Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Program the sensor pods to search for any sign of ancient habitations within a twelve thousand mile radius of the pole . ’ |
| 2 | He may even refuse to search for any answer at all , though expressing the deepest need for one . |
| 3 | He 'd had to go through that wrench of premature separation alone ; now I had to . |
| 4 | ‘ I would n't like to go through another summer like this one . |
| 5 | They 've got together to form a barter scheme , using a special currency which allows them to work for each other without REAL money changing hands . |
| 6 | According to a Pakistani commentary , Shahi appeared to be suggesting that once the neutrality of the area was ensured by the regional states pursuing a policy of strict non-alignment , the superpowers could perhaps be persuaded to work towards some sort of mutual accommodation . |
| 7 | The use of modern language laboratories and deep immersion techniques can teach practically any individual , either manager or shop-floor worker , enough to work in another country after some two or three months ' experience . |
| 8 | ( No. 2 ) [ 1970 ] Ch. 576 , 592 , Megarry J. referred to ‘ the unfettered discretion of the judge brought to bear upon any exercise of this extraordinary jurisdiction ’ under section 268 of the Companies Act 1948 which replaced section 115 of the Act of 1862 . |
| 9 | A child who has problems in any area of development may be regarded as being likely to benefit from some form of special educational placement , either full time or part time . |
| 10 | CA has also set up a similar bundling agreement for CA-Unicenter with Sequent Computer Systems Inc , however , this version still has a lot of work to be done on it and is n't likely to appear until this time in 1993 . |
| 11 | Index Kewensis is reputed to be going to appear in this format at some imminent future time , but there are many other bibliographic databases currently available as CD-ROMs . |
| 12 | to come to any harm with that . |
| 13 | It transpired that he wanted to be able to comment on each question in more depth and indeed some staff did so on separate sheets . |
| 14 | In the same way that one would expect the British Medical Association to be called upon to comment on any issue of human rights , we should come to expect the Library Association , along with other organizations such as Article 19 to be called to comment on any issue of censorship , and not just in the literary context . |
| 15 | Well I , excuse me , I would ask you to come on that corner at five O'clock at night , and at half past eight , between half past eight and nine in the morning , and see what speed they all come round , alright ? |
| 16 | It is true that extensive reviews of research in the United States ( Lipton et al. , 1975 ) and in Britain ( Brody , 1976 ) found it to be generally the case that different penal measures had similarly unimpressive outcomes in terms of re-offending , but they also found examples of reformative programmes which seemed to work to some extent with certain groups of offenders ( see Palmer , 1975 ) . |
| 17 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |
| 18 | Since the early 1920s , therefore , it has been impossible to talk about any aspect of British cinema without drawing unfavourable comparisons with Hollywood . |
| 19 | To behave with such lack of physical balance takes the toughness and control of an athlete or ballet dancer . |
| 20 | They have professional obligations to engage in that kind of scholarly work ; and , in that sense , be right up against the ‘ frontiers ’ . |
| 21 | It is no accident that in all the great religions , people who want to engage in this kind of contemplative activity have organised a monastic life to cater to their needs . |
| 22 | We might therefore expect these works to conform in some way to established taste , but it does not follow , as many of Wordsworth 's later disciples were prone to assume that anything in heroic couplets is necessarily bad ; in fact , many passages from these poems compare quite favourably with Wordsworth 's eighteenth-century predecessors . |
| 23 | Bell , on the other hand , might start wanting to pretend to behave in some sort of pseudo British Council evenhanded way over published materials . |
| 24 | Significantly , the employee will have to serve in that employment for two years before again gaining the protection of the unfair dismissal legislation . |
| 25 | As he put it in subsequent letters to Eisenhower , since an American nuclear attack would automatically place France in grave danger of a retaliatory Russian attack , France had an absolute right to participate in any decision about such an attack . |
| 26 | A real desire to participate in some form of practical training was expressed by most of the people spoken to but the problems of fitting in courses with the off-farm employment were considerable . |
| 27 | A move towards supporting business activities is likely to lead to more investment in favourable rather than more depressed economies , as the SDA attempts to assist ‘ winners ’ . |
| 28 | The attempt to do so leads to abstraction in which societies , or systems , seem to behave without any reference to actual people . |
| 29 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 30 | Maybe they do n't find it hard to , they do n't find it very easy to talk to each other about difficult things ; maybe they ca n't say the sort of things ‘ I love you but , I wish you did n't , such and such ’ . |