Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [indef pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No costs are allowed after receipt of such notice of proving anything the admission renders it unnecessary to prove ( Ord 9 , r 16 ) . |
| 2 | For one way of denying someone the respect to which he is entitled is by failing to treat him as an autonomous agent , for example , by unreasonably restricting the range of alternative courses of action from which he can choose . |
| 3 | Instead of paying everybody the same state pension , the state should protect those in need adequately , and leave the rest to look after themselves . |
| 4 | Theists grow impatient with what they see as the reductionist behaviour of atheists , whom they accuse of disproving something the theists never claimed to believe in . |
| 5 | In every case if we had done nothing instead of doing something the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 6 | In every case , he wrote , if we had done something instead of doing nothing the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 7 | When Celtic equalised , bringing about a result that caused Aberdeen to lose ground in the championship race , there was that involuntary twitching movement , spreading from Aitken 's head to his toes , which signals that he is on the verge of doing someone a mischief unless he gets a satisfactory explanation in a very short space of time . |
| 8 | Thigh : The schoolboy trick of giving someone a ‘ dead leg ’ — i.e. kneeing them in the side of the thigh — is very effective and causes great pain but usually no lasting injury . |
| 9 | In 1935–36 Albert came within a single goal of achieving something no Palace player has yet managed — topping the Football League list of goalscorers — for he hit 38 goals and only W.G. Richardson of West Bromwich got 39 . |
| 10 | If you got sued for selling someone a rotten second-hand car , you 'd have to get a lawyer and he 'd be a university graduate , too . |
| 11 | They are just plain difficult and like giving everyone a bad time . |
| 12 | Driving licences , in particular , are like giving someone a cheque book . |
| 13 | Would we , for example , be happy with giving someone the right to administer corporal punishment to us ( in public ) ? |
| 14 | ‘ She occasionally can be talked into doing something a little silly , but not often . ’ |
| 15 | Also , the process of pre-censorship by what Thorold Dickinson called ‘ ex-colonels and maiden aunts in long flowered frocks ’ made filmmakers complicit with the censors in keeping everything a touch daring , challenging or controversial from the screen . |
| 16 | A clip round the ear has more chance of preventing him from doing something a second time than bringing all these other agencies in . |
| 17 | They concentrate on the present situation and the reaction of society and show little interest in the criminal 's background , although labelling theory does not argue that all that is involved in making someone a criminal is to call them one . |
| 18 | ‘ They 'll know because I shall take great pleasure in telling everyone the truth ! ’ |
| 19 | Simultaneously the work explores the very private , often hidden world of women 's personal everyday histories ; ‘ Each handbag has a particular personality of its own — on opening one a strong perfume filled the air , another was entirely practical , filled with hairpins and half a broken comb , a third contained a funeral card ’ . |
| 20 | Having worked on providing everything the dying person needs , the next step is to prepare to say goodbye . |
| 21 | ‘ This Mr Postman very good man , ’ said Mr Singh , who had not been invited to the ceremony , but was clearly looking forward to attending none the less . |
| 22 | This is that , in my view , if a decision-making body is to exercise powers such as those of serving an intervention notice without giving anybody the opportunity to make representations beforehand , its procedures should provide that those who might otherwise expect to have been allowed to make representations should at least be allowed to make immediate application to set the decision aside and to appeal against it . |
| 23 | They 're just sort of relics of a time when people experimented with shapes and tried all kinds of different things ; these days instrument makers seem to have settled on making everything the same . |
| 24 | Take this craze for making everyone a shareholder . |
| 25 | You can see the absurdity of ‘ single-handed acceptance ’ of the responsibility for making anything a commercial success . |
| 26 | As for Alan Howard , you begin by expecting something a bit more overbearing ( irrelevant memories of Rex Harrison , perhaps ) . |
| 27 | He followed this up by giving everyone a present . |
| 28 | The frequentation of death which makes life so precious also finishes , sometimes , by giving one a distaste for it , and more often , lassitude . |