Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The analyst contended that " studies that find age differences ( among teenagers ) tend to find them in measures that are sensitive to socio-economic factors such as the prenatal complications of toxaemia and anaemia , rather than in biologically constrained outcomes of labour and delivery " . |
| 2 | For the Lord revealed , ‘ I intend to baptise them with tongues of fire ’ ( Wagner 1973:16 ) . |
| 3 | She knows people and tried to dazzle me with names . |
| 4 | The first is to try to classify them in terms of the kinds of knowledge , procedures and criteria of judgement they involve . |
| 5 | The film we 're going to see is Flatliners , and Denice tells us she 's been dying to see it for ages . |
| 6 | An upbringing designed to carry him through changes of regime and frontier , possible loss of every worldly possession , and , in the event of crisis , protracted stays with distant relatives ensconced wherever the aristocracy was tolerated , from the Polish border to Hyde Park Gate , in short , a good European background , had made him totally self-contained and able with sunny smile and the formal handshake of the gymnase to set almost anybody at their ease , even the flustered Nenna . |
| 7 | It is a paradox — one of the many paradoxes of mysticism — that even though mystics insist that their experiences are radically ineffable , many of the great mystics have felt compelled to write them down and to try to communicate them to others . |
| 8 | Although the Lancastrian and Yorkist monarchs occasionally tried to replace it with taxes assessed directly on individual incomes , resistance proved too strong , and the fifteenth and tenth still held its own in 1485 as the established form of parliamentary taxation . |
| 9 | He knew Blanche was nervous by her uncharacteristic air of distraction and tried to calm her with compliments about her appearance . |
| 10 | This is not always easy ; we become skilled at using professional jargon and expect to hear it from others , but if we believe that people who use services should be involved in planning , then it is important that the language we use can be understood . |
| 11 | This structure had for long been partially responsible for delay in their legal recognition , since the civil law had not yet come to express it in terms it could comprehend . |
| 12 | ‘ I want to know the identity of a man , I want to reach him , I want to put him in handcuffs and read him a charge of First Degree murder . ’ |
| 13 | Okay but we want to do it , good that 's it but we want to do it by times lots of these numbers times together . |
| 14 | Only those I feel we can trust to keep it under wraps have been contacted . ’ |
| 15 | There was n't much to be proud of in a mixed bunch of movies which were largely exploitation of current trends , regardless of how Corman tried to disguise them with socio-explanations . |
| 16 | I 'm not saying I condone it , ’ he interpreted her look , ‘ but at the moment maybe it 's all she has to protect her from feelings of inadequacy . ’ |
| 17 | You do n't need to hoard them for years , I know some people who hoard receipts for years . |
| 18 | His own contribution was to suggest ways in which the legal process exerted a powerful influence over delinquents : it provided them with a vocabulary which enabled them to justify their delinquent actions ‘ in the circumstances ’ ( ‘ techniques of neutralisation ’ ) and with a sense of injustice which helped to release them from feelings of obligation to conform . |
| 19 | The Sergeant took us into the small canteen and told us quietly and forcefully that our holiday in Aubagne was over and that we were off to start four months of basic training designed to turn us into legionnaires . |
| 20 | I 've really had to work hard to get where I got to and when I fight a black guy , I know that he 's had to do the same thing , I think : ‘ Well , he 's had it as hard as me ’ and little zest goes out of your punching , I just want to beat him on points . |
| 21 | So avoid taking a vacation soon after you have acquired a puppy , especially if it means that you will need to place it in kennels . |
| 22 | Those candidates exercise their freedoms and I defend those freedoms — If the freedoms which Conservative Members say they want to uphold were so widespread , they would not only define freedom in terms of the power to own shares in a company but would seek to defend it in terms of being able to get a job in that company , in a country with getting on for 2.5 million unemployed . |
| 23 | ‘ I was always meant to lose her , ’ she had sobbed to Arthur , who tried to comfort her with cups of tea and brief , common-sense reassurances . |
| 24 | Ronnie Ross : ‘ At the time he came to see me for lessons , groups like The Rolling Stones were just beginning to come into vogue although he was more interested in jazz , and we 'd sit and talk about jazz and jazz musicians quite often . |
| 25 | In response to your request for comments on the above issue , I am writing to inform you of decisions recently taken by two of the Council 's committees . |
| 26 | He refuses to provide them with entries or numbers in his catalogue . |
| 27 | we , we , we , we , we 've , we 've , we 've got one decision I think which we are making , which is that we should n't at the moment , make any recruitment until we 've got confirmation that we can guarantee employment next year , se , secondly I think we 're saying that the first appointment that we do want to make is of a complaint examiner , and that if further investigators leave us , then we would n't be seeking to replace them as investigators , we 'd be seeking to replace with the complaint examiner , that , that , that , |
| 28 | Some definitions of poverty have sought to define it in terms of absolute deprivation , where some measure is made of subsistence requirements based on physical needs . |
| 29 | This leads to senior officers and their departments becoming increasingly secretive about their work and refusing to discuss it with others who might offer a better sense of judgement . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been wanting to do it for years . ’ |