Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is also firmly committed to proactive management : ‘ This is n't the kind of business environment in which we can set targets and expect something to happen , and we 're not waiting for an economic turnaround to provide us with the kind of results we want to turn in . |
| 2 | Several of the actresses make plucky attempts to inject it with a semblance of artistic integrity : proper name Diane Whitley is convincing as Karen , the girl who is the subject of the lovelorn quest , and Paula Wilcox , as the veteran competitor , has enough experience and talent to gauge the scale of this production and perform accordingly . |
| 3 | That decision to organize ourselves as a group was a really important step forward for us as workers and for the organization . |
| 4 | The big four have asked all Japanese corporations with equity-financing plans to postpone them for the time being . |
| 5 | MOTORIST Peter Beer battled for eight hours to free himself from his crashed car while vehicles roared past on a motorway yards above . |
| 6 | When he was able , he fed himself with the meal he 'd prepared earlier , and stripped off the heavy insulating robe to dress himself in Tech-Green drab . |
| 7 | They produce beef that no one will buy at the price at which they want to sell it , so they are subsidised by the European taxpayer to dump it in West Africa , where it destroys the livelihoods of poor farmers . |
| 8 | For a moment he thought there was a double meaning in her words , but he dismissed the thought when he recognised it was one of her usual openings to draw him into conversation . |
| 9 | No-one has the complete freedom to do anything in our modern , regimented society . |
| 10 | The powerful running of the big front man had been a constant threat to Andover all afternoon and they just had no answer as he finally surged through shrugging off vain attempts to check him before delivering the perfect finish . |
| 11 | Although in retrospect it might seem a vain hope to disguise ourselves as a motor yacht , we were not well known in the area and there were , after all , quite a few converted HDML 's about in those days , so we removed a few obvious identification marks from the ship including our uniforms , flew the red ensign and settled down to wait . |
| 12 | The timetable we had to work to meant there was little opportunity to do anything with the draft scripts except change factual errors . |
| 13 | If it can be shown to the satisfaction of the jury that the defendant had the intention , he has very little opportunity to exculpate himself on the grounds that he lacked mens rea , as will be explained further presently . |
| 14 | er we were given very little opportunity to raise anything with Mr |
| 15 | Farmers still dilute a concentrated formulation to apply it in 200 litres or more of water per hectare . |
| 16 | Look out for anyone standing around on their own , and if possible try to involve them in what you are doing . |
| 17 | If possible try to frame them in a dramatic way — because this is a further pointer for the children showing how you are going to work together . |
| 18 | If you are really living in a mess , have a grand clear-out and put the whole place straight ; after that try to discipline yourself to dean and tidy on a regular basis to keep it under control . |
| 19 | It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun . |
| 20 | One small technical trick to aid you in keeping the police at bay , I add , is for your corpse to be supposed to be the result of an accident , often seeming such to everybody but your incurably inquisitive heroine . |
| 21 | Equally , no company should fail to take advance action to prepare itself for them . |
| 22 | Indeed it has been almost necessary for the agricultural industry to ignore it in order to develop the modern chemical systems of farming . |
| 23 | It can not have helped him , but the restored democracy had treated the leaders of that attempt to destroy it with , if anything , excessive leniency . |
| 24 | The grief-stricken widow refused to leave her dead husband 's side , and even crawled into his bed in a vain attempt to infect herself with his disease . |
| 25 | We snap a toothpick and make a half-hearted attempt to stick it to our chin . |
| 26 | D'Arcy spent the first hour of the morning arranging for a private aircraft to fly them from le Bourget . |
| 27 | Do you know it is possible because of the fear of people around you , the fear of your peers , the fear of what men may say , of what your family will think , of what your work mates might say about you , it is possible to allow that fear to send you to hell . |
| 28 | Horrified by his latest intentions , they were perhaps genuinely considering a last-ditch attempt to save him from himself . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't know , ’ Sarella said dully in a last-ditch attempt to salvage something from the wreckage of her self-esteem . |
| 30 | It is the responsibility of each employee to acquaint themselves with the full details of these and any local arrangements . |