Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they should try and do something more positive to curb that sort of thing . ’ |
| 2 | Give us more freedom in the afternoon if we need to go into Wokingham instead , do you want to go that way for a change or this , or through the woods ? |
| 3 | To the layman , logic might seem to compel that acceptance by the State of a person as a female for one purpose or at one level would necessarily mean acceptance of the person as a female for all purposes , on the simple reasoning that acceptance means what it says . |
| 4 | I did n't want him to breathe that stuff into his lungs , ’ he says . |
| 5 | To include that issue in the forthcoming Student Loans Bill would make the measure hybrid and deny it any prospect of a swift passage through Parliament . |
| 6 | The patient is often accompanied by a relative or friend , and it is wise to include that person in the initial discussion since the patient may attempt to dismiss or deny the problem . |
| 7 | It fails to put forward any options for accept for erm , equal rights , for disability or race , and we think this is an omission , and if it were your intention to write a response , we would want to include that point in the response we make . |
| 8 | The Express and the Mail saw the Empire Crusade as a means of uniting the Empire by encouraging free trade within it and both newspapers gave publicity and financial support to those by-election candidates who promised to uphold that line in Parliament . |
| 9 | Clearly , managers with good information about the firm will want to transmit that information to the market , while managers with bad information might want to conceal it and might also be tempted to transmit false ‘ good ’ information to the market . |
| 10 | Whereas the hypocrite normally deceives other people 's vision of himself , making them see good where he means evil , Iago manages to transmit that doubleness into their vision of the rest of the world . |
| 11 | They could find it easier to come to an agreement to support each other during a lock-out for example , because they would have sufficient financial resources to enable them to survive periods of inactivity . |
| 12 | I had been so in love with her , and a part of me needed to mourn that loss of feeling . |
| 13 | The efforts of the management and the work force now in the shipyards on the Clyde and in Yarrow 's have done a great deal to restore that badge of quality , which was in danger of slipping away . |
| 14 | It would be useless to pretend that identity of non-meanings , if it is to make sense , ought to be so explicable and then criticise this idea on the grounds that it can not be so explained . |
| 15 | It was also useless to pretend that corruption at elections was one-sided ; the scale was far smaller than thirty years earlier , but it went on just the same in both parties . |
| 16 | Because of its mineral wealth , Namibia is not a poor country by African standards , but the challenge will be to channel that wealth towards internal social and economic development , rather than into the pockets of multi-national and South African mining interests . |
| 17 | Is it possible to disconnect each thing from itself and still arrive at a recognisable record ? |
| 18 | In general , I attempted to capture the dramatic energy of this marvellous score and to re-create that drama in my own way . |
| 19 | Er the other fire fighters would enable us to hit that target on a regular basis and in fact we will also the target during those periods when . |
| 20 | to hit that light with . |
| 21 | MORRISSEY and organisers of the ill-fated Madstock Finsbury Park concerts are embroiled in a legal battle , with both parties threatening to sue each other over Morrissey 's non-appearance on the Sunday bill . |
| 22 | Brooktree Corp , San Diego and Advanced Micro Devices Inc have settled all pending litigation and agreed not to sue each other on patents related to colour palette chips : the settlement provides for payment to Brooktree of $26.8m from an earlier award of cash damages for patent and mask work infringement and dismissal of all other litigation pending between them . |
| 23 | Brass bands , jazz bands , school bands and groups of dancers have been booked to perform each lunchtime at three Chelmsford venues up to and including Saturday . |
| 24 | It is impossible to perform each stage of production simultaneously . |
| 25 | In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control . |
| 26 | Paradoxically , both dominant and subordinate seem to sustain each other in a reciprocal fashion . |
| 27 | As Stanyer ( 1976 , ch. 1 ) reminds us , it is important to see each locality as a miniature political and administrative system in its own right , a point reinforced by the Widdicombe Report ( 1986 , p. 22 ) when the committee emphasized that ‘ some of the commonly held assumptions about local government are valid only in a minority of authorities ’ . |
| 28 | But we do n't get to see each other at the choir |
| 29 | Cummings further suggests that certain aspects should be looked in selecting software in order to encourage conversation and pupils to see each other as resources : 1 . |
| 30 | The firm 's new Personal Video System Model 70 enables users working in a Microsoft Corp Windows environment to see each other in a scalable video window as they talk and simultaneously collaborate on computer documents . |