Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 7 It 's terrific to see her without the bars between us. 8 She sits eating the treat food at the opening to the door and looking at me. 9 How does she know to look into my eyes and not at the huge finger next to her . |
| 2 | Solly was prepared to try it in the days when Napes Needles was still ‘ a rattling good ‘ un ’ and you took photos of your mates with plates in a Thornton-Pickard Folding ruby camera . |
| 3 | Patients who have had previous experience of hypnotherapy ( even if no regression was involved ) are more likely to have confidence in the technique and in its safety , and therefore are often more willing to put themselves in the hands of the therapist and trust their own subconscious . |
| 4 | The crisis revealed , however , that the king 's war no longer had the wholehearted support of the community , and more ominously , that some members of the nobility were prepared to associate themselves with the commons ' demands for concessions and reforms . |
| 5 | If he put up a scheme , you would be willing to follow him to the ends of the earth to ensure its fulfilment . |
| 6 | For example in one school we asked the head of French to show us on the shelves the books she had ordered under the project . |
| 7 | I feel it is appropriate to provide you with the details of our costs to date and to give an indication of the likely costs to the conclusion of the heads of agreement . |
| 8 | As Giles Worsley explains in Architectural Drawings of the Regency Period , the term ‘ Regency ’ is technically understood to cover the period from 1811 to George III 's death in 1820 , but in matters concerning architecture , decoration and furniture , it is more appropriate to apply it to the years from 1790 to 1837 with the accession of Queen Victoria . |
| 9 | Some fabric wall coverings — ranging from hessians or burlaps , felts and flannels to suedes , wool , silk and moiré — come with a paper backing which makes it easy to stick them to the walls . |
| 10 | What Aristotle had seen as the vice of the pharaohs , Cardinal Richelieu raised to a maxim of policy for Louis XIII , whom he advised ‘ all politicians agree that when the people are too comfortable , it is impossible to keep them within the bounds of their duty … |
| 11 | But it 's not always easy to tell which of the parties is ahead . |
| 12 | ‘ I was glad to see her at the pictures with you , ’ Anne said . |
| 13 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 14 | Would n't be very hard to find them on the streets would it ? |
| 15 | While the underclass is composed of both black and white workers , black workers , in Elizabeth Burney 's phrase , act as a barium meal in an X-ray — highlighting the weak points — or , for our purposes , the fate of the most disadvantaged , those most likely to find themselves in the ranks of the underclass . |
| 16 | Norris may well be right that Derrida deserves such attention , but he is not often likely to receive it in the conditions of actual pedagogy , or in the random public exchanges of higher cultural life , which put a premium on the simplifying and the reductive . |
| 17 | You were n't supposed to stick anything on the walls , but Jamila had pinned up poems by Christina Rossetti , Plath , Shelley and other vegetarians , which she copied out of library books and read when she stretched her legs by taking a few steps around the tiny room . |
| 18 | And they 're glad to share it with the visitors : |
| 19 | Plumbers refer to these as ‘ fifteen mil ’ , ‘ twenty-two mil ’ and ‘ twenty-eight mil ’ , but are equally likely to call them by the names of the premetrication pipes they replaced : ½in , ¾in and lin . |
| 20 | He did not enumerate them , but it is not hard to reconstruct them from the records of over half a century of Masai administration . |
| 21 | We 've got certain rules that say all children must sit certain exams at certain times , it has n't been possible to do it in the labs |
| 22 | It would have been quite possible to put something into the pockets of my dressing gown and then put it back into my clothes when I took the dressing gown off . |
| 23 | The Home Secretary had previously informed the Cabinet that he would have included a provision to this effect in the Bill if he had not thought it preferable to leave it to the Lords to take the initiative . |
| 24 | In this issue it was great to see you on the streets , showing people united in the fight against growing racism . |
| 25 | The King was much intrigued to see them in the Dolls ' House and enquired who gave her permission . |
| 26 | In these concrete examples , here at last was literacy that enabled the poor to see themselves as the makers of their own history , with the power to change their world . |
| 27 | However , it was always possible for the rich and the powerful to isolate themselves from the consequences of industrial growth by moving away from the factory areas to the more tranquil and less squalid atmosphere of the countryside . |
| 28 | To understand Theory Z , it will be helpful to know something about the characteristics of large Japanese firms . |
| 29 | Also , keeping band accounts is useful to familiarize you with the practicalities of money coming in and going out . |
| 30 | It is sometimes useful to put oneself in the shoes of another person . |