Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christians in the Roman colony at Corinth were notorious for issuing lawsuits just to resolve bitter disputes between one Christian and another ( cf. 1 Cor. |
| 2 | The system is designed to make large documents such as technical manuals easier to research , share and modify , as well as reducing the amount of storage space required . |
| 3 | They also carried the names of mint and moneyer , which made those responsible for sub-standard specimens easier to trace . |
| 4 | It is not sufficient for social psychologists merely to define attitudes in terms of a stance taken at a particular time , with the assumption that such a stance has a fixity , which is only to be shifted by the reception of ‘ persuasive information ’ . |
| 5 | It has been said that the report was the civil servants ' idea of heaven , with even more figures for the number-crunching mandarins to compare with those that British Rail provided yesterday — to be followed by requests for further reports tomorrow to explain the discrepancies . |
| 6 | BELVILLE : I have had the mortification for some weeks past to come home to a very different Pamela than I used to . |
| 7 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 8 | Because of this , the tobacco industry has been legally obliged for some years now to print health warnings on packets . |
| 9 | The European Community plays a vital role in developing law in the United Kingdom , and it is important for Scottish solicitors both to have a say in its formation and to be kept informed of changes in Brussels . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I never saw one thing she wanted that did not sell , ’ but nonetheless insisted that this undisciplined approach was unacceptable for a customer trying to furnish a house , who might have kept a sample for six weeks only to find she could not reorder the same fabric . |
| 11 | Are we justified in ‘ wasting ’ the not-inconsiderable examination fees for six entries simply to secure one or two more ‘ A ’ level passes ? |
| 12 | The government has a list of long-promised infrastructure projects that could make up for the fall in private investment , though a bitter dispute in progress between the government and foreign banks that have lent 20 billion baht ( $187m ) for an elevated motorway in Bangkok may make finance for future projects harder to come by . |
| 13 | The HSE has now acted on the advice of men like Nourish to launch a survey of microbiological hazards ultimately to develop standards in scale up and industrial processes . |
| 14 | So we really do have to fight fiercely , and to do that , of course , erm one of the things that we do I think most effectively is to bring waves of foreign journalists here to write about how beautiful erm Britain is and indeed into your area , into the Oxford area , erm we 've got the Canadian T V crew coming next week , who 'll be filming and erm making erm documentary films for Canadian T V , which should be screened fairly quickly . |
| 15 | The basic failure is perceived particularly acutely in the social welfare professions , and it is based upon a wide range of features such as the failure of some services actually to deliver the goods promised , failures of responsibility and neutrality , the loss of the service ideal and , in extreme cases , the disabling effects upon clients . |
| 16 | Other training that is helpful is to gather a group of future leaders together to teach these goals for housegroups . |
| 17 | Sir John reserved the right to become a partner at the end of the first three years term for a quarter share of all mines and ores , then opened , got , or sold , … or … at the end of six years also to commence as a partner for one quarter share … or … at the end of nine years to commence as a partner for the same … or … at the end of 12 years the same , and at 15 years ditto . |
| 18 | The zeal will be fruitful if it makes the chain of human errors harder to repeat ; fruitless if it seeks the mare 's nest of perfect safety , particularly through technology . |
| 19 | But this is not possible because it is necessary to approach each of these aspects differently to get the required results . |
| 20 | It 's the desire of little girls everywhere to have pictures with their stories that 's inspired a ’ Wonderland ’ of images at the Museum of Oxford . |
| 21 | I was terrified and my fear was born of shadowy terrors yet to come . ] |
| 22 | The cell membrane first of all folds inwards to form a deep pit enclosing the virus ( B 2 ) . |
| 23 | Getting prisoners to realise there are people worse off than themselves , is the main idea behind a 3-day event at Stoke Mandeville. 30 of them have been helping mentally handicapped people of all ages simply to enjoy themselves . |
| 24 | The group includes by far the largest of terrestrial animals ever to have lived ( Brachiosaurus ) , creatures to dwarf the largest bull elephants . |
| 25 | SONYA Cairns put together a series of complicated moves today to clinch the Northern Ireland senior gymnastics championship at the Salto Gym . |
| 26 | There are all sorts of self-help agencies nowadays to support women in bereavement : Cruse and the National Association for Widows , the National Council for Separated and Divorced , and Gingerbread are just some of the organisations offering support and advice in various ways ( addresses on page 145 ) . |
| 27 | She admits there is a competitive streak in Kylie Minogue that is driving her towards live shows simply to silence the knockers . |
| 28 | Close inspection of the data showed that the context effects were due to inhibition : when preceded by an anomalous context , words took an average of 110 milliseconds longer to identify than when preceded by a row of Xs . |
| 29 | This time last year the studios proudly produced an expensive list of star-packed sequels only to see their audience disappear to cheap films like Paramount 's ‘ Ghost ’ and Disney 's ‘ Pretty Woman ’ . |
| 30 | A decree signed by Bashir on Feb. 1 introduced a new penal code based , as was the previous one , on sharia law , which was to come into effect on March 22 , but which did not apply to the three southern regions ( now states ) " for the time being , pending the establishment of elected assemblies there to deal with the issue " ( an official information document as quoted in the Middle East Economic Digest of Feb. 15 ) . |