Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There is a further cause-effect or condition-effect relation to be noted , but it will be best to do so after noting one between causal circumstance and effect , implied already .
2 Cops got ta do something on that island to-justify the taxes . ’
3 Someone 's got ta do something about that Brian , ?
4 So I said to him , right I said we either go I mean I keep saying to him you 've got ta do something about this !
5 I never , you know , sort of asked anything after that , I just see what he tells me sort of thing .
6 Critical for hooking Alphas and VAXes , DEC said the platform would be protocol-independent , capable of handling everything from multi-vendor PC LANs to multi-vendor mainframes .
7 Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared .
8 This results in the DH being reached over the field with little hope of seeing anything in marginal conditions .
9 I had no previous experience of building anything like this , but by studying the old sheds and some leaflets from a company that made stables , I 'd knocked up a working drawing .
10 Even if you ca n't afford organic produce the benefits of eating plenty of ordinary fresh fruit , vegetables and cereals far outweigh any risks from the chemical residues .
11 ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’
12 ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’
13 But here — since he had not the slightest intention of addressing anything but common courtesy towards Miss Skelton — he could allow that sympathy to exercise itself .
14 Many hon. Members believe that the Secretary of State should immediately instruct the Director General of Fair Trading to review the position urgently and in detail , so that we can discover whether there is still some possibility of saving something from this awful mess .
15 The cud is thoroughly masticated — the jaw can move from side to side as well as up and down — before it is finally passed into the digestive system where the job of extracting everything of nutritive value will be carried out .
16 It also provides the context in which to consider both the claim that for the later Foucault knowledge is absolutely determined , leaving him in the impossible situation of requiring something outside this for any prospect of critique , as well as the question of exactly how power and resistance are interdependent and to what extent they are separable .
17 Not having a copy of Class War : Britain 's Most Unruly Tabloid to hand , and doubtful of getting one at short notice , I ask if he has the telephone number .
18 His letters evince the excitement he felt at undertaking this journey , one which few Europeans had as yet made , and his anticipation of getting plenty of big game hunting on the way .
19 Having formed the habit of buying lots of fresh fruit and vegetables , fish , white meat and low fat alternatives to dairy products , we need to cook interesting and attractively presented dishes .
20 Now come on you lot of get one in this box !
21 We would never dream of beginning anything of this kind without gaining the views of local residents .
22 While Brunner naturally had not the remotest intention of supporting anything of this kind , his concern for his own kind of natural theology seemed to Barth to be wholly without adequate defences against it .
23 While most of us would admit to having hurt another person deliberately , we recoil in horror from the thought of subjecting someone to extreme pain for impersonal reasons .
24 He must of known something about that .
25 Emphasize the difficulty of saying anything at all with regard to religion which may not be received by someone in a misleading way .
26 Most local authorities do not recruit until the months immediately before the vacancy arises although some authorities are increasingly seeing the advantage of recruiting one to two years in advance .
27 I started playing about with it and later felt a real satisfaction of doing something with that girl 's head of hair that no-one had wanted to touch .
28 But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her .
29 I mean I might think of doing something like that , but I 'd never actually dare to do it …
30 ‘ Other accountants should n't dismiss the idea of doing something like this , ’ she adds .
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