Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pos pn] [noun pl] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had set off on a sunny morning to paddle their canoes a short distance along the Dorset coastline from the St Albans Centre , Lyme Regis . |
| 2 | In defence , the dismounted men-at-arms and archers ( the archers being either in ‘ wedges ’ or set out before the men-at-arms ) provided density of resistance , giving each other support , the men-at-arms being all the better protected , since the archers were able to fire their weapons a considerable distance against an advancing enemy , thus disrupting them before they reached the defending men-at-arms who , with their own cavalry , could then mount a counter-attack . |
| 3 | I did manage to give my hands a quick rinse beforehand and nobody has mentioned food poisoning so it must have been ok . |
| 4 | I had failed miserably to give my readers a true picture of the visual delights awaiting those who followed in my footsteps . |
| 5 | One does get the feeling , none the less , that many traditional teachers still think of film as being a classroom novelty useful to give their students a welcome treat : yet many students , watching the grey , flickering images uncertainly projected on to unsuitable screens by elderly and noisy equipment in stuffy ill-curtained rooms , may be forgiven for wanting a bit of first-rate formal teaching as a relief . |
| 6 | The scale and importance of the nationalized concerns are so great that ministers are not prepared to give their managers a free hand . |
| 7 | But that opportunity is circumscribed , nonetheless , and in a country where Rupert Murdoch , Robert Maxwell and Lord Rothermere , with their powerful and partisan views , control 80 per cent of national newspapers , there is an understandable reluctance to give their newspapers a blank cheque to attack political enemies . |
| 8 | to give their purchasers a nice surprise . ) |
| 9 | as if to underline his words a creaming beam wave appeared in the middle distance , suddenly becoming apparent that it was a freak . |
| 10 | Yet Rider Haggard seems to have been dissatisfied with his presentation of the character ( and naturally he must have been influenced , as a professional novelist , by the enormous popularity and sales of She ) and he did not resist the temptation to give his readers a further insight into her . |
| 11 | Telling MPs why he was off to the ‘ icy wastes ’ of the backbenches , the ex-Fun Minister said he felt like Captain Oates — the member of Scott 's Antarctic expedition who walked out into the snow to die to give his companions a better chance of survival . |
| 12 | In one of the most striking of his letters to his brother , the Emperor Joseph II , he stresses the need for a ruler always to be willing to give his subjects a complete account of the finances of the state and of their administration ; such action , he writes , is ‘ glorious , useful and just ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Sure , we want to make profits to give our shareholders a reasonable return on their investment , and to enable us to maintain and enhance our capital base so that we can give a steadily better service to an ever larger number of customers . |
| 14 | We are excited about our new discoveries and about the opportunity to give our shareholders a significant return on their investments — and we want to convey our sense of excitement to our shareholders . |
| 15 | Our brief was simply to give our clients a good day out with lots of climbing . |
| 16 | We believe it is valuable to give our trainees a rounded appreciation of our business from the outset , not least because so much of what we do depends upon high levels of teamwork . |
| 17 | Every year I try to give our decorations a rich look . |
| 18 | ‘ Each year I try to give our decorations a rich look — both at home and in the shop . |
| 19 | But we began with joy and Rossini and to sunshine we return with Hummel 's E flat Piano Quintet , and singing melody — pretty , but never quite elevated to greatness by a composer reluctant to accord his accompaniments a higher status than that of faithful doggedness . |
| 20 | As he noted at the time , new houses intended for single families were subdivided into tenements on their first letting , for the very poor simply could not afford to pay their landlords a realistic return on their investment . |
| 21 | Every parent wants to offer their children a positive vision of the future . |
| 22 | People are encouraged to set themselves high standards in order for Whitbread , in turn , to offer its customers a high standard of service . |
| 23 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 24 | A feeling of employment insecurity might be thought to stem from the agency 's lack of obligation to provide assignments on a continuous basis , and thus its inability to guarantee its workers a regular income . |