Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos she was trying to find a , a reason or an excuse to sue them for it . |
| 2 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
| 3 | a Services Division to support them for a transitional period |
| 4 | was going out of this area to the providers of er of capital , for opportunities within this area we can go to London for example be many bankers there who will be being approached by companies within the northern region , north west region asking them for money to support them in their in their ventures . |
| 5 | To avoid the album selling for ludicrous amounts on import , Rough Trade took the decision to issue it in Britain . |
| 6 | The head of national television , Elemer Hankiss , initiated legal action in December to reverse Antall 's Dec. 9 decision to suspend him pending an investigation of charges of financial misconduct . |
| 7 | It may take several releases and many months before the company starts to see a return on its investments , so it is essential for an indie to have a relatively solid financial base to see it through the difficult early stages and to sustain the levels of promotion until an act on the label breaks . |
| 8 | She said she did not want any birthday presents unless they could be enjoyed by everyone , so her friends spent £500 on young trees and got permission to plant them around the town . |
| 9 | I see no opportunity to debate it in Government time . |
| 10 | Personally , I am rather too fond of my sanity to risk it in this way . |
| 11 | But , alas , one 's head must be permitted to rule , and so I will say only this : a little house where I may be safe , with an income to enable me at least to enjoy the comforts of life , if not its luxuries . |
| 12 | You never knew when your luck would turn — another mean Taibach slogan to see him through these dazzling fields of honey and clover . |
| 13 | More important , support for the League would be maximized if people were given the opportunity to support it without supporting war . |
| 14 | Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son 's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler . |
| 15 | Tonight I want to take the opportunity to thank her for her patience and support . |
| 16 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 17 | We have also had support from our colleagues in Brussels ( see article on page 21 of this issue ) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the lead and to appeal to Johnson Matthey sites around the world to take up the challenge . |
| 18 | May I take this opportunity to thank you for your continuing support of the Society . |
| 19 | Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘ |
| 20 | I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest which you have shown . |
| 21 | I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown . |
| 22 | May I take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in the School and to wish you a pleasant morning with us . |
| 23 | I have today won a concession from the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , in as much as he is going to give a delegation from the Southampton and district licensed victuallers an opportunity to see him at the Department to talk over some of these matters . |
| 24 | I wish that Deane was scoring 3 a match — but I have nt had the opportunity to see him in action recently . |
| 25 | Give the customers plenty of opportunity to see you from all angles and let them feel the cloth if they want to . |
| 26 | In February , it swept past Jupiter with British instruments on board , harnessing the planet 's gravitational field to hurl it into an orbit enabling study of the poles of the Sun in 1994–95 . |
| 27 | A dark giant of a man , possibly Tonio , leaned out of the lorry 's cabin to thank them for pulling out of the way . |
| 28 | This device consists of a corrosion-proof , non-toxic probe which sits in the tank water , and a two metre cable to connect it to an earth point , in your cable tidy or elsewhere . |
| 29 | They tell me that Mr. Stavanger has a magnificent record , and is very highly thought of in shipping circles — indeed , they went so far as to say that they 'd recommend the bank 's board to support him through thick and thin . |
| 30 | A temporary assistant lecturer 's post was available in my Department at U.C.L. Apparently , my Head of Department , , was happy to appoint me , but before the decision was made , he offered his new professorial colleague , , an opportunity to interview me for the job . |