Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My friend is not simply explaining why , for good or bad reasons , he did decide to go to the Park ( as he might after the event , in which case it would be no objection to his explanation that when he got there the zoo turned out to be closed ) ; he is defending his decision to go to the Park rather than meet me at his house , and I can still try to change his mind . |
| 2 | The thin permeable skin allows moisture to flow into the animal rather than out of it . |
| 3 | I am glad to have the opportunity to debate in the House today the White Paper which we published in July this year entitled ’ The Citizen 's Charter ’ . |
| 4 | Cliftonville had a wonderful opportunity to go into the lead just after the resumption when Tim McCann , lively and dangerous darted through , but as the keeper came out to narrow the angle , he whipped the ball past the far upright . |
| 5 | Calling a passing taxicab , I ordered the driver to drive to a hotel quite near Lanyon 's house . |
| 6 | The wife may be unable to get a job and may have little opportunity to work in the house especially if it is customary for servants to do all cooking and housework . |
| 7 | At the moment teams still seem interested in my services , but it , at the end of the season , the opportunity to try for the Championship no longer exists , then , no question , I shall step aside . ’ |
| 8 | The Taipei job was only unusual in that it would be a new experience to work in a country where English was not the official language , but the presence of a large population of Westerners , the bulk of them American , ensured high listenership figures even with the competition provided by the existence of other English-language stations . |
| 9 | Apart from the two social occasions when he had been with another girl , Liza had seen little of him , even though she had taken every opportunity to pass by the farmhouse where he was billeted . |
| 10 | Such a motion is exempted business , so that the House in question can not be denied the opportunity to pass upon the matter simply by government manipulation of time , but in relation to the vast majority of instruments , opposition is pointless and rarely mounted . |
| 11 | This coincided with our decision to work on a book together , so we began compiling what was to become The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes . |
| 12 | If it 's just a cough to go with the cold then there 's nothing they can do anyway , but if it 's an asthmatic cough then I can give him some erm Ventolin . |
| 13 | Yet when he set off on 20 September 1519 , with a royal mandate to search for a passage through to the Mar del Sur , and thus to determine for certain that the Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains , he had not the foggiest notion how far he might have to travel . |
| 14 | 1 The Artist accepts an engagement to appear in the video provisionally entitled Project English Video ( hereinafter referred to as the Video ) and during shooting to be available for stills photography . |
| 15 | ‘ At no point was there any attempt to graft on an image purely to improve our standing . |
| 16 | As she sipped the scotch , she reflected that if he were still alive he would no doubt be bringing the full force of his liberal rationalism to bear on the problem right now . |
| 17 | So she said I 've a good mind to write to the manager so Bobby said you wan na leave well alone , forget he said . |
| 18 | Certainly the deep , I think , we would very rarely use the deep to talk about the sea now . |
| 19 | Craned my neck to look for a way up to the high high bridge , saw a rocky overgrown path over the other side of the road . |
| 20 | It 's hardly surprising that we should be deeply suspicious of any attempt to deal with a subject as charged as rape . |
| 21 | Italian pilot Mario Mazzucchelli is planning an attempt to fly around the world nonstop , passing over both Poles , and doing it solo . |
| 22 | If we teach a horse to move to the right away from the pressure of a rider 's leg on their left side ; they do not seem to be able to reason that pressure on the right side is intended to make them move to the left . |
| 23 | Involvement of the valve of the aorta ( the large main artery , emerging from the heart ) , can cause this valve to become inefficient , so that instead of closing fully after each pumping beat of the heart , it remains partly open , allowing a proportion of the blood to return to the heart instead of passing on round the body . |
| 24 | Mr. Richards also accepts that the procedure adopted by the judge on 16 October 1991 , and in particular his long and involved attempt to dispose of the matter otherwise than by an order , was inappropriate , and the judge was wrong to link the question of a wasted costs order with the question of a disciplinary complaint to the General Council of the Bar . |
| 25 | Early on Sept. 7 a local magistrate granted the ANC permission to march to a stadium just inside the Ciskei border . |
| 26 | Most countries within the EC , including Germany , Portugal , Belgium , Denmark and Italy , have introduced the concept of parental leave — a period of leave given to either parent to look after the child up to the age of two — in addition to maternity leave . |
| 27 | But he admitted afterwards : ‘ I 'm pleased to win , but I 've got a lot of work to do in the gym still ’ |
| 28 | 210 In all cases between landlord and tenant , as often as it shall happen that one half year 's rent shall be in arrear , and the landlord or lessor , to whom the same is due , hath right by law to re-enter for the non-payment thereof , such landlord or lessor shall and may , without any formal demand or re-entry , serve a writ in ejectment for the recovery of the demised premises , which service shall stand in the place and stead of a demand and re-entry ; and in case of judgment against the defendant for non-appearance , if it shall be made appear to the court where the said action is depending , by affidavit , or be proved upon the trial in case the defendant appears , that half a year 's rent was due before the said writ was served , and that no sufficient distress was to be found on the demised premises , countervailing the arrears then due , and that the lessor had power to re-enter , then and in every such case the lessor shall recover judgment and execution , in the same manner as if the rent in arrear had been legally demanded , and a re-entry made ; and in case the lessee or his assignee , or other person claiming or deriving under the said lease , shall permit and suffer judgment to be had and recovered on such trial in ejectment , and execution to be executed thereon , without paying the rent and arrears , together with full costs , and without proceeding for relief in equity within six months after such execution executed , then and in such case the said lessee , his assignee , and all other persons claiming and deriving under the said lease , shall be barred and foreclosed from all relief or remedy in law or equity , other than by bringing error for reversal of such judgment , in case the same shall be erroneous , and the said landlord or lessor shall from thenceforth hold the said demised premises discharged from such lease ; provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to bar the right of any mortgagee of such lease , or any part thereof , who shall not be in possession , so as such mortgagee shall and do , within six months after such judgment obtained and execution executed pay all rent in arrear , and all costs and damages sustained by such lessor or person entitled to the remainder or reversion as aforesaid , and perform all the covenants and agreements which , on the part and behalf of the first lessee , are and ought to be performed . |
| 29 | Doctors faced with a refusal of consent have to give very careful and detailed consideration to the patient 's capacity to decide at the time when the decision was made . |
| 30 | Doctors faced with a refusal of consent have to give very careful and detailed consideration to what was the patient 's capacity to decide at the time when the decision was made . |