Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This became for me a serious piece of policy . |
| 2 | Also , interestingly , Labour was trying to claim for itself the new Prospective owner-occupiers with a promise of low interest mortgages for low income earners . |
| 3 | Quite possibly another administration than a British one , less morally aspiring and less legally punctilious , would have arranged for him a quiet accident , or a fatal incarceration . |
| 4 | If , however , you suffer from a skin complaint such as eczema , psoriasis or acne , you may need to seek further advice ( an aromatherapist , herbalist or nutritionist ) who will devise for you a personalised healing programme . |
| 5 | Now they began to see for themselves the amazing interconnected web of life which links the creatures and plants on Denmark Farm , and the critical role which each link plays in maintaining the chain of existence — the working ecological system . |
| 6 | They set off from Wyre Mill to see for themselves the finishing touches being put to the weir nearby . |
| 7 | Barratt had been up to Tilberthwaite to see for himself the likely value of Knott 's sett on the Muncaster estate land there and he considered it to be a worthwhile proposition having seen , as he put it , " good bunches of ore under water " . |
| 8 | They also demanded that President Guillermo Endara Gallimany , 56 , make a personal visit to the old part of the city to see for himself the severe level of poverty the population was being forced to endure . |
| 9 | We await the Light of the World with this powerful symbol underlining for us the real nature of Advent : a time of expectation ‘ as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 10 | More than any other sound , more even than the grunting roar of a lion , their howling evokes for me the African night . |
| 11 | He has gathered about him a defecting company of slum boys , with one of whom , Bryant , of the distorted face , his hair done up in small Medusa pigtails , he sometimes makes love . |
| 12 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
| 13 | Through the horse , we have emphasized for us the animalistic and instinctive nature of the male ( or human ? ) sexual appetite . |
| 14 | So we 'd have to go through it the next day anyway . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't think about what the first tackle is going to be like , unless of course it comes from Stuart Pearce ! |
| 16 | He was soon dismissed for what an industrial tribunal described as ‘ indulging in behaviour short of intercourse ’ with the executive 's wife . |
| 17 | He made for himself a special balance with which he could measure the exact proportions of two metals in a mixture or alloy . |
| 18 | In 1987 , when Tony Heginbottom revived the tradition at Cragg Vale Spa near Hebden Bridge , I was there to taste for myself the chalybeate water . |
| 19 | And how could she , always so proud , have come to ask a stranger to write for her a private letter , even if her sight was becoming bad ? |
| 20 | Only marriage has for him the required social connotations , expressing the kind of personal and social commitment mentioned earlier . |
| 21 | In reality , of course , it stands for something a whole lot less fierce-sounding — simply one 's partner in life . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | Although writing here with a different purpose from our own — and exclusively from a psychodynamic perspective — Anthony nevertheless articulates for us the final theme that remains to be developed in this chapter , which concerns the formal similarities between the mechanisms of mad and creative thought . |
| 24 | Zimbabwe 's elevation has about it a pronounced aroma of political engineering . |
| 25 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |
| 26 | However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment . |
| 27 | There was disagreement between the two companies as to whose responsibility would be the making of this towpath , so that in the end they built between them a new bridge just beyond the bottom lock . |
| 28 | By helping teachers understand classroom roles , it enables them to discover for themselves the best ways of fostering co-operative learning . |
| 29 | Informative and amiable as he seemed , he yet possessed a cold inhumanity that seeped through his every witty remark . |
| 30 | Lord Burlington also employed the services of an architect named Campbell , who built for him a beautiful temple , based on the Temple of Romulus in Rome . |