Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [pron] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason , of the patient , turning off the machine has attracted to itself an enormous significance , and has already spawned its own folklore . |
| 2 | The Bible as holy literature , the oracles of the Logos , has become for them an inanimate object of scientific investigation . |
| 3 | The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is , and is ‘ knowing thyself ’ as a product of the historical process to date which has deposited in you an infinity of traces , without leaving an inventory . |
| 4 | The need for the Labour Party to abandon the trade union block vote has seemed to me an open-and-shut case since I first wrote advocating it , in the old Manchester Guardian , in 1957 . |
| 5 | The reduced police presence in all the former socialist countries has brought with it an increase in crime , and I have no wish to boost the statistics . |
| 6 | Our increase in intensive farming has brought with it an increase in outbreaks of food poisoning . |
| 7 | It also seems to be a sad fact that the increase in freedom since Die Wende The Turning has brought with it an increase in monetary problems and the 26 artists here , all of them under 40 , obviously have great , heart-searching problems to cope with . |
| 8 | The reading of my Botanick Essays and the Experiments he has successfully made in pursuance of what I have advanced there has created in him an earnestness to correspond with me . |
| 9 | From that time , he was to direct her education , and to try to instil in her an awareness of statecraft and of the political circumstances and problems not only of her adopted country but of her kingdom . |
| 10 | As Marcus Binney and David Pearce put it : ‘ since its establishment in 1947 British Rail has acquired for itself an all too deserved reputation as the biggest corporate vandal and iconoclast Britain has seen since the Tudor dissolution of the monasteries ’ . |
| 11 | Opening heavy lids , she found that he was staring at her with burning eyes , yet she was aware that he 'd imposed on himself an icy control . |
| 12 | Sir : I would like to relate to you an experience I recently had at a computer dealership on Oxford Road , Manchester , which I think may , in part , explain the ever downward spiralling morass computer retailing finds itself in . |
| 13 | I looked up , my eyes wide , expecting to find in his an echo of the chill of waste . |
| 14 | We may have had from him an attempt at Opposition fury , but , on occasion , he experienced pretty heavy weather in trying to make distinctions between his party and the Government on an issue on which , in essence , they agree . |
| 15 | In such cases they were often allowed to take for themselves an annual salary out of those revenues . |
| 16 | In his first term he had to write for him an essay on the art of poetry . |
| 17 | We greatly respect and value each of our employees and we strive to provide for them an appropriate workplace environment . |
| 18 | If adult human beings wish to impose upon themselves an inappropriate and inefficient diet , that is their own business . |
| 19 | It has often been observed that , whilst old age is not an illness , it does bring with it an increased susceptibility to illness and disease . |
| 20 | When he exiled himself to Jersey , it was to surround himself with ‘ the sinister sheep of the sea ’ , ‘ the hydra-headed dragon ’ , which had become for him an image of the abyss , of fate , and of God . |
| 21 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 22 | Using this ‘ recognition ’ to explore the positivity of how domestic relations are lived seems to me an important step beyond assertions that the academic should side with the oppressed … |
| 23 | In reply to a letter from Sheldon Vanauken , who , after his wife 's death , wrote to Lewis about their love which had remained for him an end in itself , Lewis replied : |
| 24 | It does seem to me an extraordinary catalogue of errors erm and one can well understand how errors take p er could , could have occurred during the somewhat co chaotic passage of the Railways Bill er what , what can not be understood and what is quite inexcusable is , is the fact that no steps adequate steps have been taken to correct those errors and to assure the er continued existence of a er Transport Police which er h h has the sole responsibility for er policing large public spaces in , in this country and er as the Noble Lord has made clear , er does it honour er very considerable scale , very effectively er I hope that the Minister will find it possible to make a favourable reply to the arguments which have been raised . |
| 25 | Discarding pretence still further , she opened one of the drawers in the white chest of drawers , slamming it shut at once on the unfashionable baby clothes that Nannie had left in tidy small piles , washed and mended as though she had planned for them an after-life in which Nannie 's memory should have a lasting importance . |
| 26 | E. C. Llewellyn , the Professor , was a rich , pleasant man , interested in linguistics , who had assembled around him an excellent team . |
| 27 | As far as study of the mystics is concerned , this has meant that modern readers have felt inhibited about discussing these texts and have attributed to them an abstruse esoteric quality ; this is ironic in view of the fact that the mystics themselves proclaim their experience to be of fundamental human importance — and essentially simple . |
| 28 | These new ‘ immigrants ’ have brought with them an urban , middle-class life-style which is largely alien to the remaining local agricultural population . |
| 29 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 30 | Although some of the residences have electric razor sockets in the rooms , conference guests are advised to bring with them an adaptor for use in a light bulb socket . |