Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It includes my CV , a forged testimonial from Mike Channon and the offer to work my first season for a ridiculous 70K a year . |
| 2 | These pressures are much greater among the young who are attempting to find their own accommodation for the first time . |
| 3 | Here was yet another aspect of Thrush Green to increase his growing affection for the place . |
| 4 | Of course , you may have to provide your own substitute for the impeccable James who serves it . |
| 5 | Not that the failure of Gatting and Co. to mount their anticipated bid for the Championship can be laid at Brown 's door . |
| 6 | [ I ] t can not be satisfactory for the Department to have to substitute its commercial judgment for the Board 's in this way . |
| 7 | Highways committee members are being asked to state their preferred route for the Fordham bypass . |
| 8 | If you 're complete beginners , active , familiar with camping or caravanning conditions , and two or you pay for our ‘ Introduction to Yachting ’ course in Nidri , then we know you 'll be safe to skipper your own yacht for the second week on flotilla . |
| 9 | Where a user makes a specific request to exercise their statutory right for an eyesight examination by an ophthalmic optician , either as an alternative to or in addition to the voluntary screening programme , then the request should be accommodated and during this interim period the user permitted to use an ophthalmic optician of their choice . |
| 10 | But he proved , when he joined the illustrious band of Yorkshire bowlers to take 1000 wickets for the county , that experience and craftsmanship still count for much in a game which seems to reserve its greatest acclaim for the lean , young gunslingers . |
| 11 | She had no words in which to express her present distaste for the idea . |
| 12 | Houphouët-Boigny was expected to announce his own candidacy for a seventh term of office at the ruling Parti démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire ( PDCI ) congress in early October . |
| 13 | We are anxious to express our wholehearted support for the renewal , on a permanent basis , of the Nuclear-Non Proliferation Treaty — an objective which we know is shared by HMG . |
| 14 | Buckingham Palace , 12th December 1987 My dear Miss Jones , We are writing to you to express our sincere gratitude for the way in which you recently risked your life by diving in front of the runaway horse of one of our Lifeguards to save one of our Royal corgis . |
| 15 | MY WIFE and I would like to express our sincere gratitude for the heart-warming friendliness shown to us by the Liverpool citizens we met at the celebrations . |
| 16 | Despite Sealink 's best efforts , I ca n't wait to escape our tiny cabin for the Bentley , whose interior I reckon has about the same amount of room but is more expensively trimmed . |
| 17 | Lineker and Paul Gascoigne have both been in touch with Spurs to wish them good luck for the new season . |
| 18 | By night he kept himself from the usual evenings with Henry and Betty , thinking to leave them some space for a time , and he would often take a sleeping pill at eight , before dinner , because sleep had grown difficult . |
| 19 | I 'm going to do my good deed for the day . |
| 20 | The Central Authority itself had to fix its own tariff for the bulk supply of electricity to the Boards and initially did well in reflecting costs by resisting pressure for ‘ postalisation ’ or charging a common national price . |
| 21 | In Britain , especially , the political ideas of trade union leaders in recent decades have been very confused ; on one side , most of them have continued to proclaim their general support for the Labour Party , and thus for the idea of a socialist society , however vaguely conceived , while on the other side , many of them have accepted in fact the principles of a market economy in the emphasis which they place upon ‘ free collective bargaining ’ . |
| 22 | Her position as expressed to me was that if the private sector wanted to use its own money for the tunnel then we should certainly not stand in the way . |
| 23 | Melissa had been intrigued to know what kind of man could persuade Iris to leave her beloved garden for the best part of a fortnight at the height of the growing season . |
| 24 | A Roman citizen often owned slaves who worked his land growing wheat ; a feudal lord would seize the surplus wheat grown by the serf on the lands of medieval Europe ; the early capitalist farmers began to employ landless labourers to do their manual work for a wage which was less than the total value of the product which they created . |
| 25 | Curry , from London , outshone allcomers to retain her British title for the third year running . |
| 26 | Dawn 's parents had to give their written permission for the transfer , which added to their anxieties about the situation . |
| 27 | Although the President promised to use his second term for a new " crusade " to secure peace and prosperity within the USA , he offered few new prescriptions for the ailing economy , preferring instead to concentrate on a broad agenda which included less government and lower taxes . |
| 28 | He was forced to abandon his original plan for an arched bridge of cast iron by the need for ships to be able to pass through the strait , and he opted instead for a suspension bridge 100 feet above water level and with a span of 579 feet . |
| 29 | Stevens , despite losing the bout , clearly did enough to justify his pre-event selection for the Commonwealth Games . |
| 30 | Stevens , despite losing the bout , clearly did enough to justify his pre-event selection for the Commonwealth Games . |