Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The client concerned undertook training with the British School of Motoring at a cost of £1,000 to qualify as an approved driving instructor immediately prior to commencing to trade as such . |
| 2 | A number of hypotheses to account for an excess mortality have been proposed , including an effect of socioeconomic statis . |
| 3 | But for months , Hay had been forcing Bryan to hand over hundreds of pounds to pay for an expensive lifestyle . |
| 4 | A climber jumps in his car , burns precious fossil fuels on a stretch of tarmac that has eaten acres of countryside to arrive at an undeveloped crag . |
| 5 | They can not hold up a stream of people to talk to an unfamiliar face . |
| 6 | If you are unsure of which style of lettering to choose for an initial design , look through some magazines or books for inspiration , or browse through a catalogue of dry transfer lettering until you had a typeface you like . |
| 7 | it is inconsequential , removing any sense of import to do with an imagined situation ; |
| 8 | The removal of exchange controls allowed diversification of portfolios to continue on an international scale , and it should be recognised that the increasing globalisation of markets through deregulation and liberalisation also contributed to the growth in holdings of overseas securities . |
| 9 | There continues to exist an element of uncertainty as all EC member countries are not at the same level of preparedness to proceed at an identical pace towards the final stage of European monetary unification . |
| 10 | Equally , you may have a right of redress if you are dismissed for failure to comply with an unjust order . |
| 11 | Between a third and a half of all short-term in-patient beds are occupied by people with nowhere suitable to go , and it is not uncommon for patients to stay in an acute hospital bed for one or two years when they should have been discharged for continued treatment in a more appropriate domestic environment within three months of their admission . |
| 12 | A curator bonis , an administrator appointed by a court in Scotland to act for an incapacitated person , may open a Tessa on behalf of an incapacitated person provided that person is aged 18 or over . |
| 13 | The first aim of the ESRC funded project is to complete the Gloucester database , to revise it as necessary in order to arrive at an optimum design for future use , and to publish the final version in the form of a book of statistical tables . |
| 14 | I have destroyed many pages and crossed out hundreds , no thousands , of words in order to arrive at an imaginative sympathy ( though not , of course , an explicit approval ) with Miller as he walks down this long , gently curving terrace of dilapidated Edwardian houses . |
| 15 | Thus up to the end of World War II ( when the public sector marriage bar was abolished and young women retained paid jobs on marriage ) , in order to qualify for an occupational pension in old age derived from her own earnings a woman usually had to remain unmarried . |
| 16 | In 1991 he had resigned as a member of the FLN 's central committee in order to stand as an independent candidate in the abortive general election of December 1991 . |
| 17 | It was in an educational context that I met Jo , inviting her to Scotland to contribute to an annual series of photography events and workshops for women . |
| 18 | ‘ As part of the college course we took a trip to Bristol to help with an evangelistic outreach . |
| 19 | Similarly , twentieth-century feminists used the importance attached to motherhood to argue for an economic and sexual independence antithetical to the patriarchal attitudes that lay behind theories of sexual difference and maternalism . |
| 20 | I commute from Dunfermline to Edinburgh to work for an enlightened firm of architects which designed into its office a shower facility , which allows me to cycle in all weathers . |
| 21 | It is possible within the law for ratepayers to call for an extraordinary audit . |
| 22 | A TERRIFIED pensioner had to wait an hour for police to arrive after an attempted burglary at her Teesside home . |
| 23 | The result , which we obtain there , is that in general it will be rational for agents to infer from an own price higher than initially expected that there have been both positive aggregate and positive relative demand shocks . |
| 24 | Go to any demonstration worthy of the name these days , and you are swamped by offers to buy from an intimidating array of news sheets , statements or appeals published by informal associations . |
| 25 | The referee allowed the free throw to be taken inside Woodmill 's half and Mutineers acted very quickly , taking the Woodmill defence by surprise to score into an empty net and earn their place in the final . |