Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There was now a deadline to discussions about full employment — the government had to come forward with a policy before Beveridge . |
| 32 | Mr Rodger Bell QC , for Mr Bewick , suggested that his client had a ‘ bee in his bonnet ’ about surgeons being able to work anywhere at a drop of a hat . |
| 33 | " No man shall be allowed to work anywhere without a certificate from the Masters ' Union and no man allowed to take passage on any steamer to leave this country unless he produces his certificate . |
| 34 | And of course , there are apples to be bought at the farm gate and cider from the press to carry away as a reminder of the time spent in the Marcle Ridge . |
| 35 | This may have embarrassed Loughborough 's Richard Wareham , the tight-head who played in the England Under-21 front row when they hammered Romania in Bucharest last May , and the youngsters continued to go backwards at a rate of knots in tight and loose . |
| 36 | Set three days aside in your diary ( within the next three months ) to go away to a hotel with your team and tackle the issue . |
| 37 | His quiet rage about the papers , and the idiots who paid good money for them , grew more intense as he began to grind away in a job as a research assistant at the Financial Times . |
| 38 | The class must consist of persons whose rights are not so dissimilar as to make it impossible for them to consult together with a view to their common interest ( Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dunn [ 1892 ] 2 QB 573 ) . |
| 39 | It is n't easy to talk naturally to a piece of machinery and your performers may find it easier to talk to you rather than directly to the camera . |
| 40 | Leeds were again without their six-figure signing from Hull , Lee Crooks , and the Great Britain forward 's mysterious absences are likely to lead shortly to a parting of the ways . |
| 41 | I imagined they were old and slow reptiles , too far gone to chase a sprightly private detective around their pit , content just to chew placidly on a hunk of dead cow . |
| 42 | At some point in its development it has to create more organized political groups , or convert or capture existing political organizations , which are able to engage directly in a struggle for power and have the capacity to use power when they have gained it in order to reconstruct society . |
| 43 | My master looked nervously at the Earl of Angus who had hardly moved except to gulp noisily from a goblet of wine . |
| 44 | When Nizan highlights the technically advantageous position of the writer who portrays a society of stability , and at the same time stresses the desirability and the necessity for the contemporary writer to engage fully in a portrayal of the political instability of post-1914 French society in its turbulent actuality , he locates with unerring precision the revolutionary writer 's primary dilemma . |
| 45 | In a developing country , like India , a preference for sons would be expected to lead initially to a reduction in the birth rate , which would be to the country 's advantage ; and before long , the more farsighted parents will realise that in order to have grandchildren , they should select not sons , who may not be able to find wives , but daughters , who will be sought after , and be able to enter into advantageous marriages . |
| 46 | Talk of regional governmental or elected assemblies seemed pointless eyewash , a sign of weakness in the face of the nationalist challenge ; a policy designed to lead either to a call for total independence for Scotland and Wales or to a permanent loss of authority by Whitehall and therefore a diminution in the competence of Scottish and Welsh MPs . |
| 47 | with imitative activity filling the gap until the child is able to participate meaningfully as a partner in home-centred behaviours , the definition of this aspect of the female sex role [ the domestic one ] seems to proceed without interruption and with continuous reinforcement from the cradle on . |
| 48 | Considerable attention has been given in recent years to policies directed at training young people ( YTS , apprenticeship reform ) and the need to invest more as a nation in training in the interests of increased productivity . |
| 49 | In this latter group of patients it may be more efficient to proceed directly to a trial of amiodarone or ICD placement rather than to proceed with a lengthy course of serial drug testing . |
| 50 | In the case of this applicant , he would have been happy to have obtained any place in the service , for he hoped to arrange thereafter for a transfer to the stations which he really desired , Coldingham or Eyemouth , where he had business interests . |
| 51 | But above all I would hope to go home with a faith in some measure renewed by the experience of seeing close at hand how many of the Peruvians live theirs . |
| 52 | The patient was asked to breathe deeply at a rate of six breaths/minute , the inspiration lasting for four seconds , the expiration for six seconds . |
| 53 | The monetary role enabled the coin to function properly as a coin by ensuring that it circulated smoothly and without interruption . |
| 54 | You should continue to walk aerobically for a minimum of 30 minutes each day , four times a week ; and you should continue to use the low fat Walking Diet recipes and adapt them to your own diet . |
| 55 | Those below about 14 will love bombing around on our Toppers , but will sometimes get bored on longer day cruises , so we ask you to sail together as a family with under 14 's aboard . |
| 56 | The necessary legislation — enabling the government to buy compulsorily at a price of its choosing — was pushed through last year . |
| 57 | This view , however , may be to perceive only as a weakness within the British scene something which may more interestingly be considered an incentive to , even a necessary condition of , modernist and postmodernist writing generally . |
| 58 | In later years a boy may continue to look unconsciously for a mother with whom to relate , or a girl for a father to take the place of a loved parent or compensate for a lack of satisfaction in that direction . |
| 59 | It was in any case only to be expected that a serious move by the Community to advance further through a reduction of national sovereignty and freedom to act independently would generate a nationalist opposition . |
| 60 | Using a documentary approach and including numerous interviews with transexuals it failed to explain their motivations , choosing instead to focus solely on a description of a beleaguered subculture of poor black and hispanic gays . |