Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He allows , however , that it 'll take six to nine months after the acquisition is complete to see which way the wind is blowing . |
| 2 | It would then be possible to see what progress the Welsh Office and its various agencies are making towards the attainment of common goals . |
| 3 | You may ( or may not ) be interested to see what fixtures the scum have over the festive season . |
| 4 | Young and old sharing their lives the way they always had , before television shrunk the world … |
| 5 | ‘ I was wrong to give your mother a job , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The scale and importance of the nationalized concerns are so great that ministers are not prepared to give their managers a free hand . |
| 7 | She was not prepared to give her mother the satisfaction of knowing that Nicky had deceived her . |
| 8 | In one of the most striking of his letters to his brother , the Emperor Joseph II , he stresses the need for a ruler always to be willing to give his subjects a complete account of the finances of the state and of their administration ; such action , he writes , is ‘ glorious , useful and just ’ . |
| 9 | But if you 're prepared to hold your horses a little until that final fence , I 've a feeling that you may well end up ahead of the rest of the field [ JH ] |
| 10 | Only then would he be free to offer his father the respect he owed him . |
| 11 | The teacher thus : added to the information she already had became aware of a different information source learned how to use that source used the source to present information in a different way and the class : also became aware of the information source responded actively to the on-screen presentation of statistical material could all use the material at the same time manipulated the material easily , moving to and from different parts of the database as they thought appropriate to support their arguments The viewdata presentation therefore : allowed ease of display and manipulation of information in a way in which a chalkboard , flip chart or handout could not and became a kind of electronic chalkboard provided a catalyst for discussion of subject matter related easily the subject matter to the students ' own geographical and social environment encouraged the development of oral discussion based on evidence inferred from information rather than expressed , but unsupported , opinion |
| 12 | Pointless trying to swim against it , but sometimes it just was n't that easy to see which way the current went . |
| 13 | But Labour 's deputy leader of the council , Alan Dean , said it was impossible to know what effect the level of government finance , pay settlements and competitive tendering would have on the council 's ability to guarantee jobs . |
| 14 | It was easy to imagine what relief the miners must have felt at the end of a long day 's work in those conditions when they saw the mouth of the tunnel framing the daylight before them . |
| 15 | It is not easy to appraise what success the Land Commission achieved . |
| 16 | but even more content to have me hoe the weeds and ungum the filters for her while she sat half-naked on an ancient natural tube steel chair tipped back on two legs against the natural pulpboard side of her natural module A farmhouse , playing her warped old guitar . |
| 17 | And it 's not gon na be easy to get him outta the country … . |
| 18 | I say advantage because if you were to close your eyes while playing , it would be impossible to say which guitar the Carlton 's neck reminded you of most . |
| 19 | The following table of classifications of errors from test recognition data shows that it is impossible to tell what type the original error was . |
| 20 | In some of the more elaborate biplanes it was not always easy to tell which way the loads were going and it was a stock joke at one time that the way to check the rigging of a certain aircraft was to put a canary between the wings ; if it got out something was wrong . |
| 21 | Yet it is hard to see what violence the police foresaw as direct and immediate . |
| 22 | It was hard to see what calibre the cannon were for the air was already hot enough to shimmer and blur the details of the far guns . |
| 23 | Similarly a chorus of cavaliers , referring to ‘ corni e tamburi , e trombe ’ , has instrumental parts which could be for actual trumpets and drums but are more probably for strings imitating them , since in Act II when Chiron is supposed to play his lyre the music consists of a sinfonia di viole , and the passata dell'armata which ends the First Act of Didone ( 1641 ) and another chiamata alla caccia in the Third are equally ambiguous . |
| 24 | We believe it is valuable to give our trainees a rounded appreciation of our business from the outset , not least because so much of what we do depends upon high levels of teamwork . |
| 25 | Then I went to Cambridge and my parents could n't afford to make up the state scholarship I 'd got — they were supposed to give me £200 a year , but they were n't able to do that , so when I left Cambridge I had a £600 overdraft . |
| 26 | Aga saga : a morality tale for the nicer Nineties Despite the recession a novel published today is likely to make its author a millionaire . |
| 27 | The Queen for her own part will have to face up to the fact that , however perfect her public role , she has dismally failed in private to give her children the guidance they needed for stable marriages . |
| 28 | But it would be good to see him project a little , and not withdraw into his shell . |
| 29 | One does get the feeling , none the less , that many traditional teachers still think of film as being a classroom novelty useful to give their students a welcome treat : yet many students , watching the grey , flickering images uncertainly projected on to unsuitable screens by elderly and noisy equipment in stuffy ill-curtained rooms , may be forgiven for wanting a bit of first-rate formal teaching as a relief . |
| 30 | Good to get your card the other day and to know that you got safely home from , even if concerned by the cost of the visit . |