Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they should try and do something more positive to curb that sort of thing . ’ |
| 2 | To watch Reutemann on a tennis court , for instance , was painful ; even Hunt , a splendid athlete , really lacked that sort of fluency which expresses real ‘ style ’ ; Jody Scheckter , doing almost anything , was incredibly clumsy . |
| 3 | I hate that sort of stuff but it pays and money from that goes towards my travel and equipment costs . ’ |
| 4 | I hate that sort of stuff but it pays and money from that goes towards my travel and equipment costs . ’ |
| 5 | in fact I might not even need to vacuum the floor , need I ? , if I pick that bit of paper up off there |
| 6 | Harold Wilson 's words are remembered today , 25 years after he led Labour back to power , from 13 wilderness years . |
| 7 | It should also be appreciated that activity between market participants is used by the Bank of England , directly and indirectly to implement monetary policy via interest rate changes . |
| 8 | Strange , Gina thought , how much their two countries had in common and how little she had realised that element of kinship before . |
| 9 | Do you think that variation in pricing strategy will be er contrary to what you 're trying to do in terms of your image projection for the brand ? |
| 10 | If it was n't that we had to develop from an egg in every generation , I do n't think that kind of conservatism would be observed . |
| 11 | I mean a do you think that kind of thing would work here ? |
| 12 | I pretended to ignore this and he said something in German after me which I took to mean : ‘ You must be a very dull fellow if you do n't think that sort of thing funny . ’ |
| 13 | The second step in recreating a market economy is to restore private ownership of capital . |
| 14 | And if the herd is threatened , they will gallop off together or maybe huddle together , touching each other for reassurance . |
| 15 | The Express and the Mail saw the Empire Crusade as a means of uniting the Empire by encouraging free trade within it and both newspapers gave publicity and financial support to those by-election candidates who promised to uphold that line in Parliament . |
| 16 | To take child care for instance , we can suddenly get two or three ah admissions to secure units at a cost of two thousand pounds a week and that 's er you know a hundred thousand a year per child so we can really there are other votes that can , can absorb that sort of money . |
| 17 | Whilst most of us , for example , can cope with having the occasional murderous thought about people we love , or work with , there are other people for whom such thoughts constitute a profound assault on their self-worth , and who must , therefore , either suffer that sense of worthlessness or involve themselves in an intense effort to deny or rationalize the thought . |
| 18 | It was anticipated , however , that at least during the first stage Gorbachev would make extensive use of emergency powers , granted to him in September , to introduce reforms by presidential decree . |
| 19 | The repository would make extensive use of cement and concrete as ‘ engineered ’ barriers . |
| 20 | The objective of the course provision is to produce office professionals who can make extensive use of technology but who are able to accept responsibility and operate heuristically as well as technically within organisational systems . |
| 21 | In spite of this , we are left with perhaps one in five who appear to have made sensible revisions of their choice , given total cost of credit and/or APR information . |
| 22 | At one extreme , the editors could be given total licence to film anything they liked and to show the House in their own way ( as when covering a football match , or as in some American state legislatures where camera and microphone men are even allowed to wander around on the floor of the House ) . |
| 23 | It is therefore usual for the offer letter to contain a clause permitting the investor , its accountants and other professional advisers to conduct due diligence in relation to the target business . |
| 24 | If the birds or Australia had not received that degree of attention from the scientific ornithologist which their interest demanded ’ , he wrote in his preface to Mammals of Australia , ‘ I can assert , without fear of contradiction , that its highly curious and interesting Mammals have been still less investigated . |
| 25 | In Britain the revelation that the correspondence of Mazzini , the Italian nationalist leader then a refugee in London , was being opened and read in this way produced strong criticism in parliament and the press . |
| 26 | The first six months produced strong growth in compound feed sales , led by a recovery in pig tonnage and our continued success in the dairy sector . |
| 27 | The highlight here is undoubtedly the 1955 Brahms Haydn Variations , one of his earliest ( mono ) recordings with the Philharmonia , which reveals the conductor in an extremely dynamic mood , shaping each Variation with incisiveness and great breadth of characterisation . |
| 28 | This involves combined action by hospital providers , who have fulfilled their contracts with a quarter of the year remaining , and general practitioners , who as a consequence are unable to obtain hospital treatment for their patients , to put pressure on health authorities to increase the resources available to acute services . |
| 29 | Congress should be asked to continue economic and military aid with the objective of achieving a well-trained , efficient army of 65,000 men , including air detachments adequate for maintaining political order inside South Korea , a coastguard of 4,000 men , and a police force of 35,000 possessing small arms and ammunition . |
| 30 | ‘ Mother did n't make that kind of mistake . ’ |