Example sentences of "[det] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humpage had been chosen as wicketkeeper and started the game behind the stumps , but with Gloucestershire finding little to worry them in the efforts of Warwickshire 's regular bowlers , Humpage removed his pads and gloves , with Chris Maynard , playing as a batsman , taking over as wicketkeeper . |
| 2 | Fortunately for the young refugees , there was much to divert them from the risk they were taking . |
| 3 | Maria Edgeworth [ q.v. ] mentions , in 1802 , that Watts had sold a four-volume novel ( untraced ) to William Lane [ q.v. ] for ten guineas and that Richard Lovell Edgeworth [ q.v. ] doubted her talent too much to recommend her to the publisher Joseph Johnson [ q.v . ] ; |
| 4 | It is because these qualities are so abundantly visible in photography today that the medium has some claim on our attention : photography still has much to tell us about the way the world looks and the experience of living in it . |
| 5 | The shroud thrown over the subordination of women in the mining communities has much to tell us about the myth of the " archetypical proletarians ' . |
| 6 | He who valued life so much to enter it in the form of a human person must be committed to its survival . |
| 7 | is that that the consultation is a problem the legislation which takes away the requirement for several developments to promote valuable time and be advertised prior to the application so the first most people knew about this application was after this this opportunity prior to that to discuss it with the development before it was submitted . |
| 8 | For there was little to differentiate them in the policies which they espoused during the campaign . |
| 9 | But most one-roomed flats or studio apartments are box-like spaces with little to commend them in the way of interesting detail or character . |
| 10 | However , in contradistinction to mortality summaries , period tables have less to commend them in the case of marriage where year-to-year variations may be considerable and past history affects cohorts differentially . |
| 11 | Erm so we ou and carrier bags , we may have enough to carry us through the show , I do n't know . |
| 12 | Consideration of these facts should be enough to alert us to the possibility that the totality of our being may be much more than just the physical body , and that we may not be in any sense only machines . |
| 13 | Then Brandt went into a tea shop , in spite of feeling that his new landlady 's fried bread for breakfast was going to be more than enough to see him through the day . |
| 14 | That set of responses is enough to guide them to the female . |
| 15 | One hour alone with Kathy was enough to send her up the wall . |
| 16 | The imposition of this ‘ necessity constraint ’ on holist explanation is enough to separate it from the individualist view that to describe the individual traits which caused a social phenomenon is to explain it . |
| 17 | My view was that it was enough to clear it with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and that she had a war to fight . |
| 18 | The energy transferred from the photon to the electron is more than enough to remove it from the atom . |
| 19 | Girardelli 's 60 points for third was enough to move him beyond the reach of Aamodt , no matter what happens in Sunday 's season-ending slalom . |
| 20 | He flinches for only half a second , but it 's enough to take me inside the hall . |
| 21 | Just seeing an advertisement for cake or chocolates in a magazine or on television will be enough to push you into the kitchen and straight into the biscuit tin . |
| 22 | The sound of merriment emanating from the hall jangled her nerves , the sight of the courting couples pressed against the wall was enough to bring her to the edge of tears again . |
| 23 | They says the doctor 's given you that to take you off the alcohol . |
| 24 | sets us at a painterly remove from decorously observed suffering and does little to prepare us for the replacement of the distant tangled hair of Ariadne by immediate presence of the directly primitive |