Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you really believe that the first contact after weeks of silence just happened by sheer coincidence to fall on the same day as your arrival here ? |
| 2 | The outcome was a decision to continue with the same dosage , because what is the use of physical strength without the brain to direct it ? |
| 3 | This indicates that drinking is often a response to an inability to cope with the many losses of old age . |
| 4 | ‘ I have an important function to attend in a few days ’ time . |
| 5 | Company commitment and the willingness to remain with the same firm for long periods may therefore be underpinned by the prospect of heavy sacrifices that accompany the alternatives . |
| 6 | It was developed specifically for the larger urban workshops and consists of an adjustable loom with a device which , by altering the tension on the warp strands , shifts the completed work to the rear of the loom , allowing the weaver to sit at the same level throughout the entire rug-making process . |
| 7 | Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things . |
| 8 | Another stock to advance for the same reasons was General Cinema , owner of Harcourt Brace . |
| 9 | ‘ It was a pleasure to play in the same side as a true football genius . |
| 10 | To allow the horses and their appended jockeys through , all points of the tape must rise by about 1 metre in the time it takes a horse to travel about the same distance from rest , perhaps much less than 0.1 seconds . |
| 11 | It is always a pleasure to speak in the same debate as the hon. Member for Beaconsfield ( Mr. Smith ) . |
| 12 | Like most players it was always McGurk 's dream to play in an All Ireland senior final , but there was the danger it would remain simply that , a dream . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's every lad 's dream to play in the All Ireland final and now that we have got this far we want to make sure and win . |
| 14 | As we noted , anaphora concerns the use of ( usually ) a pronoun to refer to the same referent as some prior term , as in : ( 90 ) Harry 's a sweetheart ; he 's so considerate where Harry and he can be said to be co-referential , i.e. pick out the same referent . |
| 15 | But now the club have found that on applying for renewal of permission to play at the same venue next season , the pitch has already been allocated . |
| 16 | Giving the mother a small job to do in the same room as the child during the meal will help distract her . |
| 17 | The plan is to grow the lawnmower business over the next couple of years and then float the shares to raise cash to add in a few operations that are less seasonal , and less weather-dependent . |
| 18 | Irish need to think along the same lines . |
| 19 | The energy management assistance scheme , which will come into place on 1 April , will grant-aid energy efficiency projects for smaller businesses — a new initiative to add to the many others that my Department already runs . |
| 20 | Those that lie in local spaces having intersections with other spaces will be forced to have an association , if only in terms of their need to cohabit within the same region of the geometric domain . |
| 21 | Because of the latter requirement there can not be a double charge to tax on the same income ( s744 ) . |
| 22 | This , of course , causes the pendulum to swing in the same direction . |
| 23 | He is giving Gascoigne the platform to perform in the same way as France built a side around Michel Platini , and Argentina around Diego Maradona — the latter never more evident as when they won the World Cup in 1986 . |
| 24 | Leave the rabbit to set for a few moments . |
| 25 | But now they 're having a heated debate about script changes , so I grabbed the chance to escape for a few minutes . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't set out to find you — it 's sheer coincidence that I should chance to walk along the same street and into the same pub . |
| 27 | We will treat active and passive as truth-conditionally equivalent and used on the whole to refer to the same state of affairs ’ ( Weiner and Labov 1983 : 32 ) . |
| 28 | The mother 's death is portrayed in a macabre scene where Walter is unsure whether she has died , or even what death is , and allows the corpse to rot for a few days while he sits by her side . |
| 29 | This work went ahead , although rather slowly , and allowed the tunnelling to begin at the same time . |
| 30 | an instruction to reproduce to the same size as the original . |