Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Betty noticed however that Lydia contrived to carry nothing but a bottle of cider which she had clearly earmarked for herself . |
| 3 | Having briefly described ten tests of language , it is now possible to compare them on a range of criteria . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The older girls used to stand me in a corner of the playground and throw stones at me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As we have seen , the operational balances are used for clearing purposes between the banks and to provide them with a source of liquidity . |
| 9 | Silva , 25 , was delighted to find himself with a gallery of waiters and farm-workers from Jersey 's 3,000-strong Portuguese community . |
| 10 | So I think he 's going to find himself in a lot of trouble . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I think your subconscious decided to provide you with a sort of extract from the main story . |
| 13 | It was as if some gigantic cork was being used to plug her like a bottle of rare wine . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Octobrist party , whose leaders attempted to provide him with a base of support within the Duma , found themselves coming under increasing criticism , and the party fell apart . |
| 16 | Then Amanda had turned up on her own at Meg 's leaving party , and he 'd managed to monopolise her in a corner of Meg 's kitchen . |
| 17 | It is a reason to accept it as a way of being kind to a friend . |
| 18 | The reason is that even when this is a good reason to accept advice it is not a reason to accept it as a piece of advice . |
| 19 | If anybody wanted to tell ( him ) something , they 'd have to write it on a piece of paper … ’ |
| 20 | Having anticipated this , Maria was able to meet it with a degree of control . |
| 21 | Unusual coat colours and patterns can arise spontaneously by genetic mutation anywhere in the world , and breeders in different regions might quite coincidentally seize upon a colour mutation and henceforward seek to establish it as a mark of their breed . |
| 22 | Any chariot may have an additional giant wolf to pull it at a cost of +4 points . |
| 23 | Besides making crude available under various arrangements to enable Iraq to meet contractual commitments to deliver in the Gulf , Riyadh entered into arrangements with Iraq to provide it with a means of moving its southern oil to the Red Sea . |
| 24 | The English clerk would work doubly hard , either to resolve the problem or carefully to hide it behind a tissue of half-truths . |
| 25 | But instead of filtering food from huge quantities of water they have to extract it from a mass of indigestible vegetable matter . |
| 26 | You 've got to prick your eggs and you 've got to stand it in a dish of water . . |
| 27 | You invest in the equity market to provide yourself with a stream of future dividends which will hopefully outpace inflation . |
| 28 | But the purpose of making such an accusation is , if it is made defensively , to cement oneself into a position of self-righteous stasis , and not to bring about change . |
| 29 | In Chapter ii we found that a good deal of social science has been informed by this view ; but it is nevertheless natural to wonder why individualism should be excluded from the group of disciplines that aim to provide us with a grasp of the social world . |
| 30 | The general effect of moral rules linked with the category distinction normal/abnormal is to provide us with a sense of social order . |