Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless she agreed to the luxury of a lie-in the following Sunday morning , even allowing her sister to fuss over her a little . |
| 2 | LENTA organised parties of business people and senior ILEA personnel to see for themselves the achievements of the Boston Compact . |
| 3 | In this way , pupils will have the opportunity to discover for themselves the reasons for their beliefs , values and opinions . |
| 4 | ‘ So far he has not had the opportunity to appear to us a flexible and strong politician . ’ |
| 5 | Or should policy concentrate more on clarifying the goals and outcomes of learning , and on providing the kind of support which will enable schools to identify for themselves the best possible ways of achieving such goals and outcomes ? |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the king had to send his justices to the clergy 's deliberations and threatened to take the names of opposers , and it took all Winchelsey 's good will and best arts to elicit from them a grant of one tenth for the current year and another , should it be necessary , in the following year . |
| 7 | A turning point in the history of the republic came in 1358 , when Ludovic of Hungary forced the Venetians to cede to him the whole of Dalmatia , except for Ragusa . |
| 8 | I had a determined attitude , a few months ' really hard winter training under my belt and a driving ambition to put behind me the previous year 's exit in the opening round . |
| 9 | He never doubts that it is possible or desirable for the critic to recreate in himself the mental condition of the author ; he only recognizes that it is difficult . |
| 10 | This attitude must change , for man 's progress through time must inevitably confer upon him the right to use his powers of reason and logical thinking to build for himself a satisfying religion based on a credible ‘ god ’ . |
| 11 | And it all comes back to what I was saying earlier about trying to get kids to believe in themselves a little bit . |
| 12 | He then ordered a car to call for him the next morning for a similar occasion and was felled by a stroke while waiting for the lift . |
| 13 | I even bought a set of those flash cards with pictures and words such as Cat , Dog , Rabbit , Mummy and Daddy in my attempt to awake in him a hunger for knowledge . |
| 14 | Use a Lifebuilder Bible study to dig into what the Bible shares . |
| 15 | A seminar held by Lothian and Borders Police in connection with road safety issues involving the older road user revealed that a key element to ensure enhancement of the safety of this group requires guidance to impress upon them the importance of individual responsibility . |
| 16 | From the Reagan administration 's first decision to listen to what the Israelis were saying , the Iran-contra affair had found its firm foundation in political and diplomatic illusion . |
| 17 | Willingness to listen to what the subordinate is really saying and trying to understand what lies behind the spoken word |
| 18 | They set off from Wyre Mill to see for themselves the finishing touches being put to the weir nearby . |
| 19 | in the Court of Appeal , ‘ in view of the historic struggle of the legislature to secure for itself the sole power to levy money upon the subject , its complete success in that struggle , the elaborate means adopted by the representative House to control the amount , the conditions and the purpose of the levy , the circumstances would be remarkable indeed which would induce the court to believe that the legislature had sacrificed all the well-known checks and precautions , and , not in express words , but merely by implication , had entrusted a Minister of the Crown with undefined and unlimited powers of imposing charges upon the subject for purposes connected with his department . ’ |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the B–17 at Duxford stands daily inviting visitors to reflect on what a 30 mission combat tour entailed for the men of the Mighty Eighth . |
| 21 | Professor Donaldson was so irate at my letter in the Times , which he considered to reflect upon English architects in general , that he proposed moving the Institute to reverse the recommendation of their council to award to me the annual Royal Gold Medal of the Institute , and was only dissuaded from attempting to inflict that gratuitous dishonour upon me by strong remonstrances . |
| 22 | The interactivity lies in the computer 's capacity to respond to what the user does . |
| 23 | She gave one group of male volunteers a new colour vocabulary to learn in which the terms were centred on the four basic colours . |
| 24 | Fortunately it was a warm afternoon and many colleagues took the opportunity to discuss among themselves the significance of the Maastricht events on the terrace overlooking the Thames . |
| 25 | precisely Mr Chairman if I could answer that the , the , the once the inspector comes back to the Fire Service and reports again and he is due back in June , we will then look at the matters he raises at that time and he will look at the progress report er what , what has happened since his last inspection and then we will have the opportunity to look at what the Inspector has , has to say after his visits , not very far away er , their Chief Officer will go on with this programme |
| 26 | Boutros Ghali , last Monday , I took the opportunity to suggest to him the need for more action in Somalia . |
| 27 | As such , no one would deny the unfairness and the imbalance in the system , and the need to reintroduce to it the fundamental legal precept of justice . |
| 28 | They had no need to worry about what the National Consumer Council called ‘ manageable commitment ’ , in which the customer operated a system of precisely monitored deferred payment , only ‘ overcommitment ’ and ‘ unmanageable commitment ’ . |
| 29 | Lucy Honeychurch 's generation are trying to assert their right to choose for themselves the path of their lives . |
| 30 | Fatialofa is L'Aquila 's ‘ foreign player ’ but on the other side of the scrum there is a South African of Italian descent , Gerardo Lepera , who does not count as a foreign player and has the right to play as what the Italians call an oriundi . |