries within the region . |
| 24 | Now any postmultiplying column say{ a , b , c , 1 } , must satisfy unc In performing our iterations , therefore , we may ignore completely the first row of A ; we use the last three rows to find the corresponding elements in a column , and then apply(3) to find the top element . |
| 25 | To take an example , suppose that you wish to find the late annotations to a statute printed in the Continuation Volumes of Halsbury , such as the Children Act 1975 . |
| 26 | ‘ Their beaks are sharp and know where to find the vulnerable parts of a prey 's body : belly , throat and eyes . ’ |
| 27 | Demonstrative reference is clearly an important aspect of the deixis of the poem : it encourages the reader to process the deictic meanings in a specific way . |
| 28 | The failure to find a referent results in a numerical penalty being awarded to the reading for which it occurs . |
| 29 | Indeed , he had enjoyed his three score years and ten twice over before he thought it necessary to engage the regular services of a sports correspondent . |
| 30 | In group ( whole or part ) discussion , trainees should be asked to provide an ABC analysis of the problem and then go on to explore the main points of a possible intervention and the notion of response competition , punishers and rewards to weaken and strengthen behaviours respectively . |