Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With so many players forced to defend , Everton found few opportunities to attack in any strength . |
| 2 | Such an assumption is perhaps made most explicit in the Beckford Report when it comments on the apparent failure of the area officer in the case to recognize the apparently obvious indications that he was dealing with a ‘ high risk ’ child abuse case when chairing the initial case conference : Clearly it is of concern if health and welfare professionals are unfamiliar with the relevant research and it is one of the aims of this chapter to contribute to that understanding . |
| 3 | It is possible to some degree to distinguish between those implementation issues that arise essentially from the ‘ distance ’ between what we may describe as ‘ centre ’ and ‘ periphery ’ and those that are facets of other aspects of relationships within complex organizations . |
| 4 | If we assume that , in the transition region , the restrictions to motion still present in the sample , allow only a few segments to move in some time interval , say 10 s , then considerably fewer will have moved if the observation time is less than 10 s . |
| 5 | I urge the assembly to accept this amendment to depart from this statement , to commend to our churches the use of the apostle 's creed and to wait for a day of broad theological agreement which in the providence of God and by the work of the holy spirit will surely come and then agree upon a statement of faith which we shall all agree and be able to commend enthusiastically to the church but until then to depart from this one . |
| 6 | Yet if the density of her father 's silence spoke true , then Madcap Agnew had used this place to make of that mystery something vile indeed . |
| 7 | look , look , I , I , I 've got to go because I 've got another meeting to go to this evening , erm , what , what I , er what we need to do is to get this laid out clearly as to what our projections ar are |
| 8 | However , for the reasons that I have explained , there is no need for this court to come to any conclusion one way or the other on that matter . |
| 9 | It is apparent , therefore , that differentiation was made between male and female blood , and that circumcision , in its new casting , had some role to play in that context . |
| 10 | Waiting to earn some francs to pay for some soup and some bread . |
| 11 | It is not the intention of this book to discuss in any detail the shifting politics of the Catholic population . |
| 12 | And I hope that John Major and central office of the Conservative Party study it carefully since it is about party democracy and the Conservative party have a few lessons to learn in that direction . |
| 13 | He said from a place which was the castle 's chosen Subject , and had hinted , she thought , that there was another way to get to this place , but refused to be more specific . |
| 14 | Abdullah Bukhari , imam of the Jama mosque in New Delhi , threatened earlier this year to retaliate to any assault in Ayodhya by ordering Muslims ‘ to attack , to crown the downtrodden with victory ; to destroy the tyrant ’ . |
| 15 | Discourse , or text , deixis concerns the use of expressions within some utterance to refer to some portion of the discourse that contains that utterance ( including the utterance itself ) . |
| 16 | All the functions are fully explained in the manual and it is worth taking some time to experiment with each function so that you know which ones to use to obtain the best results . |
| 17 | This Agreement commences on [ ] and will continue for a fixed period of three years and thereafter will continue from year to year unless terminated by at least sixty days ' written notice by either party to the other , such notice to expire on any anniversary date of the commencement of this Agreement falling after the expiry of the fixed period aforesaid . |
| 18 | When individuals are mobile between local authorities , a local economy seeking to impose a higher tax on its upper-income residents would simply create an incentive for such residents to move to another locale . |
| 19 | According to these factors they decide just how much land to use for each crop and just how many sheep , beef cattle or dairy cows to keep . |
| 20 | Do you think students are given too much time to respond to each stimulus or not enough ? |
| 21 | If you do this exercise it will provide you with an idea of how much time to spend on each assignment . |
| 22 | This approach contrasts with s35 of the TDA 1968 which expressly provides that failure to comply with that Act does not render any contract void or unenforceable . |
| 23 | Well we do n't want no all we want is one so that at the end we want from each group to go to another group to be marked . |
| 24 | ‘ And what has either side to show for such carnage ? ’ |
| 25 | The fund will provide grants for up to a thousand pounds for these organisations to spend on such training . |
| 26 | There would be fewer people to cope with that way , and she was n't young any longer . |
| 27 | However , the courts may gradually have fewer and fewer decisions to make on this issue because the pendulum , swinging between control and decontrol since 1915 , has swung once again in favour of the landlord . |
| 28 | We might therefore expect these works to conform in some way to established taste , but it does not follow , as many of Wordsworth 's later disciples were prone to assume that anything in heroic couplets is necessarily bad ; in fact , many passages from these poems compare quite favourably with Wordsworth 's eighteenth-century predecessors . |
| 29 | Combat means to fight , and they help each other to fight against this illness , by talking and finding out more about it , and having parties , too . |
| 30 | Point ( 3 ) , on sampling , is a technical matter which is very difficult to explain properly and it might well be beyond the abilities of many housewives to understand without more explanation what random sampling means . |