Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no rule of the charity that the accused had to hand over the notes and coins received or to maintain a separate fund . |
| 2 | Then , while he was in an uncertain mood about the idea of leaving the warren , Captain Holly had appeared in capital time to be attacked and to provide a perfect reason for their departure . |
| 3 | First , it might be argued that to adopt a rational basis/rightness approach would create more uncertainty than if we proceeded on the hypothesis that all errors of law are jurisdictional . |
| 4 | He maintains he 's doing ‘ a lot less blood and guts ’ although that 's difficult to believe as he chats of chopping off an arm of a ‘ volunteer ’ from the audience , although theatregoers may escape being sawn in half : ‘ I am not decided whether to saw a young lady from the audience or myself . |
| 5 | Describing the new music as ‘ a communicable disease ’ and ‘ the music of delinquents ’ , The Daily Mail was so moved as to run a front-page editorial , ‘ Rock'n Roll Babies ’ , which apart from issuing a hollow , reassuring prophecy — ‘ It will pass ’ — stoked up the fires of respectable discontent against ‘ this sudden ‘ musical ’ ’ phenomenon which has led to outbreaks of rowdyism' . |
| 6 | Their advice is that it would be wise to wait until all the rules are formalised and to secure a rock-solid conveyance . |
| 7 | As the TGAT Report said : ‘ it should be recognised that to record a low level of performance for this reason [ English as a second language ( E2L ) ] would be no reflection on a pupil 's general ability but merely an indication that the pupil needed special help in English language skills . ’ |
| 8 | It is now believed that to get a true account of unemployment the current official figures should be multiplied by 1.5 . |
| 9 | The project therefore attempts to devise a more general descriptive framework for the intonation of the languages investigated and to establish a general theory of intonation structure which takes account of the different role of intonation in languages of different types . |
| 10 | They subsequently won the right to start moves to have the inquest verdict quashed and to have a judicial review . |
| 11 | They took their seats on canvas chairs which were placed side by side on the strip of red tiling , as if they were about to be photographed or to review a marching column . |
| 12 | According to Dirk Bauer , Chairman of the new co-operative , ‘ British Organic Milk Producers has been formed to keep organic dairy farmers informed and to form a stronger hand to open new , or widen existing markets ’ . |
| 13 | While he did not dispute that in many cases money had been levied that was twice what was necessary for satisfactory repair , and even then that the work carried out had been slovenly or even not done at all , the great laissez-faire economist had been convinced by the turnpikes that so far as public works " for facilitating commerce in general " were concerned , " the greater part may easily be so managed as to afford a particular revenue sufficient for defraying their own expense , without bringing any burden upon the general revenue of society " . |