Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Spencer said easily , ‘ I think you might have been a little more enthusiastic about such lovely slippers , they are a work of art , you must be very pleased to find someone with the talent to work as well as the best London shoemakers and at a fraction of the price , if I 'm any judge . ’ |
| 32 | We often visit schools that are involved in testing teaching units to discover that overnight a new program has been written by a teacher to use in his afternoon lesson . |
| 33 | I agree with the judge that " What is required for this purpose is not an intention to own or even an intention to acquire ownership but an intention to possess , " that is to say , an intention for the time being to possess the land to the exclusion of all other persons , including the owner with the paper title . |
| 34 | They will make the models which include sheep , giraffes , elephants and rhinos , for craft and gift shops to sell but also hope to receive commissions for shop window displays and from firms wanting the models as promotional displays . |
| 35 | When we join the group as a new member we may sense these norms and question their relevance but , if group membership is vital to our role acquisition , we will accept the irrelevant norm merely to establish our intention to conform and thereby hasten our acceptance by the group . |
| 36 | Where a defendant is tried before judge and jury , both have their roles to play and together they constitute the court of trial . |
| 37 | She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing ! |
| 38 | Such a setting , as Coleridge acknowledges in the poem , he might once have sought out to echo the mood of a ‘ sad gloom-pamper 'd Man ’ ; but now his descriptions of the sea breeze moaning through the house , the thunder of the ‘ onward-surging tides ’ and the watchfire shining out from Flat Holm in the Bristol Channel , are powerfully transformed by the central fact of his love for Sara , and become part of a vast natural counterpoint to intimate and far from gloomy thoughts . |
| 39 | You 'll know that when you select NI products you 'll be buying gifts that are a pleasure to give as well as to receive . |
| 40 | any way I got to the last one and it was two combinations combined together , so you 've got two separate combinations to do and then you 're to put those two together in with a different rule |
| 41 | So had every other beautiful girl , of course ; but Jane Ashton was now not only the first beautiful girl Killion had kissed good night , she was the first to kiss him in return , and kiss him as if she had a great deal to give as well as take . |
| 42 | QPR 's Clive Wilson pleaded in vain with the fan to leave and finally four stewards carried the man away . |
| 43 | The Longhorn has a most amicable and docile nature and is a pleasure to keep as well as one of the most handsome breeds for a parkland setting . |
| 44 | It is most beneficial for the novice trainer to read and fully understand one of these excellent books before he initiates his training programme . |
| 45 | She heard that he was speaking wretchedly , not arrogantly , but it would have been a patronage to recognize that any further , and she had to let him be rancorous . |
| 46 | Although there would undoubtedly have been job losses after the merger , the proposal can be viewed as a relatively straightforward attempt to restructure and then rationalise an industry with excess capacity , with firms which were insufficiently large to exploit economies of scale and thus unable to make a profit . |
| 47 | In 1796 he made an ineffectual bid to reform and virtually abolish the game laws . |
| 48 | But it seems clear that some people , perhaps the members of the monastery themselves , thought it was a serious possibility , and they took steps to ensure that neither Lanfranc nor anyone else would be able to carry out this sweeping measure of reform . |
| 49 | In particular the on- loan flag serves as a lock to ensure that only one lexicographer may modify the contents of an entry at any given time . |
| 50 | if we 'd done it , for the rest of us we 've got people like Donna to watch and so , be like serving Donna up and if you look like Danii Minogue on the television for Stuart |
| 51 | Non-executive directors , that is a strength erm it 's also a threat but it is also a strength but basically it 's acting as a sort of yardstick to control or actually guide the actual management right down from board level right down the company there . |
| 52 | Two men climb the rock to check that all has been eaten and to clean it for the next burial . |
| 53 | Findlay and Francis were both indicted ( with others ) with conspiracy to rob and also with substantive counts of robbery , including two robberies five weeks apart at a sub-post office in Hainault . |
| 54 | A pathetic attempt to use proto-scientific methods to ascertain and then apprehend the transcendent . |
| 55 | Had ICI focused earlier on shareholder value creation , he said , it would not have allowed a value gap to develop and so become a target for Hanson 's predatory schemes . |
| 56 | The nip of alcohol causes the blood vessels to dilate and so warm the skin and make us comfortable in spite of being out in the cold . |
| 57 | He evidently resented the fact that the name ‘ diesel ’ had come to be applied to virtually every type of oil engine , hot-bulb ( ignition ) as well as compression-ignition , and in 1923 he asked the Institution to declare that henceforth the word ‘ diesel ’ should only be used to describe oil engines operating on the compression-ignition principle , hot-bulb engines to be known as ‘ akroyds ’ . |
| 58 | He no longer has to enter a conditional appearance , since that practice was abolished when acknowledgements of service were introduced , but must file his acknowledgement and give notice of intention to defend and then issue his application to set aside service and the renewal order within 14 days . |
| 59 | Selkirk pushed him in and made him squat on a stone ledge while he cut free his bound hands only to fasten gyves to his wrists and ankles ; attached by chains to the wall ; these allowed Corbett to move but quickly chafed his wrists and ankles . |
| 60 | ‘ He 's just phoned from the car to say that as far as he could tell Harry had nothing to do with it . |