Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To me , they are highly underrated — they are a band who write tuneful songs and have a very good line-up , despite what Ian Cheek thinks of ‘ Scott Reynolds ' hapless inability to sing in anything other than a monotone shout ’ . |
| 2 | To me , they are highly underrated — they are a band who write tuneful songs and have a very good line-up , despite what Ian Cheek thinks of ‘ Scott Reynolds ' hapless inability to sing in anything other than a monotone shout ’ . |
| 3 | There were also rapid developments in military techniques , which Barbaross had ample opportunity to employ during his many campaigns . |
| 4 | And that 's truer than ever today , when even an ordinary family saloon is powered by a highly sophisticated engine that depends on the right lubrication to perform at its best . |
| 5 | How about the BMA really setting the government an example by ( a ) encouraging all its disabled staff to register as disabled with guarantees of no discrimination , and ( b ) taking prompt action to move from its current level of 1.5% of workforce disabled , towards the 3% target as laid out in the 1944 Disabled Persons Employment Act ? |
| 6 | The government of President Luis Alberto Lacalle claimed a clear mandate to proceed with its controversial programme to sell off state assets [ see pp. 38286 ; 38528 ] , when a special poll on July 5 failed to raise sufficient public support for a referendum . |
| 7 | Others who have done so have argued that elderly people are often faced with a choice between an unpleasant battle to survive in their own homes and an equally unpleasant enforced dependence in the institution ( Wilkin and Hughes , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | Native peoples from the US state of Alaska have formed a coalition aimed at persuading the scientific establishment to draw on their traditional methods of observing and understanding nature . |
| 9 | He wanted a noisy , breezy curate to get at his rough teenagers . |
| 10 | By contrast , English anxiety to forget about Scotland — and to persuade their Scottish king to forget about his northern kingdom — produced a much less ambivalent reaction . |
| 11 | For some liberal historians , it is the idealism of the young rebels , their commitment to liberty or even an altruistic wish to atone for their own privileges by improving the lot of the wretched peasants and workers , which lies at the heart of the matter . |
| 12 | He decided he would make this into an interesting tale to tell amongst his fellow drunks . |
| 13 | Which is quite an interesting comparison to make with our own out migration figures . |
| 14 | The church leaders ' letters aim to encourage the British Government to return to its former policy of supporting the nuclear non-proliferation treaty by calling a moratorium on weapons testing , as the French , US and Russian governments have done . |
| 15 | The church leaders ' letters aim to encourage the British government to return to its former policy of supporting the nuclear non-proliferation treaty , as the French , US and Russian governments have done . |
| 16 | d ) Culture : mothers are under massive social and cultural pressure to succeed in their maternal role . |
| 17 | " We recognised the importance of bringing the wages of foreign seamen on an equality with our own , as that would be a direct encouragement for the foreign sailor to remain on his own country 's ships . |
| 18 | The organisation invited Iceland 's Foreign Minister to speak at its fourth annual conference , held in Colorado . |
| 19 | She tells me that her son has been influenced by some flighty little English madam to renege on his own responsibilities in order to give her a conducted tour of Copenhagen . ’ |
| 20 | If the wrong circumstances arose , it was physically possible for the old wire to return to its old position . |
| 21 | Jolen bleaches dark hair to blend with your own skin tones . |
| 22 | But he always wanted to be the one in control , the top dog , to be the one who could take off on a whim and relate his volatility to democratic individual freedom to do as one pleased — a special privilege to which only Americans were supposed to be entitled . |
| 23 | Batty a 2.75M signing , has also flourished since his move , showing a skilful side to go with his tigerish tackling . |
| 24 | We feel that this may be helpful to Principals in deciding the appropriate action to take within their own colleges . |
| 25 | I forbade the entire delegation to travel in his rickety contraption , because if something happened and we all disappeared , our negotiations would have been wasted . |
| 26 | The mentally handicapped spastic will require all the additional educational efforts needed for more able-bodied mentally handicapped people , plus additional help to cope with their physical handicap . |
| 27 | Bernard is fond of punning as well , but whereas Julia uses her verbal skill to compensate for her discursive incompetence in philology , Bernard uses his in order to evade emotional seriousness . |
| 28 | He was having an increasingly similar role to play in his other work , even though in the ‘ Carry On ’ pictures he was just one of a team and in Beyond Our Ken was playing second fiddle to the other Kenneth . |
| 29 | His sister Katya and his mother Lydia were both slender , green-eyed brunettes , and his father , a silver-haired man with icy blue eyes , barely had a civil word to say to his successful son . |
| 30 | What a sad thing to happen to you all . ’ |