Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Gran told her that mum had to go into hospital because she was hysterical ! !
2 For courses which are not listed in ( a ) as national developments but where the group of centres offering that course decides to engage in consortium development of the new unit specifications , SCOTVEC will support such consortium development , subject to the availability of resources , by :
3 But if that is our conclusion , then we miss perhaps the most profound contribution this story has to make to theology and to faith .
4 The politically active were divided among themselves — most lesbians were then working in women-only organizations : some groups continued to campaign for law reforms ; some groups sought alliances as part of the process of bringing about revolutionary change .
5 This study aimed to analyse in detail the serum lipid concentrations in patients with primary colorectal carcinoma drawn from such a population , with an evaluation of the influence of tumour activity on altered serum lipid values .
6 A number of agencies , including Government , are taking action to stimulate high quality design by British manufacturers , and this research aims to contribute to knowledge about how high quality design is achieved .
7 Believe me this law seems to come into operation unfailingly at about 3.20pm every day !
8 In December of the previous year the Leaders had paid an equally affectionate and touching tribute to a neighbour of Mr Ramsey 's , Mr James Lyske : ‘ This meeting desires to put on record their deep sense of a loss upon the death of Mr James Lyske , a Class Leader for many years , a life-long member of the Memorial Church and an official of the CE Society .
9 Do nuances within this relationship continue to reverberate throughout life ?
10 We picked £200 as a price that could be regarded as low ; it 's hardly our fault that some vendors chose to compete with PagePlus on factors others than price .
11 Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down .
12 However , as MacPherson and others have pointed out , such a formulation fails to come to terms with the central dilemma confronting liberalism , which is that in an unequal society , where some people come to depend on provision made by others in order to pursue their livelihood , all are not equally able to lead a fully human existence .
13 Although Hampshire Bus 's successor , Stagecoach , in what we were told was splendid entrepreneurial fashion doubled its money in a fortnight by selling the coach station , it still left the problem that some people wanted to travel by coach .
14 And yet , of course , that derogatory , throw-away term of abuse does sum up a position that some people choose to adopt in defence of the natural world and its species .
15 IT IS a sad fact that some people seem to change in personality immediately they get behind the wheel of a car adopting an aggressive and impatient approach where every second seems to count .
16 However , this £200 had to take into account the expense of all the other public revenue services received by the client : the costs of the other services were deducted from the notional £200 and the residue could be used to buy in extra home support . ’
17 * Dulles said the thought the Shahs behaviour " in some instances seems to border on blackmail tactics " .
18 This love seems to vary in intensity from near non-existence in some creatures , turtles for example , to the intense feeling which can reach its highest value in the love of the human parent for a child .
19 Some species manage to live on land in humid tropical forests , undulating on mucus that they secrete from their undersides .
20 None of them seemed to include the tube in their itineraries , but there was some useful advice on how to secure the best berths on a Nile river cruiser and an interesting complaint about the lack of leg room on Concorde which assured him that the R and the F of this world had to contend with life 's little niggles just like everybody else .
21 Although this project failed to come to fruition even with Apple behind it — it was to lead us indirectly into more than a decade of adventuring in some of the most remote regions of Indonesia .
22 This project aims to draw on court roll evidence to answer similar questions in Wales .
23 This project aims to produce for publication by the University Library the text of a revised and enlarged ‘ Sources Booklet ’ on this theme , through research in the Centre 's lists and indexes , examination of its holdings , especially uncatalogued accessions , and with the benefit of the knowledge of its holdings possessed by existing staff .
24 Teachers of this persuasion wished to accept for admission to higher education , and to English studies , only those students possessing a sufficiently high level of " qualitative literacy " and sufficiently hard-working and disciplined as well as competitively motivated to " benefit " from university education .
25 Much thought is required to smooth the path if this scheme hopes to meet with success .
26 One week later another such envelope popped mysteriously through the letter box , this time addressed to STAR OF STAGE , SCREEN AND TRAMPOLINE .
27 The prose in this section starts to function like poetry , ordering images and rhythmical cadences to convey an intimation of the way that Rolle believed that things are .
28 If a similar statement of support for the Government 's deregulation of the private sector had been made in 1979 , there would have been no decline — but there was , because that sector continued to feel under threat from the Opposition .
29 Such recordings aimed to differentiate between epilepsy and a primary respiratory mechanism .
30 Such arbitrage fails to set in motion the competitive forces that normally close such openings in a market economy .
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