Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] [noun sg] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There they had to wait some time until the Constable could find the key and lock the door on them . |
| 2 | It is important not to miss this diagnosis because the disease is potentially fatal but can be cured if resected at an early stage . |
| 3 | The purchaser will , therefore , need to acquire this strip before the site can be developed , or find an alternative access . |
| 4 | And of course you 'll want to meet each other before the thing is finalised . |
| 5 | Nothing had done more to encourage this belief than the Church with its ecclesiastical calendar and regulations concerning what could or could not be done on specific days . |
| 6 | The Commission can also impose penalties upon parties for failing to provide this information once the Commission has taken a formal decision requesting the information from the parties . |
| 7 | I think that he knows that it is difficult for the Government to accept any proposal before the question of Community law is resolved , and also that his proposals are relatively controversial . |
| 8 | The House of Lords alone proposed 569 amendments , and the Secretary of State for Education and Science , Kenneth Baker , said : ‘ I have been unable to find any measure since the war that has been more debated or had more parliamentary time allocated to it ’ . |
| 9 | The goats have to circle that Brownie before the eagle catches her and drags her back to her nest . |
| 10 | Although not designed as ‘ brain storming ’ sessions , progress review meetings may have to serve this function if a job is behind programme and rescheduling is required to get back on target . |
| 11 | Natural justice requires that a firm should have an opportunity to answer any criticism before a decision is made . |
| 12 | ‘ the rule is that no one is bound to answer any question if the answer thereto would , in the opinion of the judge , have a tendency to expose the deponent to any criminal charge , penalty , or forfeiture which the judge regards as reasonably likely to be preferred or sued for . |
| 13 | It is not necessary to apply this endorsement if the policyholder has installed the safe to improve security without us insisting on it . |
| 14 | Miss Ellis writes cleverly and without wasting words , and her tale of Lili whose father is Egyptian and whose mother English , and whose own nature allows her to assume either nationality as the whim takes her , can be said to be compact and readable . |
| 15 | to inspire more action than a sigh — |
| 16 | You may well , for instance , be depending to a large extent on the character of the victim ( as I was in The Murder of the Maharajah ) and the least troublesome way to put that character before the reader is in direct scenes showing the future victim in action . |
| 17 | It is often better to leave such exploration until the patient 's difficulties are beginning to resolve because by then the patient may be more willing to consider , for example , that his act was based on hostile and manipulation motives . |
| 18 | The coating helps the fabric to keep some strength as the glass softens and melts . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm planning to knock this meadow before the evening is out , ’ he told them before they left and joked , ‘ You 'll have to harden your hands before you leave . ’ |
| 20 | If a bequest to a school was specified in terms of ‘ the best performance in the School Certificate ’ it would be unreasonable not to release that restriction when the School Certificate was abolished . |
| 21 | In the Commons tonight , Jacques Arnold , Conservative MP for Gravesham , through whose constituency the line will run , said the Government had wanted to make a statement about the route on Wednesday but decided not to after Labour threatened to withdraw all cooperation if the statement was made the day after the Budget . |
| 22 | The phrase " the tallest man in England " will fail to individuate any person if the class of tallest men in England happens to have more than one member . |
| 23 | The aim is to disperse any crowd before a display can take place and trace the stolen cars . |
| 24 | I 'm off with my family for a week 's holiday in Cornwall and Jenny is hoping to take advantage of my absence to get some rest so the office will be ‘ manned ’ all next week by Heidi , though Jenny will be around at home . |
| 25 | It is sufficient to contravene this regulation where the patch is more than a quarter of the breadth of the tread , because there can not be at least three-quarters of good tread around the whole circumference of the tyre in such a case . |
| 26 | It is not necessary to add this endorsement where the policyholder has installed an alarm to improve the security without us insisting on it . |
| 27 | Yet on a practical level if a carer is to keep going , and to have some life when the caring has ended this personal consideration needs to be encouraged and supported in a variety of ways . |
| 28 | More secure accommodation for the most persistent young offenders , both on remand and after conviction , is certainly required , not least to overcome such nonsense as the case of a teenager from Tyne and Wear having to be sent to a unit in Essex . |
| 29 | ‘ An order under section 6(2) requiring the third , fourth and fifth defendants to pay such sum as the court thinks fit to the plaintiffs or alternatively into court or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 30 or , alternatively , to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 31 in such manner as the court may direct for the purpose of restoring persons who entered into transactions with the first defendant in the course of contravention of section 3 by the first defendant to the position in which they were before the transactions were entered into . |
| 30 | To get more detail where the work was later published in a journal article . |