Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was of course self-evident to him as a rationalist that dreams are a product of the imagination , rather than any mystical intervention . |
| 2 | What is called ‘ any benefit , or even any legal possibility of benefit , ’ in Mr. Smith 's notes to Cumber v. Wane , is not ( as I conceive ) that sort of benefit which a creditor may derive from getting payment of part of the money due to him from a debtor who might otherwise keep him at arm 's length , or possibly become insolvent , but is some independent benefit , actual or contingent , of a kind which might in law be a good and valuable consideration for any other sort of agreement not under seal . |
| 3 | then erm the first payment in some occasions is a cheque direct to you from the TEC . |
| 4 | Then , taking into account the resources of the authority , and the revenue available to it from the National Non-domestic Rate , the government is to decide how much Revenue Support Grant it will give , and how much revenue it considers should be raised by the authority itself through Community Charge . |
| 5 | There was still the rupee for his food , and another rupee given to him for the train journey back . |
| 6 | So there I am popping my tray next to his in the unit , when he says , right out of the blue , completely unprovoked , I have n't said anything — |
| 7 | He offered the seat next to him on the console . |
| 8 | Then Prentice took the seat next to me in the corridor and I just knew the day would n't get any better whatever the weather forecast . |
| 9 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that some British companies have not received the compensation due to them from the Turkish authorities controlling northern Cyprus ? |
| 10 | Indeed , some estimates have suggested that if the Exchequer received all the tax due to it from the black economy , the basic rate of income tax might be cut by 10 per cent . |
| 11 | ‘ Then perhaps you could make a small room available to me for a few hours ? |
| 12 | There is the moment in the Act II pas de deux or Swan Lake where Odette appears to fly away in an arabesque before Siegfried seizes her arms and draws her body close to his in an embrace . |
| 13 | Carl from upstairs got arrested too , and he said that Ibrahim was screaming all night in the room next to him in the prison , and when they opened the door in the morning , he 'd scratched all the skin off of his face . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , come on in then ! ’ had reseated herself in the chair , and motioned me to take my place next to her at the desk . |
| 15 | She patted the place next to her on the lip of the stone fountain . |
| 16 | This is not to set themselves up as nutritionists or as medical experts — but to use the knowledge available to them from every quarter sensibly , and to ensure that others are using their knowledge and expertise in the best interests of the counsellee . |
| 17 | For instance , if the person next to you in the pool starts frothing and fizzing , it means that his ‘ O ’ ring has probably broken . |
| 18 | ‘ I recently went to Ireland , and my visit was the headline news story in every Irish newspaper , but during that time there was not a single column inch devoted to it in the English press , whereas it was very prominently reported in the European press . |
| 19 | If you have a career open to you in a family business you would probably be well advised to enter it ; and in that case there is no point in obtaining a professional qualification . |
| 20 | The audience was fidgeting behind him , and there was a limit to the amount of time he intended to chat to this crazy woman next to him in the soiled wedding dress and veil . |
| 21 | She had not known what to expect from this side of marriage since there was no literature available to her on the subject and her mother had told her nothing . |
| 22 | But she was going to have to keep the door open to him for the next twenty years and , like it or not , it was something that she would have to come to terms with . |
| 23 | On August 2nd , 1951 , 48-year old Mrs Mabel Tattershaw was spoken to by the man next to her in the Roxy Cinema , Nottingham . |
| 24 | The suggestion , which received widespread support , was that members on retiring or resigning from the Bank would allocate all or portion of the sum due to them to the Frank Holden Defence Fund . |
| 25 | Calling them " temporary workers " merely made their situation clear to them from the start of their employment . |
| 26 | Once the film has stopped I want you to think of things which could occur to make the situation dangerous to you as the driver of the car . |
| 27 | Other things will have to be altered as well , of course , for the date of the election is not an isolated fact ( there are no isolated facts , which is why there can not be a world similar to ours in every respect except one ) . |
| 28 | Given all the information available to them at the end of period t - 1 , firms expect that the position of the aggregate demand curve in period t will be AD in figure 5.1 . |
| 29 | It will be sent unsolicited to all parents , so that there will be a great increase in the information available to them about the school . |
| 30 | I was only half-aware of a looming presence next to me at the bar , until he joined in our conversation : |