Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They were repeatedly told he was too busy , and when finally , at the eleventh hour , they were granted a meeting , some sort of communication problem caused Mrs Sue Amphlett and her associate to be sent from one building to another and then to wait for some time in the wrong one , until they had to leave to finish the report in time for the news conference they had called . |
| 2 | I left her , and went to search for more information in a different place . |
| 3 | ( 9 ) To authorise an applicant for an emergency protection order to search for another child on the same premises ( s48(4) ) . |
| 4 | This is a reminder to arrange for such exchange with the solicitors for both your seller and buyer . |
| 5 | In this vein we are seeking a mandate from you to continue after this conference in the task of monitoring government employment and training policies in the area , encouraging open debate on these policies , and publicising our findings . |
| 6 | If all this leads the controlling group to scream for more money from the Government , and it will inevitably , I suggest they start using the money they have more sensibly and not waste it on their more extravagant schemes . |
| 7 | Measurements of the HI and CO lines enable one to infer for each point on the sky the column density of HI and H 2 moving with a given velocity , but the inferred H 2 column densities are cruder because of the extra interpretive step required . |
| 8 | This was quite clearly not an agreement between the employer and the employee but had the effect of being an indirect restraint on any employee who wanted to work for another member of the trade association within the two year period . |
| 9 | So , although it is possible to conceive of any event as an incarnation of the totality , insofar as it must itself make up a part of that totality in its determination , unlike the case of the boxing match , where we can define the overall entity ‘ boxing ’ , it still remains unproven that an overall entity , ‘ History ’ , can be said to exist at all . |
| 10 | Over the past few decades researchers have shown that chimps can create artworks ( abstract thought ) , use tools in a quite sophisticated fashion , and understand the concept of language : humans and chimps can use sign languages like Ameslan to communicate with each other to a reasonably advanced level . |
| 11 | We need to communicate with each other on a regularly basis over all the issues that have been raised . |
| 12 | Of course , for early EDI users , getting two computers , one 's own and one belonging to a trading partner , to talk to one another , was quite enough of a challenge , without worrying about other people you and your partners might want to communicate with some time in the future . |
| 13 | It is still too soon to comment with any authority on the likely form of privatisation . |
| 14 | The most obvious effect of plate tectonics is that continents can be split and their components driven apart if a divergent plate margin becomes established beneath them , and can be caused to collide with each other along the lines of subduction zones , where mountain belts such as the Himalayas may thereby be generated . |
| 15 | India and Pakistan , but he had to work in each case through the chief executive who was charged with running the business . |
| 16 | That means doctors who qualify from Czech Univeristies will only be allowed by the General Medical Council to work in this country under the supervision of a fully registered colleague . |
| 17 | The truss rod nut would also be extremely awkward to adjust in any kind of a hurry , but considering some players ' sketchy ideas of how a truss rod works , perhaps that 's no bad thing . |
| 18 | We may even feel , as certainly I do , that some of the later cantos are of such a nature that it 's hard to conceive in any age of a way of encountering them other than the way we 're here embarked upon . |
| 19 | Now to extrapolate from this example to a general argument that familiarity of a subject is a disadvantage would clearly be absurd . |
| 20 | However , if the repurchase price contained in the options is the market value at the date of exercise , it is probable that the buyer acquires both the opportunity to benefit from any increase in the value of the asset and the risk of loss due to an adverse change in its value . |
| 21 | For the investor to benefit from any increase in the value of a company it is essential for a market to exist for the shares . |
| 22 | To leap from this standpoint to the assumption that we have an everlasting soul is to leap a very long way — probably too far . |
| 23 | Then spare a thought for the shop assistants who might feel similarly but who have to work alongside this sludge amid the snow , drifting through their ears for hour after hour , freezing their brains into insensible snowballs . |
| 24 | This was to compensate in some way for the rather poor salaries . |
| 25 | The fact that the taxpayer may be said to benefit in some way from the overseas income — he was able to buy the property because the loan was made to him and he could only keep up , or he kept up , the payments of interest by using that income — is not enough to cause there to be a remittance . |
| 26 | The pointes must not be thought of as a prop on which to balance the body , but as an extra dimension to make dramatic sense of a statement about the character on pointes and/or to relate in some way to the story or theme . |
| 27 | Perhaps the regrettable feature of the conversion of Shawell school — which is being carried out with great care and sensitivity — is the retention of the 1950s flat-roofed WCs extension which , almost gratuitously , fails to relate in any way to the form of the original building . |
| 28 | to the Chancellor 's announcement referred to pay awards in the public sector in their totality , not to relate in any way to the regularity or amount of increments . |
| 29 | Not because he particularly approves of the exploitation of Henderson Island , but because he hopes that this latest development will force the government to come to some decision about the future of Pitcairn . |
| 30 | ‘ The rich have got to come to some accommodation with the poor . |