Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 2 | First , bankers are so used to thinking of intangibles as chiefly useful for pricing takeovers and then minimising taxes after them ( intangibles can be amortised for tax purposes ) that they have been slow to see them as a way of wooing investors . |
| 3 | Betty noticed however that Lydia contrived to carry nothing but a bottle of cider which she had clearly earmarked for herself . |
| 4 | Both types have snap-on terminals used to connect them to a detector in a similar way to a PP3 . |
| 5 | Having briefly described ten tests of language , it is now possible to compare them on a range of criteria . |
| 6 | So it 's not too ridiculous to compare them to a cross between Marc Almond , Nick Cave and The Chameleons . |
| 7 | These districts were not very fruitful in peat , and they would have to carry them from a distance of many miles ; in some cases a pavement of large stones led from the main road to the door of the dwelling . |
| 8 | Yes , just on the sub-ward level , of course there 's really , there 's a lot more investigations to go into targeting the resources , just I mean to target them in a city by having these standard mortality ratios for wards , but they 're all below ward level , and target the specific areas . |
| 9 | I mean you may have to support them through a sort of bad patch , but the idea is to erm get them so that they can look after themselves , you know . |
| 10 | The older girls used to stand me in a corner of the playground and throw stones at me . |
| 11 | I had worked out a peace formula that I thought might be acceptable , but when I showed it to Wilson he scoffed at it as being altogether too legalistic and proceeded to provide me with a formula of his own . |
| 12 | As we have seen , the operational balances are used for clearing purposes between the banks and to provide them with a source of liquidity . |
| 13 | There may be economies in using higher educational facilities as locations for events and academics as consultants ; and some of these resources may be cheaper than they would be if the company had to provide them as a call on the payload . |
| 14 | Silva , 25 , was delighted to find himself with a gallery of waiters and farm-workers from Jersey 's 3,000-strong Portuguese community . |
| 15 | So I think he 's going to find himself in a lot of trouble . |
| 16 | That means Newry 's Errol Lutton , who got a late call to Poland after Ger Burns had to withdraw through injury , keeps his place , a further chance to establish himself as a regular in the international set-up . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course Eustace was trying to establish himself as a solicitor at that time . |
| 18 | It was silly to work himself into a state like this . |
| 19 | The European Commission wants to change the 1958 Euratom Treaty to end trade barriers within the EEC and to establish itself as a watchdog on deals between member countries and outsiders . |
| 20 | If so , it would be wrong that the council , because it has performed its statutory duty under the national law to enforce section 47 , was to find itself under a liability in damages as a result of performing that duty . |
| 21 | I would not wish the Council to find itself in a position in which it felt obliged to oppose the franchising arrangements as a result of your published views as to future developments which might emerge from the franchising scheme . ’ |
| 22 | In the majority of the better systems your filter has been carefully designed to provide you with a means of cleaning the aquarium ( or pond ) water mechanically , chemically and biologically . |
| 23 | I think your subconscious decided to provide you with a sort of extract from the main story . |
| 24 | Further to your response to our advertisement in [ publication of date ] /telephone conversation with [ person ] of this office , I can advise you that a confidential Information memorandum has been prepared covering the business of [ Name Limited ] and that our client has agreed to provide you with a copy in exchange for asigned undertaking of confidentiality . |
| 25 | It can not be stressed too strongly that a great deal of the blame for unsatisfactory deeds must lie in the failure of the Scottish legal profession to provide itself with a service for new styles . |
| 26 | A quick discussion and it was agreed ; awakening to find herself in a coffin in that house of death could cause the poor girl to really die of fright . |
| 27 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |
| 28 | It was as if some gigantic cork was being used to plug her like a bottle of rare wine . |
| 29 | She expects her son-in-law to be just the same kind of husband and father , with all the same values and priorities , and finds it difficult to accept him as a man with a different set of strengths and weaknesses , however happy he makes her daughter , and this may need to be pointed out to her . |
| 30 | After leaving the Navy he also wrote much fiction , and as a novelist in the early post-war years his first published work , The Felthams ( 1950 ) , was thought highly of and his bestseller , The Rock ( 1957 ) , served to establish him as a writer of more than a little promise . |