Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ingenious arrangement has two advantages : it scents the house with an acrid , invigorating smell of frying cloth recalling a tailor shop in the Bronx , and it permits me to tend two kerosene burners , a Franklin stove , and a fireplace . |
| 2 | These accounts are also used to settle banks ' foreign exchange transactions and to enable them to conduct normal correspondent banking relationships ( see Chapter 3 , Foreign Exchange Market : Correspondent Banks ) . |
| 3 | The flat roof of our own house was high enough for me to see two summer screens for free . |
| 4 | OPENING up your excellent Have a Rattle page , it continually sickens me to see so-called Glentoran supporters giving their manager the verbals in the press . |
| 5 | Henry Ratter had arranged for me to attend several training courses , including the two-day ‘ Quality in Action ’ workshop . |
| 6 | It is difficult for them to obtain overseas development funds , and it is even hard to mail a letter to another country because Eritrean stamps are not yet internationally recognised . |
| 7 | It is difficult for them to obtain overseas development funds , and it is even hard to mail a letter to another country because Eritrean stamps are not yet internationally recognised . |
| 8 | Munich , in other words , was expressly orchestrated to destabilise public opinion at home , to terrify whole populations with the threat of war and coerce them to accept reactionary government measures in exchange for peace ; ( c ) the British and French governments recoiled from inflicting the diplomatic humiliation on Hitler that would have resulted from resorting to the anti-fascist resistance offered by Washington and above all by Moscow . |
| 9 | Until now Turkish protection of the Crimean Tatars had enabled them to launch repeated slave raids on Russian territory , prevented settled cultivation of wide areas of the Ukraine , and blocked Russian access to the Black Sea . |
| 10 | It did nothing to provide better child care for women wishing to return to work . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , ’ said the agent , ‘ they 're looking for someone to play Long John Silver in a new production of Treasure Island . ’ |
| 12 | Am I to watch another woman sink into her grave for want of a little compassion ? ’ |
| 13 | In Newham there were better domiciliary services in 1984 than in Ipswich ( for example it was possible for someone to have seven-day-a-week home help and meals-on-wheels cover ; there were day centres and day hospitals , and a good deal of voluntary organisation provision ) . |
| 14 | Children , it is suggested , need to be inducted into the main forms or aspects of the culture they live in , partly because this will equip them to lead full adult lives , and partly because culture seems to some as inclusive a concept as one can find for planning a general education . |
| 15 | Many insects communicate through wingbeats , some even using them to create special courtship songs . |
| 16 | Two Gazelles will go out together and find vantage points from which to observe notional enemy positions . |
| 17 | The Lifestyle Network provides a value for money platform from which to launch direct advertising campaigns , and provides the basis for sound investment in marketing as a means of overcoming the economic recession . |
| 18 | She rallies support for the endangered whale , catalogues underwater life and creates new devices in which to explore virgin sea worlds . |
| 19 | They oppose the proposed changes for political reasons , believing that they form part of the task the prime minister , Michel Rocard , has set himself to reform public sector industry — reforms that many to the left of Mr Rocard believe to be inherently unsocialist . |
| 20 | It will also provide part of the basis upon which to determine post-registration education activity . |
| 21 | The new computer also provides an excellent platform on which to base new Columbus applications . |
| 22 | Rather few comparative data are available from which to assess recent status changes , but these appear to have been marked . |
| 23 | There is a recurrent failure not only to ground the subject fully in its historical context , but also to propose an adequate theoretical model by means of which to assess socialist realist literature . |
| 24 | The base from which to measure incremental cash flows is then that position and not the current benefits being received . |
| 25 | On 15 December , Fhimah made a note in his diary , reminding himself to take some Air Malta luggage tags from the airport . |
| 26 | There will be various categories in which to enter good movement pictures and we hope to both generate more interest in Medau and find new ideas for our publicity boards . |
| 27 | To enable them to fulfil these tasks UDCs have been granted extensive financial , planning and land acquisition powers . |
| 28 | Rising living standards for those in work have also enabled them to buy more consumer goods . |
| 29 | This utility allows you to perform simple file management tasks such as copying and formatting disks as well as allowing you to create menus which provide access to software other than the InteSoft series . |
| 30 | Old stopcocks were not made to a standard size and it may take some searching in plumbers ’ merchants to find something that will enable you to connect new copper pipe . |