Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 As might be expected from data reported earlier , positive attitudes as measured by all five factors were significantly associated with willingness to go on to a second round of review and reporting .
2 My proposal asks a great deal of many of you : time , energy , commitment , a willingness to go along with a plan which there is not time to discuss at length , and with ideas which I do n't imagine will win universal approval .
3 It was exciting but the last match on the Saturday with Clark and James and Strange and Stewart taking five hours and 15 minutes to go round in a fourball was a joke .
4 The Bible is quite clear that it is always a mistake for a Christian to go out with a non-Christian .
5 How can a series of fixed instructions cause the computer to come up with a random sequence of results ?
6 Callinicos ' conclusion to these arguments is that despite their efforts , built around a claimed contrast of the postmodern either with or within Modernism , these authors have produced only ‘ mutually and often internally inconsistent accounts ’ of the ‘ postmodern ’ , manifesting an ‘ inability to come up with a plausible and coherent account of its distinguishing characteristics ’ ( p. 28 ) .
7 One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea .
8 He wanted his personal belief and his professional expertness to come out as a single attribute .
9 Of course , nobody has gone that far into space and sampled stardust to come back with a bag full of diamonds .
10 In Jones & Smith [ 1976 ] 3 All ER 54 ( CA ) , the occupier 's son had general permission to enter the house but he did not have permission to come in with a friend to steal two televisions , despite the father 's saying that his son would never be a trespasser in his house .
11 We have recently had another Degree Day and an opportunity to meet up with a few familiar faces .
12 In a unique demonstration they left their schools to sit in on a county council meeting discussing the cuts.Tim Hurst reports .
13 I 'd arranged with the local flying club to go up in a small ‘ Cub ’ training aircraft , which is well-suited for aerial photography as it has a very slow cruising speed .
14 The cheapest and most practical method was for the shikari to sit out over a tethered bait in a tree hide or machan waiting for the tiger to appear .
15 Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company that has the misfortune to be controlled by the state , France 's chronic loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office .
16 Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company controlled by the state , France 's loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office .
17 After dinner that evening , Cocello instructed Randy Mueller to set up a task force team from Detroit to come up with a phase-out plan for vehicle manufacture , and a phase-in plan for supplying the UK market from imports ,
18 we have persuaded the international paper-making giant Scott to pull out of a forest-destroying project in Indonesia ;
19 Where a problem seems obviously more complex they suggest that the client makes an appointment with an adviser to come back at a time when the bureau is officially closed to the public .
20 It will be up to the SMMB to come up with a scheme that is acceptable to them . ’
21 Yes , I I Councillor is quite right , I mean it is a new new departure to centre these panels in the neighbourhoods , it was always our intention to come back after a a period had elapsed er , we , with the new system to bring to members attention the success or otherwise of the neighbourhood panels .
22 The government asked the UK hotel industry to come up with a workable system for implementing the European Commission 's directives on package travel .
23 Would a possible solution be for the son F to set up as a sole trader and eventually move to separate premises with perhaps other family members becoming partners of this business ?
24 ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ says McPherson , ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ — his voice is breaking with emotion — ‘ Oh God , Mary , I do n't want our kids to grow up in a world like this , with man an enemy to man , and cats crawling all over the books , in a cold water walk-up behind the subway depot .
25 It was the practice to walk out of a Sunday with the braided leather belt showing just below your waistcoat .
26 It is also approachable at the other end of the spectrum , which is filled by the middle-class peasant or designer-green who has a few pet animals to fit in with a rural lifestyle .
27 And the windows on the ground floor at least were too high to reach , otherwise she could have sacrificed her sweater to hang out like a flag of distress .
28 What is offered is not the results of detailed observation and validation , but an attempt to argue out from a comparison of , on the one hand , declared principles and objectives , and on the other hand , personal experience and published accounts , the fuller implications of resource-based learning in practice .
29 Only in the Norman and the crusading states , colonized in great measure from the homeland of French feudalism , did one find any attempt to live up to a conception of feudalism as coherent as that of northern France .
30 ‘ He was ever a man of terrible rectitude , ’ said Owen dispassionately , half-closing his eyes to peer back into a past he hardly ever dwelt on now .
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