Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather was unexpectedly hot , and had brought out a sudden rash of men leering from shop doorways and cars for a glimpse of female flesh , while Vonetta struggled to find my flat on the sprawling council estate where I live . |
| 2 | However , as the bitter winter weather approaches , I should like to concentrate my speech on the basic problem of enabling people to find shelter so that hon. Members do not again have to face the awful reality of stepping around people huddled under snow-covered tarpaulins , lying in shop doorways in the streets of our city . |
| 3 | The only problems encountered were that I tended to catch my chin on the high foam on the front and shoulder elastic was slightly against skin . |
| 4 | ‘ At that time , ’ recalls Vivien , who was the first British player to try her hand on the American Tour , ‘ the LPGA needed all the publicity and good will it could get . |
| 5 | These plants can exceed the size of some national markets , leading producers to concentrate their production on a few sites and export to small markets : some chemical plants in Brazil or Mexico serve other parts of the Latin American market . |
| 6 | IBM had originally agreed to help finance the project through to the end of 1992 , and has since been helping Supercomputing Systems to meet its payroll on a week-by-week basis . |
| 7 | In recent years , the Conservative government in Britain has increasingly been able to impose its agenda on the nationalized industries , including the railways . |
| 8 | An unhappy gatecrasher , who had been asked to leave , had decided to vent his aggression on a defenceless paratrooper before he left . |
| 9 | An army of Slaanesh worshippers would be available to impose his will on the leaderless Elves . |
| 10 | Kewenig has chosen to use his role in Berlin to impose his vision on the higher education — for example , he is refusing to allow the polytechnics to duplicate the work of the universities and lengthen their three year courses to compare with the universities . |
| 11 | The first part of the poem deals with Sir Walter 's attempts to impose his mastery on the natural environment . |
| 12 | Hardly had Muawad been elected than they detected signs that the Syrians were less than eager to give him the support he needed to impose his authority on the whole country . |
| 13 | Hardly had Muawad been elected than they detected signs that the Syrians were less than eager to give him the support he needed to impose his authority on the whole country . |
| 14 | The telephone was ringing as McLeish walked into his own flat , and he picked it up to find his Commander on the other end of the line . |
| 15 | There they split up , Rudi going by train to Gdynia where he managed to work his passage on a Polish boat to Stockholm . |
| 16 | Did you really expect to find your mother on the first day ? |
| 17 | Italians were now coming to the fore in car racing thanks to Alfa , and Nuvolari joined the team as the man to spearhead their attack on the German manufacturers . |
| 18 | The development of transport and communications techniques enables corporations to plan their production on a worldwide basis . |
| 19 | Young Group , the open cast coal miner that is soon to lose its quote on the unlisted securities market , was a peculiar market . |
| 20 | She has received for her 1990–91 sabbatical year a Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to support her work on a new book on Gottfried Benn 's lyrical poetry . |
| 21 | The 987 will let HP compete against the whole AS/400 family and gives the company added ammunition to continue its assault on the downsizing mainframe market . |
| 22 | She has since returned 11 times to continue her research on the long-term environmental effects of the US/Vietnam war , and last year published the book The regreening of Vietnam ( The Women 's Press , £17.95hb ) . |
| 23 | The more energetic will be off to the King Alfred Leisure Centre to risk their dignity on the Wild Waters and on the three 100-metre slides . |
| 24 | It is likely to be up to 10 years before the banks would be able either to sell their stake on the local stock market or to pass on their holdings to other investors . |
| 25 | For this reason , many landowners have followed the Junker path , taking over the land of sharecroppers and colonos and compelling them to sell their labour on the open market . |
| 26 | This is likely to be your most fertile day , as it is not unusual to detect your surge on the first day of testing . |
| 27 | Whilst it has been argued that such firms need financial and general business aid , if they are to fulfil their potential on a timely basis , little is known of their accounting/financial practices and needs . |
| 28 | But in fact it was too late , if indeed it had ever been possible after 1950 , for Britain to assert its will on the Six , especially upon France . |
| 29 | The stated objectives of this Union include ‘ to assert its identity on the international scene ’ , ‘ to develop close cooperation on justice and home affairs ’ and to ‘ maintain in full and build upon the acquis communautaire ’ ( i.e. the process by which EEC authority is irreversibly entrenched in any area in which it has once legislated — a principle hitherto unrecognised in law ) . |
| 30 | She turned to focus her attention on the up-and-coming young band now swinging into their first number . |