Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents may need to sit with their children during this learning phase to encourage them to stay seated and to talk to them and distract them with stories and play . |
| 2 | If you are returning to work after child or relative care , try to ensure that you can earn enough in the remainder of that tax year to take you above the lower earnings limit . |
| 3 | Vocals went straight down with only the minimum of top end EQ to keep them sharp , and when I went for the final mixdown I have to say I was amazed at how big a sound was coming back from the monitors . |
| 4 | DataEase comes in three versions — all of which are supplied on the disks — and you 'll need less than 4Mb of hard disk space to run it . |
| 5 | But there was nothing in the shifting canyons of frozen carbon dioxide to tell her . |
| 6 | They , they brought a fielder from the offside to sort of short square leg to stop him I suppose sweeping and that 's why he , he played that ugly padding shot there . |
| 7 | THE family of little Sam Hayton are racing against time to raise the cash required for pioneering eye surgery to enable him to see . |
| 8 | The Chemics have refused Hornets permission to play McKenzie in their Regal tie against French side Catalan to prevent him from being cup-tied . |
| 9 | He added that , also contrary to the report , the Barkers Centre — which houses one of the group 's stores and a number of other shops and offices in London 's Kensington — ‘ has not been placed with any estate agent to sell it . ’ |
| 10 | They 'd fed him and had the decency to give him fresh clothes , the shirt , blue jeans and a broad leather belt with embossed brass buckle to hold them up — camping-shop gear but adequate against the chill of November . |
| 11 | Although the party had secured only 8,360,000 votes compared with the 8,664,000 who voted Conservative , it had won most seats in parliament and it became inevitable that it should form a second minority government , once again relying upon Liberal Party support to keep it in office . |
| 12 | Brother Basil is a natural cheese prepared to a traditional recipe , then smoked in real wood smoke to give it a distinctive flavour . |
| 13 | She agreed to avoid alcohol , and because the next session was not for a week , to telephone the therapist in 3 days time to inform him of her progress . |
| 14 | Business impact upon policy formation and implementation extends beyond this veto power to give it active control of all policy-making relevant to capitalist interests — as the detailed sequence and pattern of extensions to state intervention in the modern period makes clear . |
| 15 | I did n't do a lot of walkin' , except round the shops , and I treated meself to another 'ansom cab to bring me back . |
| 16 | By now the time had come for me to hand back to these women responsibility to go it alone . |
| 17 | Forty male Wistar rats , caged in groups of five , were maintained on the test diets for 18 months and were housed on refined cat litter to prevent them eating the bedding . |
| 18 | The civil service , the House of Lords , the Monarch , the judges , the police , the military , the security services , the Bank of England , a host of Quangos , and even the cabinet and the absolute premiership , are all seen as enjoying varying degrees of political power without any balancing responsibility to hold them in check — as we ourselves will suggest in Chapter 5 . |
| 19 | This is a collection of holiday ideas which can be added to any Amsterdam Holiday to introduce you to the real Amsterdam . |
| 20 | Too much nitrogen encourages an abundance of leaf tissue that is not balanced by enhanced root activity to support it , or enough potash to keep the plant structure hard . |