Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was n't to find that out for a while yet . |
| 2 | With sterling out of Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , Britons tend to write this off as a pipe-dream . |
| 3 | To know this much about a student is better than nothing . |
| 4 | ( It may be necessary to pick these out with a pin on pinch pleat and cartridge tapes if you are not cutting between the pleats . |
| 5 | The public transport network should also be improved to encourage people to use this instead of a car and a park and ride system might be introduced to keep traffic out of the centre . |
| 6 | The management of the large Alhambra Theatre agreed to put this on for a week as a curtain-raiser to a horror film starring Boris Karloff . |
| 7 | She found nothing , although she did n't know whether to put this down to a lack of success on the part of the police or the massive coverage afforded to the hijacking of a wide-bodied jet over Italy . |
| 8 | I did n't have a chance to put these out on a dish either . |
| 9 | It is helpful to keep these together in a folder on your file . |
| 10 | And of course we used to have desk infect inspections , of course we used to take that down before a desk inspection you see , this we had a surprise inspection and lifted it up and saw this and read it out , read it , Right , he said , And we 'll go God 's going to help you do something else , come out . |
| 11 | Although it is not possible to translate this directly into a success rate for the pupils in this project , an estimate of 40 per cent would be reasonable — about the same as that obtained for the written test items . |
| 12 | To bring that about in a timescale which meets the present crisis for world peace would be likely to create the very wars we are seeking to avoid . |
| 13 | It had been one of Gregory 's first acts as pope to invest and consecrate him as bishop of Die , and to follow this up with a letter to the count of Die which contains a first draft of his later decree prohibiting the investiture of bishops by secular rulers . |