Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both editions of this book , I made a decision to use what some linguists have called ‘ the visibility strategy ’ , or ‘ positive language ’ , in which all generics are feminine : she , her . |
| 2 | They had no great love for Conservatism , but , given the tenor of Liberal politics , saw the Conservative party as the last hope in a struggle to preserve their own brand of Liberalism . |
| 3 | ‘ The fact that no fewer than half the funds invested in small firms in Scotland comes from personal equity shows that Scots do have a flair for enterprise and a willingness to back their own judgment that is essential in every entrepreneur . ’ |
| 4 | A minimum of historical awareness and a willingness to confront our own past is what is needed to teach us that , quite as much as knowledge of ‘ Arab culture ’ . |
| 5 | Moreover , the thin weal of the scar along his cheek was of a kind to tell its own story . |
| 6 | He suddenly realised that the French really did believe that he was here on a secret and delicate diplomatic mission on Edward I 's behalf , that his interest in Alexander III 's death was mere drapery , a trick to conceal his true task . |
| 7 | For such a response to become our regular practice implies much personal reordering , discipline and growth . |
| 8 | A computer programmer would almost certainly get a computer to do it that way , but I doubt whether the brain does . |
| 9 | In the United States the President often has to work hard to create a majority to support his proposed legislation in its passage through Congress . |
| 10 | ‘ Churchill 's generals always had such a fight to get their military ideas across . |
| 11 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 12 | This is a significant development in that it places on the colleges a responsibility to assess their own strength . |
| 13 | Communities Theatre , erm , of er th they want a grant to support their current production . |
| 14 | How is a user to know which multi-word terms in a system have been inverted and which have not ; or , with three-word terms or more , which option for rearrangement of the words has been chosen ? |
| 15 | Snoopy the donkey was left without quarters and paid several unsuspecting guests a visit in a attempt to re-occupy her old home . |
| 16 | Ipswich team manager Mick McGiven has successfully created a side to match his own personality — dull . |
| 17 | ‘ In fact , I 've half a mind to join you two girls tomorrow in Sherwood Forest , and perhaps we could arrange to lose Anna somewhere in the bosky glades . ’ |
| 18 | However , the future of its messy OSF/1-Ultrix-Open Desktop strategy is so unstable that even its own spokespeople were at a loss to explain it last week — ‘ it 's too early to say , ’ they conceded . |
| 19 | It 's very hard to explain , but these people are all on the extreme left and were seeking a poet to give them some sort of standing . |
| 20 | as if that had anything to do with the ability of a poet to read his own poems ! |
| 21 | Napoleon then climbed a pyramid to tell his triumphant forces that " From these monuments forty centuries look down upon you " . |
| 22 | ‘ The expansion of our Banbury shop is part of a programme to improve our existing shop base as well as open new shops , ’ said Mr Heneage . |
| 23 | On Aug. 7 it was announced that the United Arab Emirates had launched a programme to strengthen its armed forces ( which numbered 40,000 before the 1990-91 Gulf war crisis ) and replace its component of Arab and non-Arab expatriates with UAE nationals . |
| 24 | It was a pleasure to wear her former clothes again ; fashions had changed so little that Selene had contrived very well . |
| 25 | It measures the number of years taken for a shareholder to recover his initial investment ( assuming that all earnings are distributed ) ; alternatively , it measures the price an investor has to pay to buy 1 worth of income in the company . |
| 26 | Amid claims and counter-claims , friends of Michael Knighton , the aspiring Manchester United chairman , report he is close to arranging a deal to salvage his attempted take-over . |
| 27 | AXED Terry Wogan is on the hunt for guests with ‘ wacky , tacky ’ stories to tell in a bid to shed his bland image , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 28 | LIZ McCOLGAN will play ‘ mind games ’ tonight in a bid to drive her main rivals for the 10,000 metres gold crazy . |
| 29 | A SECRET exorcism took place at Princess Diana 's ancestral home in a bid to save her dying father , The People can reveal . |
| 30 | Premier John Major broke off his holiday in Spain last night and recalled Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd from Italy for a meeting in a bid to save his Yugoslavian peace initiative . |