Example sentences of "with an [noun] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , in 1798 , he re-visited Buttermere and met Sally with an intent to destroy the false consequence , which , in the breast of Sally , might have been sown by himself and germinated by others . |
| 2 | The courses are designed to provide the student with spoken and written fluency in the principal language together with an ability to understand the written and spoken forms of the other two Scandinavian languages . |
| 3 | Sally Gunnell will also go to Crystal Palace with an opportunity to earn the equivalent women 's title and same bumper pay-day but her chances look more bleak after she was beaten in the one-lap hurdles for the first time in a year by her US rival Sandra Farmer-Patrick . |
| 4 | The Asians will not want to lose ground in the mixed doubles in the build-up to Atlanta and the Belfast match will provide them with an opportunity to test the best in Europe . |
| 5 | At best it would provide him with the opportunity to strike elsewhere while my back was turned , and at worst — and he 'd see it plain enough — with an excuse to raise the whole royal power against me . |
| 6 | A meeting of officials from the conflicting sides , convened in Geneva by the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) , which had appealed to them to " observe the elementary principles of humanity " , ended on Nov. 27 with an agreement to implement the 1949 Geneva Convention . |
| 7 | We would couple this with an investigation to discover the real cause or causes of the high labour turnover ( which may turn out to have nothing to do with the immediate problem ) . |
| 8 | After the collapse of a section of the sixteenth-century city walls , weakened by water infiltration ( see The Art Newspaper No. 20 , July-September 1992 , p.1 ) , a Japanese consortium have come forward with an offer to supply the large sum needed for repairs . |
| 9 | Baudrillard began his studies in the earlier tradition of symbolic analysis , with an attempt to examine the significatory properties of modern mass consumption ( e.g. 1981 : . |
| 10 | In addition , the Commission revealed that Macierewicz had sought to pressure the KPN leadership with information about its chair , Leszek Moczulski , linking this with an attempt to prevent the Olszewski government 's fall . |