Example sentences of "to [pron] [noun sg] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the UK 's National Health Service , ethical issues related to the conduct of research are countenanced in that each Health Authority has an Ethical Committee , and nursing research involving patients must be submitted to its scrutiny before a project can proceed . |
| 2 | Dot was shown to her bed where a notice was taped with pink sticking plaster to the end rail . |
| 3 | Campbeltown took the brunt of the shot and shell , her captain — Lieutenant-Commander S. ( Sam ) H. Beattie RN — blinded by search-lights yet making last-minute corrections to her course when a rift in the smoke showed she was not heading for the caisson , still 700 yards upriver . |
| 4 | There could be no greater indication of the contrast between me two friends ' approach to their craft than a comparison between The Lost Road , tentatively built up stage by stage , with an infinite number of backward glances at the whole mythology that has gone before , and Lewis 's self-confident brush strokes as he dashed off Out of the Silent Planet . |
| 5 | Rangers rarely respond to their outcry when a person is trampled to death by the same beasts . |
| 6 | Grayling says that the idea was brought sharply to his attention when a dinner guest at the Grayling home in Indian Landing , not far from Grayling 's Centreville , showed unaccountable aggression during the meal . |
| 7 | He was about to call Marian to his side when a movement a few hundred yards away where the forest and the Waste met caught his eye . |
| 8 | Thus the genius of songwriters has been brought to bear on writing a gospel more suited to our age when a baby is born with a plastic spoon in its mouth . |