Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we know that people disagree to some extent about the right principles of behaviour , so we distinguish that requirement from the different ( and weaker ) requirement that they act in important matters with integrity , that is , according to convictions that inform and shape their lives as a whole , rather than capriciously or whimsically . |
| 2 | Our author is aware of these objections but , even though Christ plays little part in his religious vision , he does find a contemplative exemplar in the gospels in the story of Martha and Mary . |
| 3 | Yet , it plays little part in standard accounts of the history of English before about 1600 , and in ME stop-deleted forms ( such as bes , lan : ‘ best , land ’ ) are amongst the forms that are typically corrected by textual editors as errors . |
| 4 | Secondly there must be an efficient method of getting the information displayed on the screen onto the paper and the PostScript page description language met that requirement to a tee . |
| 5 | How has the Secretary of State met that point in the council tax ? |
| 6 | An artist I met that evening at Dr Caskie 's suggested that I exchange my tourist food permit for a civil emergency ration card , and do my own marketing and cooking . |
| 7 | I think they should try and do something more positive to curb that sort of thing . ’ |
| 8 | It romanticized revolution and regularized insubordination , sanctifying that preference for violent individual action that was to bedevil the politics of nineteenth-century Spain . |
| 9 | But it may be that , as men of little social consequence , they lacked that sensitivity to personal relationships on which the aristocratic society of the tenth and eleventh centuries had depended ; for the newcomers , what was sauce for the goose was likely to be sauce for the gander . |
| 10 | To watch Reutemann on a tennis court , for instance , was painful ; even Hunt , a splendid athlete , really lacked that sort of fluency which expresses real ‘ style ’ ; Jody Scheckter , doing almost anything , was incredibly clumsy . |
| 11 | If specific information about pupils ' ability , eligibility for free school meals , any disabilities etc. is required , then a painstaking search is undertaken each time for the particular piece of information required . |
| 12 | Give us more freedom in the afternoon if we need to go into Wokingham instead , do you want to go that way for a change or this , or through the woods ? |
| 13 | ‘ I hate that man for what he did to me . ’ |
| 14 | I hate that sort of stuff but it pays and money from that goes towards my travel and equipment costs . ’ |
| 15 | I hate that sort of stuff but it pays and money from that goes towards my travel and equipment costs . ’ |
| 16 | I could n't be an A&R man because I hate that side of the business . |
| 17 | in fact I might not even need to vacuum the floor , need I ? , if I pick that bit of paper up off there |
| 18 | The 1633 ‘ Uyttenbogaert ’ fits that bill with the additional advantages of being both a representation of an important figure in Dutch religious history ( although the Rijksmuseum already has a portrait of him by Rembrandt 's contemporary Jacob Backer ) and universally accepted as authentic by the members of the Rembrandt Research Project , some of whom are Rijksmuseum curators . |
| 19 | The downward arpeggio in the last two bars will obviously be given to the clarinet , for besides the fact that it fits that instrument like a glove , it does not lie within the range of any other wind instrument . |
| 20 | To the layman , logic might seem to compel that acceptance by the State of a person as a female for one purpose or at one level would necessarily mean acceptance of the person as a female for all purposes , on the simple reasoning that acceptance means what it says . |
| 21 | Well trampled ground may remain that way for some time . |
| 22 | The king and his nobles understood one another , shared common interests and ideals , and enjoyed the glory , prestige and profit that success in the common enterprise in France brought them . |
| 23 | Max has to establish a relationship with the soldiers : ‘ He had quite early realised that part of their life depended on their being left to do things by themselves and not being interfered with . |
| 24 | Strange , Gina thought , how much their two countries had in common and how little she had realised that element of kinship before . |
| 25 | They are a lovey-dovey couple , much given , for reasons that remain obscure , to roguishly gagging each other with bits of masking tape , but tension sets in with the arrival of Clara 's best friend Lillibet from America . |
| 26 | By this time the newspapers had lost interest , and the route that Mr Wolski had carefully traced each day on his atlas on the basis of news reports ended near Galashiels in the Southern Uplands of Scotland , where a British Trust for Ornithology report gave a good account of a ‘ vagrant ’ juvenile eagle being seen feeding . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley said , in 1991 : ‘ I do n't frankly think that abuse against the elderly is a major problem . ’ |
| 28 | Do you think that variation in pricing strategy will be er contrary to what you 're trying to do in terms of your image projection for the brand ? |
| 29 | I mean a do you think that kind of thing would work here ? |
| 30 | If it was n't that we had to develop from an egg in every generation , I do n't think that kind of conservatism would be observed . |