Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , my thirteenth birthday was coming up , and it seemed like a good time to revive my request for the perfect present : a bird of prey . |
| 2 | Will the Lord President urge the security services to concentrate their search for the alleged theft of information from hon. Members on the organisations that regularly spy on hon. Members , including the organisation that last week published a ludicrous volume full of slanders and innuendos about hon. Members ? |
| 3 | As the contribution of Britain to the UNHCR is very much greater than that of France or Germany , will my right hon. Friend encourage our European partners to increase their support for the vital work of refugee relief ? |
| 4 | In the first round voters had to indicate their preference for an individual candidate and for a party list . |
| 5 | Armed with papers , his head filled with lists of stockholdings , production figures , statistics of pre- and post-war profits and losses , with preliminary architectural plans for the restoration , first , of the three houses in France , and ideas for those property holdings abroad , Edouard arranged to meet his brother for a week-long series of discussions . |
| 6 | ‘ We will want to monitor her health for the next month or two at least before letting her return to England . ’ |
| 7 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 8 | The team from Junior Chamber Aberdeen , won £500 and £1,500 of management consultancy from the sponsors to support their plan for a proposed holistic health centre . |
| 9 | It is possible to destroy the coherence of a discourse by altering its information structure ( as we did in Task 32 ) , and then ask students to restore its coherence for a specified receiver , but this may cause problems . |
| 10 | Gooch and the England selectors meet in Manchester to choose their squad for the second Test at Lord 's , and Atherton 's place as Gooch 's opening partner is one of those up for discussion . |
| 11 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 12 | Political groupings in Slovakia continued to state their preference for a formal state treaty ( rather than a political declaration as embodied in the drafts ) , as the draft constitution was put out for consultation and amendment . |
| 13 | Yesterday 's denoument will also turn out to be good for Edwards , who will be able to sell his stake for a good deal more than the £10m on offer . |
| 14 | In business sales cases the conflicting public interests are that a man is not at liberty to deprive himself or the community of his labour and expertise unreasonably and yet he must have a freedom to sell his business for the best price ; which may be only obtainable if he precludes himself from entering into competition with the purchaser ( see James VC in Leather Cloth Co v Lorsont ( 1869 ) LR 9 Eq 354 ) . |
| 15 | The blonde hostess leaned across him to re-charge his glass for the umpteenth time . |
| 16 | The only paper on your desk should be that on which you are currently working and material waiting to receive your attention for the first time . |
| 17 | Central Council would like to express their gratitude for the many generous donations and gifts which help to maintain the high standard of care given to the Home 's guests . |
| 18 | The families , she said , had asked her to express their gratitude for the warm and caring support from everyone there ; they were grateful , too , for the many messages of support and sympathy coming from outside Orkney . |
| 19 | The disclosure came as the US secretary of state arrived in Egypt at the start of a tour of the Middle East and met President Mubarak and the foreign minister , Amr Moussa , in an attempt to win their support for an early resumption of the suspended peace talks |
| 20 | But it is almost certain Middlesbrough manager Lennie Lawrence , who has plans to strengthen his squad for the Premier League next season , will want to hold onto Ripley . |
| 21 | Despite the persistent rumours of drug use Barry commanded a considerable degree of popularity , particularly amongst the city 's 70 per cent black population , and on Jan. 21 , 1990 , he had planned to announce his candidacy for a fourth consecutive term as mayor . |
| 22 | This attitude also led him to express his distaste for the American-sponsored discussions on world trade , known as the Kennedy Round , that were currently being conducted within GATT : again , he suspected that they would produce a heightened American influence in Europe , something that would not be in Western Europe 's or France 's interests . |
| 23 | They intend to press their demand for a British referendum , towards the end of the committee stage . |
| 24 | Each is supported by parliamentary , industrial and media lobbies , and makes the best use of political trends , economic factors , technological change , and the rush of world events to reinforce its case for a larger share of the national cake . |
| 25 | The depth of this crisis persuaded members of the radical Inter-Regional Group of congressional deputies to abandon their call for a two-hour strike today , in demand of a revision of Article 6 of thr constitution which enshrines the party 's monopoly . |
| 26 | One Colombian drug boss , upon hearing in 1987 that Gen Noriega was negotiating with the US to abandon his command for a comfortable exile , sent him a hand-sized mahogany coffin engraved with his name . |
| 27 | We do not know yet whether he wants to extend his visit for a short time to see friends , or become a student , or stay permanently . ’ |
| 28 | I wish to underline his support for the United Nations in the new world order that everyone talks so much about these days , and especially his comments about the British Council , the work of the council , and the BBC World Service . |
| 29 | The rebuff did much to undermine his enthusiasm for the Conservative party . |
| 30 | A City businessman who swindled investors out of millions of pounds to finance his search for a perfect gambling system was jailed for four years . |