Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The unitary , all embracing , concept of man which is postulated by such expressions as " Anthropology is the science of man " is really a by-product of the post-Cartesian attempt to objectify everything in the world , to view human relationships as commodities , to see everything as quantifiable and predictable and governed by simple laws of cause and effect . |
| 32 | He claimed too that the Reeve is presented as indicting the Miller for a judgement he does not make , i.e. that he had criticized the Reeve for being over-ready to see himself as a priest , the agent of God 's punishment , through John 's naive readiness to see himself as a second Noah . |
| 33 | Any attempt to evade it for the sake of the ‘ purity of the ‘ socialist ideal ’ ’ , 'he warned , would simply lead to a further expansion of the bureaucratic apparatus and to the dictatorship of the producer . |
| 34 | But when they reached the dock and were waiting for the boat to carry them to the camp , Seth snatched the van 's keys , nearly breaking two of Suzy 's fingers in the struggle . |
| 35 | Ymor 's ravens were notoriously loyal to their master , to the extent that Withel 's one attempt to promote himself to the rank of greatest thief in Ankh-Morpork had cost their master 's right hand man his left eye . |
| 36 | I was on my way to Glen Nevis with enough gear to see me through the night . |
| 37 | One leading UFF figure in the area last week referred to a gun attack on a house in Jamaica Street in the Ardoyne area on St. Patrick 's night and said it was the intention to kill anyone in the house . |
| 38 | For centuries therefore , statute has placed a limit on the time after which a claimant to an interest in land may bring an action to establish it in the face of the possession of another person holding under a later title … |
| 39 | It was a great pleasure to meet you at the Conference in Lisbon and to talk about your proposal for an introduction to CALL . |
| 40 | It is always a pleasure to meet you in the field and I appreciate your commitment to creating a better housing business and providing greater satisfaction for our customers . |
| 41 | The ancient Forest system was in fact cumbrous and inefficient : the attempt to revive it as an instrument of Crown policy was doomed to failure . |
| 42 | I 've sent Tuathal with a hundred horse to catch them in the ravine at Glen Farg . ’ |
| 43 | He Anglicized his name and a few years later he was being described as an accountant or merchant 's clerk ; a subsequent attempt to establish himself as a commission agent apparently failed . |
| 44 | Thus in the case referred to by Holt C.J. , in Philips v. Bury , Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 , the plaintiff sought an order directed to the master and fellows of a college to reinstate him as a fellow , the visitor having already adjudicated that he had been rightly removed . |
| 45 | The police were called to resolve the dispute , and although Mr Levy did not make a formal complaint he contacted Arsenal Football Club to inform them of the incident . |
| 46 | The place of violence in English labour history has been reconsidered since the earlier historians , notably the Webbs and Hammonds , followed a Fabian predisposition to exclude it from the mainstream of labour action . |
| 47 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 48 | He had been foiled in his first attempt to reach it by the arrival of Jos , and ever since it had been impossible to get away unnoticed . |
| 49 | It was an attempt to lead him to the realization that this was something that would n't work … |
| 50 | Perhaps disappointingly , after all this thought to protection from viruses , we have not been seriously attacked : the worst that happened was an attempt to lead us into an adventure game . |
| 51 | The League ruled that the striking off of Grima from the Widnes register and an attempt to replace him with the Tongan forward , Boblyn Tuavao , was ‘ unacceptable ’ . |
| 52 | [ William Golding , The Inheritors ] It requires careful attention to realize that here we are seeing , through the uncomprehending mind of Lok , a man 's attempt to shoot him with an arrow . |
| 53 | It was a real pleasure to win something for a change but unfortunately I do n't like knitting . |
| 54 | It had not been her intention to favour him with a compliment . |
| 55 | Delineating his theory of retreat into illness as a means of obtaining power , he wrote , ‘ Every neurosis must be understood as an attempt to free oneself from a feeling of inferiority in order to gain a feeling of superiority . ’ |
| 56 | It gives him great pleasure to incarnate himself in the shape of man as Christ himself did . |
| 57 | It 's a thought that crossed my mind to help you as a trainer . |
| 58 | A ceremony to swear him into the post was to have been held tomorrow . |
| 59 | Soon she took my visits for granted and I was given the spare key to let myself in the door . |
| 60 | Theories of normative income redistribution set a desirable standard or target , whereas the more positive theories are an attempt to predict something about the nature of redistribution in the empirical world which may or may not be consistent with one or more or any of the views of desirability . |