Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Almost two centuries later it was being proposed that in much the same way every Spanish ambassador should have assigned to him a son or younger brother " to assist him as a comrade in his work " , be instructed in the conduct of embassy business and handle matters the ambassador himself could not spare time for , with the implication that he might well succeed to the post if it fell vacant .
2 The children must have impressed upon them the need for personal cooperation within the classroom as essential to the variety of learning situations with which they will be faced .
3 Each industry must have applied to it the test of national service .
4 ‘ The defendant had been personally negligent in that he had failed to take such steps and make such inquiries as would have revealed to him the defects in his structure and the risks of fire thereby occasioned . ’
5 Even then our marker point will have preserved for us a stability in stratigraphical nomenclature and will have saved us from the utterly wasteful vacillations in opinion and fashion that trouble us today .
6 We may have had from him an attempt at Opposition fury , but , on occasion , he experienced pretty heavy weather in trying to make distinctions between his party and the Government on an issue on which , in essence , they agree .
7 Should I rather have brought with me the cross from the altar ? ’
8 Normally , edges would have associated with them a confidence score ; however for sake of clarity these have been omitted as have been some of the edges which would otherwise have been created .
9 In that context I think it would be helpful to us erm if we could have submitted to us a version of the table originally submitted by the H B F relating to commitments .
10 In some senses you know when it happens to a male student , he is not he does n't have confirmed for him the sense that he is only a sexual object and that this is yet more of the way in which he is always perceived .
11 Jane and I are off to Italy — a photographic assignment — otherwise we would have held onto them a while longer .
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