Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee took the view that lawyers are unapproachable because of the inaccessibility of premises and their unwelcoming nature , because the methods of work do not tie in with the needs of clients , and because of a lack of response to the needs of linguistic minorities . |
| 2 | The sidh , the strange , cold , faery race , who would steal up to the gates of Tara and sing the Wolfline into the world … |
| 3 | You may now let it all hang out on the walls of the 303 Gallery from 6 June to 3 July where an open-forum show called ‘ Writing on the Walls ’ invites public participation . |
| 4 | The strange horse will hover around on the outskirts of the herd until it is eventually accepted . |
| 5 | The great value of this is that the searcher can look up the name of an author known to have published in the field of interest and , if any previously published work of the author has been cited , the item will appear along with the names of the citing authors . |
| 6 | Now it would be a question of building up contacts again , putting up a case which would percolate up through the echelons of power , hopefully gathering momentum and authenticity as it did so . |
| 7 | Since May was seventy-two when his book was published , it is clear that many of his recipes must date back to the days of Queen Elizabeth 1st . |
| 8 | Rather , I would like to see developed a Code of Practice binding on doctors which would grow out of the views of all interested parties : doctors , patients , and the public . |
| 9 | From where he stood , high up , he could look down on the roofs of the houses . |
| 10 | Sipping an evening martini at the Top of the Mark ( the glass-encircled roof garden of the Mark Hopkins Hotel high on Nob Hill ) one could look down at the lights of that most cosmopolitan city — over the warehouses and docks of the Embarcadero , over to Grant Avenue and Chinatown , down the cable-car track to Fisherman 's Wharf and beyond to the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge which crossed the bay to Sausolito . |
| 11 | Below , the islands of Rum and Canna can be seen and on the horizon to the west you can look over from the hills of South Uist to Barra Head . |
| 12 | Across the Bristol Channel we could see over to the cliffs of North Devon , while off to the west Carmarthen Bay and the Pembrokeshire coast stretched out into the distance . |
| 13 | I could not keep up with the demands of trying to keep everyone happy , and in desperation to make sure I keep my looks , I gave up eating , ’ she is alleged to have said . |
| 14 | Having said that , however , we can tease out from the textbooks of the sixties an implicit theoretical perspective that bore on groups and was designed to make sense of British politics as a whole . |
| 15 | Well okay this morning what I 'd like to do in the half hour or so that we 've got before lunch is to talk about the skills we need when we actually come up here to deliver then this afternoon we 'll look at that feedback from the video and what you did and then we 'll move on to the skills of design , the preparation skills . |
| 16 | ‘ Is course relevant to functions and development of library service , how does it fit in with the needs of the employees who should attend ? |
| 17 | You can choose your own hours , which means that you can fit in with the needs of your baby . |
| 18 | Even by the standards of ships that could set down upon the surfaces of worlds , the Tormentum Malorum was singularly sleek and streamlined for rapid departure or arrival through atmosphere . |
| 19 | It is at best a standstill and does not measure up to the problems of dereliction and rising unemployment . |
| 20 | They must face up to the limitations of the Western model — though the baby of Western expertise should not be thrown out with the bathwater of its failings . |
| 21 | Children and adults come to learn and face up to the facts of caring and sharing on the principal that we can not survive alone on Earth — we must share it with all the other animals and plants . |
| 22 | Christian joy is found when we hold on to God 's hand and when we learn that fabulous certainty with which we can step out into the uncertainties of the coming day . |
| 23 | All he needed — as far as anyone could make out from the hogsheads of salted pilchards that were assembled in two separate groups at the harbour — was one more good catch and victory , together with Martha 's hand , would be his . |
| 24 | There 's nothing quite so depressing as watching your tan fade along with the memories of that wonderful holiday . |
| 25 | From the behavioural point of view , the principal male characteristic is sadistic sexual egoism , since is it clear that only the male who is capable of driving off his rivals can hold on to the females of the breeding group . |
| 26 | Can we go on to the minutes of the committee meeting of sixth December then . |
| 27 | In other words ‘ the Russian revolution will create conditions in which power can pass in to the hands of the workers … before the politicians of bourgeois liberalism get the chance to display to the full their talent for governing ’ . |
| 28 | This is to help people whose minds wo n't switch off from the events of the day . |
| 29 | I mean , if he did go off into the wilds of Anatolia , or somewhere remote like that — something might happen to him in some village , where he is n't known . ’ |
| 30 | It must reach up beyond the walls of that particular yard within which a child is brought up . |