Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | pressure of work on credit advises can tempt them to see this as a way of reducing the workload |
| 2 | One obvious alternative to the hamburger is a sandwich — try chopped chicken or tuna on wholewheat ; ask them to go easy on the mayo . |
| 3 | It was very hot that year and he liked me to sit naked on a chair in the courtyard garden while I read to him . ’ |
| 4 | Traditional agency theory then suggests that the more risk-averse be given contracts which force them to bear less of the risk involved in the venture . |
| 5 | Anne and Sarah tried to keep the peace but Miss Meers was a slave driver , and would never allow them to stand still for a moment . |
| 6 | ‘ Am I to take that as a sign of your confidence ? ’ |
| 7 | The tolerance of adults is important only in so far as it allows them to feed high on the shore , exposed to rain . |
| 8 | When they applied for help with arrears , " The DHSS told me to sell some of the furniture or the telly . |
| 9 | ‘ Was n't that a good day , ’ Finch said , closing his eyes in commemoration and then opening them to look fierce at the effrontery of somebody 's making up his dream . |
| 10 | Do you want me to play this to the lot on the way to Bournemouth next week ? |
| 11 | There 's my authority for you to do that inside the envelope . |
| 12 | If you have a sound card , better quality sound output is available by using the perform function which also acts as a mini-recording studio , allowing you to record direct from the computer keyboard . |
| 13 | That 's why I want you to lie low for a couple of days , while I look into it . ’ |
| 14 | Like , for instance , can they bargain with you to alter any of the exclusion clauses , or do they have to take it as it is and that 's that ? |
| 15 | A curved arrow tells you to knit first to the left to place a loop in the empty needles and then to the right to knit all the stitches . |
| 16 | The keyboard is fine to use and allows you to change many of the machine 's settings on the fly — processor clock speed , LCD backlight , switching to an external display , the greyscale colour mapping , and so on . |
| 17 | ‘ This is a ridiculous time for you to become involved with a woman , darling . |
| 18 | Our scheme aims to promote your strengths and help you to become confident in the use of Mathematics in everyday life . |
| 19 | I did not wish you to feel embarrassed by the speed at which things happened last night … ’ |
| 20 | Do you want me to put this in the bin mum or do you want it ? |
| 21 | If the obvious person to handle the case is busy will it be possible for them to delegate enough of the work for them to take it ? |
| 22 | But the Mason would not trust them to keep silent about the Miracle Pageant . |
| 23 | It is necessary I had come to that view for me , at that time it was necessary for me to contact one of the duty Chief Officers and on this occasion it was the Assistant Chief Constable Mr , so I made contact with him . |
| 24 | If anyone believes for a moment that we should forget about the cause of asylum seekers , I ask them to read some of the evidence of people who fled from Chile , El Salvador , Burma and so many other places where they could not cope with the oppression against them . |
| 25 | Conditions late in Æthelred 's reign could well have resulted in such a movement , for apart from the effects of famine and enemy harrying , those landowners with dependent peasantry may often have expected them to shoulder much of the tax burden , and that burden had been particularly heavy between 1011 and 1014 . |
| 26 | The USSR has both resources and problems in developing them to dwarf those of the rest of the world . |
| 27 | I persuaded her to remain silent for the time being , I think , by promising to find out everything I could . |
| 28 | All they wanted was for him to sit still as a stone — to be a piece of scenery , a decoration like one of the stone angels he had watched the Mason carve , up in the roofs of churches . |
| 29 | my Lord , this is a problem which erm your Lordship 's had submissions from both parties and of course it goes to specialist separates , first of all one identifies , one takes one and strikes out the defending clauses within the agreements that infringe article eighty five on then applies the , the test of severance to see whether the residual agreements remain or stand , but we certainly have not depleted that the entire arrangement avoid but we pleaded the restrictions are avoid , my Lord er and that 's important because it could lead to consequence and we 're pleading it that and if for example er power in the erm standard form agency agreement was rendered void because it was an unlawful restriction , it does n't mean to say that erm an agent er a name might not of instructed an agent to write business , what we 're saying is they may not have instructed him to write all of the business that he did in fact did er write for example L M X spiral and , now if , if a particular defendant can say well have I been well you know proper position that I would of been and the restrictions not been in place I would of instructed the agent to do precisely what he did , then of course he has no defence , that 's a que that 's a point , if he says well erm I , the facts suggest and established that I would never , ever have allowed the agents to underwr to write L M X spiral business and , and the only reason he was able to do that was because of the restrictions then he can escape liability for that part of the business underwritten |
| 30 | The Council commended the existing structure to the Secretary of State and asked him to re-consider this as an option for Lothian . |