Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took forty years for Dronfield to recover to its 1881 level . |
| 2 | But again Bramall Lane roared United back into the game , Cork running onto Paul Beesley 's pass down the left and turning the ball into the middle for Ward to hook in his second equaliser . |
| 3 | A NEW TV detective will use breaks between programmes to embark on his first case — to track down investors in the latest sale of BT shares to the public . |
| 4 | It took a particular mood for Ken to talk about his sexual problems . |
| 5 | We know that the best way to achieve our objective is for countries to work with their national traditions — not against them . |
| 6 | Erm in effect what you 're s what you 're asking for is the level of provision to return to something equivalent to what it is in the approved structure plan er and also would reflect fairly careful analysis of what you 've done as to what would be reasonable allocations . |
| 7 | Now you have a choice of combinations to use as your basic exposure . |
| 8 | Now you have a choice of combinations to use as your basic exposure . |
| 9 | The stickers and leaflets which are the main tools of this campaign ( to persuade managers of shops to care for their older and disabled customers by providing a chair ) are distributed from PR Promotions . |
| 10 | While you should continue to work steadfastly towards your goals , never allowing a sense of defeat to interfere with your long-term ambitions , you must anticipate some devious manoeuvres on the part of others and some strange developments — even a serious attempt to knock you off your perch . |
| 11 | Now that society is at last recognizing and developing the full range of women 's abilities and now that women are seen to have , with men , full ‘ human rights ’ , many people conclude that it is time for the Church of England to embody in its official ministry the biblical vision of equal partnership between women and men . |
| 12 | The official plan is for oil 's share of consumption to rise from its present 50% or so to 60% in 1990 , then to drop back to 40% by the year 2000 through increased use of natural gas both in the home and for electricity generation . |
| 13 | I think it would be better if we stop seeing each other , I find I have a lot of work to do with my Alternative Maths , |
| 14 | We were given a lot of work to prepare in our spare time and I remember trying to keep warm in the daytime in an overcoat and scarf while I wrote an essay or struggled with Latin composition . |
| 15 | Emphasis is placed on the responsibility of individuals to provide for their own welfare needs and those of their dependants . |
| 16 | We all have a great deal of business to do with our heavenly Father and it is in the security of God 's home that we can know that we belong and are special . |
| 17 | But that does n't deprive them of their fair share of malignant little blisters full of pop to inflict on their potential audience , who may soon be buying their T-shirts and phlegm samples by the lorry load . |
| 18 | Both Andrew and Judith arrived in Vancouver much in need of rest to recuperate from their hazardous and near-fatal experiences as passengers on the ill-fated liner ‘ Athenia ’ , which was torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi submarine off the Eire coast a few days after the outbreak of World War II . |
| 19 | They embraced the myth of revolution to compensate for their own inadequacy , as a substitute for love , friendship , human affection . |
| 20 | Luxury clothing retailer Burberrys has invited a number of agencies to pitch for its estimated £1.5m international business . |
| 21 | But Mr Szilagy and his staff are not expecting the citizens of Budapest to flock in their thousands to see the collection of ugly lifeless forms . |
| 22 | Could this be the secret passageway to the Litani , groined by the forces of Christendom to escape from their ancient predicament ? |
| 23 | Once your solicitor has helped you establish your business , you will be faced with a constant range of decisions to make about its day-to-day running . |
| 24 | But then Paul is not the sort of man to talk about his private life at work . |
| 25 | The idea of ‘ care in the community ’ has developed over the past 20 years to encourage the development of services to help older people in need of care to remain in their own homes for as long as they wish , and for as long as is practical . |
| 26 | ‘ Who is the King of glory ? ’ asks the Psalm , and one traditional answer is Christ , crucified but not yet ascended , come to the city of Hell to rescue from it those especially virtuous pre-Christians , Moses and Isaiah and the patriarchs and prophets . |
| 27 | Mankind ( me ) , he thought , mashing up the rest of the mattress because he was n't going to spend the night braced for a lot of bedsprings to bust in their own time , is idyllic in his intentions , tragic in his fate , and farcical in his functions . |
| 28 | For Germany now had the chance to bring her new strength of purpose to bear against her real enemy — at which point Nietzsche introduced a reinterpretation of politics in cultural and philosophical terms which was to become characteristic of his mature thinking : the " real enemy " was modern superficiality , and Germany 's chance was to destroy it by relearning " tragic cognition " from the Greeks . |
| 29 | John Blundell Maple , the furniture magnate , declared in 1891 , for instance : ‘ It must be infinitely more wholesome for the workers of London to reside in their own suburban homes than to be congregated together … |
| 30 | In 1910 Boccioni and his friends got to know Marinetti well , and were undoubtedly excited at the prospect of creating a new form of painting to correspond to his novel ideas . |