Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By using drama as a part of the learning process , English teachers will be providing experiences for pupils which will help them make an informed choice when considering drama as a subject option , whether for GCSE or as part of a non-examined course in combined or expressive arts . |
| 2 | At last , a streak of orange light appeared to the east ; and gradually the white sea in front of them became an immense expanse of fertile green , while the purple ocean behind turned shimmering white . |
| 3 | Finally , in growing anger , I told them to perform an unlikely act upon themselves — they stared — and turned away . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Was it a household so permeated by dislike and distrust that only the bald fact of dependence constrained them to preserve an uneasy peace ? |
| 7 | Two senior research officers at the Home Office were also invited , and one of them made an excellent contribution . |
| 8 | With the firm establishment of the Social Democratic and SR parties early in the new century , membership in one or other of them offers an alternative guide . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Let me introduce an honest man , Brother Athelstan . |
| 11 | I believe in my heart and soul that everyone has an equal responsibility to work together the peace and harmony of this world . |
| 12 | So long as everyone has an equal right to vote there must be a limit to the variations in prosperity in the community that are politically acceptable . |
| 13 | Everyone has an implicit knowledge of the grammar of his or her native language(s) . |
| 14 | From the cleaners to the executive she sees that everyone has an important part to play , no one is more committed than she is both to the University and her pharmacological research . |
| 15 | Adjustment to their customers ' needs compelled them to establish an international presence that had hitherto been unnecessary . |
| 16 | The strict selection of monks applying to Saint-Vanne and the high standards of learning it demanded of them provide an early insight into Pérignon 's own capabilities . |
| 17 | I would agree that a hypnotist could not , for example , make me attack an innocent person . |
| 18 | As an extra incentive to put money on the gas giants as havens of life we can note that each of them has an atmospheric layer where there is plenty of warm but polluted water . |
| 19 | However , I thought it right to debate the report of the Select Committee chaired by my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale ( Mr. Jopling ) because many hon. Members of all parties , which was not the case with the other Select Committee report , asked me to find an early opportunity to enable the House to give its initial response to that splendid and important report . |
| 20 | The Board of the National Bank of Yugoslavia consists of the governors of the national banks of the republics and provinces , each of whom has an equal vote . |
| 21 | Also , if a contractor is to carry out the work the more information we can supply to them the easier it is for them to provide an accurate tender . |
| 22 | Everyone wants an original T-shirt , and they are walking advertisements for your band . |
| 23 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 24 | It was this that led them to postulate an original state of affairs in which a hypothetical , pre-human , pre-cultural Natural Man was a cow-like creature , without society and without language , living in the wild in a Garden of Eden forest . |
| 25 | If Ah remember rightly , he says the Gómez family already had Irish connections , so it was fairly simple fur them to find an impoverished landowner with a beautiful daughter goin' spare . |
| 26 | ‘ I became an involuntary expert on Christabel LaMotte . |
| 27 | When recently I asked an enthusiastic practitioner to test the technique in maths , although they were themselves enthusiastic about language , I received confirmation of insecurity , of a self-confessed distraction from the task of teaching in favour of essentially a technician-type reliance on the scheme , and a domination of the teacher by the process of recording progress . |
| 28 | Vicars bribed with halfpennies and were known to pressure parents about what was expected before someone became an appropriate recipient of charity . |
| 29 | Someone eating an average diet and drinking unfiltered tap water is likely to ingest at least a hundred different synthetic chemicals every day — see pp 305–10 . |
| 30 | ‘ I made an amazing discovery today , ’ he told her . |