Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This helps them to see a 3-D object as a simpler , two-dimensional configuration of lines and shapes . |
| 2 | For some of these adults , aged from their twenties to forties , expert counselling on a one to one basis is helping them to go a great deal further . |
| 3 | In the light of the advice from their own officers and consultants , the Council decision to reject all inner northern routes , throws doubt on the decision making process which led them to support an outer northern route . |
| 4 | So spoke Arnold Wesker at the Riverside Studios where , next week , he will take the unusual step of mounting eight rehearsed readings of his play , Shylock , formerly titled The Merchant , in a bid to raise enough interest from commercial backers to persuade them to mount a full production . |
| 5 | it expects them to lose a staggering twenty million pounds in the first year . |
| 6 | You 've caused me to lose a whole valuable day 's work . |
| 7 | ( b ) it enables them to cultivate a particular part , or segment , of a market . |
| 8 | ‘ You have also invited me to wear a British hat , ’ Mark continued . |
| 9 | Many of the reformers of the 1870s and 1880s believed that women would earn both a new respect , if they could eschew the frivolities of fashion , and a new freedom which would liberate them to perform a useful role in society . |
| 10 | Finally , in growing anger , I told them to perform an unlikely act upon themselves — they stared — and turned away . |
| 11 | On 18 August it met with the Health Authority 's officials and asked them to conduct a public health survey which it would pay for , mainly to reassure the public that , although the EC limits for aluminium had been exceeded over 500 times , and those for sulphate , copper , zinc and lead had also been broken , there was no long-term harm . |
| 12 | It may be only outsider skepticism that leads me to see a subtle , probably subconscious new emphasis on the word ‘ choice ’ . |
| 13 | For example , if the figure was a line diagram of a room with four windows set at different heights , the programme would ask me whether a line of sight from the far corner of the room would enable me to see a particular point outside the window nearest to me , a point that shifted on the screen at speed . |
| 14 | I 'm eight and a half years old and disgusted that my mother has to come with me to see A Hard Day 's Night when usually she just sees me to the edge of the estate and across the main road . |
| 15 | Moreover should you persuade them to attend a local rally or the Crystal Palace Reunion they will immediately reap the benefit of obtaining their tickets at a reduced rate . |
| 16 | Malatie and her husband were prepared to make sacrifices so that their children might get a decent education : they were paying for two of them to attend a special boarding school for Harijans . |
| 17 | The names of the other two workers have been placed on the waiting list for the test to permit them to drive a mini bus . |
| 18 | The names of the other two workers have been placed on the waiting list for the test to permit them to drive a mini bus . |
| 19 | UNESCO , who has suddenly come alive , has invited the two of them to plan an experimental city in which new technologies and new ways of living can be explored more fully than they were in the real world . |
| 20 | I tried to convince him there must be jugs at the grade and he fell for it , allowing me to breathe a great sigh of relief . |
| 21 | In summary , she had not only slipped away from their definitions of appropriate female behaviour , she also forced them to acknowledge a strange and unexpected relationship of equality between her and her God . |
| 22 | Her direct challenge to the authority of the professionals forced them to acknowledge an alternative conceptualisation of Tom 's needs which carried with it quite different implications for the outcome of the formal assessment of those needs . |
| 23 | Was it a household so permeated by dislike and distrust that only the bald fact of dependence constrained them to preserve an uneasy peace ? |
| 24 | Take one or more of the elements of humour you discovered in yourself and use them to write a funny story . |
| 25 | The family doctor advised them to try a well-known rehabilitation unit , not realizing that it specialized in orthopaedic rather than neurological cases . |
| 26 | They were afraid to ta but if they 'd had that if they 'd told me to provide an extra coach for the Manchester as I was suggesting , Dougie would have come out and taken strips off them for You see . |
| 27 | It seems far more important to me to provide an effective and clear demonstration of those virtues of the product that you are trying to put across than to lose the proposition in the attempt to set up a credible context for it . |
| 28 | To them mathematics will be relevant if it helps their children gain a qualification which , in turn , will enable them to obtain a good job . |
| 29 | They want them to obtain a good position and be independent , preferably in the city . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're now asking them to accept a revised model and we expect some opposition . ’ |