Example sentences of "[to-vb] they [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am in the process of compiling a book on old fashioned remedies for horse ailments and am writing to ask if any of your readers have experience of any , and would they be kind enough to pass them on for possible publication . |
| 2 | Zimbabwe , which favours the legalization of trade in rhino and elephant products , is to store the horns in the hope of being able to sell them legally in due course . |
| 3 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 4 | His fundamental mistake was not only to buy all his planes , but to buy them only on borrowed money . |
| 5 | In a recent essay she claims to have had a strong sense of déjá-vu upon first reading theories of post-structuralism and postmodernism , for though she had never been able to articulate them clearly in conceptual form , she had discovered many of the concepts these theories present through writing fiction ( 1991a:165 ) . |
| 6 | An alternative for viewing and drawing small peels or segments of larger peels is to mount them in 35 mm transparency mounts ( preferably with glass both sides ) and to project them on to white paper or card , on which tracings can be made . |
| 7 | have a small stock remaining of their Centenary Souvenir Dinner Brochures , and would be happy to send them out to keen rugby folk in return for a cheque for just £1.50 , which will be used to raise funds for the paraplegic centre at Stoke Mandeville . |
| 8 | We already do that for widows , most of whom get enough in benefits — paid regardless of their incomes — to lift them well above supplementary benefit levels . |
| 9 | A gas liquefies when the attractive forces between the molecules are sufficient to bind them together in liquid form . |
| 10 | It 's too easy to shrug them off as drippy MOR bores because popularity , ultimately , has its price . |
| 11 | In the final days before they met , Mother 's face began to harden when she sat and watched Boy and O , as if she was trying to push them together by sheer force of will power . |
| 12 | The beginner would be well advised to copy them out in open score with the necessary transpositions . |
| 13 | The lectures are part of a larger programme , designed to bring members of the university and of the local community , to bring them together in serious consideration of great issues , great ideas and great people in the sciences , the humanities and the social sciences . |