Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis was subtle enough to see that this was at best a half-truth , and perhaps he was beginning to sense that what Tolkien 's friendship had to offer him was something rather more important than a regress to me nursery . |
| 2 | The trick is to make the qualification time long enough so that the people who go to a club towards the end of their career and get large transfer bonuses do not qualify , but short enough for the players to feel that they will not have to wait half their lives to get theirs . |
| 3 | The half-life of a radioactive substance is the time interval taken for the radiant species present to lose half its radioactivity . |
| 4 | WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT ! he 's liable to lose half his teeth by the time he 's 40 because of Mouth Acid |
| 5 | To spot this what procedure is carried out ? |
| 6 | I think you need to know that nought point five is five tenth five out of ten which is a half . |
| 7 | Having resolved this dispute he became involved in long battles over his rights and tithes from the manors , for in 1256 , he is complaining that his rents and profits were so small , scarcely amounting to forty marks a year , being only enough to meet half his expenses . |
| 8 | We should aim to re-cycle half our household waste within 10 years . ’ |
| 9 | That took care of Strathtummel ; Atholl would get Up in the morning to find half his country crumbling under his feet . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't want to struggle all my life for nothing . |
| 11 | Mirror Group has agreed to use up to £300 million of its profits over the next 10 to 20 years so that the pension fund , plundered by Mr Robert Maxwell , will be able to meet all its liabilities . |
| 12 | ‘ I expect 85 to 90 per cent of our business to be corporate , ’ says Mr Nitschke , ‘ which is a very demanding market , so it is important that we are able to meet all its requirements . ’ |
| 13 | AN investigation has been launched into whether the pension fund of the collapsed Lilley group has enough funds to meet all its commitments , writes Peter Woodifield . |
| 14 | Royal Scottish has a range of savings and investments products to meet all your needs . |
| 15 | There have to be priorities to meet all your needs — either because a service is not available , or because it is outside the money available — then you will be told this . |
| 16 | Qualcast , the makers of mowers in Britain for over 60 years offer a wide range of traditional and modern mowers to meet all your requirements and all their mowers come with a three year parts guarantee and a one year parts and labour warranty . |
| 17 | Your bank is able to offer a comprehensive range of products and services to meet all your finance related needs . |
| 18 | And the State Invalidity Benefit ( March 1990 ) of just £43.60 a week is unlikely to be sufficient to meet all your commitments . |
| 19 | As the State Invalidity Benefit ( May 1991 ) of just £52.00 a week is unlikely to be sufficient to meet all your commitments . |
| 20 | As a member of the HAE , and one of the largest and best known hire companies in Europe , HSS is well-equipped to meet all your hiring requirements . |
| 21 | However , as I said , our staff responded tremendously and attempted to meet all our demands . |
| 22 | It introduced the requirement that any country joining the EC had to accept all its activities including the " pillars " outside normal EC decision-making . |
| 23 | In a systematic study of his own dream life Freud tried to relate all his dreams to feelings and thoughts experienced the previous day . |
| 24 | She did n't want him to know all her secrets . |
| 25 | ‘ I expect we 'll want to know all their names , ’ said the fat boy , ‘ and make a list . |
| 26 | See , you have to know all your men 's weight . |
| 27 | Being my step-sister does n't give you a God-given right to know all my business . ’ |
| 28 | But first I want to pull all their nails out , ’ shouted one man . |
| 29 | The extent of the disaster was kept from the remaining drivers , particularly Levagh 's team-mates Moss and Fangio but at two o'clock in the morning , orders were received by the Mercedes team-manager Alfred Neubauer , direct from the German factory , to pull all their cars out of the race . |
| 30 | How long would America have had to wait for the Community to pull all its members behind a common policy ? |