Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what began as apparently inter-tribal friction developed into an on going township war between the A N C , the Zulu-based Inkahta movement and the State Security Forces . |
| 2 | THE nights were still so cold that icicles formed on the outside of the chutes that fed the water-mills , where the water churned white and spilled over . |
| 3 | Thanks to this way of analysing the movement of to , the expressive effects of unexpectedness , good or bad luck and the like produced by the to infinitive in these cases can be accounted for . |
| 4 | The view just proposed accounts for the rather curious fact that there are no passive constructions followed by the to infinitive with the verb watch , as both Fries ( 1964 : 21 ) and Mittwoch ( 1990 : 119 ) have pointed out : ( 75 ) He was seen to cross the street . |
| 5 | So it made the Stenness Loch polluted for the as pollution comes in the Stenness Loch and it f spoilt the fishing here . |
| 6 | Irene 's gaze moved to the FOR SALE board . |
| 7 | A more emphatic outline can be achieved by making a second cut round the outside of the first outline . |
| 8 | Very flat on the bottom and turned up to the bow and that 's what the salmon fishers used in the in the rivers for pulling their nets in and fishing salmon on the . |
| 9 | The attention focussed on the to infinitive has led to some important generalizations . |
| 10 | 2.1 TWO TYPES OF MEANING EXPRESSED BY THE TO INFINITIVE |
| 11 | An examination of the actual meaning expressed by the to infinitive after verbs of perception in the active voice shows therefore a necessary before/after relationship between the event of the verb of perception ( which has shifted to evoke the notion of inference ) and the event of the infinitive ( which denotes the conclusion reached by means of the inference ) . |
| 12 | As a consequence , oblige can be used even when the event denoted by the to infinitive has not yet been realized : ( 165 ) The law obliges everyone to pay his taxes . |
| 13 | They also argue that the waste of resources associated with the ex post coordination of supply and demand through markets is as nothing when set against the loss of production associated with the weak incentives of a planned economy and when compared to the inefficiency , bungling and corruption of every economic planning bureaucracy yet devised . |
| 14 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 15 | This is the first of er two lectures on the American presidency and erm I want to begin just by putting the presidency in , in context erm thus far I hope it 's clear that the American pol political system is one in which authority is firstly limited by the constitution in which authority dispersed by the by virtue of the separation of powers . |
| 16 | No it 's not realistic because you know that there are thousands of people involved with the in the Garrimpos and er there is no way you could er shut them down without offering them an alternative . |
| 17 | Ace had heard the scraping noises on the hull , so she was n't entirely terrified when a scaly , bristly limb extended across the outside of the window next to her . |
| 18 | US and Belgian forces landed at the of Kismayu yesterday , scene of some of the country 's worst clan carnage . |
| 19 | Last season it seemed as though Fairclough was one of those being blamed for the porous Leeds defence ( without the benefit of TV or live matches I 'm going entirely on what I read ) , and was one of the players stuck with a for sale sign at the end of the season by Wilko . |
| 20 | He sighed and set off up the stairs again , pulling himself up by his hands on the thick , frozen rope fixed to the outside of the staircase , the castle 's concession to their earlier request for a handhold on the often ice-slicked steps . |
| 21 | Know can also be found in the operative sense followed by the to infinitive : ( 110 ) I 've never known him to lie to me . |
| 22 | But erm I know my delegates wo n't , wo n't want to book at that er it 's , they , they will expect to book at prices quoted in the in the conference register . |
| 23 | What was the view amongst men and women in those times , was preventing having children regarded as a as a woman 's job ? |
| 24 | This prejudice against close involvement with " the secular government may be illustrated by an anecdote related in the about Molla Gurani . |
| 25 | In 1681 , the Burgh of Selkirk , having chosen Sir Patrick Murray , who did not reside in that burgh , to be their commissioner to Parliament , a charge was given both to the burgh and to Sir Patrick for payment of the penalty imposed by the of Convention . |
| 26 | Courts in country B ( the country of shipment ) would not award the amount stipulated in the per package limitation of country A ( the importing country ) even though A 's implementing statute stated that it applied to inward as well as to outward bound shipments . |
| 27 | A single pickup sits centrally in the body , with four poles set in a straight-across arrangement , unlike the later ‘ split ’ Precision pickup with its ‘ two poles per string ’ setup . |
| 28 | There does not appear to have been an account taken of the of the factors that may reduce traffic on the A sixty one er and ways of ameliorating the current problems on the road which are not just a question of the volumes , but in fact the timescale it takes in fact to clear that road in the mornings . |
| 29 | This layout was a physical expression of the administrative structure that Hammond was organizing for the office particularly , as Mary Anderson points out , the special status awarded to the Under Secretaries and their political departments , by placing them on the same level as the Secretary of State . |
| 30 | exactly , so it would be a document issued by the by you the with the intention of what Mr and in effect update brochure here and in charge |