Example sentences of "[adv prt] an [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , after about three months , I had got it all out of my system I suppose , and I actually turned down an invitation to a party in favour of staying in and washing some clothes ! |
| 2 | GALA have turned down an invitation to Currie rugby sevens on Sunday , April 4 — anticipating that they will be involved in a title decider with Melrose three days later . |
| 3 | Although in fact they accepted all three Beveridge ‘ assumptions ’ on behalf of the coalition government , the impression they gave was one of hesitancy and caution ; and the result was that the Parliamentary Labour Party , for the one and only time during the coalition years , decided to put down an amendment to the government motion and thus divide the House . |
| 4 | Mickey 's invited us to a party at his house , and no one turns down an invite to Mickey 's ! |
| 5 | You might answer that pressures on existing JS Journal staff prevent the crossword being a regular monthly item — but there must be many JS staff [ like myself ] who have experience of compiling crosswords , and I am sure that we could provide a steady supply of crosswords ready for publication — with the proviso , of course , that the person who has compiled that month 's crossword is not eligible to send in an entry to the competition . |
| 6 | I did n't waste much time trying to see what Filmer did or where he went , because I 'd quickly discovered that the Westin Hotel was sitting over an entrance to a subterranean shopping mall that stretched like a rabbit warren in all directions . |
| 7 | In such a case when you act for a building society-mortgagee , therefore , you will hand over an undertaking to the buyer 's conveyancer , undertaking forthwith to redeem the mortgage and to send the redeemed mortgage or ( as the case may be ) LR form 53 to the other side . |
| 8 | In 1839 the government set up an inspectorate to further central supervision of the way the growing state aid was being spent . |
| 9 | Observers predict that industry may set up an equivalent to Duales System Deutschland ( DSD — the national waste collecting company established in the wake of the consumer packaging law ) . |
| 10 | Referring to recent events in the Soviet Union , Vellayati said on Aug. 28 that he hoped this would help speed up an end to the civil war . |
| 11 | " Early " is deictic here , but only inasmuch as it sets up an opposition to a notional " late " . |
| 12 | Make up an advertisement to ‘ sell ’ yourself . |
| 13 | I would normally set up an area to the right of the input range but for ease of taking screen dumps I have here gone lower down — do not copy my example in a real database that is going to grow bigger ! |
| 14 | He was educated at Wix 's Lane School , Battersea , leaving at the age of fourteen to take up an apprenticeship to a firm of fur dealers for three years . |
| 15 | " The Meeting having considered many Complaints from Caddelton and the other principle Drovers … from the want of a proper Fank for Cattle near the ferry place of Portaskaig , and Considering also that sixty or Eighty acres at least of some muir land near the Port will be necessary … appoint a Committee to draw up an application to Shawfield , praying he may allot and Inclose a piece of ground . " |
| 16 | Dr Kinlen says children in densely populated urban areas are likely to have been exposed to the infectious agent and built up an immunity to it . |
| 17 | It 's self evident Mr Deputy Speaker that this government is utterly unconcerned to carry out an obligation to which is bound by a treaty , freely entered into and the minister must answer the question of how he squares this inactivity with regulation nine three which obliges registration officers to take reasonable steps to obtain information about who should be eligible to appear on the electoral role . |
| 18 | Therefore it is suggested that for the husband whose outrage forecloses the possibility of a mere divorce proceeding , a clear case exists for having the courts carve out an exception to the three-year rule so as to allow a suit to be brought for nullity through fraud or mistake.56 To the protesting reader who may feel that this spurious reasoning leads us into the realm of nonsense , the only answer is that it is the purpose of this paper to provoke a re-examination of certain fundamental values and ideas . |
| 19 | Yeremi at least gasped out an apology to the body below him . |
| 20 | Before attempting to set out an approach to disruptive pupils , I believe it is important to preface the debate with a general comment on education — first , because the nature of the topic can generate emotions that lead to a distortion of the author 's overall perspective , and second , while I am critical of many educational responses to disruptive pupils I do not wish to add to teachers ' feelings of being under siege . |
| 21 | Bohr and his friends hammered out an approach to the understanding of quantum theory which hardened into a rigid orthodoxy prescribed for the faithful . |
| 22 | A fortnight after she had made this earth-shattering discovery she was amazed when he stuttered out an invitation to the cinema . |
| 23 | George Kirkham sent out an appeal to all Anglo-Burman Associations asking their members to go back to Burma in this spirit , and demanding no special safeguards . |
| 24 | Yes I put out an appeal to er my readers to search their attics and their er lofts and their garden sheds for all the things they might have left over from the second World War . |
| 25 | In The Extended Phenotype I attempt to work out an answer to this difficult problem . |
| 26 | In fact , support may consist of saying ‘ I leave you to work out an answer to that problem ’ . |
| 27 | Ignoring her brother 's last remark , simply because Ellie had not yet worked out an answer to that particular problem , Ellie started to clear away their supper things into the kitchen . |
| 28 | She had n't had time to work out an answer to such a question . |
| 29 | On 4 July 1933 he made out an application to the Passport Office . |
| 30 | Jersey cops put out an alert to the Yard asking for assistance in tracking down the globe-trotting 27-year-old . |