Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even then , there is a good case for bringing it before a court so that each side is heard and specific boundaries are laid down . |
| 2 | It follows that we see no case for placing it on the semi-statutory footing proposed by the select committee . |
| 3 | Cunnilingus is a marginal case but since it involves genital contact and may involve a form of penetration , there is a case for placing it within the more serious category . |
| 4 | Indeed , if it is possible to talk of a Keynesian revolution in economic policy , then there is a strong case for placing it in the early 1950s rather than around 1947 . |
| 5 | ‘ For these reasons I think there is a fairly strong case for marketing it as a health product but it will also probably be considered a luxury , ’ Mrs Rowan added . |
| 6 | That is when the strength of his emerging side , and England 's case for making it to the 1994 World Cup finals , will be truly tested . |
| 7 | The poems may almost be considered as examples of literary collaboration , and , though her own attempts at verse were not successful , the originality and freshness of perception in the Journals and her letters make a clear case for assessing her as a ‘ poet ’ in her own right . |
| 8 | When , turning , he reached the part about finding it behind the standing stone , he revealed the gleaming decoration . |
| 9 | proposed that we should in effect give the money to erm a non county body involved in this , to allocate , to work out both the basis of the allocation and the allocation funds in this order , we think that 's inappropriate , If we 're putting up money then we should also have the responsibility for allocating them among a until the done and the done , so I 'm at all , or whether our council or something to be set up in the future should have equal control of that , that money . |
| 10 | Stella was afraid Babs might tell Dotty that she did n't wear a slip and that Dotty would rush out and buy her one , just as she had bought her a brassière after catching her in the wardrobe with her arms above her head about to be fitted for her Ptolemy costume . |
| 11 | Of Malcolm McLaren 's collaborators at the time of the Sex Pistols , Jamie Reid gets a mention for persuading him of the importance of situationism , and Vivienne Westwood for producing a t-shirt slogan proclaiming how boring Derek Jarman 's Jubilee was . |
| 12 | The following morning , three of the six were eventually discovered at various positions around the living room , the faint glimmer of life making me change my mind about dispatching them to the waste bin . |
| 13 | By February he was at least considering a retirement condition , though still sceptical about its effect on unemployment , and commissioned a paper on the feasibility of enforcing it from the Ministry of Labour 's representative on the Committee , P.Y. Blundun . |
| 14 | Trials for the signalling system have been accelerated as BR examines the feasibility of introducing it on the entire 11,000-mile network . |
| 15 | Plainly , individual journalists have individual styles but ultimately they have to turn the result of meeting you into the type of article their publication requires . |
| 16 | Any response which is offered as a result of reading it in a work of literary criticism would be unacceptable . |
| 17 | The first , noted by Labov with respect to the Philadelphia neighbourhood studies , is that however good the data there is no way in the absence of a supplementary broader study of locating it in a wider sociolinguistic context . |
| 18 | The maximum fees that companies can charge for inspection or copies are now prescribed by regulations ( the former practice of stating them in the primary legislation did not work well in an inflationary climate ) and these regulations clarify the obligations of companies regarding inspection and copies . |
| 19 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |
| 20 | Whole-tone harmony is part of many harmonic systems , is valuable in many circumstances , and is therefore worth a brief study by all composers , even if they have no intention of using it as a complete system themselves . |
| 21 | Nor have I the slightest intention of subjecting you to a close examination of my emotions . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm sorry I kissed you earlier , but I swear on the Bible I 've no intention of ravishing you on the kitchen floor before supper — or any other time . ’ |
| 23 | The picture passed to her son , John Whitney Payson , who lent it to a university museum in Maine with the intention of bequeathing it to the university in return for eventual tax relief on his estate . |
| 24 | It was sensitive stuff and he had no intention of discussing it with the Bristol media . |
| 25 | Well , no point in denying it , she took after her mother 's side of the family for looks even if she had her dad 's brains , and Mrs. Pridmore had no intention of exposing her to the temptations of London . |
| 26 | They were married in the Guards ' Chapel , a stone 's throw from Buckingham Palace , on July 4 1973 , and one member of the close-knit circle of Camilla 's friends said : ‘ She believed Charles had lost interest and had no intention of considering her as a wife . |
| 27 | They bought the building two years ago with the intention of turning it into an exhibition space for cultural exchanges between Europe ( mainly France ) and Japan . |
| 28 | Workers at the Heeley Urban Farm in Sheffield have spent several days collecting seeds from these flowers with the intention of growing them as a crop , eventually to sell the seed as an urban flower-mix . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , Mr. Pybus , the Minister of Transport , announced in February 1932 , that the London Transport Bill was dead and he had no intention of forcing it on an unwilling House of Commons . |
| 30 | Where the Buyer purchases the goods with the intention of selling them to a third party for the use by that third party of the goods at work , the Buyer undertakes to supply the goods to the third party on the basis that the third party will ensure , so far as reasonably practicable , that the goods will be safe and without risks to health when properly used , and the Buyer further undertakes to procure the signature by the third party ( prior to delivery of the goods to the third party ) of the written undertaking attached hereto as Annex A obliging the third party to take the steps specified in that undertaking to ensure this . |