Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Office tells us that he arranged for his sister to meet him in a nearby wood and to bring with her two of her over-dresses , one white and one grey , and his father 's rainhood . |
| 2 | The unions are still engaged in a struggle to establish themselves in the available ‘ space ’ , a struggle that has very largely been resolved in the case of the BR unions where it was in any case mainly confined to representation of the footplate grades . |
| 3 | But because of its fierce realism and deep antipathy to authority ( whether it comes in the guise of nationalism or Catholicism , ) this culture is likely to resist any attempt to include it in the cosy consensus of Dublin as Europe 's cultural capital . |
| 4 | It should be noted this is a Post Graduate course , and it is not our intention to include it in the main embalming course . |
| 5 | When in the " sick Chicken " case of 1935 the Supreme Court ruled against the act , declaring Federal code-making an unconstitutional interference with the authority of the separate states , Roosevelt made no attempt to revive it in a new form . |
| 6 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 7 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 8 | But , while these points may be reasonable , and some of them may be true , this attempt to embed them in a general theory or schema seems unhelpful . |
| 9 | Side-reins should be of the same length and of a length which encourages the horse to hold himself in a balanced outline . |
| 10 | In 1318 , after an attempt to poison him in the previous year , John XXII thanked Margaret for sending him ‘ a certain knife-handle in serpentine form ’ which was reputed to detect poison . |
| 11 | The Buid resent the use of the term and the attempt to place them in the moral as well as material debt of the lowlanders . |
| 12 | Anger roared inside her and she opened her mouth to tell him in no uncertain terms where to go , only she did n't have a chance to utter even one heated word , as he bent and covered her parted lips with his , kissing her with a thoroughness that left her shaken . |
| 13 | A first attempt to introduce it in the 1850s failed . |
| 14 | The cockroach has a similarly high-speed existence and can react to any attempt to crush it in a fiftieth of a second , while our own reaction time is a tenth of a second . |
| 15 | IRELAND , bottom of the Five Nations ' Championship last season , may turn to a Welshman to lead them in the 1995 rugby union World Cup in South Africa . |
| 16 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
| 17 | It would be a disservice to Denis Law to mention him in the same breath as some of Scotland 's more notorious hell-raisers . |
| 18 | He says it means a lot to me , ity 's a great honour to have him in a little town like this . |
| 19 | If possible try to frame them in a dramatic way — because this is a further pointer for the children showing how you are going to work together . |
| 20 | But remember it was your decision to buy it in the first place , nobody else 's , and if it 's you that 's wrong , or you that does n't suit the item , then you probably do n't have any entitlement to an exchange or a refund . |
| 21 | Once the mystery has provided a sufficient reason for hero or heroine to find themselves in a good opening situation of suspense , the person or persons behind that mystery can be safety revealed . |
| 22 | Picasso 's dismissal of traditional perspective had been the result of his interest in investigating the nature of solid form and of a desire to express it in a new , more thorough and comprehensive , pictorial way . |
| 23 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 24 | And we should all be able to forgive other people because , while we have the right to react to their words or actions in the short-term , not being perfect ourselves , we have no right to judge them in the long-term . |
| 25 | Preference dividends can be accumulated if there are not sufficient distributable profits or cash to pay them in a particular financial year whereas , as noted above , loan stock obligations are a contractual commitment and must be paid whether the offeror makes profits or not . |
| 26 | The container , on the other hand , with his tendency to dissociate , ‘ has an especial need to unify himself in an undivided love ’ , but finds the simpler personality of his partner does not complement and satisfy the diverse facets of his own . |
| 27 | He refused an invitation from the EC 's energy authority to investigate the possibilities of translating electricity , generated within green plants , into a new source of fuel : he did not care for the clause giving the EC the right to suppress anything in the eventual reports . |
| 28 | But so much of her attention was now centred on her own immediate steps that she had no leisure to orientate herself in a wider field . |
| 29 | Over the ensuing months the Iranian government gained sufficient confidence to reassert itself in the disaffected province whereas the Soviets appeared to lose their nerve and sense of direction . |
| 30 | For when he seeks a particular type of person to assist him in a particular way , he can be assured that the recruitment professional will not waste his time or energy in introducing unsuitable candidates for consideration , but that he will be given details of only the right sort of person for the required position . |