Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They will be greeted by local communities in East Anglia who have made arrangements to provide them with a very special welcome . |
| 5 | Okay does anybody object to those minutes or are we willing to pass them as a pretty accurate account |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Normally the brain continually pools these complimentary sources of information to provide you with a relatively complete experience . |
| 9 | As his fame and fortune grew , she never became ostentatious and refused all his efforts to encourage her into a more luxurious life . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Is either of these two properties able to provide us with a slightly weaker but still attractive form of classical foundationalism ? |
| 13 | However , to get a better grasp of the holism they embody , it is helpful to view them in a more critical spirit . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Knocker came over to serve them with a slightly worried look on his face . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She tried to feed it with a little warm milk , but there was no swallowing response . |
| 18 | His state is built on ideology ; to replace it with a more liberal system might only hasten Moscow 's nightmare — irresistible momentum towards a reunited Germany . |
| 19 | Demands to abandon an existing shibboleth in order to replace it with an even older one . |
| 20 | ( Or even better , try to fit them into a very short story . ) |
| 21 | Despite these facts there may be a case for a short-term course of tablets , or the occasional use of a tablet to help us through a particularly difficult situation and to help build confidence . |
| 22 | I should want to use him in a completely different context , of course … |
| 23 | He wanted to turn back to reassure him in a more plausible way . |
| 24 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 25 | At first I thought the kick was going to leave him with a permanently capped hock , but luckily Lynn Russell ( the friend , show producer and dealer who sold Skipper to me ) had all the answers , as usual . |
| 26 | to do and we 're going to have the opportunity to do it in a slightly interesting way and you failed miserably because you sat and chatted and did n't get any work done . |
| 27 | As a by-product of perestroika , Moscow is keen to reduce and restructure its aid to Nicaragua , and to put it on a more commercial footing . |
| 28 | She points out that what feminist thought has done is to take pornography out of its usual position in the argument between conservatives and liberals over censorship , and to put it into a completely different framework ( p. 137 ) . |
| 29 | the word ‘ accent ’ is used elsewhere to refer to different varieties of pronunciation ( e.g. ‘ a foreign accent ’ ) ; it is confusing to use it for a quite different purpose — to a lesser extent we also have this problem with ‘ stress ’ , which can be used to refer to psychological tension . |
| 30 | However clear and well presented reading material may be , there can still be problems in its use , particularly for pupils who need to use it at a very close distance from the eye . |