Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er and although it nobody could ever say that the union was politically motivated er it it 's strange to relate that at union meeting when the general strike started and we of course we were n't in the T U C we were too small anyway , although I know that there 's been unions with twenty eight members in the T U C now . |
| 2 | It exasperated his grandmother to see this forceful spirit drifting like a rudderless boat , directed neither to work nor to leisure . |
| 3 | Although I am convinced that the prime management problem is ‘ making it happen ’ , one has to accept that in life there is always at least an evens chance that one is going the wrong way . |
| 4 | We have to accept that in life do n't we ? |
| 5 | We begin to accept that in education , as in economics , small can be beautiful . |
| 6 | However , it is important to know that after infection by HIV , it can take up to three months — or sometimes even longer — for antibodies to appear . |
| 7 | One does not , however , need to know that in order to be able to appreciate their use in Dame Sirith . |
| 8 | Whilst we 're able to implement quite a considerable proportion of the er , objectives without any financial commitment , this particular er , issue does erm , provide us with a considerable test , and members need to know that in order to achieve the move from residential care to community care , we would have to have some ring-fence monies to be able , to enable that shift to , to take place , before the erm , the budget could be reduced on the residential side . |
| 9 | So you had to know that in order to , to pour concrete you had to have something to pour it into and you had to put the erm you had to have er reinforcements as well . |
| 10 | You 'll be glad to know that in line four and five , What to do ? |
| 11 | because we 're gon na have to know that in advance because the describers have to be asked if they will be will they be able to travel ? |
| 12 | It 's to know that in advance because I think they then have a practical contribution to make . |
| 13 | Not too drastic a sentence , one might think , as peasants were hanged for stealing a loaf of bread , but as further penance , Vachel was forced to change his family motto to ‘ T is better to suffer than to revenge ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , we 'll obviously have to bear that in mind , but … ’ |
| 15 | No that would be fine , I mean , whoever 's president will have to bear that in mind wo n't they ? . |
| 16 | It is one thing to have a good system in place and then to discover that in practice , on site for example , a different system is used or that there is no system in use . |
| 17 | When the three girls arrived she was surprised to find that in spite of their sophistication they were not much older than she was and as she watched them glide out in the first selection of fashions she felt a small prickle of excitement . |
| 18 | I know I told you not to write except in emergency but I did n't mean it . |
| 19 | For it has come to pass that through marriage certain feelings are communicated by the partners to each other and , more important , to society at large . |
| 20 | One does not have to be a Marxist to observe that by comparison something seems to have gone badly wrong in the capitalist societies of the Western world over the last two decades . |
| 21 | There is one subject of philosophical curiosity to be found in Edinburgh , which no other city has to shew ; a college of the deaf and dumb , who are taught to speak , to read , to write and to practice arithmetick by a gentleman , whose name is Braidwood . |
| 22 | Otherwise you may find yourself later , as you sweep along on the actual business of writing , gradually drifting into producing quite another sort of book than the one you set out to write and in consequence disappointing readers ' expectations which at the beginning you had gone to trouble to arouse . |
| 23 | His light-hearted and amusing banter hid a serious and thoughtful approach to work and to life in general , and one became aware that it was a privilege to know and work with him , both at Woolley Hall and in the early days of Bretton where he came one day each week to teach painting . |
| 24 | Could you cope with repaying the loan if you were made redundant or lost your overtime earnings or were unable to work because of illness ? |
| 25 | Some people fight shy of taking out a Personal Loan because they are worried about meeting the monthly repayments if they are unable to work because of sickness , accident or unemployment . |
| 26 | To save you worrying about your monthly repayments if you are unable to work because of sickness , accident or unemployment , we have developed a special Midland FlexiLoan Protection Plan which covers your repayments for up to twelve months . |
| 27 | Under the Plan , your repayments are covered for a maximum period of 12 months if you become unemployed , and for the remaining term of the loan if you are unable to work because of sickness or an accident . |
| 28 | Midland Repayment Protector will safeguard your mortgage repayments for up to 12 months if you are unable to work because of unemployment , illness or an accident . |
| 29 | Bob Weighill , the home unions secretary , added : ‘ It is not normal for rugby union players to work while on tour . ’ |
| 30 | In 1988 , Brenda admitted to the worry that her husband might be tempted to stray while on tour . |