Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , you are n't going to find anything cheaper than the caravan . |
| 2 | ‘ It is very difficult to see that the public can be educated to accept anything less than the fact that if there is a fraud present in an organisation which prevents the financial statements from showing a true and fair view , then it is up to the auditors to find it . ’ |
| 3 | It is not clear that one has to postulate anything more than a reaction like Pavlov 's dog learning to anticipate its dinner whenever it hears the bell . |
| 4 | An attempt had been made to set it alight but no damage was caused . |
| 5 | I wanted to do her hatless because every portrait of her had been done with her hat on . |
| 6 | In MAKING IT BETTER , the improbably , coolly glamorous Jane Asher plays Diana Harrington , half of a couple who work for the BBC and have sex problems : her husband of 20 years tells her he is leaving her to set up as an homosexual , an announcement which seems to disturb her less than a wheel clamp . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I should prefer you to leave your visiting until the patient is stronger , ’ he told Curtis . |
| 8 | She also knew that it was probably quite beyond Mrs Bennett to appreciate that a trained nanny , even as young and nice a one as Karen , would not take kindly to being asked to do anything other than the job for which she had been engaged . |
| 9 | Wherever possible we should try to make provision for children ( perhaps by showing videos etc. to keep them amused while a class takes place ) Please consider this as a possibility when planning an event or rally . |
| 10 | His instincts told him that a child was more likely to keep something dark than an adult — a child has no tiresome misgivings about deceiving even his loved ones — but he was not sure that he dare trust his instincts . |
| 11 | The apparently aggressive Musa , tenderly tries to keep him conscious until the ambulance arrives . |
| 12 | ‘ Just a little to keep him sweet before the curtain goes up . |
| 13 | Yet although this turned out to be the case and Edna 's and Bert 's spells at Four Winds gave Harriet increasing support , she was still unable to rouse Liza out of her permanent lethargy or to get her further than the garden gate . |
| 14 | At present the potentialities of the average person are not being fully used : management 's responsibility is to create conditions and methods that will enable individuals to integrate their own and the organisation 's goals , by personal development . |
| 15 | Whether or not the Communist Party leaders expected such a letter to have anything more than a propaganda appeal they can hardly have been surprised by the Labour Party reply on 27 January 1936 which rejected the application and outlined the history of relations between the two parties , particularly during the social fascist " period . |
| 16 | Commentary … allows us to say something other than the text itself , but on condition that it is the text itself which is said , and in a sense completed . |
| 17 | Lewis does not set out to make himself cleverer than the reader , stili less cleverer than the authors whom he is discussing . |
| 18 | The winners will get a contract with EMI 's Parlophone — the label that launched The Beatles — - to produce one single and a video . |
| 19 | Lind incorporates feeling into his theory by suggesting a direct link between the degree of focal activity required to make something intelligible and the intensity of the corresponding muscular and visceral sensations . |
| 20 | There is no direct decision on the point , but the rule itself seems to make it essential that the defendant should ‘ bring on his lands ’ the danger . |
| 21 | The sense in which we can talk of the meaning of an individual sentence is not determinate enough to make it possible that a sentence be unrevisably true in virtue of that meaning . |
| 22 | I agree with Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. that the effect of section 8 is to make it clear that a child of 16 or 17 years of age has the same capacity as an adult to consent to surgical medical or dental treatment which would otherwise constitute a trespass . |
| 23 | The Court was surprised that those suggestions should have been made , and the Court owed it to its members and to all concerned to make it clear that no attempt had been made by anyone directly or indirectly , otherwise than in open court , to influence its decision . |
| 24 | If physical integrity is so highly valued , would it be inappropriate to make it clear that an offence would be committed by any normal adult who failed to see an obvious risk of physical harm to another ? |
| 25 | At the Third Reading , the UnderSecretary of State for Scotland , Mr Robert Hughes , laid a number of amendments to make it clear that the Bill was intended to apply to children 's hearings . |
| 26 | Throughout the book 1 have tried to make it clear that the approach is not prescriptive , and successful applications depend a great deal on the intellectual and creative skills of the analyst . |
| 27 | When it , and the Government can produce fifty pieces of legislation affecting local government since nineteen seventy nine , I have n't been here since nineteen seventy nine thankfully , so I have to analyze everything , but they always landed our the ma the major ones and , so for example erm , it was the Local government Unit that produced the initial response of the Poll Tax , what strategy the Council should adopt er , the Council wo n't distance approach , we wanted to make it clear that the Poll Tax was a Government erm , it was a Government initiative and it was being forcedly on us and that was the way , did that effect it , that was a guided and then there was the nineteen eight nine local Government Housing Act , which I 'm sure many of you . |
| 28 | A second approach is to frame the law in such a way as to make it clear that the court should make a moral judgment on the gravity of the defendant 's conduct . |
| 29 | The Northern Echo is happy to make it clear that the issue had been investigated and dealt with and had not been ‘ dropped . ’ |
| 30 | The reference to " or " such other risks should be amended to " and in addition to the foregoing " in order to make it clear that the landlord is not given the choice which of the stated risks it may choose to insure against — perhaps an obvious point but one worth making . |