Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The occasion was the annual dinner of the Corporation of London 's planning and Communication Committee at the Mansion House , when Charles seized the opportunity to say a few words about the plans for the redevelopment of Paternoster Square . |
| 2 | This will give people the opportunity to see the same actors play three different parts , and it will give me that essential ingredient of a good farce : strong ensemble acting . ’ |
| 3 | I am glad of the opportunity to offer a few words of introduction to this , our latest prospectus . |
| 4 | Well , I can report on that front that we have been offered the opportunity to secure a few locomotives ( one has already been given to us ) , and a number of pieces of rolling stock . |
| 5 | I am grateful for the opportunity to make a few points about the environment . |
| 6 | Members of the senior management team who will be responsible for guiding and shaping the Board to meet the many challenges and opportunities of the future are … |
| 7 | Dustin , who had arrived with Anne , three-month-old Jennifer , and a nanny , played the piano or sang dirty songs to a guitar accompaniment in the hotel lounge in the evenings and , on one occasion , went into the kitchen to gather a few pots and pans to use as bongo drums in order to entertain his colleagues . |
| 8 | As we shall see , the attempt to employ the same concepts to describe quite different tasks was a common phenomenon among young nationalists . |
| 9 | The more times we successfully complete a manoeuvre , the more opportunity we are giving the mind to reproduce the same movements . |
| 10 | When Alison had pushed him he 'd started to gather the momentum to ask the same questions that were obsessing Forester — apparently not the reaction she 'd expected , judging from the way that she seemed to have slammed the lid back on the mixture before it could boil over . |
| 11 | Keep the rudder where it is and allow the speed to increase a few knots so that both you and the student can observe the exact position of the rudder pedals . |
| 12 | On a warm day , the instructions said , it would be sufficient for the horseman to place a few drops on his perspiring forehead to call his horses from a fair distance without saying a word , or making any sound . |
| 13 | Most impressive was a demonstration of real-time speech to text , where Digital Equipment Corp 's chief tempted fate by getting the machine to translate a few words . |
| 14 | Most impressive was a demonstration of real-time speech to text , where Digital Equipment Corp 's chief tempted fate by getting the machine to translate a few words . |
| 15 | For the museum to attract the same visitors more than once there must be some evidence of change . ’ |
| 16 | And then of course , when she came into the village to buy the few things they need — it is astonishing how modest Mr Swinton 's needs seem to be , she hardly buys any comforts at all but I gather his man is an excellent gardener and they keep a pig for bacon — ’ |
| 17 | Both are hoping to develop the reading habit , to encourage the child to explore the many pleasures of reading ( and of the growing number of items in audio-visual format ) , and to gain practice in this essential skill as well as in discrimination . |
| 18 | You might think that the doctor 's waiting room is just the place to crack a few gags . |
| 19 | Then there is the chance to repeat a few words : |
| 20 | Gives me the chance to get a few things done . ’ |
| 21 | Outside the Bank of England he put the bag on the ground to have a few moments rest . |
| 22 | But arguing that Albany should take over certain categories of spending is one thing ; expecting the state to pour the same sums into them is quite another . |
| 23 | These changes can be viewed as one aspect of a potentially liberating move towards an increased role for the market and in this sense the reform of local government may be understood as a part of a wider restructuring of the state to achieve the same ends . |
| 24 | JOHN WARD was appointed manager of York City on Guy Fawkes ' night last year with the brief to produce a few fireworks on the pitch at Bootham Crescent . |
| 25 | It 's nice in the studio to have a few things here and there , but live , that 's what it hangs on . ’ |
| 26 | It has become the fashion to make a few comments about the Sessional Orders , which is very useful . |
| 27 | He spotted her immediately and strolled across , stopping on the way to have a few words with the patron . |
| 28 | He stopped at the Palace to collect a few things . |
| 29 | A popular image of the social researcher is of a figure armed with a clipboard who approaches you in the street , and asks if you have the time to answer a few questions . |
| 30 | It may also have the effect of precluding those members who can not find the time to attend a few workshops and may therefore strengthen management committees and their bureaux in the long run . |