Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I applaud Myra 's loyalty , but it 's stupid to carry on with this charade of twins . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , no , Ross — this is a terrible mistake ! ’ she cried in a desperate attempt to cling on to some form of sanity , wriggling violently to try and escape his embrace as he almost ran up the steps and entered the cottage . |
| 3 | I voted for this government because they said they were n't going to go in for that sort of rubbish . |
| 4 | Yes , Americans , erm I have the impression , they 're being rather slow to go in for this sort of Federal legislation . |
| 5 | The United Kingdom 's negotiators must alter the attitude with which they have approached the question of integration to date : considering as ‘ victories ’ what are at best delays in the advance of Federalism , and being willing , at the last , to go along with any formula of political union as an alternative to being ‘ relegated ’ to an ‘ outer tier ’ of the EEC . |
| 6 | And we had to go down through fourteen feet of solid rock . |
| 7 | And , of course , the scientific approach through general laws and formulae has nothing to work on in this sort of context . |
| 8 | It is also a procedure that is beginning to catch on in other areas of a solicitor 's work . |
| 9 | Well , there were these round concrete blocks , with silos at the top , and they used to come in with these loads of scraps , tip it in and you know what we had to do ? |
| 10 | THE case must be made again for judges to stand down at 70 years of age . |
| 11 | The gap between the two , although only a few metres wide , is deep enough for my boat to pass through at any state of tide . |
| 12 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 13 | ‘ It 's hard to stand up for that length of time , ’ said Couples , who had two double-bogeys in his 71 . |
| 14 | She had no doubt that Dana would be with Garry and her twin was n't made to stand up to that kind of trouble . |
| 15 | The producer/singer 's record company has been forced to come up with all kinds of excuses . |
| 16 | It was England who crept off , licked their wounds , and tried to come up with all sorts of weird and wonderful reasons for us beating them . |
| 17 | The aim of this project is to investigate these problems and to come up with suggested methods of analysis which are generally applicable to complex surveys . |
| 18 | The job of the providers is to come up with best combination of service and cost . |
| 19 | It rapidly became a conservative fiscal base — an unchanging standby for governments unable to come up with alternative ways of assessing a national wealth that was not only growing but was substantially changing in form . |
| 20 | Even if the student is not able to come up with alternative offerings of his or her own , at least he or she can say with some honesty : ‘ I believe that to be the case , and this is why . ’ |
| 21 | They do n't want me paying d you know like their pension deferred , so if you 're serious about the fu pension fund managers paying , we 're talking y you know earlier you said four hundred and eighty million whatever it is lost , they 're paying a third , pension fund managers have got to come up with that sort of sum . |
| 22 | You might well be able to come up with more ideas of your own . |
| 23 | Different people are at liberty to come up with different methods of doing the calculations , but probably the most authoritative index is the ‘ encephalization quotient ’ or EQ used by Harry Jerison , a leading American authority on brain history . |
| 24 | If these governments want to win back the access to international capital markets that they need in order to expand and prosper , they will have to come up with some ideas of their own . |
| 25 | What we have to do is to come up with some set of criteria which relate to the relative value we are prepared , if pressed , to attribute to a particular form of special treatment . |
| 26 | But suddenly , the major preoccupation of the cosmetic industry is to come up with original ways of making it easier for you to choose and use the right products . |
| 27 | the real feeling and we feel we 've got to come up to some sort of a standard . |
| 28 | The issue reminded many observers of the Recruit share trading scandal of late 1988 , which had led to the collapse of the government led by Noboru Takeshita [ see pp. 36463-64 ] , and which had led to a range of measures designed to tighten up on this kind of abuse . |
| 29 | If the client is happy to pay any contribution required , the solicitor is authorized to provide up to two hours of work . |
| 30 | As Clinton went from strength to strength , Bush failed to struggle out of that image of being weak . |