Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked him once whether his FI career had really mattered to him that much , he answered characteristically that of course it had , but that he enjoyed racing in any form , and of all the forms of racing he enjoyed winning best : ‘ I win more over here , ’ he said , adding with a characteristic grin , ‘ and it 's easier . ’ |
| 2 | with the acts of loving which grow |
| 3 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 4 | As results get worse , I still manage to bluff the board into believing I have a long-term strategy that will see us pulling away from the bottom within weeks . |
| 5 | Junior ministers have been inviting the sack by asking him to resign . |
| 6 | The technique of getting them to supply the missing dialogue after a silent viewing of a scene provides a good opportunity for you and them to find out what language they have at their command and how flexibly they can use it . |
| 7 | Bronze , an alloy of mainly copper and tin , could be polished until it looked almost like gold , and the technique of making it had been known in Britain for centuries . |
| 8 | Criticism and poetics both constrict the text by making it conform to a meaning or to a model . |
| 9 | This also has the advantage of allowing you to add material which you have remembered but have not written down . |
| 10 | These have the advantage of allowing you time to consider individual rugs , both in the shop and often on a trial basis in your home ; in addition , there is usually a wide and varied selection of rugs from which to choose . |
| 11 | On the whole , though , relatively short sentences offer the advantage of helping you to keep your writing clear and understandable . |
| 12 | Anyhow , we had open views over the Heath and Vale of Health and it made a lovely family home even if it was badly designed with a huge wasteful " well " in the middle of the house which had the advantage of enabling us to come downstairs in a series of flying leaps , holding on to tall mahogany pillars at the corners of the stairway . |
| 13 | And it has the advantage of enabling us to consider the two problems associated with terms and relations in a single context . |
| 14 | Even if BT gets over the hurdle of proving it does not need a licence , it will still face restrictions on the types of service it can offer . |
| 15 | When I think of the hours of weeding it saves , it appears nothing but beautiful to me . |
| 16 | ( Also , just because of the difficulty of proving who caused the damage , fire insurers generally find it easier to give the necessary consent to waiver of their subrogation rights , without which the arrangements could not work . ) |
| 17 | Marriages of persons over that age , but under 18 , are completely valid ; and the only check on such marriages without the consent of parents or guardians is the difficulty of getting them celebrated by the clergyman or proper officer without making a false declaration , which involves penal consequences . |
| 18 | But otherwise all the rules for writing it apply , in miniature . |
| 19 | Originally every distillery had it 's own tasting house where customers could sample the products before deciding which to buy . |
| 20 | The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure . |
| 21 | I was therefore prepared to take the responsibility of advising him to change his mind , and I was also prepared for him to tell his friends that I had done so . |
| 22 | He refused to take the responsibility of letting me go with only fifteen , and intended to recall his men . |
| 23 | Unemployed people are given training opportunities in the hope of helping them find work . |
| 24 | These types hang around the Great in the hope of getting them to pull a string . |
| 25 | How , then , can we go about defining our strategy in the hope of getting them to react in the right way — the way we want them to ? |
| 26 | The other sister , Mary , was four years younger than Eleanor , and Froissart tells the story that Thomas took responsibility for educating Mary in the hope of persuading her to go into a nunnery , so that he would receive the entire Bohun inheritance . |
| 27 | Müller had offered to help in the hope of persuading him to invest in something less fantastic . |
| 28 | When Monica Cooper , a retired Wirral midwife , heard that the show was to visit Queensferry she sent programme makers a photograph of an old chest in the hope of having it dated by experts . |
| 29 | It 's the kind of thinking you want to completely dominate your activities when you 're writing exam answers , okay ? |
| 30 | When an organisation decides the kind of training it needs , CEPALC tutors work alongside trainees at their workplace or location of their choice . |