Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Xtradrive requires a device driver , which means that it is a system level device , bypassing DOS and the BIOS to go straight to the hard disk would result in the swap file not benefiting from compression . |
| 2 | She also asked Pamela to try again during the next week to draw up a list of ways she would like her parents to change . |
| 3 | we have persuaded the international paper-making giant Scott to pull out of a forest-destroying project in Indonesia ; |
| 4 | A group of four parties — the People 's Party , the Socialist Party , Social Democracy and the Democratic Party of Slovakia — issued a statement on May 18 calling on the CPCz to withdraw voluntarily from the general election in June as an admission of the party 's responsibility for the country 's condition after 41 years of communist rule and of the party 's continued totalitarian tendencies . |
| 5 | I am well aware of the anxiety of people in Plymouth to get on with the whole business of the release and development of Ministry of Defence land . |
| 6 | An unpredictable , nuclear-armed North Korea would be a threat to the whole region , including China , since it could provoke South Korea , Japan and Taiwan to go nuclear — and prod India and Pakistan to step publicly across the nuclear threshold . |
| 7 | Sarah Bamfield seized on a loose ball and swung the ball across the D for Lucy Youngs to poke home at the far post . |
| 8 | Whatever the reason , for Scotland to swing even in a small way from Labour to Conservative is remarkable ; and there can be no doubt that the brave decision to put the Unionist case at the centre of the argument has been justified . |
| 9 | Those who have worked with him during the time that he has been in his present post have come to admire the hard work , courage and assiduity with which he has pursued the object of bringing the parties within the island of Ireland to sit down with the British Government and resolve their differences . |
| 10 | Opposition to the ban has forced Governor Wiyogo to apologize publicly for the heavy-handed tactics of the authorities . |
| 11 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 12 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 13 | Ed Morrison allowed John Jeffrey to come in from an offside position and ‘ collect ’ a passing movement between two Japanese players while Hayashi was tackled without the ball when a try seemed certain for Japan . |
| 14 | Then they went into the lead , only for Peterborough to come back with a late equaliser . |
| 15 | Then he turned and went out , leaving Ellie to stare speechlessly at the most money she had ever seen in her life . |
| 16 | Over that time , close links have been made with the HMIP , HSE , MAFF and NII which enable AEA to operate effectively within the relevant regulatory framework . |
| 17 | Let's go back and tell Faye to go back to the nursing agency with a more open mind . ’ |
| 18 | To the Edinburgh , at least the Scotland passengers , to Carstairs to connect up to the main Glasgow Central to Liverpool , Birmingham and there were all these places . |
| 19 | This precise dilemma led Shaun Mason from Doncaster , South Yorkshire to come up with a tremendous brain-wave . |
| 20 | Stung , the League said yesterday that they expect ITV to come up with a new date within the next fortnight and they will not tolerate one beyond the scheduled season 's end of May 5 . |
| 21 | WACC will respond positively to the invitation of Dean Zassoursky to cooperate closely with the new Department of Religious Communication and the Faculty of Journalism in general . |
| 22 | This piece of information caused Makins to slow down for the first time and look at me more carefully . |
| 23 | English painters never did the same , clustering at Hastings or Margate or Eastbourne to gaze out at a grumpy , monotonous Channel . |
| 24 | Pete Waterman is making animated conversation at the bar After trying unsuccessfully to blackmail him with photographs of his dancing , we part company , wondering aloud if he would tart the programme up were Granada to come up with the big bucks . |
| 25 | As was usually the way when the magnificent horses were offered for sale , they sold within the hour , leaving Seb to look around at the other animals and sample the pleasures offered to the fair-goers . |
| 26 | It worked until the 64th minute , when Saunders at last found some space to cross for Atkinson to head home at the far post . |
| 27 | car conked out so Vicki stayed with the car and her who we were going to take a walk in Ruddington , and I walked home with her to get Malcolm to go over with the other car . |
| 28 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 29 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 30 | Before returning to England he was asked to persuade Gladstone to come over for the 1878 Yale ‘ commencement ’ but he would plead in vain . |