Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 2 | Passion offers schools , colleges and community venues the opportunity to invest in a vast wealth of information about our work during the 80 's and then draw from that information in a more creative and challenging way . |
| 3 | However , the theoretical advances that these views represent do not seem to have significantly affected statements about literacy , which appear at times to remain in a pre-Saussurian world . |
| 4 | One imagines that not a few may actually have seized the opportunity to indulge in a quiet sleep in preparation for the evening stint , for the dinner was formal and the occasion for full ceremonial . |
| 5 | Broadly speaking , their best strategies to cope with a Labour win would be to ensure they make the most of allowances created through the independent taxation of husbands and wives , and — where possible — to take income on a self-employed basis rather than as employees . |
| 6 | Perhaps instead of competing with each other to sell their wares , Third World countries could get together and force the West to agree to a standard minimum price for commodity prices , like oil-producing countries did with OPEC . |
| 7 | The pattern recognition technique enables the computer to cope with a certain amount of operator error , minor misspellings make no difference . |
| 8 | Services at the Horton General Hospital in Banbury have been saved by a decision to invest in a new maternity unit . |
| 9 | AN HOUR to spare on a recent visit to London gave me the opportunity to visit the famous Science Museum 's well-advertised new gallery ‘ Physics and Nuclear Power ’ . |
| 10 | He slipped his arm around her and they walked through the park to sit on a secluded seat there . |
| 11 | It is therefore safe for a fire-engine driver to proceed at a higher speed than would be possible for other drivers . |
| 12 | The establishment of the West German state in the latter part of 1948 , enabled plans to proceed for a general election there , in August 1949 , resulting , in 139 Christian Democrats ; 131 Social Democrats and 52 Free Democrats being elected , with extreme parties winning very few seats . |
| 13 | Marsh was dismissed with three minutes to go for a late challenge on Dimitr Radchenko , scorer of Spartak 's first goal , in their 2–0 success which made it 6–2 on aggregate . |
| 14 | Once again , you have an opportunity to go for a perfect ton , providing you have produced the goods during the first two days play . |
| 15 | A number of courses give students an opportunity to go on a short relevant placement in an organization outside the University , where they gain experience of the world of work and in applying the skills they have learnt . |
| 16 | The game against the Belgians affords Rangers the opportunity to go through a complete year without losing at home in any competition . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , none of us has got enough money to go into a high-class nursing home — at least as far as I know — so of course the wind was up all of us . |
| 18 | The British Chiefs of Staff and the Foreign Office put up an obdurate defence , yet it seems that Attlee did not begin to retreat until January 1947 , around the time of the decision to proceed with a British nuclear bomb . |
| 19 | The cheese presses went into use for the first time in twenty years , Jem attended Bodmin market with butter and lard and eggs to sell once a fortnight , and , with George Langley 's help , a little light trap came , of varnished wood , which Murphy , now beaten out of surprise and disapproval , taught Alexandra to drive with a helpful bay mare between the shafts . |
| 20 | A delegation from the European Parliament was denied permission to proceed with a planned visit to the area . |
| 21 | In December 1959 Congress announced the cancellation of the B-70 weapons system , leaving NAA with only permission to proceed with a single XB-70 prototype . |
| 22 | I do believe it was n't just inability to cope with a terrible handicap . |
| 23 | CONTINGENCY plans to cope with a serious accident to a nuclear weapon being taken over the Kingston Bridge in Glasgow are flawed , councillors heard yesterday . |
| 24 | On June 3 , 1990 , the national committee of the Social Democratic Party voted to suspend the party 's constitution because it no longer had the membership or popular support to continue as a democratic national party . |
| 25 | This is a self service concept to allow those who do not want to leave their fresh air pursuits to indulge in a light health-conscious choice of foods . |
| 26 | ‘ I have an important function to attend in a few days ’ time . |
| 27 | Betty was here out of the kindness of her heart to minister to a wounded human being . |
| 28 | It is interesting that , as the opportunity to paint for a specific exhibition has offered itself , a freer and less tentative approach can be seen both in subject matter and technique . |
| 29 | After becoming estranged from Kim Dae Jung following their inability to agree upon a single candidate to oppose Roh Tae Woo in the 1987 presidential contest , in 1990 he led his opposition party into an amalgamation with Roh 's ruling party to form the DLP . |
| 30 | You can use this function to wait for a specified time for a key to be pressed . |