Example sentences of "[noun sg] [unc] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I try to think that my drive forward is stronger than the horse 's desire to draw back , because the moment a horse thinks about shying , he stops going forward . |
| 2 | And she 'd , she 'd even get her girlfriend 's mother to ring up to say she was staying there the night , the mothers used to s ring up Joan tell them that it was al alright for er for er Andrea to stay there the night and she was never , she was camping out in the fields with a crowd of them oh |
| 3 | Accordingly , the Court declined to make any order on the originating summons and the Revenue 's application to strike out the summons would be dismissed . |
| 4 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 5 | May I have your Majesty 's order to take out the soldiers and destroy them ? " |
| 6 | It was thought in mediaeval times to have magic associations and was hung over doors on Midsummer 's Eve to ward off evil spirits . |
| 7 | Is the Secretary of State aware that in London there is a majority in favour of Labour 's proposal to set up an elected police authority for the Greater London area ? |
| 8 | Investors have been unsettled by a filibuster in Congress , which cast doubts on the president 's ability to push through as big a deficit-reduction as they were expecting . |
| 9 | Neighbours of the site are being asked to send their comments on the plans to a Government inspector who will decide whether to uphold Sedgefield District Council 's decision to turn down the extension for the social club . |
| 10 | Campaigners have welcomed Cleveland County Council 's decision to carry out a road safety study taking in Sappers Corner and Truro Drive on the A689 on the outskirts of Hartlepool . |
| 11 | The Council 's initiative to set up a multi-professional group to address the borough 's drugs problem was well conceived for it allowed , for the first time , the information and concerns picked up by various parties in relation to heroin to be pulled together . |
| 12 | GORDON Rushton , the Ffestiniog Railway 's General Manager , said : ‘ The first point is that FR is simply following the terms of the High Court judgement and the second point is that Gwynedd County Council 's application to take over the lease was rejected by the court . |
| 13 | Clarks Yard is soon to be put on the market as part of Darlington council 's bid to spruce up the three historic yards between High Row and Skinnergate . |
| 14 | According to Robert F. Maguire III , President of LACMA 's Board of Trustees , ‘ One of Rusty 's most significant accomplishments was spearheading the museum 's efforts to reach out to the city 's diverse population , mounting exhibitions of multicultural appeal ’ . |
| 15 | By late March they were in Bologna , where Wolfgang was put through his paces by the famous theorist Padre Martini , who professed himself amazed at the boy 's ability to work out complex fugues on a brief given subject . |
| 16 | William is humiliated not because he is defeated ( he had half expected this ) but because of the shepherd boy 's refusal to go on hitting him . |
| 17 | This is Digital Equipment 's attempt to take on the Intel Pentium chip . |
| 18 | But now Reynolds faces a new battle to force the sport 's rulers to hand over the £18.5 million . |
| 19 | For instance , in Shearson Lehman v Maclaine Watson it was held that even if the exchange had no power in its rules to suspend dealings on the tin market , such a rule should be implied , since it would be self-defeating if the exchange 's power to carry on business did not include , in certain circumstances , a power to cease part of that business . |
| 20 | Isabel was still vaguely wondering if chivalry or haste was behind fitzAlan 's decision to ride on , when the choice was abruptly taken out of his hands . |
| 21 | ‘ The offer allows Sun-3 and Sun 386i users to move up to a Sparcstation IPX or a Sparcstation 2 , ’ he said , offering either a full system swap or a CPU exchange . |
| 22 | LABOUR 'S transport spokesman John Prescott could step in over British Rail 's plans to sell off a Darlington sports ground . |
| 23 | For those ‘ Old Fighters ’ who had been enthusiastic Hitler supporters even before the demise of the Weimar Republic , for the direct beneficiaries of Nazism — the careerists , power-seekers , and apparatchiks who had the Third Reich to thank for their offices and careers in Party and State , and for the ideologically committed who had ‘ burnt their boats ’ with the Nazi regime , the belief in the Führer 's powers to bring about a miracle and achieve final victory in the face of all the odds was the blind faith rooted in self-interest and fear of the future . |
| 24 | One game , called Net Trek , which has recently made the transition from PD to commercial product , uses sounds sampled from the Star Trek television series to accompany the user 's attempts to pilot around a galaxy of other Mac users , when all the machines are connected together by the network . |
| 25 | Increasingly , the practical application of many mathematical techniques depends on the computer 's ability to carry out calculations with faultless accuracy at ever more extraordinary speeds . |
| 26 | Subsequently qualifications which indicate the holder 's ability to carry out the elements defined in the job description are identified . |
| 27 | The difference was exacerbated by Parliament 's refusal to pay off the army 's arrears of pay . |
| 28 | Now , with half an hour 's grace to freshen up , it 's all hands on deck at the hotel , in Mephistco 's corporate hospitality suite . |
| 29 | Manville had every faith in the Russian 's ability to dig out the vital weakness in Vologsky 's make-up which would turn him into a traitor . |
| 30 | I compare the Government 's record to the experience I once had of helping to redecorate a pensioner 's home to brighten up the dingy gloom . |