Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But he wanted to assure them of a more overpowering reason : he needed to re-establish himself on his home ground as firmly and quickly as possible in order to launch himself on Mary .
2 You may then decide that either you do not need to interview anyone at all because no job exists or that you need to interview someone for a quite different role , perhaps involving taking on various responsibilities of other employees which together form a more rational and cohesive whole .
3 which is all our responsibility , presumably that delay is because we are n't providing sufficient judges or sufficient services to er , er , to try them in a much shorter term .
4 But if we try to abstract , as far as possible , from the local value of the impressions which affect different parts of our skins , we seem to find nothing like a really qualitative difference in the sensations . ’
5 As your children get older you will probably want to encourage them towards a more unselfish view of the world by pointing out that their rights have to be balanced against the rights of others — and that includes their parents .
6 They will be greeted by local communities in East Anglia who have made arrangements to provide them with a very special welcome .
7 They chose us to provide them with the most reliable data network available .
8 It saw its function not to produce curricular prescriptions but rather ‘ to extend the range of possibilities open to teachers , and to provide them with the most detailed research evidence on which their judgement can be exercised ’ .
9 Okay does anybody object to those minutes or are we willing to pass them as a pretty accurate account
10 Although an attempt was made to be representative in the choice of these films it is clear that if the effects observed are of any practical significance it should be possible to observe them on a more varied stimulus set .
11 Where it does develop theories , it tends to found them on a specifically female individual consciousness , assuming that , if we learn to think and feel gynocentrically , we can overcome patriarchy .
12 Equally , large European Community ( EC ) grants had been attracted to Portugal which frequently lacked the infrastructure or administrative machinery necessary to absorb them in the most productive manner .
13 He decided to try to provide himself with a little more scope for an escape bid .
14 While indulging his melancholy thoughts he had taken care to position himself in a nobly pensive attitude , with the candle at his side lending a glistening aureole to his dark profile .
15 Normally the brain continually pools these complimentary sources of information to provide you with a relatively complete experience .
16 We guarantee to provide you with the most authoritative , reliable and up-to-date information at the best value for money , and there are never any hidden extras .
17 One morning I arrived to find him at the supremely mundane task of " plugging muck " , standing on a manure heap , hurling steaming forkfuls on to a cart .
18 As his fame and fortune grew , she never became ostentatious and refused all his efforts to encourage her into a more luxurious life .
19 There are a number of major problems with this interpretation of events , however , which makes it difficult to accept it as an entirely adequate explanation .
20 De Gaulle had not set out to destroy the EEC , but to remould it in a more appropriate form , where the ‘ ambiguities ’ and ‘ mistakes ’ which he believed to be contained within the Treaty of Rome would be eliminated .
21 Is either of these two properties able to provide us with a slightly weaker but still attractive form of classical foundationalism ?
22 The intervening years have seen the chip gradually replacing the cathode ray to provide us with the most pervasive and persuasive form of global mass communication .
23 Of great importance was the real incentive to [ Bunn ] not only to dis-embarrass himself of a thoroughly unsatisfactory debtor by getting a guarantee secured by a charge on a registered property , but also of producing a satisfactory answer to the awkward interest being shown by those at London Head Office .
24 However , to get a better grasp of the holism they embody , it is helpful to view them in a more critical spirit .
25 So let me lay before you my own ideas , most of which have come from the practical application of regression therapy with a wide variety of patients who came to consult me for an even wider variety of reasons .
26 The next task is to tackle them in the most sensible way .
27 Knocker came over to serve them with a slightly worried look on his face .
28 Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day .
29 Now she was waiting for the food to reach her at the rapidly expanding camp .
30 It is always necessary to set it against a more general background or to establish the conventions and limitations adopted by the makers of these small and almost two-dimensional objects .
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