Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr. Munby so treated them because , in his submission , section 8 conferred complete autonomy on such minors , thus enabling them effectively to refuse medical treatment irrespective of how parental responsibilities might be sought to be exercised . |
| 2 | Again it is important for children to experience these ideas practically in a variety of ways to enable them eventually to achieve full understanding . |
| 3 | I thought that progressives , political progressives in this country were prepared to stand by public services and believe in them sufficiently to say this will cost you and we are prepared to put the bill to you because we believe you will pay the bill . |
| 4 | Fortunately during the first few months of our marriage Bernard , how shall I put it , practised asceticism — I had no chance of getting pregnant , or very little , and after that he was converted to Marxism , and though we were at it all the time for years , he stood over me daily to make sure I ingested a contraceptive chemical . |
| 5 | Now that I 'm feeling a bit calmer , I can see that it was amazingly presumptuous of me even to imagine that Madeleine might love me enough to sacrifice all the luxuries she 's used to , just to be with me ! |
| 6 | Allen 's colleague Jeremy Bailey has produced a computer program that colour-codes the view at each wavelength and then adds them together to produce these multicolour views . |
| 7 | Heads and governors should tackle them together to determine sensible procedures within the framework of LEA policies . |
| 8 | and used steel cans and that it was costing them less to use that than it was to use |
| 9 | But I really to believe that Halloween does has no real influence . |
| 10 | Was I therefore to assume that homelessness was an issue peculiar only to Apex members within the G M B or was I to reach the alternative , and I might say equally ridiculous conclusion , that despite its majority of women membership , toxic sock , shock syndrome was not of particular interest to Apex members ? |
| 11 | And er if I can help it I 've got to erm do me best to stop that happening . |
| 12 | I ai n't no building them just to get all out and up done , I mean the programme now looks crowded , but when you look at the new programme it 's just full , there 's nowhere else and no more room in them boxes to write my instead of one every two , three months , there 's four and five every month starts something |
| 13 | And it took me longer to do that than it took me to do tapestry . |
| 14 | but then again it 'll take me longer to find that one this morning |
| 15 | This not only enables them easily to recheck particular information if they need to , but it also has the effect of encouraging them to consult a wider range of sources of information . |
| 16 | They have used them already to build communal tents , to extrude life-lines guiding them over plants , or ropes to let themselves down from one twig to another . |
| 17 | She told me once to do some lines and I goes , ‘ It 's not worth you telling me to do them , because I wo n't do them ’ , and she goes , ‘ Well , I think you should do them ’ , and I goes , ‘ Well , I 'm not going to , so I do n't know what you 'll have to do with me ’ . |
| 18 | We whisk you away to visit two beautiful gardens , both completely different in their scope and character . |
| 19 | spent half an hour maximum , maybe twenty minutes would be , all it would take you just to do that one problem , while it 's reasonably fresh in your mind . |
| 20 | ‘ I would love , ’ he said , ‘ to go along with you just to see this horse do the work . ’ |
| 21 | Can I ask you just to sign that to say you know that and there 's a copy here for you . |
| 22 | So if I could ask you just to complete that . |
| 23 | We would like you still to feel involved in the University . |
| 24 | The advantage of this self-imposed discipline is that it forces you deliberately to do all that is involved in learning from experience and at the same time markedly increases the lessons learned from your various activities . |
| 25 | But I am forbidding you ever to attend another of those meetings . |
| 26 | It is up to you positively to counter these opinions . |
| 27 | I told you before to get some mince and put potatoes in and that , see |
| 28 | Here at a private table before a crackling log fire , he passed round the claret and addressed his minions as follows : " You 'll find pressure on you here to sell these bloody OTC . |
| 29 | Or are you here to make some pretty excuse that will enable you to see him ? |
| 30 | So our , our international work has er been important to us and we are pleased to s to see you here to raise that profile as well . |