Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , there was not enough time left for me to go that way to look for him . |
| 2 | In the 1920s their financial position improved and , despite the reductions of income in the 1930s , the cheap money policy which followed the abandonment of the gold standard and the move to protection , permitted them to obtain cheap mortgages to buy the thousands of three-bedroomed semi-detached houses which were being built in the South and the Midlands at between £400 and £450 . |
| 3 | Usually , a band or artist will have only a short working life in which to earn sufficient money to live on for the rest of their lives . |
| 4 | He seemed to himself to need more leisure to pursue his studies of the New Testament and of Christian thought more profoundly . |
| 5 | Then your reward must be magnificent indeed , for you to run such risks to gain it . |
| 6 | And in the creation of unity , unity there 's deep concern about the status of American churches in Romania and obviously the Hungarian church in Romania is affected by that whole process so I would urge you to read that letter to remember the work of Hugh erm and to be aware of , of what the situation is in that part of the world . |
| 7 | This option enables you to force another user to take responsibility for a Software Performance Report ( SPR ) . |
| 8 | Most Compacts will arrange for you to have short-term targets to help you achieve the necessary goals . |
| 9 | The missions are mercifully short so you 'll often lose it only seconds from home , encouraging you to have another try to get through one more mission . |
| 10 | It 's it 's not about being able to get rid of them totally and we agree that we need some sort of level of arousal it 's being able to perform despite them to use that arousal to put into an effective presentation , and that 's what this two days is about is getting those butterflies for you to fly in formation . |
| 11 | The resolution for the first time puts the entire UN force in former Yugoslavia under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter which permits them to use military force to accomplish their mission . |
| 12 | In addition , large overseas banks , e.g. Standard Chartered Bank , also provide vital access to international capital and credit markets for LDCs so enabling them to tap external funds to finance economic development programmes . |
| 13 | It is , of course , right to require them to adopt certain procedures to ensure that the public and the full range of interests represented by the authority have the opportunity to contribute to the consideration . |
| 14 | It simply it simply does n't serve a purpose for me to allow that division to open up . |
| 15 | Having identified staff with dependent relatives and small children , devise methods which will enable them to invite other nurses to substitute for them when crises arise . |
| 16 | They still do not concede that we are doing nothing to force any GP to spend less time with his patients . |
| 17 | When Mr James Baker , the American Secretary of State , met opposition leaders in Tashkent in February , Mr Pulatov urged him to establish diplomatic relations to enable the United States to monitor human rights and give democracy a foothold . |
| 18 | It was her second husband , David , who died 16 years ago , who persuaded her to adopt orphaned elephants to see if they could be nursed through their grief and restored to health . |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations he has received urging him to take new action to combat racist attacks . |
| 20 | The attorney agreed with Haydon about the injustice of the proceedings , and told him to return that evening to settle the matter finally . |
| 21 | Solveig Shjelstad remembers clearly how because he was so badly disfigured , her mother had sent her to collect small branches to lay over his body before the coffin was sealed . |
| 22 | In spite of my appeals for him to make some effort to intervene with the King , who could often attain success with a father bent on violent punishment , Kareem dismissed my cries of alarm with unconcealed irritation and insisted the subject be dropped . |
| 23 | His father could only say falteringly that ‘ My conscience has never allowed me to influence two people to marry . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps the closer example is the Dutch case , where both the CD ( Centrumdemocraten and the CP 86 ( Centrum Partij '86 ) suffer from organisational weakness , as is revealed when the vagaries of electoral success oblige them to seek competent individuals to fill council seats that they have won . |
| 25 | The cooperation of the Austrian government has allowed it to garner political capital to help promote Austria 's bid to join the EC . |
| 26 | Now they are appealing for anyone to hold fund-raising events to boost the coffers . |
| 27 | Now they are appealing for anyone to hold fund-raising events to boost the coffers . |
| 28 | We have been running it to get democratic power to serve the people of this country , ’ said Kinnock , provoking the most spontaneous and emotional standing ovation seen in three weeks . |
| 29 | It was Christmas Eve and , during the interval in Coriolanus that night , he put the bird in the oven , expecting it to take fourteen hours to cook . |
| 30 | The AIF expects it to take 68 months to complete st Lucie 2 in Florida , which is due to be commissioned this year . |