Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Hedgehogs have neither the speed nor the manoeuvrability to catch rabbits but I have known them to kill the young in a stop , gaining entrance during the times when the doe has left the stop unsealed just before the young rabbits are moved out . |
| 2 | ‘ While we want to preserve the best of the past , we do not want to build a monument to it . ’ |
| 3 | The Everyman is making this exclusive offer to the Echo to promote the two for the price of one Bard Card ticket , which operates for its own Shakespearian production , Much Ado About Nothing , until Friday . |
| 4 | It then takes a further two minutes to suspend the inner under the fly . |
| 5 | day when he was with the lady , and before that , asking if … if I 'd like to see the fair on the green . ’ |
| 6 | As foreign issues have also grown rapidly following the abolition in 1979 of exchange controls , it is no exaggeration to see the 1980s as a period of renaissance for the sterling bond market . |
| 7 | Certainly American Intelligence was unable to confirm the worst of the fears . |
| 8 | These arguments then lead us to support the third of the options for change set out in the 1992 Green Paper . |
| 9 | But what is not stated or even suggested by the early Turkish sources is that Fahreddin Acemi succeeded Molla Yegan ; there is , in fact , nothing to connect the two except the fact that Molla Yegan succeeded to the and that Fahreddin Acemi became Mufti . |
| 10 | Ehrenpreis 's approach , while fruitful in some respects , tends to treat the poor as an object to be observed from the outside even if it is with ‘ rapt interest ’ . |
| 11 | They were shopkeepers who sold medicines or cures and established their right to treat the sick during the plague . |
| 12 | Around 20 industry chiefs , including David Sainsbury , chairman of J Sainsbury , and John Towers , managing director of Rover , have been summoned to attend the first of a series of ‘ round table ’ meetings on May 25th . |
| 13 | Upon 26 December of that year he used the opportunity of the restoration of the Rump Parliament to issue the first of a succession of twice-weekly news-books . |
| 14 | Today , if we pose the difficult question of the relation of poststructuralism to postmodernism , one distinction between them that might be drawn would be that whereas postmodernism seems to include the problematic of the place of Western culture in relation to non-Western cultures , poststructuralism as a category seems not to imply such a perspective . |
| 15 | She had not had it with her on Sunday during the walk to the belvedere and although it might now be too late in the day to catch the best of the light , it would be useful to have a few shots to help with descriptions of the scenery when she came to write her novel . |
| 16 | They turned into a quieter street where open shutters gave a view of craftsmen bent over worktables placed at the front of their shops to catch the best of the morning light . |
| 17 | Then there are the personal perils for breaches of companies legislation which are not only manifold but , supplemented by the Insolvency Act and , where relevant , the Financial Services Act itself amended by the 1989 Companies Act , threaten to catch the unwary at every turn . |
| 18 | On a sunny evening you can stay to catch the last of the sun 's rays highlighting Scafell 's famous buttresses . |
| 19 | We have yet to experience any hard frosts , so autumn leaves still cling to branches and there are still a few flowers of white dead nettle , red campion and yarrow to attract the last of the drone flies . |
| 20 | The only basic concession we made to the Chancellor was to exclude the self-employed on the grounds that they were not covered by SERPS in any event . |
| 21 | The embassy , suspecting infiltration of agents provocateurs from the Cuban security forces , had sought to isolate the seven from the rest . |
| 22 | Where a person 's actions either cause direct physical and economic harm to another , or cause another to incur wasted expenditure , then a legal duty arises to compensate the other for the harm done . |
| 23 | The next stage is to find a piece of plastic or card tube which will just slide snugly over the wound coil to provide the former for the pickup coils . |
| 24 | It is , however , plausible to view criminal laws as the outcomes of clashes between groups with structurally generated conflicting interests , and to argue that the legislators ' intention , or if that is too conspiratorial , then the law 's latent function , is to provide the powerful with a resource to reduce further the ability of some groups to resist domination . |
| 25 | Sir William seemed to encompass the worst of every world , somehow . |
| 26 | In 1525 , parliament was sufficiently alarmed by ‘ the damnable opinions of heresy ’ of ‘ the heretic Luther and his disciples ’ to pass the first of the acts which sought to prevent Lutheran literature being brought into the kingdom . |
| 27 | Areas which will be in contact with the cove members should be scratched to provide a key for the Gyproc cove adhesive , then brush away any dust and loose particles . |
| 28 | No need to accept every one of the invitations which kept on being delivered because of Amabel 's fear of giving offence . |
| 29 | It has been able to obtain a third of the income that it needs from sponsorship , while a further third has been obtained from admission charges . |
| 30 | It took a Maori around four weeks to extract a blank for an adze-blade from a pebble of nephrite and another six to shape it ( fig. 12 ) . |