Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , good results will qualify you for a better job , and give you the added satisfaction of proving to your boss that you are good at what you do . |
| 2 | a cast iron logical argument you could you could then even phase it over a longer period |
| 3 | For example , being born in a neighbourhood may entitle you to a higher place in the queue for housing provided by that local authority . |
| 4 | JEWKES : O , you are very good , sir , very forgiving indeed , but come , I hope you will be so good as to take her to your bosom and that my tomorrow morning you 'll bring her to a better sense of her duty . |
| 5 | I always find it a difficult binocular object ; I can just see it with × 20 , but I am not confident that I can identify it with a lower magnification . |
| 6 | Quite simply , such an additional demand for the currencies concerned would help keep them at a higher level , with a consequent reduction in their export surpluses . |
| 7 | ‘ Never , ’ writes Boswell , ‘ did I see him in a better frame ; calm , gentle , wise , holy ’ — with Johnson opining that the essence of the Crucifixion lay in showing to the world that even the Son of God suffered on account of sin , and in doing so , displayed how heinous a thing sin must be . |
| 8 | I was afraid that if Bekenstein found out about it , he would use it as a further argument to support his ideas about the entropy of black holes , which I still did not like . |
| 9 | A second interpretation of the developments of the 1980s would set them in a longer context , dating back to the late 1960s . |
| 10 | However , if the scheme is viewed as one that does not tax interest on savings , then more consumption in the future can be financed from a given volume of savings and those seeking a target future consumption can meet it with a lower level of current savings . |
| 11 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that he has listened to hon. Members and representatives of people with disabilities who are worried that the additional room or larger property that they need to accommodate their disabilities might take them into a higher band and that he has decided that any such people should fall within one band lower than would otherwise be the case ? |
| 12 | Dare to dream , shrug off any criticism or doubt and set off on the journey that you hope will eventually take you to a better world . |
| 13 | I 'll take you for a closer look . ’ |
| 14 | Unix Labs will take it to a higher court if the judge does n't overturn the ruling he made himself . |
| 15 | USL will take it to a higher court if the judge does n't overturn himself . |
| 16 | MANY will take it as a further surrender to Common Market bureaucracy that an inspectorate will soon be established to regulate the smell of farm manure . |
| 17 | The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo . |
| 18 | In these circumstances any analysis of the Nigerian news media can quickly become outdated ; however , this does not mean , that an account of trends to date will not guide us towards a better understanding of present practices . |
| 19 | She says she did the Byrd show ‘ because I found her a fascinating part of the underground scene in New York , and I felt somebody should expose her to a bigger market . |
| 20 | That would leave them in a worse position than they began , because all the T'ang can offer them is money . |
| 21 | Following his split with the SWP James and his small band of adherents joined with another small group , the Workers ' Party , and with the aid his close collaborators , Grace Lee and Raya Dunayevskaya , he set about the task of examining the Hegelian dialectic and Marxist doctrine , which he believed would lead him to a fuller understanding of the Soviet Union , and in particular , Stalinism . |
| 22 | We 'll leave it to a softer Pen : |
| 23 | So what I was wondering was er the scheme is in it 's infancy this and I 'm all in the favour of the decentralising in principle , but I think we ought to perhaps look at it a bit closer , and I would suggest that we have an up-to-date report at the next meeting of this committee so we can compare it over a longer term so , as that we might then reflect on a if we 're doing the right thing or not . |
| 24 | Definitely , yes , I would say like I 've spoke to Brian Horton on Sunday and he more or less said that it 's er Oxford United , fourth position in the league , let's hope so like you know , they are like , and I 've come here maybe to help get them in a better position . |
| 25 | If we 'd just attacked they 'd have killed you immediately , so I thought it best to try and get you to a safer distance before anything happened . ’ |
| 26 | Try some of our treats — they 'll put you in a better mood without spoiling your figure |
| 27 | Avoiding throngs of killers did strike me as a higher priority even than full filling my Mala-fantasies . |
| 28 | We will replace it with a fairer system of student grants and targeted help for housing and vacation hardship . |
| 29 | Christine de Pisan and Alain Chartier are two such who also attract the attention of historians for a different reason , namely that they were observers and critics of the world of early fifteenth-century France , both of them having things to say which , they hoped , would turn it into a better world . |
| 30 | He should turn it to a profounder end , producing masterpieces in another man 's name . |