Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , as I wrote , I found myself wanting to alert readers to an increasing amount of detailed literature , across a wide range of disciplines , currently being reported ; and to indicate something of the complexity of the issues being pursued . |
| 2 | Informix looks to OpenODB to enable it to provide customers with an easy evolution to object-oriented technology that enables them to use data already stored in the Informix-OnLine database . |
| 3 | But , in order to maintain the services to our members , unions will probably still have to increase rates at an annual basis . |
| 4 | A great spotted woodpecker flew curiously over , ties of several kinds moved in close and a very tame robin appeared , to accept crumbs from an outstretched hand . |
| 5 | He still leans forward slightly as he walks , as if he is just about to shake hands with an old friend , and he still has a slight benevolent smile about his lips . |
| 6 | Clearly it was a winning gambit to aver simply that the work had not been written with that ‘ single purpose ’ , and this was the substance of the defence of Henry Scott who had published or who at least intended to sell copies of an anti-papist pamphlet containing more than a little obscene detail . |
| 7 | He then endeavoured to coordinate activities through an underground body called the Communist Group . |
| 8 | Like others , BOC was seeking to create advantages from an international presence and make it possible to do things a purely local operator could not afford . |
| 9 | DOZENS of firemen fought last night to contain a fire which threatened to destroy outbuildings on an isolated farm . |
| 10 | ‘ . It is easier and quicker to edit words in an existing layout than type in afresh . |
| 11 | I nodded to her and to Aline , who was Franco-Vietnamese and engaged to Hugh Watt , one of Ashley 's multitudinous cousins from the branch of the family that seemed to favour consorts of an exotic provenance ( Hugh 's brother Craig was going out with a stunning , lanky Nigerian called Noor ) . |
| 12 | It is , however , a presumption that may be more easily displaced in family cases particularly those involving children where it has not in the past been usual practice to award costs against an unsuccessful party . |
| 13 | I do n't want to exaggerate it , because on the complex issues , however determined or single-minded a Prime Minister is , they have to discuss things with an inner group of colleagues . |
| 14 | A CHEATING wife yesterday got the go-ahead to claim damages for an unwanted pregnancy which ruined her marriage . |
| 15 | In the end , to draw matters to an unhappy conclusion they all agreed that it had probably been a bin liner . |
| 16 | The aim of the Egyptian proposal was modest : to hold preliminary discussions on conditions for elections among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip for a team to negotiate arrangements during an interim stage . |
| 17 | The Bantu press newspaper group was a similar venture : part-owned by the Argus Group , it also tried in a paternalistic way to guide Africans in an approved direction . |
| 18 | It had just taken him by surprise , her wanting to put flowers in an empty house . |
| 19 | The present Boddington Mill appears to retain parts of an older structure for , as well as the main brick-built part , it incorporates a half-timbered , gabled section . |
| 20 | Blufton had carefully manicured his image as a man of the people over the past couple of years , the sergeant went on , preferring to give interviews in an open-necked shirt and jeans — both with designer labels — rather than wear a suit . |
| 21 | Jim Murphy , president of the National Union of Students Scotland , said that delegates to the union 's annual meeting are expected to endorse plans for an escalating campaign against proposals to force students to pay individual levies to support campus associations . |
| 22 | The Home Office say it 's better to keep prisoners in an old gaol than in police cells . |
| 23 | In the case of a building let in separate parts for use as factories , the landlord will be under an absolute duty to keep lifts in an efficient state and in good repair ( Factories Act 1961 , s22(1) , s176(1) ) . |
| 24 | To obtain an assurance from the vendors that they wish to pursue matters on an exclusive basis , at least for a specified time period |
| 25 | to obtain an assurance from the vendors that they wish to pursue matters on an exclusive basis . |
| 26 | Her conscience , too , held , quite uninvited , a separate watching brief , and intervened in the proceedings to read statements of an unwelcome nature . |
| 27 | Young , Hay , and Ellis ( 1985 ) asked 22 people to keep records over an eight-week period of difficulties they experienced in recognizing people . |
| 28 | Are we being invited to invest chimpanzees with an incipient grasp of mimetic theory for good measure ? |
| 29 | Employers may employ their own valuers to determine house prices in different areas to assess payments under an excess mortgage allowance scheme . |
| 30 | You must remember that she was still hardly five years old and it is not easy for somebody as small as that to score points against an all-powerful grown-up . |